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A Thief in the Village, and other stories (SIGNED)
- £15.00
- Some moving and atmospheric short stories by James Berry who won the Grand Prix Smarties Prize for his vivid portrayal of children and life in the Caribbean.
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Anne of Avonlea
- £30.00
- Anne Shirley returns in the second book of this charming series. She's now 16, and has delayed her dream of going to college to help Marilla on the farm. However, life at Avonlea is never dull - follow her adventures as she becomes a school teacher, helps raise a pair…
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Artemis Fowl, the Arctic Incident
- £12.00
- THE FAIRIES ARE IN TROUBLE. Goblin gangs (exactly as bad as it sounds) are planning an uprising, and it looks like they've had human help. Holly Short is convinced it's her old nemesis, Artemis Fowl. But, for once, Artemis is innocent. He's too busy getting his father back from the…
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Bells and Grass: a book of rhymes
- £20.00
- The companion volume to Peacock Pie, this is one of de la Mare's beloved anthologies of verse primarily aimed at children.
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Bells and Grass: a book of rhymes
- £35.00
- The companion volume to Peacock Pie, this is one of de la Mare's beloved anthologies of verse primarily aimed at children.
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Biggles – Air Commodore
- £12.00
- First published, in ten parts, as BIGGLES FIGHTS ALONE in The Modern Boy, issues 452 to 461, dated 3rd October 1936 to 5th December 1936. 1994 publication under the title Biggles and the Secret Mission.
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Biggles – Air Detective
- £7.00
- Book First published in May 1950 by Latimer House for Marks and Spencer* (in a large "annual" style format) - 93 pages. The stories were serialised in either the “The Melbourne Herald” or “The Sun Pictorial” in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia between July and December 1950. Later published in standard book…
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Biggles – Air Detective
- £10.00
- Book First published in May 1950 by Latimer House for Marks and Spencer* (in a large "annual" style format) - 93 pages. The stories were serialised in either the ÒThe Melbourne HeraldÓ or ÒThe Sun PictorialÓ in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia between July and December 1950. Later published in standard book…
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Biggles – Secret Agent
- £15.00
- First published, in ten parts, as CASTLE SINISTER in Modern Boy, issues 78 to 87, dated 12th August 1939 to 14th October 1939; in book form in 1940.
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Biggles & Co
- £20.00
- In #10, Biggles is approached by Paul Cronfelt from a firm of Bullion Brokers called 'Cronfelt & Carstairs' with a proposition. Cronfelt wants him to set up an airline, a private venture with the primary object of carrying his companies' freight, namely gold and jewellery. Biggles is initially reluctant but…
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Biggles and the Black Peril
- £10.00
- When Biggles and Algy are forced by bad weather to land in a cove on the Norfolk coast they stumble upon an elaborate plot by the Russians to invade Britain. Unravelling the mystery they find themselves helped by a scruffy teenager, Ginger.
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Biggles and the Poor Rich Boy (no. 58)
- £75.00
- American Edie Ross, who helped Biggles solve the heroin smuggling case (Biggles in the fight against the white death), appears in London. He is looking for the lost son of a millionaire and Biggles must help him É
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Biggles Flies Again
- £16.00
- Biggles flies again into adventure in the far places of the earth. Stranded among the tropical swamps of British Guiana when the company employing him as a pilot folds up, he takes possession of the amphibian aircraft he is flying and proceeds to earn his living by undertaking dangerous missions…
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Biggles Flies North
- £20.00
- Biggles, Algy, and Ginger fly in to help an old friend counter the attempts of a vicious gang to stifle his air freight business in Canada.
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Biggles Flies North
- £18.00
- Biggles, Algy, and Ginger fly in to help an old friend counter the attempts of a vicious gang to stifle his air freight business in Canada.
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Biggles Flies West
- £12.00
- In this adventure of Major James Bigglesworth (better known as 'Biggles') past and present meet. Biggles and his inseperable compantions, Algy Lacey and Ginger Hebblethwaite, chance to encounter, in London, a lad named Dick Denver, whose father, a sailor, has sent him a Spanish doubloon and a long letter explaining…
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Biggles Follows On
- £12.00
- A story of the Cold War in Europe and Asia
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Biggles Forms a Syndicate
- £50.00
- Biggles is visited by an old friend, Squadron Leader 'Dizzy' Digswell, who has an interesting tale to tell. After being forced to parachute out of his plane flying over the Aden Protectorate in Arabia, he thinks he has come across the ancient ruins of the city of Ophir. He found…
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Biggles Hunts Big Game
- £12.00
- The scene would not by ordinary standards have been judged remarkable. It was remarkable only in that Ginger, in all the years that he had known his chief, had never seen him reveal more interest in a postage stamp than was required to stick this on a envelope.
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Biggles Hunts Big Game: A Story Of Sergeant Bigglesworth CID And His Special Air Police
- £12.00
- The scene would not by ordinary standards have been judged remarkable. It was remarkable only in that Ginger, in all the years that he had known his chief, had never seen him reveal more interest in a postage stamp than was required to stick this on a envelope.
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Biggles in Australia
- £20.00
- What is Erich von Stalhein doing in Australia? Surely not, as appearances would suggest, doing research on marine life in tropical waters with a. group of harmless scientists! Once again Biggles and his Air Police find peril, adventure, and final success in foiling a Communist plot.
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Biggles makes ends meet
- £20.00
- In #60, Biggles, Ginger, Algy and Bertie, Air Detectives, take on a job in the Indian Ocean. They are to invetigate a complaint of 'armed robbery on the high seas,' but Biggles soon realises that piracy is not the only thing they are up against.
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Biggles of the Camel Squadron
- £10.00
- Reprint of one of the earliest collections of Biggles short stories (including short essay by the author on 'How Biggles Was Born'). 13 in all.
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Biggles of the Special Air Police
- £16.00
- First published in 1953, 'Biggles of the Special Air Police' is a collection of 14 short stories featuring Biggles and his colleagues. The stories fall into two sections - the first 7 are, as you might expect, simplistic mysteries featuring Biggles and his colleagues in their job as detectives with…
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Biggles Sees it Through
- £20.00
- The first Biggles book not to have been serialised anywhere; first published in 1941.
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Biggles Sweeps the Desert
- £14.00
- Hopelessness took him in its grip. He knew he was wandering in circles but he had ceased to care. All he wanted to do was drink. His skin began to smart. His feet were on fire... When Biggles arrives in the desert to set up a secret oasis base, he…
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Biggles Takes A Holiday
- £10.00
- Biggles, Algy, and Ginger fly in to help an old friend Angus MacKail, virtually a prisoner in the unheard of 'Paradise Valley' in Central South America, and they make their plans quickly.
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Coot Club
- £8.00
- Swallows & Amazons Book 5. Tom Dudgeon has cast off a motor cruiser from its moorings to protect a coot's nest, but now the cruiser is searching high and low for him - even offering a reward. Tom accepts an invitation for a week's cruise to teach his new friends,…
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Down-Adown-Derry: a book of Fairy Poems (limited & SIGNED)
- £400.00
- Limited and signed first edition of de la Mare's children's anthology of fairy poems, illustrated by the American artist Dorothy P. Lathrop (this was the second of six de la Mare books she would go on to illustrate during the following two decades). A numbered limited edition in vellum.
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Eric’s Good News
- £20.00
- Young Eric was disappointed as he sat trying to get well. Captain Graham, a stranger he met on the beach, became a good friend. One day his dog retrieved an old book, the Gospel of Mark, from the ocean and it was used by God for opening his mind to…
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A Thief in the Village, and other stories (SIGNED)
- £15.00
- Some moving and atmospheric short stories by James Berry who won the Grand Prix Smarties Prize for his vivid portrayal of children and life in the Caribbean.
- Add to basket
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Anne of Avonlea
- £30.00
- Anne Shirley returns in the second book of this charming series. She's now 16, and has delayed her dream of going to college to help Marilla on the farm. However, life at Avonlea is never dull - follow her adventures as she becomes a school teacher, helps raise a pair…
- Add to basket
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Artemis Fowl, the Arctic Incident
- £12.00
- THE FAIRIES ARE IN TROUBLE. Goblin gangs (exactly as bad as it sounds) are planning an uprising, and it looks like they've had human help. Holly Short is convinced it's her old nemesis, Artemis Fowl. But, for once, Artemis is innocent. He's too busy getting his father back from the…
- Add to basket
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Bells and Grass: a book of rhymes
- £20.00
- The companion volume to Peacock Pie, this is one of de la Mare's beloved anthologies of verse primarily aimed at children.
- Add to basket
-
Bells and Grass: a book of rhymes
- £35.00
- The companion volume to Peacock Pie, this is one of de la Mare's beloved anthologies of verse primarily aimed at children.
- Add to basket
-
Biggles – Air Commodore
- £12.00
- First published, in ten parts, as BIGGLES FIGHTS ALONE in The Modern Boy, issues 452 to 461, dated 3rd October 1936 to 5th December 1936. 1994 publication under the title Biggles and the Secret Mission.
- Add to basket
-
Biggles – Air Detective
- £7.00
- Book First published in May 1950 by Latimer House for Marks and Spencer* (in a large "annual" style format) - 93 pages. The stories were serialised in either the “The Melbourne Herald” or “The Sun Pictorial” in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia between July and December 1950. Later published in standard book…
- Add to basket
-
Biggles – Air Detective
- £10.00
- Book First published in May 1950 by Latimer House for Marks and Spencer* (in a large "annual" style format) - 93 pages. The stories were serialised in either the ÒThe Melbourne HeraldÓ or ÒThe Sun PictorialÓ in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia between July and December 1950. Later published in standard book…
- Add to basket
-
Biggles – Secret Agent
- £15.00
- First published, in ten parts, as CASTLE SINISTER in Modern Boy, issues 78 to 87, dated 12th August 1939 to 14th October 1939; in book form in 1940.
- Add to basket
-
Biggles & Co
- £20.00
- In #10, Biggles is approached by Paul Cronfelt from a firm of Bullion Brokers called 'Cronfelt & Carstairs' with a proposition. Cronfelt wants him to set up an airline, a private venture with the primary object of carrying his companies' freight, namely gold and jewellery. Biggles is initially reluctant but…
- Add to basket
-
Biggles and the Black Peril
- £10.00
- When Biggles and Algy are forced by bad weather to land in a cove on the Norfolk coast they stumble upon an elaborate plot by the Russians to invade Britain. Unravelling the mystery they find themselves helped by a scruffy teenager, Ginger.
- Add to basket
-
Biggles and the Poor Rich Boy (no. 58)
- £75.00
- American Edie Ross, who helped Biggles solve the heroin smuggling case (Biggles in the fight against the white death), appears in London. He is looking for the lost son of a millionaire and Biggles must help him É
- Add to basket
-
Biggles Flies Again
- £16.00
- Biggles flies again into adventure in the far places of the earth. Stranded among the tropical swamps of British Guiana when the company employing him as a pilot folds up, he takes possession of the amphibian aircraft he is flying and proceeds to earn his living by undertaking dangerous missions…
- Add to basket
-
Biggles Flies North
- £20.00
- Biggles, Algy, and Ginger fly in to help an old friend counter the attempts of a vicious gang to stifle his air freight business in Canada.
- Add to basket
-
Biggles Flies North
- £18.00
- Biggles, Algy, and Ginger fly in to help an old friend counter the attempts of a vicious gang to stifle his air freight business in Canada.
- Add to basket
-
Biggles Flies West
- £12.00
- In this adventure of Major James Bigglesworth (better known as 'Biggles') past and present meet. Biggles and his inseperable compantions, Algy Lacey and Ginger Hebblethwaite, chance to encounter, in London, a lad named Dick Denver, whose father, a sailor, has sent him a Spanish doubloon and a long letter explaining…
- Add to basket
-
Biggles Follows On
- £12.00
- A story of the Cold War in Europe and Asia
- Add to basket
-
Biggles Forms a Syndicate
- £50.00
- Biggles is visited by an old friend, Squadron Leader 'Dizzy' Digswell, who has an interesting tale to tell. After being forced to parachute out of his plane flying over the Aden Protectorate in Arabia, he thinks he has come across the ancient ruins of the city of Ophir. He found…
- Add to basket
-
Biggles Hunts Big Game
- £12.00
- The scene would not by ordinary standards have been judged remarkable. It was remarkable only in that Ginger, in all the years that he had known his chief, had never seen him reveal more interest in a postage stamp than was required to stick this on a envelope.
- Add to basket
-
Biggles Hunts Big Game: A Story Of Sergeant Bigglesworth CID And His Special Air Police
- £12.00
- The scene would not by ordinary standards have been judged remarkable. It was remarkable only in that Ginger, in all the years that he had known his chief, had never seen him reveal more interest in a postage stamp than was required to stick this on a envelope.
- Add to basket
-
Biggles in Australia
- £20.00
- What is Erich von Stalhein doing in Australia? Surely not, as appearances would suggest, doing research on marine life in tropical waters with a. group of harmless scientists! Once again Biggles and his Air Police find peril, adventure, and final success in foiling a Communist plot.
- Add to basket
-
Biggles makes ends meet
- £20.00
- In #60, Biggles, Ginger, Algy and Bertie, Air Detectives, take on a job in the Indian Ocean. They are to invetigate a complaint of 'armed robbery on the high seas,' but Biggles soon realises that piracy is not the only thing they are up against.
- Add to basket
-
Biggles of the Camel Squadron
- £10.00
- Reprint of one of the earliest collections of Biggles short stories (including short essay by the author on 'How Biggles Was Born'). 13 in all.
- Add to basket
-
Biggles of the Special Air Police
- £16.00
- First published in 1953, 'Biggles of the Special Air Police' is a collection of 14 short stories featuring Biggles and his colleagues. The stories fall into two sections - the first 7 are, as you might expect, simplistic mysteries featuring Biggles and his colleagues in their job as detectives with…
- Add to basket
-
Biggles Sees it Through
- £20.00
- The first Biggles book not to have been serialised anywhere; first published in 1941.
- Add to basket
-
Biggles Sweeps the Desert
- £14.00
- Hopelessness took him in its grip. He knew he was wandering in circles but he had ceased to care. All he wanted to do was drink. His skin began to smart. His feet were on fire... When Biggles arrives in the desert to set up a secret oasis base, he…
- Add to basket
-
Biggles Takes A Holiday
- £10.00
- Biggles, Algy, and Ginger fly in to help an old friend Angus MacKail, virtually a prisoner in the unheard of 'Paradise Valley' in Central South America, and they make their plans quickly.
- Add to basket
-
Coot Club
- £8.00
- Swallows & Amazons Book 5. Tom Dudgeon has cast off a motor cruiser from its moorings to protect a coot's nest, but now the cruiser is searching high and low for him - even offering a reward. Tom accepts an invitation for a week's cruise to teach his new friends,…
- Add to basket
-
Down-Adown-Derry: a book of Fairy Poems (limited & SIGNED)
- £400.00
- Limited and signed first edition of de la Mare's children's anthology of fairy poems, illustrated by the American artist Dorothy P. Lathrop (this was the second of six de la Mare books she would go on to illustrate during the following two decades). A numbered limited edition in vellum.
- Add to basket
-
Eric’s Good News
- £20.00
- Young Eric was disappointed as he sat trying to get well. Captain Graham, a stranger he met on the beach, became a good friend. One day his dog retrieved an old book, the Gospel of Mark, from the ocean and it was used by God for opening his mind to…
- Add to basket
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