Biggles Cuts it Fine de Johns, Captain W E - 1954

London: Hodder & Stoughton, 1955. Book. Illus. by Stead. Good. Hardcover. 2nd Impression. G, Shelfwear, bumping, some insect damage to spine heel & board edges, some spots of soiling & abrasion, foxing, browning/NO DUST JACKET. A Biggles adventure. With 6 colour illustrations including the frontispiece, by 'Studio' Stead. Photo on request..

JOHNS, Captain W.E
Biggles Cuts it Fine (40)
Hodder & Stoughton Ltd, London, 1959, 3rd Impression, hardback with dust wrapper, VG/vg, boards red/black, black aeroplane motif to front board, colour frontispiece and illustrated title page in addition to five colour plates by 'Studio' Stead, 159 pp.
Boards clean and firm, gentle bumps to head and tail of spine, small mark to back board, neat inscription to front free end paper, no annotations, sound tight binding, slight lean to the spine, pale foxing to edges of text block, otherwise pages clean and bright. Moderate shelf wear to wrapper with pale marks to both panels, rubs and abrasions to edges and corners, bump and two small chips to spine head, price not clipped. Lovely copy.
CHILDREN'S COLLECTABLE, HARDBACK, BIGGLES ADVENTURE STORY, CAPTAIN W.E. JOHNS
46759 CHILD'S COLL/J £14.50

London: Hodder & Stoughton, 1959. 3rd imp.. Nice copy. small octavo. hardback with dust jacket 159pp., col. frontis., col. illusts., Illustrated by Stead. Neat ownership signature o/w nice copy

London: Hodder & Stoughton, 1955. With illustrations by 'Studio' Stead. Pp. 160(last blank), coloured frontispiece and 5 plates, black & white title page vignette; cr. 8vo; red boards, lettered and decorated in black, tiny tape marks near top fore-corners, the fore-corners also faintly bruised; price-clipped dust wrapper, slightly soiled, edges rubbed and split, with a couple of tiny chips and several tape repairs on reverse; edges of leaves lightly foxed; Hodder & Stoughton, London, 1955. Second impression. *Biggles adventure 40 according to the Hodder & Stoughton numbering system on the dust wrapper (which did not include some of the earlier titles in the series). First published in 1954.

Hodder & Stoughton 1954. First edition, octavo, red boards black lettering to spine & front board, black aeroplane motif to front board, frontispiece, 159pp, illus, VG (small stain to front board, some foxing to page edges) in d/w, VG- (moderate creasing to edges, archival tape repair to spine extrem & front upper edge, rubbing to flap folds & spine sides, 3cm tear with loss to rear lower edge, nicks to corners, some staining)

London: Hodder & Stoughton, 1954. 1st edition. Nice copy. small octavo. hardback in original cloth 159pp., col. frontis., col. illusts., Illustrated by Stead. No dust jacket o/w a nice copy

London: Hodder & Stoughton, 1954. With illustrations by 'Studio' Stead. Pp. 160(last blank), coloured frontispiece and 5 plates, black & white title page vignette; cr. 8vo; red boards, lettered and decorated in black; price-clipped dust wrapper, a trifle soiled, edges slightly rubbed and split, with tiny chip near top fore-corner of front panel; bookseller's sticker at foot of upper pastedown, outer leaves and edges lightly foxed; Hodder & Stoughton, London, 1954. First edition..