Deep Wood by Trevor, Elleston - 1947

London: Gerald G Swan, 1945 Book. Illus. by David Williams. Very Good. Hardcover. 1st Edition. Deep Wood 1945, spine sunned, uneven sunning to boards, otherwise VG+ inside, but overall VG.

Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Fair. Steven J. Voorhies (illustrator). 1st Edition. 8vo, stated 1st edition, pages clean, bound in green cloth, clean and tight, wrapped in dust jacket, missing about 1/2" of jacket along top edge of spine and lower, a piece along top back panel and upper left edge of front panel, in protective mylar, otherwise a good copy.

New York.: longmans, Green and Co., ©1947.. 1st U.S.. green cloth.. very good minus with no dust jacket; bumped corners, scuffed, lightly soiled cover.. 8vo..

USA: Longmans, 1947. First Edition 1st Printing. Original Cloth. Very Good ++/Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Stephen Voorhies. 1st Edition 1947. Different illustrations to the UK edition. Wonderful with black and white line drawings byStephen Voorhies. Book is very good++ with bright boards. The wrapper is very good with rubbing/odd nicks/small closed tears to edges. Light restoration to spine tips. More images can be taken upon request. Ref18252

UK: Gerald G. Swan, 1945. First Edition 1st Printing. Original Cloth. Very Good ++/Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. David Williams. 1st Edition 1945. Wonderful with black and white line drawings by David Williams. Very uncommon with the dust jacket. Book is very good++ with bright boards. The wrapper is very good with rubbing/odd nicks/small closed tears to edges. Spine tips rubbed. Light restoration to spine tips. More images can be taken upon request. Ref18046

New York/ Toronto: Longmans, Green, 1947. stated 1st . hard. Very Good+. Illus. map endpapers. Story a la Wind in the Willows w/ animalcharacters. Tight. Only fault: few white specks to cloth Stephen J. Voorhies artwork. very good+, no dj, pict. green cloth, clean text. NOT ex-library 282 pgs

London: Gerald Swan, 1945. Hard Cover. Dust Jacket. (London: Gerald G Swan 1945). 160 pages. Publisher's green boards with gilt title and publisher's emblem to front, and white title to spine. Illustrated with frontispiece map and many ink illustrations by David Williams. Rubbing to extremities. Sunning to board edges. Previous owner's inscription, dated 1945, to the front free end-paper Spine and hinges are tight. Fragile dustwrapper with several closed and open tears and rubbing to edges. Price-clipped. Front cover of dustwrapper looks pretty good, though! Elleston Trevor (1920 - 1995) was a British novelist and playwright who wrote under several pseudonyms. Born Trevor Dudley-Smith, he eventually changed his name to Elleston Trevor. Trevor worked in many genres, but is principally remembered for his 1964 adventure story The Flight of the Phoenix, written as Elleston Trevor, and for a series of Cold War thrillers featuring the British secret agent Quiller, written under the… Read More

Published by Gerald G. Swan, 1945. 1st edition.. Hardback. Very Good/Good. Illustrated by Williams, David. Very good condition in an almost very good dustwrapper. A friendly sort of book, about Old Stripe (the badger) and his home beneath the Beech Tree, his friends, Potter, Scruff the Fox, Skip Squirrel, and other animal folk who live among quiet woodland paths, old gnarled trees, grassy banks, and the rippling stream. Green cloth. Gilt titles. B/w illustrations. 160 pages. Spine and corners bumped. Some light browning to top and tail of spine. Name and date in ink to front free-endpaper. Small brown mark to rear pastedown. Dustwrapper is edge worn with tape repairs on verso, some creases and rear panel slightly grubby.