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Biggles' Presses On, More Adventures of Biggles and the Special Air Police
by Johns, Captain W. E
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Fine in Very Good dust jacket
- Seller
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Horsham, West Sussex, United Kingdom
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About This Item
Leicester: Brockhamton Press. Fine in Very Good dust jacket. 1958. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover with dust jacket. First Edition. Fine blackberry coloured boards with title and embellishments to the spine. Colour pictorial dust jacket very good but with some minor edge wear, price clipped. Faded inscription to the top of the front endpaper, hints of foxing - particularly to the closed page edges, coloured frontispiece being Prince Chan, plus five more coloured plates by Leslie Stead. A very nice example of this title. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 192 pages .
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- Bookseller
- WWW.HORSHAMRAREBOOKS.COM
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 16831
- Title
- Biggles' Presses On, More Adventures of Biggles and the Special Air Police
- Author
- Johns, Captain W. E
- Illustrator
- Leslie Stead
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover with dust jacket
- Book Condition
- Used - Fine in Very Good dust jacket
- Edition
- First Edition; First Printing
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Brockhamton Press
- Place of Publication
- Leicester
- Date Published
- 1958
- Keywords
- Leslie Stead, Captain, W E Johns, Biggles
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