18th Nov, 2020 10:30 GMT/BST

Books, Maps, Manuscripts & Photographs - Online auction

 
  Lot 3049
 

3049

Johns (W. E. Capt.) Biggles in the Terai, Leicester: Brockhampton Press, 1966, first edition,...

Johns (W. E. Capt.)
Biggles in the Terai, Leicester: Brockhampton Press, 1966, first edition, dust wrapper;
Dahl (Roald), The Witches, Cape, 1983, first edition, dust wrapper (2)

Sold for £250
Estimated at £60 - £100


 

. Biggles-name to front free end paper. Tape stains to front and rear pastedowns to reverse to reverse of dust wrapper and to cloth. Light foxing to front free endpaper. Contents generally clean but closed edges tanned and spotted with ink? mark to the bottom edge. Dust wrapper worn at head of spine, rear of wrapper creased, some tape stain visible through wrapper. Dahl - pages tanned, spotting to closed edges, particularly head. Otherwise clean free of inscriptions. Back strip of wrapper a little sun faded

 


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Auction: Books, Maps, Manuscripts & Photographs - Online auction, 18th Nov, 2020

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