Biggles and the Plot That Failed (37 results)

Condition: Very Good. Most items will be dispatched the same or the next working day. A copy that has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged.

corner crease to rear, o/w VG.

VERY GOOD condition.

VERY GOOD condition.

VERY GOOD condition.

spine discoloured, o/w VG.

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. Very good copy, clean and tight. Please contact us for pictures and/or further details - only too pleased to help!

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. Very good copy, clean and tight. Please contact us for pictures and/or further details - only too pleased to help!

Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. G, Shelfwear, bumping, abrasion & fading to spine, spots of staining to front panel, some faint scribbling to rear panel, ink gift inscrption to inner front board, ink price, name & address on blurb page, foxing, browning/NO DUST JACKET. '"Where there's gold there's trouble," says Biggles, and during his trip to the Sahara in search of young Adrian Mander he met plenty of it'. Book has no list of previous titles. Photos on request.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. 1st Edition. Book is in generally VG condition with no ownership names or inscriptions. The dustwrapper is virtually complete but does have fairly extensive wear to it's extremeties; chipping to top and tail of spine and price clipped; no major tearing. Please ask for further scans if required.

Softcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. First edition. 1st thus 1970. Very good condition. Pictorial card wraps. Light creases to covers. Some pale page browning, some corner tips lightly creased and a small brown mark affects margins of a few pages. Packaged with care and promptly dispatched!

Paperback. Condition: Very Good. JOHNS, Captain WE Biggles and the Plot that Failed (Green Knight Books) ISBN: 978340104600 Knight Books, London, 1970, 1st thus, paperback, VG, 157 pp Paperback wraps and spine strip clean and intact, gentle rubs to edges and corners, no inscription, neat annotation to plot synopsis, sound tight binding, pages clean, tanned Lovely copy CHILDREN'S COLLECTABLE PAPERBACK, BIGGLES ADVENTURE STORY, CAPTAIN WE JOHNS 46716 CHILD'S COLL/JOHNS £14.00.

Illustrated Laminated Boards. Condition: Very good-. Lovely clean looking copy, as usual some lamination lifting on the edge of the spine, some slight corner wear. Note: the laminated editions state 1st edition and have the same cover illustration but they are later reprints using the 1st edition sheets.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Book Condition: Almost Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good-. 1st Edition. Red cloth boards with gilt titles to the spine. Boards are clean and straight with just a hint of corner bumping. Contents unmarked and free from previous owner's names or annotations. Dust Jacket is a little worn to edges and corners with very slight chipping to corners, otherwise unmarked, wholly intact and not price clipped. A very solid example of this not so common First Edition title in original publisher's Dust Jacket.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. First edition Tiny bumps/rubs to corners and fading along extreme edges otherwise clean and VG.minor foxing to the text block. This has not spread to the internal pages which are bright and clean. No inscription. Dust wrapper/ There are creases running along the entire top and bottom edges. The top edge of the front cover has rubs to the top left hand corner. The top right hand corner has a tiny chip with rubs. The back cover bottom edge crease has a 2cm closed tear attached. There is a 2cm closed tear to the top of the back cover edge.The front and rear flap hinges are rubbed. Not price cut. The rear of the jacket is clean.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. Fiine book and with fine dust wrapper. First edition first printing. The front board is clean and bright with no bumps or defects. The spine is straight. The gold lettering on the spine is clear and unfaded. The back board is also clean and bright with no defects. The inside front board and end paper are clean and bright with no inscription. There is foxing to the text block. The pages are clean and bright. the rear end paper and board has minor foxing. Dust wrapper/ The front cover is clean and bright. The spine is not sunned and with no tears, creases or chips. Very minor rubs to spine top.The back cover is also without defect. The front and rear flaps are in a perfect, The back of the dust wrapper is mint. Not price cut. This is a fine example of this book. Please contact us when ordering more then one book for combined postage. All books are packed carefully in bubble wrap and a jiffy bag or strong box.

Hardback. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: No DJ. First Ed. 184 pages. No inscriptions etc. Red boards with gilt title on spine. Please contact O'Connell's Bookshop to check availability etc.

first edition 184pp VG+ (dk.pink cloth,minor soiling w.minor sunning to upper/lower edges,sl.bumps and wear to extrems.,sl.paste action to eps w.minor ink number to ffep,v.minor paper separation starting at head of fep gutter,eps and edges v.sl.foxed,spine cracked but tight) in VG d/w (mod.rubbed and soiled,spine mod.sunned,wear and chipping to extrems.w.some creasing and minor closed tears,price-clipped) v.tidy copy in reasonable d/w.

Condition: Very Good. DW: Not price clipped - Very Good condition. Price increased in blue pen on corner of dw. Book: Some sellotape stains on FEP.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. First edition 1965. Page edges foxed. The book has a binding error, it is bound upside down. Not noticeable when the dustwrapper is on. The dustwrapper is rubbed and slightly marked, else very good copy. Not price clipped. 184 p. Book.

1st edition hardback with dust jacket Nice copy small octavo 184pp., Very nice copy in like price-clipped dust jacket with minimal chipping to edges.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. HARDBACK - A very good book bound in the publisher's red cloth boards with gilt titles to the spine. The boards are unmarked and free of any bumping. Internally, the pages are clean with just a couple of faint spots to the top corner of page 29-33, free of any previous owner names or inscriptions. The dust wrapper is in also in very good condition with shallow chips to the corners of the front and rear flap. Some creasing to the extremities. There are two small strips of tape to the verso of the wrapper, that may be removable with care. They do not show through to the front. The publisher's printed price has been neatly price clipped.

1965. (Hardcover) Near fine in near fine dust jacket. 184pp. The dust jacket is price-clipped. Publisher series: Biggles Series 72 . Jacket illustration by Leslie Stead. Main character:. (Juvenile).

Hardcover. Condition: Very good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very good. Jacket design by Leslie Stead. (illustrator). First edition. First edition. 8vo. Original red boards. Dust-jacket, priced 8/6. Biggles and the team are stuck in the Sahara trying to track down a missing archaeologist. A very good copy, in just slightly rubbed jacket; overall very good. Book.

hardcover. Condition: Very Good. First Edition.

Hardcover. Condition: As New. 1st Edition. A mint copy in mint wrapper ,the best I have ever seen.

First edition, first printing. Published by Brockhampton Press in Leicester, 1965. This is a very goode copy. The dust wrapper, designed by Leslie Stead is slightly sunned at the spine and creased at the top edge. It has not been price clipped, showing the original 8/6 net price. The rear panel is slightly rubbed also. The boards, in the publisher's cloth, are free from notable chips and marks - endpaper neatly clipped. The internals are free from foxing, toning and previous owners ink. Comes complete with the W E Johns pre-printed letter, titled 'A letter to every boy who reads this book.'. The text blocks are mostly clean, though foxed and with some marking. Overall, this is a very good copy. Biggles is asked by Brigadier Mander, to investigate the disappearance of his son, Adrian Mander. Adrian has set off in his aeroplane to the Sahara to find the tomb of King Ras Tenazza. He has gone with a person named Hassan Sekunder, whom the Brigadier suspects is not to be trusted. Biggles gets permission to go and find Adrian, with Ginger and Bertie, as the Brigadier will finance the expedition.

(Leicester): Brockhampton Press, (1965). 8vo. Orig. illust. boards. In fine dustjacket. (184pp.). 1st ed.