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London: The Children's Book Club, n.d.. More adventures of Biggles and the Special Air Police. Illustrated by Leslie Stead. Pp. 192, coloured frontispiece and 5 plates; cr. 8vo; light brown boards, spine lettered in black, the boards slightly soiled and flecked, fore-corners lightly bruised; dust wrapper, soiled and foxed (on both sides), edges worn and split, with pieces torn from backstrip extremities and a long closed tear along most of the upper flap fold; name in ink on upper pastedown, outer leaves and edges lightly foxed; The Children's Book Club, London, n.d. Children's Book Club edition. *Originally published by Brockhampton Press in 1958.

Brockhampton Press, 1958. Hardcover in Dustjacket. Very Good for its age.. First Edition with dustjacket, in very ""collectable"" condition! pp. 192First edition dust jacket showing the original price of 8 shillings and 6 pence(Number annotation on fep., some glue remnants of sellotape)All this information courtesy of biggles.infoThis contains eleven short stories. These are as follows:-THE CASE OF THE MAN ON A SPOT (Pages 7 to 25)A Polish man with secret documents has had his wife kidnapped to make him hand them back. This story was never published elsewhereTHE CASE OF THE SUBMERGED AIRCRAFT (Pages 26 to 45)A Gipsy Moth found ditched in a Scottish Loch leads Biggles to a wife murderer. This story was subsequently published in 'Open-Air Adventure Stories for Boys' 1965 (by Odhams Books Ltd)THE CASE OF THE SABOTAGED PARACHUTE (Pages 46 to 67)A parachute with the cords cut leads Biggles to uncover more than just a corpse. (Dust cover). This story was never published… Leer más