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JOHNS, Captain W.E.
Biggles in the Terai (A Green Knight Book)
ISBN: 978340041498
Knight Books, London, 1968, 1st. thus., paperback, VG, 190 pp.
Paperback wraps and spine strip clean and intact, gentle rubs to edges and corners, bump to front fore-edge corner, 2cm and 0.5cm splits to either side of spine tail, abrasions to strip itself, no inscription, neat annotation to plot synopsis, sound tight binding, pages clean, tanned. Lovely copy.
CHILDREN'S COLLECTABLE PAPERBACK, BIGGLES ADVENTURE STORY, CAPTAIN W.E. JOHNS
46718 CHILD'S COLL/JOHNS £11.50

Leicester: Brockhampton Press, 1966. 1st Edition. Pages clean and bright with light spotting in places. Binding tight. Spotting to front end papers and hard edges. Gutter exposed on title page. Ink letter 'F' by previous owner to top of front pastedown. Light shelf wear to boards. Spine faded.. 1st Edition. Hard. Good. 12mo.

London, England: Norman Wright, 2010. Limited Edition . Hardcover. Like New/Like New. 8vo - 7.75 to 9.75" tall. SKILLETER, Andrew. Norman Wright republished some of the Biggles First Editions and limited each run to 300. This is a facsimile of the first edition that includes all of the original artwork plus additions by Andrew Skilleter.This is number 212 of 300 signed by Norman Wright and Andrew Skilleter. Condition: Like New - No marks or wear to the dust wrapper, contents clean, bright and tight. Even contains the original printed compliments slip from the publisher.

London, 2010. First Edition. Hard Cover. Dust Jacket. (Swanage, Dorset: Norman Wright 2010). Andrew Skilleter (illustrator). First Edition Thus. SIGNED LIMITED EDITION. Limited to 300 copies, of which this is number 256. SIGNED BY THE PUBLISHER & THE ARTIST WITH AN ORIGINAL REMARQUE SKETCH. Originally published in hardback in 1966, this is one of the harder-to-find Biggles titles, and is here reprinted in hardback for the first time. The new dustwrapper is by Andrew Skilleter, who also drew the black and white frontispiece, SIGNED by the illustrator and publisher to the title page. A very fine copy in like dustwrapper. As new. This copy is enhanced by a drawing of an Auster monoplane to the front free end-paper by the Artist. Scarce with these attributes. A lovely copy. Photographs/scans available upon request.

London.: Hodder & Stoughton, 1966. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. Good/Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Some light spotting to the closed page edges and prelims. Otherwise tidy. The jacket has very minor rubbing to the spine tips and a small mark to the base of the front panel. Price clipped. Algy, working with the Indian Security Police to assist them in a gold smuggling racket, has disappeared. Flying to Northern India, Biggles, taking Bertie with him, lands at Shara, just below Nepal, where a 12 mile strip of Jungle all along the Southern border of Nepal called the Terai, forms a perfect boundary with India. Assisted by an Indian mechanic called Ram Singh, Biggles and Bertie commence looking for Algy. They know he had borrowed an Indian Air Force Hunter aircraft from Calcutta and was flying in that when he disappeared. Approached by a sinister stranger with a wooden leg, called Holman Larta, Biggles is suspicious of his offers of help. Later an attempt is made to… Read More

Leicester: Brockhampton, 1966. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Stead. Small crossed out pen inscription to the fep. Some mild foxing to the closed page edges. Very light dulling down to the board edges. The jacket is unclipped at10/8 net. A small mark on the rear cover, one tiny closed tear to the rear, a faint tide mark to the internal spine of the jacket and very minor rubbing.

1966. Brockhampton Press. 1966. First edition. Hardback with DW. Tail of spine and outer edge of front board are very slightly bumped, fore-edges are very lightly foxed. The contents are very clean and fresh. The wrapper is bright, but is slightly worn at head of spine. A lovely copy.

1966. Brockhampton Press. 1966. First edition. Hardback with DW. Head of spine and bottom corner of rear board are slightly bumped. The contents are very clean and fresh. The wrapper is bright, but is slightly rubbed and worn at head of spine and very slightly grubby to rear cover.

London: Brockhampton Press, 1966. First Edition. Hard Cover. Dust Jacket. First UK Edition. Publisher's green binding with gilt lettering to the spine. A brown foxing spot to the top edge and a former child owner's neat name and address in green biro to the front free end-paper otherwise a bright and clean near fine copy The D/W is VG indeed with sunning to the spine and light fraying at the top thereof. Biggles # 74. A nice copy. Photographs/scans available upon request.

London: Brockhampton Press, 1966. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. An attractive copy of this rare later title in the enduringly popular Biggles series. The binding is square and tight, the green covers very clean. Spine tips just slightly creased with minor sunning to the very extreme edges. Corners sharp, free from owner names etc, the block is fairly fresh - no foxing or browning. A lovely example. The dustjacket is unclipped with price of 10/6. Trivial shelf-wear at the spine tips - no tears, slight loss of colour to one corner. Clean and bright, VG indeed - or better.

London: Brockhampton Press, 1966. First Edition. Hard Cover. Dust Jacket. First UK Edition. Publisher's green binding with gilt lettering to the spine. Minor foxing to the top and fore-edges otherwise a bright and clean near fine copy. The dustwrapper is priced 10/6 net to the inside flap and is a VG++ example with a little, unobtrusive creasing at the tip of the spine. A former owner has stamped to the inside flap "C. J. ELPHICK/ (SECONDHAND) below which he has written in ink 21.3.70. No sunning to the dustwrapper. A very nice copy indeed. Photographs/scans available upon request.