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Christmas Posting Dates 2021

It’s that time of year again where we must let you know when to get your orders in if you need to receive them in time for Christmas!

If you are an international customer (outside the UK), then to have the best chance possible of having your orders delivered in time for Christmas day, please be sure to select our “tracked” delivery option at checkout. This option is based on a 5 working day turnaround, but at this busy time (and in this unusual year!) it would be best to get your orders in as quickly as possible, and at the very latest, by 16th December.

For UK customers, non-tracked delivery orders (which are sent by Royal Mail First Class) should be placed by Tuesday 21st December at the latest, while tracked orders should be placed by the end of Wednesday 22nd December. We will ship orders a few times a week from now, and our final shipping day before Christmas will be Thursday 23rd December.

We would like to thank all of our wonderful customers for your ongoing support during 2021. Your valued custom means we can continue to trade into 2022 where we have ambitious plans to continue expanding our Classics Illustrated reprints line.

Stay safe all, and have a very Merry Christmas, and here’s to a Happy New Year!

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Classic Comics Issue #1 – The Three Musketeers Limited Anniversary Edition

CCS Books proudly presents this commemorative Limited Edition package of the Complete Classics Illustrated issue #1, Alexandre Dumas’s The Three Musketeers.

To celebrate the 80th Anniversary of the Classics Illustrated comic book series, CCS Books have lovingly restored and remastered the original 62-page interior artwork by Malcolm Kildale, including its wonderful line-drawn front cover. We present this here in an 80-page hardback book, with a new history of the series by avid collector and publisher, Jeff Brooks, and an introduction by William B. Jones, Jr, author of Classics Illustrated: A Cultural History.

Coupled with a second hardback book featuring George Evans’s completely re-drawn second interior art from 1959 and the instantly recognisable and much-loved painted cover by John Parker, this set is presented in a gorgeous, sturdy slipcase, with gold foil lettering and Parker’s fabulous painting in full-view.

Exclusive to the CCS Books site, this set is the definitive Classics Illustrated collection of Dumas’s seminal work.

Limited to 500 copies worldwide. Shipping from October.

Featured in this set:

  • 80-page hardback reproduction of the October 1941 first edition of Classic Comics The Three Musketeers
  • 52-page hardback reproduction of the later George Evans adaptation, with recreated 1960s back cover
  • Attractive and sturdy slipcase, with gold foil lettering
  • Introduction to The Three Musketeers by William B. Jones, Jr.
  • New history of the Classics Illustrated series by Jeff Brooks
  • Essay comparing the two artworks
  • Note about the restoration process
  • 2 CI biographies of Alexandre Dumas
  • Numbered certificate
  • Back cover teaser for issue number 2…