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Welcome to the Special Book Room

The Special Book Room on our website houses our most collectable, rare or fragile items. Prices of Special Book Room items generally start at £90.00.

If you wish to view our special books in person, please contact us and we will let you know whether the items are located at Stella Books (Tintern) or Rose's Books (Hay-on-Wye).

Special Book Room at Stella Books, Tintern

A selection of our special W.E. Johns books...

THE CRUISE OF THE CONDOR
Johns, W.E.. Illustrated by Leigh, Howard. Stock no. 441561
John Hamilton. Circa1934. Good condition with no wrapper. Blue cloth with red titles to spine and front cover. Frontis by Leigh. B/w illustrations. 256 pages (No catalogue). Spine faded. Covers unevenly faded and marked, with bumped corners. Front joint almost completely broken. Pages browned.
Price: £200.00
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BIGGLES SECRET AGENT
Johns, W.E.. Illustrated by Leigh, Howard & Sindall, Alfred. Stock no. 441563
Oxford University Press. 1st ed 1940. Very good condition with no wrapper. Blue cloth, black titles. Black vignette to front cover showing man with parachute. B/w illustrations. Colour frontis. 1.75 " across spine. Spine edges are worn. Spine and corners are bumped. Covers a bit marked. Apart from a couple of light marks to prelims, contents are clean and bright.
Price: £210.00
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BIGGLES FLIES NORTH
Johns, W.E.. Illustrated by Leigh, Howard & Narraway, Will. Stock no. 441567
Oxford University Press. 1st ed 1939. Very good condition with no wrapper. Light brown/orange cloth with brown titles and compass logo to front cover. Colour frontis + b/w illustrations. Light marks to front cover. Foxing to outer page edges. Contents are generally clean and bright, with just light foxing to prelims.
Price: £225.00
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SHORT SORTIES
Johns, W.E.. No illustrator listed. Stock no. 441574
Latimer House Limited. 1st ed 1950. Very good condition in an almost very good dustwrapper. Blue cloth, black title to spine. A variety of stories by Johns. Base of spine rubbed and a little faded. Small mark to front cover. Outer page edges foxed. Wrapper has a few closed edge-tears with slight loss and tape strengthening to edges.
Price: £180.00
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BIGGLES SCORES A BULL
Johns, W.E.. No illustrator listed. Stock no. 815165
Hodder & Stoughton. 1st ed 1965. Slightly better than very good condition in a very good dustwrapper. Red boards, gilt title to spine. Priceless champion bulls start disappearing from English farms and as Biggles says "This racket isn't being run by one or two country yokels". The crooks are highly organised and dangerous! Light foxing to outer page edges. Small name in ink to top of front endpaper and front wrapper flap. Wrapper has small patch of surface damage to front panel, not obvious as white on white, with "3p" faintly present in crayon on front panel.
Price: £200.00
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