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Hodder and Stoughton, 1951. Hardcover. Acceptable. 1951. First Edition. 193 pages. No dust jacket. Red cloth with black lettering. Illustrated by Stead. B&W and yellow illustrations throughout. Notable foxing and tanning to endpapers and page edges. Front hinge cracked. Mild wear and bumping to spine, board edges and corners, with small splits to spine ends. Notable sunning to spine. Minor scuffing and soiling to boards.

London: Hodder & Stoughton, 1951. 1st. Hardcover. Very Good/None. Leslie Stead. Hardcover, red cloth stamped in black. 7 two-color illustrations by Leslie Stead, This book chronicles Biggles as a schoolboy at Malton Hall School near the town of Hertbury. Light foxing to several pages. Record # 381549

Hodder and Stoughton, 1951. Hardcover. Good. 1951. First Edition. 193 pages. No dust jacket. Pictorial cloth covered boards. Black and white illustrations throughout. Pages with some foxing and tanning, particularly to endpapers and textblock edges. Binding remains firm. Boards have moderate shelf wear with mild bumping and fraying to corners and crushing and fraying to spine ends. All surfaces tanned and sunned, particularly spine. Some additional mild marks and staining.

Hodder & Stoughton, 1951. Hardcover. Acceptable. 1951. First Printed. 193 pages. No dust jacket. Red cloth with decorations. Yellow block coloured illustrated plates throughout. Binding remains firm. Pages and plates have light tanning and foxing throughout. Sticker and embossed stamp to front pastedown and endpaper. Boards have light shelf-wear with corner bumping. Light tanning to spine and edges with crushing to spine ends. Boards are warped.

Paris: Presses De La Cite, 1952. 191pp. Traduction de S. Bernard-Derosne. Couverture illustree.. Reliure d'editeur.. Tres Belle Examp.. 18 X 12.

Hodder & Stoughton, 1952. Hardcover. Fair/No Jacket. 2nd impression. 193 Pages. The board are a little shelf rubbed. The corners are a little knocked. They are strong and sturdy. Internally, There is a previous owners inscription on the front end page. Clean and complete. Tightly bound. r*04/08/2022. [Ak]. Our orders are shipped using tracked courier delivery services.

London: Hodder and Stoughton. Very Good- in Good dust jacket. (1952). Hardcover. Contemporary owner's inscription on front endpaper. Dust stains and foxing to page edges. 2" piece missing from lower part of front flap of dust-jacket, with some loss to front panel also. 1" missing at tail of dust-jacket spine. Dust-jacket protected in archival mylar cover. ; Second printing. 193 pages. Frontispiece (within pagination) + 7 full page tinted plates. Red boards with black illustration on front board, black lettering on spine and front page. Page dimensions: 184 x 121mm. .

London, UK: Hodder and Stoughton, 1951. 1st Edition 1st Impression. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. 12mo - over 6¾ - 7¾" tall. Stead. First edition, first printing. 184pp, with colour plate frontispiece and seven full colour plate illustrations, all by Stead. Red cloth-covered boards with black lettering and decoration front and spine. Original printed letter from W E Johns to 'every boy who reads this book' regarding Captain Lorrington King loosely laid in. 12mo. Cloth boards bright and sharp, just slightly rolled at spine head and tiny indentation on edge of front panel. Hint of shadowing in top quarter of front free endpaper else internally neat, clean, bright and tight. In its original, still bright, dust jacket, a little rubbed on edges with some small scuffs front, spine and rear, faded spine. Dust jacket now protected in a Brodart-style sleeve, not adhered to the jacket or volume.

London: Hodder & Stoughton, 1952. 2nd imp.. Nice copy. small octavo. hardback with dust jacket 193pp., illusts., Nice copy in like price-clipped dust jacket

London: Hodder and Stoughton, 1951. [Children's adventure novel] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (19 x 13cm), pp.193; [1], blank. With sepia illustrations by Leslie Stead. Publisher's red cloth blocked in black, dust-jacket also illustrated by Stead, priced at 6s. Very good in similar jacket with a few small chips and tears, sunned to spine.

In the original dust sheet. Red cloth binding with black titles on the spine and on the front board.
James Bigglesworth, nicknamed "Biggles", is a fictional pilot and adventurer, the title character and hero of the Biggles series of adventure books, written for young readers by W. E. Johns (1893–1968). Biggles made his first appearance in the story The White Fokker, published in the first issue of Popular Flying magazine and again as part of the first collection of Biggles stories, The Camels Are Coming (both 1932). Johns continued to write "Biggles books" until his death in 1968. The series eventually included nearly a hundred volumes – novels as well as short story collections – most of the latter with a common setting and time. The chronology of the canon, spanning both world wars, set up certain inconsistencies over the unavoidable ageing of Biggles and his friends. Also, later editions had to be somewhat edited in line with changing norms of acceptability, especially regarding racism, and… Leer más

hardcover. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book.