Available Copies from Independent Booksellers
Price: US$10.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: 1st ed. hardback in good condition with dust jacket in good condition, not ex-library. There is a small name at the top of the fep, clean cream pages, tight binding and clean red board covers. The unclipped dust jacket has chipping at top of spine and corners. Many wonderful b&w drawings exactly matching the text. The Locketts are unencumbered by parents (safely off in India) and are shunted around the Aunts and Uncles during holidays. Aunt Margaret's books about their Adventures spur the Grenfell family to challenge the Locketts to a bicycle tour. Please ignore abe's shipping estimate as this weighs less than 1Kg and I will reduce shipping during checkout.
Seller: Helen Boomsma of babyboomerbooks, Cape Douglas, SA, Australia
M. E. Atkinson. Challenge to Adventure. John Lane The Bodley Head, 1942.
Price: US$12.88 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: 1942. First Edition. 288 pages. No dust jacket. Red cloth. Contains black and white illustrations throughout. Pages remain bright and clear with minimal tanning and foxing. Previous owner's inscription to front free endpaper. Thumb-marking present. Light creasing to gutter. Binding remains firm. Boards have mild edge-wear with slight rubbing to surfaces. Soft crushing to spine ends. Visible tanning to spine and edges. Light marks overall.
Seller: World of Rare Books, Goring-by-Sea, SXW, United Kingdom
Atkinson, M.E.. CHALLENGE TO ADVENTURE. John Lane The Bodley Head, 1942.
Price: US$17.63 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: 1st 1942. Good condition with no wrapper. A story of the Locketts family. Red cloth. B/w illustrations. Covers grubby and spine faded. A little bumping to spine and corners. 7 in pen to front pastedown. Ink name and writing to verso of front endpaper. Foxing, mainly to text block. Many of the illustrations have been neatly coloured in. Packaged with care and promptly dispatched!
Seller: Stella & Rose's Books, PBFA, Tintern, MON, United Kingdom
M E Atkinson. Challenge to Adventure. John Lane The Bodley Head, 1942.
Price: US$24.45 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: First edition hardback in Good Plus condition. Red cloth boards, corners bumped and slightly scuffed, surfaces discoloured to the edges with minor marks, spine faded, 288 pages, scattered marks and foxing heavier to the prelims and edge of the text block, minor use wear, binding firm with roll. No jacket. Free standard postage worldwide.
Seller: Waimakariri Books and Prints Limited, Oxford, New Zealand
Atkinson, M.E.. CHALLENGE TO ADVENTURE. John Lane The Bodley Head, 1942.
Price: US$25.39 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: 1st 1942. Very good condition with no wrapper. A story of the Locketts family. Red cloth. B/w illustrations. Spine is faded. Light crease to rear cover. Packaged with care and promptly dispatched!
Seller: Stella & Rose's Books, PBFA, Tintern, MON, United Kingdom
Atkinson, M.E.. Challenge to Adventure. Bodley Head, London, 1942.
Price: US$44.90 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: small neat name on front endpaper margin, otherwise a near-Fine bright book in a Good unclipped d/w, back panel and spine water-stained and foxed with small chips at ends (please see image), some insect thinning on flap folds, otherwise Good
Seller: David Schutte, Lydbury North, Shropshire, United Kingdom
Price: US$44.90 + shipping
Description: First edition, 8vo, 288 pp. Black and white illustrations, coloured pictorial endpapers. Cloth, d.w. with a couple of tears and some minor loss to the lower wrapper.
Seller: Bow Windows Bookshop (ABA, ILAB), Lewes, United Kingdom
Price: US$83.38 + shipping
Description: First edition hard back binding in publisher's original magenta cloth covers, light blue lettering to the spine, colour illustrated end papers. 8vo. 8'' x 5½''. Contains 288 printed pages of text with monochrome illustrations throughout. Without any ownership markings. Near Fine condition book, in Very Good condition dust wrapper with light foxing to the lower cover, minor surface rubs to the tips, not price clipped 7s 6d. Dust wrapper supplied in archive acetate film protection, this protects and prolongs the life of the paper, it is not adhered to the book or to the dust wrapper. We currently hold in stock 11 other titles by this author. Member of the P.B.F.A. CHILDREN'S & JUVENILE
Seller: Little Stour Books PBFA Member, Canterbury, United Kingdom
ATKINSON, M.E. (author). Stuart TRESILIAN (illustrator).. Challenge to Adventure.. , 1942.
Price: US$89.79 + shipping
Description: London; John Lane The Bodley Head. 1942. 8vo.; publisher's cerise cloth lettered in blue, double-page pictorial endpapers, in pictorial dustwrapper; pp. [iv], 5-288; with wood-engraved illustrations throughout by Stuart Tresilian; externally fine bar dusting and speckling to top edges, internally clean with a neat early gift inscription to half-title, in a good and attractive, unclipped dustwrapper (7s 6d) with overall light dusting, some toning to spine, and a small, slim, triangular chip to top edge of upper panel (12m x 5mm). First edition. The Lockett family take on a cycling challenge.
Seller: Henry Sotheran Ltd, London, United Kingdom