 Author Name: Johns, Captain W.E.
Title: King of the Commandos
Binding: Hard Cover
Book Condition: Good
Jacket Condition: Fair
Edition: 1st Canadian edition
Size: Octavo -- from 7.75" to 9.75" Tall
Publisher: Toronto Musson Book Company 1944
Seller ID: 015771
Originally published a year earlier by University of London Press. The author of the Biggles stories here introduces Captain Lorrington King (a.k.a. Gimlet, a.k.a. Skipper) of Combined Operations in the first of a series of adventures against the Nazis. A title from the publisher's Venture Books for Boys series. Tan cloth, 254 pages + 2 pages of advertisements for other of the publisher's titles, illustrated in b&w w/colour frontispiece. Some cover soil, slight board warp, lightly soiled edges, previous owner's stamps to front end paper, another to title page, a few turned corners, general wear, in edgeworn dust jacket w/chipping, short edge tears, impressions, 1.5" tear to bottom of front fold. Uncommon in a dust jacket, and this one is now in a protective mylar sleeve.
W.E. JOHNS, LORRINGTON KING, VENTURE BOOKS FOR BOYS
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30.00 USD |
