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Oxford Uniiversity Press, 1948. Hardcover. Acceptable. 1948. Reprint. 255 pages. No dust jacket. Green cloth with black lettering. Illustrated by Alfred Sindall. Clean pages. Notable foxing and tanning to endpapers and page edges. Previous owner's inscription to front endpaper. Some gutter cracking. Mild wear and bumping to spine, board edges and corners, with scuffing, staining and marking to boards. Heavy sunning to spine and board edges. Book has a forward lean.

Oxford University Press & Geoffrey Cumberlege, 1948. Hardcover. Acceptable/Acceptable. 1948. Reprinted. 255 pages. Illustrative jacket over green cloth. Pages remain bright and clear with minimal tanning and foxing. Previous owner's inscription to front free endpaper. Thumb-marking present. Noticeable creasing to gutter. Binding remains firm. Boards have mild edge-wear with slight rubbing to surfaces. Soft crushing to spine ends. Noticeable tanning to spine and edges. Light marks to boards. Unclipped jacket has heavy edgewear with some areas of loss, heavy tears, chips and, creasing. Some tanning to spine. Noticeable rubbing to surfaces. Scuffing to edges.

London: Oxford University Press (OUP), 1948. Book. Illus. by Sindall, Alfred. Good. Hardcover. Reprint. G, Shelfwear, spine browned & faded, ink name, date & some abrasion to inner front board, dealer stamp on foot of front free endpaper, foxing, browning/NO DUST JACKET. A Biggles adventure. With 7 black & white illustrations. Photo on request..

London, Oxford UP. Reprinted 1952.. 256pp. 8vo. Original cloth, name on ffe., a very good bright copy.

Oxford University Press 1950. LACKS D/W, octavo hardcover (VG-); all our specials have minimal description to keep listing them viable. They are at least reading copies, complete and in reasonable condition, but usually secondhand; frequently they are superior examples. Ordering more than one book may reduce your overall postage costs.

London: Geoffrey Cumberlege at Oxford University Press, 1948. reprint. hardback. Good, with unclipped d/j (fair with some tearing and chipping), light green boards and spine a little scuffed (small split at spine base), gilt spine titling bright; text block firm, pages unmarked; owner's embossed stamp on ffep. Foxing confined to edges.. 12mo (190 x 130 / 7_"" x 5""). First published, in ten parts, as BIGGLES FIGHTS ALONE in The Modern Boy, issues 452 to 461, dated 3rd October 1936 to 5th December 1936. 1994 publication under the title Biggles and the Secret Mission.

Oxford University Press, 1940. Hardcover. Acceptable. 1940. No Edition Remarks. 255 pages. No dust jacket. Blue cloth. Pages have mild tanning and foxing throughout, moderate at end-papers, paste-downs and text-block edges. Loose frontispiece. Front free end paper excised. Hinges are cracked with exposed netting. Some occasional mild cracking to gutters throughout, binding remains reasonably firm. Boards have moderate edge-wear with bumping to corners and rubbing to surfaces. Mild crushing to spine ends. Cloth has heavy damp and dust stains.

London: OUP, 1937. 2nd. . Hardcover. Good+. 8vo. blue cover front board pyramids same years as first

Oxford University Press, London, 1940. Reprint. Hardcover. Very Good Condition/Good. Illustrator: Howard Leigh and Alfred Sindall. Colour illustrated frontispiece by Howard Leigh. The text is illustrated with black and white full-page drawings executed by either Howard Leigh or Alfred Sindall. Blue coloured cloth covered boards with black coloured embossed titles and decoration to the front panel and back strip. Colour illustrated dustwrapper with black coloured titles to the front panel and back strip. British ships were going missing in the Indian Ocean, ostensibly lost in tropical storms, but, each is sending out an SOS prior to being lost. Biggles, on the other hand, finds the messages from the ships peculiar and reasons that the loss of the ships are neither accident nor storm based. So he, Algy, Lacey and Ginger set out to investigate. Softening and rubbing of the back strip edges; with rubbing of the top book corner and lower book edges. Sunning of the back strip and a little to the… Read More

Oxford, 1937. Hardcover. Very Good/No Jacket. The boards are shelf rubbed and edge worn. Internally the frontispiece is missing. There is also an inscription from a previous owner on the early pages. The remaining pages are lightly tanned and foxed, but the text is clean and legible. secure binding. 22/01/2021. ak. Our orders are shipped using tracked courier delivery services.

London, Oxford University Press, 1937. . First edition, first impression; 8vo; illustrations, including colour frontispiece, light foxing to text block, hinge pulled on frontis, otherwise binding tight; publisher's pictorial brown cloth, blue lettering to spine and upper cover, dark blue topstain, minor rubbing to head of spine, corners slightly bumped, with the unclipped pictorial dustjacket, corners chipped, spine ends chipped with loss, large closed tear to rear panel, a few short closed tears to top edge. The true first edition of this early, and uncommon, Biggles title.