Billabong Adventurers (Billabong #9) by Bruce, Mary Grant - 1927

Ward, Lock & Co, Limited, 1928. Hardcover. Good. 1928. No edition remarks. 250 pages. No dust jacket. Pictorial cloth covered boards. Black and white illustration plates by J. MacFarlane. Pages remain bright and clean with minimal tanning and foxing. Some cracking to gutters with exposed netting. Binding loose. Small bookshop label to front pastedown. Minor inscriptions to endpapers. Boards have heavy shelf wear with bumping and fraying to corners and crushing, fraying and tearing to spine ends and edges. All surfaces tanned and sunned, particularly spine. Some additional moderate marks and staining.

London and Melbourne, Ward, Lock & Co., [c.1955].. 250pp. 6pp ads. Original boards in slightly rubbed dustwrapper. B/w frontis by J. Macfarlane. A very good copy.

London: Ward, Lock & Co Book. Illus. by J. Pollack. Good. Hardcover. No Date (repr). Hardback: b/w frontispiece (J. POLLACK), dj is slightly rubbed on the spine tips and corners, tape marks on the spine tips - also on the flaps and covers & endpapers, name on the front flyleaf, heavy foredge foxing plus some internally, else g. 8vo, 206pp. The 9th Billabong book..

Ward, Lock. and Co. London. 1967. 8vo, XVIII, 250pp Hardcover with green cloth boards in very good condition with firm spine and non price-clipped d/w in very good to excellent condition protected by clear archival covering, text in very good condition with minor flecking on upper and outer edges. This book is number seven in the famous Billabong Series and is the story of Nora and Wally on their honeymoon via a motor camping trip in the wilds and the amazing adventure that awaits them. Rare in such excellent condition. This edition not noted by Muir.

London: Ward Lock Early reprint. Yellow cloth boards titled in black on spine. Undated, 250 pp plus book ads. Tight and square, light foxing in top edges and endpapers, fep removed. Dust jacket is price clipped, slight loss at corners and spine ends, in a clear protective sleeve.

Ward, Lock and Co., London, c. 1945. 250 pp, fine copy in very good, price-clipped d/j. Unusually fine reprint.

London: Ward Lock A very good copy in yellow cloth binding, b&w frontis illstn by J. Pollack. The dust jacket is price clipped, wear to the corners and slight loss at the spine ends, in a clear film protective sleeve.

London: Ward Lock, 1928 Olive pictorial cloth, b&w frontis and illstns by J. Macfarlane. Early reprint, 250 pp plus book ads. Square text block, tidy boards, light toning in edges and endpapers.

Ward, Lock, London, no date. Gift label dated 1938. 8vo, 250pp, black and white illustrations. A good hardback copy in creased and edge-worn, dust jacket with minor losses to edges. Slightly foxed fore edges and prelims, offsetting to endpapers. .

London: Ward, Lock & Co., Limited, 1940. Illustrated by J. Macfarlane. Pp. 250+[6](advertisements), frontispiece, plus 2 plates; cr. 8vo; olive green pictorial cloth, lettered and decorated in red & black, boards lightly flecked and marked, edges a trifle rubbed, spine faintly faded; bookseller's sticker at foot of upper pastedown, ink gift inscription on upper free endpaper, hinges tender at a couple of points, a little light foxing and occasional slight soiling; Ward, Lock & Co., Limited, London, n.d.[c. 1940?]. Reprint of Muir 1136? *The ninth Billabong book, first published in 1927. The list of other books by Mary Grant Bruce on the half-title page verso includes Peter & Co., which was published in 1940.