Author: Captain W. E. Johns
Title: Biggles Goes Home
Description: London, Hodder and Stoughton, 1960. First edition. Cloth. A smart first edition, first impression of this exciting Biggles novel, illustrated throughout by Leslie Stead. The first edition, first impression of this work in the publisher's original pictorial cloth binding, with the original unclipped dust wrapper. The sixty-seventh book of the Biggles series, which was written for young readers, and features James Bigglesworth as a fictional pilot and adventurer. These popular works were written by William Earl Johns (1893 -1968), who was himself a pilot in the First World War. In this novel, Biggles returns to his childhood home of Garhwal in North East India, to rescue a Chinese gentleman in hiding from the Chinese Army.With illustrations by Leslie Stead, who worked on many of the books in the Biggles series. In the publisher's original pictorial cloth binding, with the original unclipped dust wrapper. Externally, cloth is very smart, with minimal fading to the upper extremities. Internally, firmly bound. Pages are bright and clean. Pages 7 to 10 are detached but intact. Dust wrapper remains generally smart and bright, with a small area of dampstaining to the front of the wrap and the front flyleaf, and a little shelf wear to the head and tail of the spine. Very Good . Ill.: Leslie Stead. Very Good/Very Good.

Keywords: Biggles W. E. Johns Adventure fiction W. E. Johns Leslie Stead


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