Biggles Air Commodore de Captain W.E. Johns - 1948

Oxford University Press, 1948. Hardcover. Good. 1948. Reprinted. 255 pages. No dust jacket. Green paper covered boards. Prize plate stuck to front free endpaper. Black and white illustrations throughout. Binding remains firm. Pages and illustrations are lightly tanned throughout. Minor dog-eared corners. Boards have light shelf-wear with corner bumping. Light tanning to spine and edges with crushing to spine ends.

Armada, 1963-01-01. Paperback. Good. Pages are tanned. Pages have no notes or highlighting. The spine is creased. There is creasing/wear to the cover.

Oxford University Press, London, 1940. Reprint. Hardcover. Very Good Condition/Good. Illustrator: Howard Leigh and Alfred Sindall. Colour illustrated frontispiece by Howard Leigh. The text is illustrated with black and white full-page drawings executed by either Howard Leigh or Alfred Sindall. Blue coloured cloth covered boards with black coloured embossed titles and decoration to the front panel and back strip. Colour illustrated dustwrapper with black coloured titles to the front panel and back strip. British ships were going missing in the Indian Ocean, ostensibly lost in tropical storms, but, each is sending out an SOS prior to being lost. Biggles, on the other hand, finds the messages from the ships peculiar and reasons that the loss of the ships are neither accident nor storm based. So he, Algy, Lacey and Ginger set out to investigate. Softening and rubbing of the back strip edges; with rubbing of the top book corner and lower book edges. Sunning of the back strip and a little to the… Leer más

Oxford, 1937. Hardcover. Very Good/No Jacket. The boards are shelf rubbed and edge worn. Internally the frontispiece is missing. There is also an inscription from a previous owner on the early pages. The remaining pages are lightly tanned and foxed, but the text is clean and legible. secure binding. 22/01/2021. ak. Our orders are shipped using tracked courier delivery services.