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Biggles Flies West
by Johns, Capt. W. E. (illus. Alfred Sindall)
- Used
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Good, 5th impression (1st pub 1937), missing d/j, green cloth boards, black spine titling (some scuffing); slight forward lean b
- Seller
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Maidenhead, Berkshire, United Kingdom
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About This Item
London: Geoffrey Cumberledge OUP, 1951. 5th imp. hardback. Good, 5th impression (1st pub 1937), missing d/j, green cloth boards, black spine titling (some scuffing); slight forward lean but text block firm; pages clean and unmarked, but a couple loose.. 12mo (190 x 130 / 7_"" x 5""). In this adventure of Major James Bigglesworth (better known as 'Biggles') past and present meet. Biggles and his inseperable compantions, Algy Lacey and Ginger Hebblethwaite, chance to encounter, in London, a lad named Dick Denver, whose father, a sailor, has sent him a Spanish doubloon and a long letter explaining how and where he found it
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- Bookseller
- Inklings & Yarnspinners
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- IYC132379
- Title
- Biggles Flies West
- Author
- Johns, Capt. W. E. (illus. Alfred Sindall)
- Format/Binding
- Hardback
- Book Condition
- Used - Good, 5th impression (1st pub 1937), missing d/j, green cloth boards, black spine titling (some scuffing); slight forward lean b
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- 5th imp
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Geoffrey Cumberledge OUP
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1951
- Pages
- 255
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
- Keywords
- fiction, reprint, young people, WEJohns, Sindall
- Bookseller catalogs
- 2nd-hand books;
- Size
- 12mo (190 x 130 / 7_\"\" x 5\"\")
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Maidenhead, Berkshire
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- Cloth
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- Spine
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- Text Block
- Most simply the inside pages of a book. More precisely, the block of paper formed by the cut and stacked pages of a book....
- PUB
- Common abbreviation for 'published'
- 12mo
- A duodecimo is a book approximately 7 by 4.5 inches in size, or similar in size to a contemporary mass market paperback. Also...