Author: Captain W. E. Johns
Title: Biggles Flies Again & the Black Peril: A Biggles Story
Description: London, The Thames Publishing Co. c1950. Cloth. Two smart copies of these exciting Biggles novels with colour illustrations. Two volumes. 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. Illustrated by James Edwin McConnell, a British book and magazine cover artist best known for Western and historical subjects. This set includes: Biggles Flies Again. Illustrated with a colour frontispiece, four colour plates, and many in-text images. Collated complete. Stranded among the swamps of British Guiana after the company who employ him folds up, Biggles takes possession of the amphibian aircraft he has been flying. The Black Peril: A Biggles Story. Illustrated with a colour frontispiece, four colour plates, and many in-text images. Collated complete. Grounded by fog among the Essex marshes, Biggles and Algy see a giant foreign flying-boat land on an illuminated creek. Their decision to investigate begins their perilous adventure. In the original quarter cloth binding with pictorial paper covered boards. Externally, very smart with minor bumping to the extremities. Original dust wrapper for Biggles Flies Again is price-clipped while the wrapper for The Back Peril remains unclipped. Wrappers are sound with light wear and the odd small closed tear to the extremities. Minor sunning to the spine with the odd small mark to the boards. Light loss to the head and tail of The Black Peril as well as the front panel. Internally, firmly bound. Pages are very bright and clean with the odd spot. Very Good Indeed . Ill.: J. E. McConnell. Very Good Indeed/Good.
Keywords: Biggles Johns Flies Again Johns Peril J. E. McConnell
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Title: Biggles Flies Again & the Black Peril: A Biggles Story
Description: London, The Thames Publishing Co. c1950. Cloth. Two smart copies of these exciting Biggles novels with colour illustrations. Two volumes. 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. Illustrated by James Edwin McConnell, a British book and magazine cover artist best known for Western and historical subjects. This set includes: Biggles Flies Again. Illustrated with a colour frontispiece, four colour plates, and many in-text images. Collated complete. Stranded among the swamps of British Guiana after the company who employ him folds up, Biggles takes possession of the amphibian aircraft he has been flying. The Black Peril: A Biggles Story. Illustrated with a colour frontispiece, four colour plates, and many in-text images. Collated complete. Grounded by fog among the Essex marshes, Biggles and Algy see a giant foreign flying-boat land on an illuminated creek. Their decision to investigate begins their perilous adventure. In the original quarter cloth binding with pictorial paper covered boards. Externally, very smart with minor bumping to the extremities. Original dust wrapper for Biggles Flies Again is price-clipped while the wrapper for The Back Peril remains unclipped. Wrappers are sound with light wear and the odd small closed tear to the extremities. Minor sunning to the spine with the odd small mark to the boards. Light loss to the head and tail of The Black Peril as well as the front panel. Internally, firmly bound. Pages are very bright and clean with the odd spot. Very Good Indeed . Ill.: J. E. McConnell. Very Good Indeed/Good.
Keywords: Biggles Johns Flies Again Johns Peril J. E. McConnell
Price: GBP 60.00 = appr. US$ 85.68 Seller: Rooke Books
- Book number: 918T17
- Book number: 918T17
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