New York: Random House, c1964. Early printing. Green cloth spine and black boards, $3.95 jacket price, "First edition" not stated, black on green illustrated endpapers. Fine copy, no owner names. Dust jacket has minor soiling to rear panel, else fine. Fleming wrote this book to entertain his own children. Quite a nice copy, though not a first printing. ; Octavo

London: Cassell, 1915. Quarto, pictorial red cloth. pp iv, 956 pp + 12 plates (8 in colour, 4 in duo tone, complete), numerous illustrations in text. Text paper toned, as always; Xmas, 1915, ink gift inscription at front; cracked front inner hinge neatly repaired with archival paper tape; VG clean, tight and unworn copy otherwise. Includes (pp 14-16) "Comrades of the Wild", a story by Canadian author Theodore Goodridge Roberts. 2.5 kg parcel.

London: Cassell. Red pictorial cloth. pp (iv), 716 + 8 colour plates and 4 b&w plates. Xmas, 1917, ink gift inscription at front, text paper yellowed as always, endpapers tanned, spine a little darkened with some flaking to the gilt lettering at head, VG clean and tight otherwise. 2.2kg parcel; Tall quarto

London: Cassell, 1922. Red pictorial cloth stamped in black and tan, gilt lettered. iv, 832 pp + 12 colour plates (2 folding). Profusely illustrated in text with b&w drawings. Short tear at head of spine; title leaf (thin paper, like newsprint) has large chips to the fore and bottom margins (no text loss); old repair at inner edge of pp iii-iv; a few small light spots, light soiling, to rear cover; covers just a little splayed; but for the chipped title leaf and the repair, VG, tight in the binding, text clean and unworn. Note: 2.5 kg parcel.; Folio.

London: Cassell, 1923. Pictorial red bevel edge cloth. iv, 832 pp. Colour folding frontispiece and 11 colour plates (complete). Spine very lightly darkened; text paper yellowed as always, nick to foot of spiine; VG+ otherwise. 2.35 kg parcel; Large quarto

London: Cassell, 1926. 4to, pictorial red cloth. iv, 832 pp. Folding colour frontispiece and 11 colour plates inserted (complete). Text paper yellowed as always, spine very lightly sunned with a bit of rubbing to the gilt lettering at head, else fine and bright. 2.3 kg parcel; Tall quarto

London: Cassell, 1926. Quarto, pictorial red cloth. iv, 832 pp. Folding colour frontispiece and 11 other colour plates (complete), numerous illustrations in text. Vertical crease to title and following leaf; rice paper repair to inner edge of Contents leaf; text paper yellowed as always; else a VG clean, tight and unworn copy. 2.5 kg parcel.

London: Amalgamated Press, 1928. Quarto, pictorial red cloth. iv, 832 pp. Folding colour frontispiece and 11 other colour plates (complete), numerous illustrations in text. Text paper yellowed as always, else a VG clean, tight and unworn copy. 2.3 kg parcel.

London: Amalgamated Press, 1928. Red pictorial cloth. (iv), 832 pp. Folding colour frontispiece plus 11 colour plates inserted (complete), illustrations on every page of text. Text paper yellowed as always, bit of foxing to page edges, else fine and bright. Contains "For Lawrence and Arabia" by John Sylvester, "Honour and t he Foreign Legion" by Leslie Beresford, "Pirates of the Air" by George E. Rochester, "Bosambo of the River" by Edgar Wallace, and much, much more. 2.3 kg parcel; Tall quarto

London: Amalgamated Press, 1931. Quarto, pictorial red cloth. iv, 832 pp. + folding frontispiece and 11 other plates (colour one side, b&w the other. complete), numerous illustrations in text. Text paper yellowed as always; neat repair to inner edge of Contents leaf; two vertical creases to frontispiece; 1.5 inch tear through the board to upper edge of rear cover; else a VG clean, tight and unworn copy. 2.5 kg parcel.

London: Amalgamated Press, 1931. Original red pictorial cloth stamped in black, gilt lettered. pp [4], 832 + 12 plates (printed in colour one side, b&w the other, two folding, complete). Text in triple columns, text illustrations throughout. Text paper yellowed as always, slight sunning to foot of spiine, near fine otherwise, 2.35 kg parcel.; Tall quarto

London: Amalgamated Press, 1939. Quarto. Red pictorial cloth. pp 348 + 4 colour plates, numerous illustrations in text. Text paper yellowed as always; small light damp spot at foot of spine; small soil spots to rear cover; else a fine, bright copy, no owner names, inner hinges not cracked.. 2 kg parcel.

London: Amalgamated Press, 1940. Red pictorial cloth. 4 colour plate, numberous line drawings in text. Text paper yellowed, as always. Crease to front free endpaper, else a fine copy. The penultimate volume of this venerable British boy's annual which began in 1892. 1.85 kg parcel; Large quarto

London: The Boys Own Paper Office, no date (1936). Dark blue cloth decorated in blind, spine gilt lettered. pp (192) + colour frontispiece. Light foxing to page edges and text early and late; 1940 pencil date on front free endpaper; else fine. Dust jacket has short tears and very small chips to spine tips and panels; three inch closed tear and dust soiling to rear panel; VG otherwise, colours bright, flap price (2s) intact. A volume in Every Boy's Bookshelf series. Australian author's first book for boys, Australian setting.; Octavo

New York: Random House, 1938. The poet's FIRST NOVEL, a tale for boys set in Elizabethan England, previously published in the UK in 1933. Octavo, green cloth stamped in black, red top page edges. Three line rubber stamp to front pastedown and four digit number to rear pastedown, the front stamp mostly hidden by jacket flap, the rear stamp entirely so. Jacket has minor rubbing to only faintly yellowed spine, nick to rear panel and front flap, else fine and bright, flap price intact, a very nice copy indeed, scarce in this condition. A yarn set in Elizabethan times. Young orphan Dick goes to sea, has adventures in the Spanish West Indies, and returns home to do a good dead.

Philadelpha: Penn Publishing Company, 1918. Octavo, red cloth lettered and bordered in black with a colour pictorial label on front cover. pp 326 + frontispiece with tissue guard and 4 other plates. Minor soiling to page edges, strip torn from fore margin of tissue guard, spine lightly darkened with soft vertical ridge; else a fine, bright copy, no owner names. The second book in this boy’s series. Young Don volunteers as an ambulance driver. Uncommon book.

London: Methuen, 1957. Squarish octavo, green cloth, red topstain. 190, [2] pp. Frontispiece portrait inserted, numerous line drawings in text. Slight tanning to inner margins of endpapers, else fine, no previous owner names. Dust jacket has nicks and rubbing to spine tips, slight rubbing to spine folds, yellowing to spine, rear panel, flap edges; VG otherwise, no chips or clips. A volume of memoirs of his youth by the famous British artist, illustrator, and author, best known for his illustrations for the Pooh books as well as a great many for Punch.

New York: Harcourrt Brace Jovanovich, 1975. Inscribed by Author; Square octavo, grey boards. pp 59. Illustrated. Narrow band of fading to upper and outer margins of free endpapers, else fine. Pric-clipped jacket has a creased tear to top of front panel, VG otherwise. Inscribed by the author "To Adele, a real Duey, Love pearl". Children's book by the noted singer, actress and entertainer. ; Signed by Author

New York: Dover, 1971. 354 pp + 6 p ads. 101 illustrations. Yellowing to page edges, else fine. ; Octavo