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Armada, 1970. Paperback. Good. 1970. First Edition Thus. 127 pages. Pictorial paper cover by Peter Archer. Glue remains firm. Pencil inscription to first page. Mild cracking throughout. Pages are moderately tanned throughout. Covers have mild edge wear with slight rubbing to surfaces. Reading creases and rolling to spine.

Hodder & Stoughton, 1953. Hardcover. Good. 1953. First Edition. 192 pages. No dust jacket. Red cloth covered boards. 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.

London: Armada, 1974. Book. Good+. Paperback. First Thus.. 127pp. (Gorilla design cover.) Minor external wear/corner crease to back cover. Sgn. to 1st title page, o/w clean throughout. Includes supply & fitting of new correctly sized protective lyfjacket..

London: The Childrens Book Club Childs Crude Aircraft Drawing to Title Page "Biggles" word coloured in OTHERWISE book is very clean throughout. E-mail for details . Childs Crude Aircraft Drawing to Title Page .... This the First Edition of This Edition. Maroon Cloth. Very Good (minor foxing)/No Jacket. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. HARDBACK.

Hodder and Stoughton 1953. First edition, octavo hardcover (VG) in d/w (G+); 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 will reduce your overall postage costs.

Hodder & Stoughton 1959. SECOND IMPRESSION, octavo hardcover (VG) in d/w (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: Hodder & Stoughton, 1953. 1st ed.. Hardback small, no jacket (missing), good plus condition, patterned red cloth cover, colour plates, endpaper map, edges lightly foxed, minor edgewear, old price marks front pastedown. 192 pp. Biggles and his comrades take on an urgent assignment in Central Africa (Kenya area) in search of the elusive Cetezulu, a major African poacher known as "The Black Elephant".

1953 hardback edition, no dustjacket. Book is in very tidy condition but has some foxing on opening pages and edges. Colour plates by Stead.

Hodder & Stoughton 1953. FIRST EDITION, octavo hardcover (VG+) in d/w (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: Hodder & Stoughton, 1953. E-mail for details . This the First Edition of This Edition. Maroon Cloth. Very Good (minor foxing)/Very Good (chipped Sml loss). Illus. by Leslie Stead. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. HARDBACK.

London: Hodder & Soughton. Very Good+ in Good dust jacket. 1953. First Edition. Hardcover. Edges and endpapers lightly foxed. Old school prize label to half title. Jacket worn and chipped, old tape to rear, price clipped; Original red papered boards, black lettering; 12mo 7" - 7½" tall; 192 pages .

London: Hodder & Stoughton. Very Good- in Very Good- dust jacket. (1959). Hardcover. Previous owner's inscription. Foxing to page edges. Some rubbing to dust-jacket. Dust-jacket is price-clipped. Dust-jacket protected in archival mylar cover.; Second printing. 192 pages + 8 colour plates. Red-brown boards with black lettering on spine and front board. Black plane illustration on front board. Page dimensions: 184 x 121mm. Maps on endpapers. "[. . .] an urgent assisngment in Central Africa where they lead the search for the elusive Black Elephant" - from dust-jacket blurb. Number 37 of the series, with "37" printed on dust-jacket spine. .

Hardback. Hodder and Stoughton. 1953. Hardback, no dj. First edition. Boards are red with black titles and impressed illustration of an aeroplane. There is a small split to top of spine and hinge but binding is secure and boards are strong. A touch of fade to spine but very good. Map endpapers are smart. A little age-spotting endpapers but there is no writing etc on any on the pages and overall this is a solid little copy. Not exlib and packed and sent with care.

London: Hodder & Stoughton, 1959. 2nd imp.. Nice copy. small octavo. hardback with dust jacket 192pp., illusts., ep maps,

London: The Children's Book Club, n.d.. Another adventure of Air Detective-Inspector Bigglesworth and his Air Police. With illustrations by Stead. Pp. 192, black & white title page vignette; cr. 8vo; beige boards, spine lettered in black, fore-corners of boards a trifle bruised; dust wrapper, lightly soiled and worn, the edges rubbed and creased, with a few small chips and splits, larger pieces torn from top edge of back panel and foot of backstrip; a couple of spots of foxing; The Children's Book Club, London, n.d. Children's Book Club edition. *Originally published (with a different dust wrapper illustration) by Hodder & Stoughton in 1953.

London: Hodder and Stoughton, 1953. First edition. Cloth. Very Good/Very Good. 7.5" by 5". Leslie Stead. A smart first edition of this brightly illustrated Biggles adventure from Captain W. E. Johns. First edition, first impression. Illustrated with a colour frontispiece and eight colour plates. Collated complete. The forty-fourth book in the Biggles series. Set in Central Africa, Biggles is sent on an urgent assignment to search for the elusive black elephant. Written by William Earl Johns, an English First World War pilot and writer of adventure stories, who wrote under the pen name Capt. W. E. Johns. He is best known for creating the fictional air-adventurer Biggles. Illustrated by Leslie Stead, a British artist and illustrator who worked on many of the books in this series. In the original red cloth binding. Externally, smart with minor rubbing and light bumping to the extremities. Original unclipped dust wrapper is also smart with light wear and minor chipping to the… Read More

London, United Kingdom: Hodder & Stoughton, 1953. Not serialised elsewhere. Aeroplane Edition. Red bds with Black titles and Aeroplane vignette, very fresh bds (not bumped or worn), map eps, pp 192 with 8 full colour illus, tight and fresh (faint spotting to ends and edges). Original wrapper not price clipped shows 7/6 net, 3 short tears, mild edge wear, pen mark to rear.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Near Fine/Very Good. Illus. by Stead, Lesley. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

London, United Kingdom: Hodder & Stoughton, 1953. Not serialised elsewhere. Aeroplane Edition. Red bds with Black titles and Aeroplane vignette, very fresh bds (not bumped or worn), map eps, named to half title, pp 192 with 8 full colour illus, tight and fresh (faint partial tanning to eps, sl. yellowing to pages facing illus) Original wrapper has tiny chips to extremities and is price clipped. An excellent copy.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Near Fine/Near Fine. Illus. by Stead, Lesley. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

London: Hodder and Stoughton, 1953. [Adventure novel] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (19 x 13cm), pp.192. Contains six boldly coloured plates, all by Leslie Stead, cartographic endpapers. Publisher's red cloth, original pictorial dust-wrapper. No inscriptions, a little soiling to rear e.p., jacket lightly used with shallow loss at crown, some dustiness, a few neat tape strips to reverse side, price clipped. A very good copy. Biggles and the Air Police undertake an urgent assignment in Central Africa.

London: Hodder & Stoughton, 1953. Another adventure of Air Detective-Inspector Bigglesworth and his Air Police. With illustrations by Stead. Pp. 192, 8 coloured plates, black & white title page vignette, endpaper map printed in red; cr. 8vo; maroon boards, lettered and decorated in black; price-clipped dust wrapper, slightly soiled and faintly foxed on reverse, edges lightly rubbed and split, with a couple of tiny chips; outer leaves and edges slightly foxed; Hodder & Stoughton, London, 1953. First edition. *Biggles in Africa.