2002-2003 A House Called Awful End Dreadful Acts Terrible Times Dubious Deeds

Description

First Edition, Illustrated, Original Binding, Publishers' Original Binding, Signed, With Dustwrapper

A five volume set of the Eddie Dickens series by the English children's author Philip Ardagh.
All in publisher's original bindings with the original unclipped dust wrappers.
All include delightful illustrations by David Roberts throughout.

Including:

2002 A House Called Awful End
The first USA edition, 5th printing, published by Henry Holt and Company.
The first book of The Eddie Dickens Trilogy, telling a comical adventure of how Eddie Dickens must go and live with his great-uncle and great-aunt as his parents have the yellow fever. 

2003 Dreadful Acts
The first USA edition, 1st printing, published by Henry Holt and Company.
Signed by the author to the rear of the dedication page.
The second book of The Eddie Dickens Trilogy, a hilarious sequel in which Eddie narrowly avoids being blown up, trampled by horses, hot by a hot-air balloon, and arrested, with a romantic subplot.

2002 Terrible Times
The first UK edition, 1st impression, published by Faber and Faber.
The third book of The Eddie Dickens Trilogy, in which Eddie finds himself on a chaotic journey on the way to America aboard the sailing ship Pompous Pig.

2003 Dubious Deeds
The first UK edition, 1st impression, published by Faber and Faber.
Signed by the author to the front free end paper. 
The first book of the following series, The Further Adventures of Eddie Dickens, in which Eddie finds himself away from home and amongst a group of vegetarian strangers living in Even Madder Aunt Maud's Scottish ancestral pile, embroiled in a plot that could rock the very foundations of the British monarchy.

2003 Dubious Deeds
The first UK edition, 1st impression, published by Faber and Faber.
Plot description as above.