Author: Captain W. E. Johns
Title: Biggles Sweeps the Desert
Description: Toronto, The Musson Book Company Ltd. 1943. First edition. Cloth. The first Canadian edition of this thrilling Biggles novel from English writer and pilot Captain W. E. Johns. First Canadian edition. Large format. Illustrated with a colour frontispiece and many in-text images. When Squadron Leader James Bigglesworth is ordered to take his team to a remote part of the Libyan desert to ascertain why British transport aircrafts, operating on a trans-Africa route, have failed to arrive at their destination, he soon finds himself face-to-face with noted Nazi ace Hauptmann von Zoyton. Written by William Earl Johns, an English First World War pilot, and writer of adventure stories best known by his pen name Capt. W. E. Johns. Johns is remembered for creating the fictional air-adventurer Biggles, or James Bigglesworth, a fictional pilot and adventurer in a series of adventure books written for young readers. In the original blue cloth binding. Externally, smart with light bumping to the extremities and marks to the head of the spine. Light fading to the spin and board edges. Original unclipped dust wrapper is sound with chipping to the extremities resulting in loss to the front panel and tail of the spine. Sunning to the spine with the odd small mark to the panels. Small closed tears to the extremities. Internally, firmly bound. Pages are very bright with the odd small spot. Very Good . Ill.: Not Stated. Very Good/Good.

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