The Compass Points North

London: The Bodley Head, 1938. No dustwrapper, minor bumping to spine ends and corners of red boards, original owner's name on half-title, otherwise a good clean tight copy, with gilt titles on spine still bright, of this hard-cover book. The third in the author's series of fourteen stories about the children of the Lockett family and their adventures. … Read more about this item

London: The Bodley Head, 1938 Book. Illus. by Harold Jones. VG+. Hardcover. First Edition. The 3rd Locketts adventure, small black mark at base of spine, minor colour rubs, otherwise VG+ book in a Good unclipped d/w, loss of 2" at spine base repaired colour copy, so looks nice on the shelf, some rubs/nicks.

Published by John Lane The Bodley Head, 1938. 1st edition.. Hardback. Good. Illustrated by Jones, Harold. Almost very good condition with no wrapper. Red cloth, gilt title to spine. Pictorial endpapers. B/w text illustrations. Scuffing and marks to covers. Bumping and wear to corners. Inscriptions in ink to prelims. Foxing. A couple of hinges are a bit pulled.

London: John Lane The Bodley Head, 1938. First edition. Cloth. Very Good/Good. 8" by 5.5". Harold Jones. A first edition copy of M.E. Atkinson's wonderfully illustrated children's book, which follows the adventures of the Lockett children, in the unclipped dust wrapper. First Edition, Uncommon. Presented in the very scarce dust wrapper. Illustrations include a range of full-page and in-text… Read more about this item

John Lane The Bodley Head, 1938. Hardcover. Acceptable. 1938. First Edition. 328 pages. No dust jacket. Red cloth. Black and white illustrations have been hand coloured by previous owner. Pages are lightly tanned and thumbed at the edges, with light foxing. Binding has remained firm. Boards are a little rub worn, slight shelf wear to corners, spine and… Read more about this item

The Bodley Head, 1938. First Edition. Cloth. Very Good/Good. Harold Jones. 328pp, not price clipped, no inscriptions, slight spine lean, slight wear to edges of wrapper but only one tiny area of loss to head of spine, excellent illustrations. The third adventure featuring the Lockett children on holiday on the Scottish border.

London: The Children's Book Club, 1941. Hardcover. Fair. Jones, Harold. Yellow cloth boards. Spine sunned and titles rubbed; corners crushed and edges have a small dent or two; there are a couple of pen marks on rear board. Internally pages clean and binding sound. Prev owner's name at top of front paste down. No… Read more about this item

Children's Book Club, 1941T. hardcover. Good. in x in x in. 1941 EDITION with dust jacket - rare and collectable - will send out 1 st class post within 12 hours of receipt of order