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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).

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

SKY HIGH
Johns, W.E.. No illustrator listed. Stock no. 593469
Newnes. 1st ed1936. Very good condition with no wrapper. Blue cloth, black title to spine. 251 pages. The First in the Steeley Series, a young adventurer of the skies. Spine faded. Boards a bit marked. Front pastedown lightly stained. Endpapers browned. Rear joint slightly cracked. Contained in a PHOTOCOPY wrapper.
Price: £120.00
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THE BIGGLES FLYING OMNIBUS
Johns, W.E.. No illustrator listed. Stock no. 593582
Oxford University Press. 1940. Very good condition with no wrapper. Contains 'Biggles Flies North,...South,...West'. B/w illustrations. Blue cloth, vignette of biplanes on front cover. Spine creased. Name in ink to front endpaper. Contained in PHOTOCOPY dustwrapper.
Price: £250.00
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WINGED JUSTICE AND OTHER UNCOLLECTED STORIES
Johns, W.E.. Illustrated by Skilleter, Andrew. Stock no. 593587
Norman Wright. 1st ed2001. Fine condition. Pictorial card wraps. Limited edition to 300 copies. Includes two Worrals stories, 15 short stories in total. B/w frontis. "Review Copy" entered instead of copy number. SIGNED by publisher with personal dedication on front endpaper.
Price: £110.00
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BIGGLES AIR ACE THE UNCOLLECTED STORIES
Johns, W.E.. Illustrated by Skilleter, Andrew. Stock no. 593595
Norman Wright. 1st ed thus1999. 'As new' condition. Pictorial card wraps. B/w illustrations. Limited to 300 copies. These are the ten "lost" Biggles stories originally published in magazines and annuals and here collected together in volume form for the first time. SIGNED by Norman Wright, twice, on front endpaper. This is a complimentary, unnumbered copy.
Price: £380.00
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THE AIR VC'S
Johns, W.E.. No illustrator listed. Stock no. 593622
John Hamilton Ltd. 1stAlmost very good condition with no wrapper. Blue cloth with gilt title to spine. Stories of bravery and those who were awared the Victorian Cross. Spine is browned. Covers are a bit grubby with some browning. Edges are a bit scuffed. Inscription in ink to front endpaper, dated 1935. Foxing to outer page edges and some pages internally. Contained in a PHOTOCOPY wrapper.
Price: £150.00
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