Purple boards with gold lettering to the front and spine. Tanned closed rough page edges. Minor shelf wear to the boards. Unclipped dust wrapper, rubbing, wear and heavily sunned. Now in a new removable protective clear sleeve. No inscriptions, 211pp. Black and white frontispiece. Clean and bright pages throughout. (Any digital image available on request).

Black boards with gold lettering to the spine. Tanning to the inside boards. Foxing to the closed page edges and further foxing inside. Unclipped dust wrapper, minor wear to the edges and spine. Now in a new removable protective clear sleeve. No inscriptions, 430pp. Clean and bright pages throughout. (Any digital image available on request).

Brown boards with gold lettering to the spine. Some marks to the boards. Tanned to the closed page edges. Unclipped dust wrapper, rubbing and wear to the rear and a small tear to the top of the spine. Now in a new removable protective clear sleeve. No inscriptions, 346pp. Clean and bright pages throughout. (Any digital image available on request).

Orange boards with black lettering to the spine. Yellowing to the closed page edges. Glazed pictorial unclipped dust wrapper, minor creasing and wear to the edges, some chipping to the top of the spine. Now in a new removable protective clear sleeve. No inscriptions, 416pp. Clean and bright pages with black and white illustrations throughout. (Any digital image available on request).

Claret boards with lettering to the spine and gold decoration to the front. Tipped in burgundy, now faded. Bend to the boards. Heavy foxing to the closed page edges only. Pictorial unclipped dust wrapper, rubbing, chipping and creasing with pieces missing to the edges and corners, now in a new removable protective clear sleeve. No inscriptions, 370pp. Clean pages with black and white and colour illustrations by C W Bacon throughout. (Any digital image available on request).

Red boards with gold lettering to the spine. Minor shelf wear to the board edges. Glazed pictorial unclipped dust wrapper, light creasing to the top and bottom of the spine, now in a new removable protective clear sleeve. No inscriptions, 376pp. Clean and bright pages throughout. (Any digital image available on request).

Red boards with gold lettering to the spine. Some spotting to the top of the closed page edges only. Minor shelf wear to the board edges. Glazed pictorial unclipped dust wrapper, now in a new removable protective clear sleeve. No inscriptions, 254pp. Black and white images to the centre. Clean and bright pages throughout. (Any digital image available on request).

Mustard decorative boards with gold lettering to the spine. Tipped in green.Some handling marks to the boards No inscriptions. 248pp. Clean and bright pages with illustrations by Nigel Lambourne throughout. (Any digital image available on request).

Blue boards with gold lettering to the spine. Tipped in purple. Very slight lean to the boards. Pictorial unclipped dust jacket, some sunning to the spine and a faint tea cup ring to the front, now in anew removable protective clear sleeve. No inscriptions. 221pp. Clean and bright pages throughout. (Any digital image available on request).

Brown boards with silver lettering to the spine. Slight lean to the boards. Spotting to the top of the closed page edges, tanning to the inside boards. Pictorial unclipped dust jacket, with chipping and wear to the edges. Small hole to the spine, now in anew removable protective clear sleeve. No inscriptions. 222pp. Clean pages throughout. (Any digital image available on request).

Red boards with black lettering to the front and spine. Tanning and spotting to the closed page edges. Tanned end papers. Some marks to the boards and minor wear to the corners and spine. No inscriptions, 318pp. "5th printing competing 55,675 copies". Clean pages throughout. (Any digital image available on request).

Red boards with black lettering to the front and spine. Lean to the boards. Corner cut to ffep. Foxing to the closed page edges. Tanned end papers. Minor wear to the corners and spine. No inscriptions, 405pp. Foxed throughout. (Any digital image available on request).