Books published by publisher John C. Winston

Shipped from UK, please allow 10 to 21 business days for arrival. Crown Royal, 11 x 8 1/4in, 280 x 210mm, Nineteenth impression. 367pp. Numerous black and white illustrarions by H J Ford and Lancelot Speed, all plates present. Pages lightly foxed. Wonderful frontispiece entitled ‘The Twelve Princesses Quit the Castle by the Secret Staircase’ protected by tissue guard. Free from inscription. Beautiful colour paste-down to verso of upper. Binding lighly shaken. Bound within red cloth covered boards, with light blind embossing to upper and gold gilt illustration and title to spine; a little grubby and worn to edges but in good condition.

First edition. Illustrated throughout by Marguerite Kirmse. A lovely copy of a classic. Boards very bright, with a hint of shelf wear at the spine ends, previous owners name and date Christmas 1940 written in pencil on the free front endpaper. Dust jacket has a little loss at the head of the spine and a few minor chips and short tears. Map endpapers show the long path Lassie took to get home. The book was made into a movie in 1943 with Roddy McDowell and Elizabeth Taylor in her film debut. ix , 248 pages. pictorial cloth, map endpapers, dust jacket.. 8vo.

In 1360 AD, King Magnus Eirikson rules over a united Sweden and Norway-a Christian Scandinavia. When a rumor reaches the king that the colonies in Greenland have fallen back into pagan ritual, along with an alarming report that the inhabitants of the Western Settlement have mysteriously disappeared, Magnus entrusts Paul Knutson to make contact with Greenland and to verify the truth of these stories. Among these men are Olav Sigurdsson-a young man sailing to prove his bravery to the king and to reclaim his father's lost honor-and Eirik the Laplander, deeply loyal to Olav's family, but a pagan viewed with suspicion by the other Christian Scandinavians. Upon confirming the disappearance of a whole settlement, Paul and his party follow a sparse trail of clues south across the seas toward "Vinland"-convinced that some of the colonists may still be alive.

Islands in the Sky is a 1952 science fiction novel by Arthur C. Clarke. It is one of his earliest and lesser known works. Clarke wrote the story as a travelogue of human settlement of cislunar space in the last half of the Twenty-First Century. This is one of the thirty-five juvenile novels that constitute the Winston Science Fiction set and which were published in the 1950s for a readership of teen-aged boys. The typical protagonist in these books was a boy in his late teens who was proficient in the art of electronics, a hobby that was easily available to the readers. In this case, though, Roy Malcolm is in expert in aviation, its history and technology.