Biggles In Australia by Captain W.E. Johns - 1981

Hodder & Stoughton, 1955. Hardcover. Acceptable. 1955. First Edition. 188 pages. No dust jacket. Red cloth. Contains colourplates throughout. Pages remain bright and clear with minimal tanning and foxing. Tape marks to pastedowns. Previous owner's inscription to front pastedown. Stamp to front free endpaper. Noticeable creasing to gutter. Binding remains firm. Boards have mild edge-wear with slight rubbing to surfaces. Soft crushing to spine ends. Some tanning to spine and edges. Light marks to boards.

Hodder & Stoughton, 1962. Hardcover. Good. 1962. Fourth Impression. 188 pages. No dust jacket. Red cloth. Pages and binding are presentable with no major defects. Minor issues present such as mild cracking, inscriptions, inserts, light foxing, tanning and thumb marking. Overall a good condition item. Boards have mild shelf wear with light rubbing and corner bumping. Some light marking and sunning.

Hodder & Stoughton, 1955. Hardcover. Good/Good. 1955. First Edition. 188 pages. Dust jacket over red cloth. Clean pages with mild tanning to endpapers. Tightly bound with faint thumb-marking throughout. Boards have light shelf-wear with corner bumping. Mild crushing to spine ends. Book has forward lean. Boards are notably warped. Unclipped jacket has moderate edgewear with chips, tears, and creasing. Mild rubbing and marking all over.

Hodder and Stoughton, 1955. First Edition. Hardcover. Good/No Jacket. shelf wear on the boards. foxing, a bit marked. soundly bound and presentable. [SK]. Our orders are shipped using tracked courier delivery services.

Sydney: Angus & Robertson Publishers, 1981. Words by Captain W. E. Johns, Music by Patrick Cook. Pp. [iv]+218, title page vignette and text illustrations by Patrick Cook; oblong 4to; pictorial glazed paper wrappers, edges slighlty rubbed, short closed tear at head of backstitpthe back panel lighlty faded next to backstrip; Angus & Robertson Publishers, Sydney, 1981. First edition thus. *Originally published (with illustrations by Leslie Stead) in 1955 by Hodder and Stoughton.

Hodder & Stoughton, 1962. Hardcover. Very Good/Good. H/B 188 pages, condition is very good, this is an ex library book with the usual stamps. 4th impression.

London: Hodder & Stoughton, 1957. 3rd imp.. Nice copy. small octavo. chipped dust jacket 188pp., col. frontis., col. illusts., Very nice crisp copy in like price-clipped dust jacket with light wear

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… Read More

London: Hodder & Stoughton, 1955. 1st edition. Nice copy. small octavo. hardback in original cloth 188pp., col. frontis., col. illusts., No dust jacket o/w a nice copy in bright red boards with black titles & decoration