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 Biggles adventure novel, with illustrative plates and the publisher's unclipped dust wrapper. The first Canadian edition.In the publisher's original unclipped dust wrapper. With a colour frontispiece and ten plates of illustrations. Collated, complete. Written for young readers, the popular fictional air pilot James Bigglesworth is ordered to take his squadron to a remote part of the Libyan desert. From William Earl Johns, often known as his pen name Capt. W. E. Johns, an English World War pilot who wrote nearly a hundred volumes featuring his hero.   In the original cloth binding. In the original unclipped dust wrapper. Externally, very smart with slight rubbing and bumping to the extremities. Tide marks lightly visible to the boards. Dust wrapper is smart, with edge wear and light chipping to the spine head and tail. With tide marks to the wrap, not noticeable to the front design, but to the fly leaves and rear panels. Internally, firmly bound. Pages are generally bright and clean, with a damp stain affecting the first and last couple leaves and the odd spot. Very Good . Ill.: Not stated. Very Good/Very Good.

Keywords: Biggles Captain W. E. Johns Adventure Modern Fiction Captain W. E. Johns Not stated


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