Gimlet Mops Up de Johns Captain W,E - 1950

Brockhampton Press, 1947. Hardcover. Good. 1947. 2nd Impression. 160 pages. No dust jacket. Green cloth. Black and white illustrations by Leslie Stead. Pages and binding are presentable with no major defects. Minor issues present such as mild cracking, inscriptions, inserts, light foxing, tanning and thumb marking. Overall a good condition item. Boards have mild shelf wear with light rubbing and corner bumping. Some light marking and tanning.

Brockhampton Press, 1947. Hardcover. Good. 1947. First Edition. 185 pages. No dust jacket. Beige cloth covered boards. Pages remain clear with minimal tanning and foxing. End papers are more notably tanned. Boards have mild edge-wear with slight rubbing to surfaces. Cloth has minor damp and dust stains. Mild crushing to spine ends. Book has a slight forward lean. Moderate tanning to spine.

The Brockhampton Press Ltd, 1947. Hardback. First edition, 1947. Cream cloth with red lettering to spine. Good condition; boards marked and bumped at corners, tanning a faint foxing to fore edge, owners inscription on first page. No dust jacket. Published: The Brockhampton Press Ltd, 1947

London: The Brockhampton Press, Ltd, 1950. A "King of the Commandos" Adventure. Illustrated by Leslie Stead. Pp. 160, black & white frontispiece and 3 plates; cr. 8vo; blue/grey cloth, lettered in black, top fore-corner of lower board lightly bruised; price-clipped dust wrapper, slightly soiled and foxed, edges lightly rubbed and split; bookseller's stamp on lower free endpaper (faintly offset onto back flap), the outer leaves and edges lightly foxed; The Brockhampton Press, Ltd., Leicester, 1950. Second impression. A Brock Book. *First published in 1947.

JOHNS, Captain W. E.
Gimlet Mops Up "A King of the Commandos" Adventure
The Brockhampton Press Ltd., Leicester, 1950, hardback with dust wrapper, VG+/gd+, boards green/black, frontispiece in addition to three b/w plates, 160 pp. Boards clean and firm, rubs to corners and bottom edge, no inscription or annotations, sound tight binding, slight lean to the spine, pages clean and bright, light foxing to top edge. Moderate shelf wear to wrapper (see scans), chips and closed tears to edges, rubs to front and back panels, now protected in acid-free archive film, price not clipped. CHILDREN'S COLLECTABLE, HARDBACK, CAPTAIN W. E.JOHNS, BROCK-BOOK FOR OLDER BOYS, ADVENTURE STORY 46158 CHILD'S COLL £16.00

Leicester: Brockhampton, 1947. 1st edition. Nice copy. small octavo. hardback in decorated cloth 185pp., col. frontis., illusts., No dust jacket o/w a very good copy