BILLY BUNTER BUTTS IN by RICHARDS, Frank; - 1951

UK: Charles Skilton. Good. Hardcover. 1951. 234 pages. ink no. 14 on spine d/j trimmed and attached to front cloth edge foxing .

Hawk Books, 1993. 8vo, 234pp. With illustrations by R.J. Macdonald. A very good hardback copy in like dust jacket.. Facsimile edition.

Charles Skilton, London, 1951. First Edition. Hardcover. Good Condition/Poor. Illustrator: R. J. Macdonald. Coloured illustrated frontispiece and black-and-white drawings within the text have all been executed by R. J. Macdonald. Green coloured boards with red coloured titles to the front panel and back strip. Illustrated dustwrapper with blue coloured titles to the front panel and blue and red coloured titles to the back strip. Photograph of author to the rear fold over panel. Billy Bunter, good heavens, is a hero! With his habit of tuck-raiding, it was he who found out the truth about the bad blood between Harry Wharton and George Wingate. A Greyfriars adventure. A little softening of the back strip edges with bumping of the top book corners. Sunning of the back strip – commensurate with loss of dustwrapper. Browning and scattered foxing to the text block edges with age toning of the pages. A hint of offset tanning to the end pages with an erosion mark to the lower edge of… Read More

London: Charles Skilton, 1951 green papered boards titled in red on cover and spine, some foxing to the page edges, inscription to fep, faded spine, lightly handling soiled, 234pp+6pp adverts +frontis . First Edition. Hard Cover. Good/No Jacket. Illus. by R J MacDonald. 12mo - over 6? - 7? tall.

London: Charles Skilton Ltd, 1951. First Edition . Hardcover. Very Good/No Jacket. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. R. J. MacDonald. 1951 First Edition. Size 7.5" x 5", 234 pages plus 6 pages of related publisher's advertisements. Brown hard cover with black titles to the front cover and spine. No dust jacket. Condition very good, corners and edges a little rubbed, spine very slightly faded, endpapers toned, few faint spots to prelims and ends else contents clean. With colour frontispiece and further black and white full page illustrations by R. J. MacDonald.

Published by Charles Skilton Ltd., 1951. 1st edition.. Hardback. Very Good/Good. Illustrated by Macdonald, R.J.. Very good condition in an almost very good dustwrapper. Brown boards, black titles to front and spine. Colour frontis and b/w illustrations. 234 pages plus adverts to rear. Damp staining to early pages (including frontis). Corner tip of title page has been torn off. Foxing. Wrapper is dulled and grubby to spine, with edge-creasing and chipping; minimal loss; tape repairs to verso.