Biggles at World's End by Johns Captain W E (15 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. Dust jacket missing. Minor shelf and handling wear, overall a clean solid copy with minimal signs of use. Secure packaging for safe delivery. 0.54.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good to Very good. 1st Edition. Inscription and previous owner's name front free endpaper. Whiteout on front jacket panel, else quite good.

Condition: Good. 1959. First Edition. 182 pages. Pictorial dust jacket over brown cloth. Colour illustrations by Stead. Pages remain bright and clean. Binding remains firm. A previous owner's name to front free endpaper. Boards have mild shelf wear with light rubbing and corner bumping. Some mild marking and tanning. Book has slight forward lean. Clipped jacket has moderate edge wear with some small tears, chipping and creasing. Some rubbing and marking to surfaces.

Condition: Good. 1959. First Edition. 182 pages. Pictorial dust jacket over green cloth. Pages remain bright and clean. Binding remains firm. Dedication to front free endpaper. Boards have mild shelf wear with light rubbing and corner bumping. Some mild marking and tanning. Unclipped jacket has moderate edge wear with some small tears, chipping and creasing.

Hardcover. Condition: Good ++. Dust Jacket Condition: No Dustjacket. Illustrated by Leslie Stead (illustrator). 1st Edition. NO DUSTJACKET. 182 pages. No dustjacket. Clean sandy-brown hardback binding with light wear to spine-ends and boards' corners. Light/moderate foxing to page-edges, two ink annotations to first page of Foreword o/w clean pages.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. 1st Edition. 'Biggles at World's End' by Captain W. E. Johns. Brockhampton Press 1959 first edition. Inscription. A few very minor spots of foxing. VG in slightly torn, unclipped dust jacket witha few small internal tape repairs.

Stead (illustrator). Book Condition ? Near Fine: Very light creasing to dust jacket at the top of the spine. Tears across the back cover of the dust jacket. Very light foxing to page edges. Otherwise, the book is pristine and in its original condition as when published. Carefully stored, the dust jacket is clean and free from any rips, tears or marks. The pages are as new, clean and tightly bound, and have never been thumbed or opened. First edition, first printing ? 1959. After receiving a tip from his old nemesis, Erich von Stalhein, Biggles travels to the southernmost tip of South America. His mission is to search for a stash of British gold hidden by the German Navy during World War II. The treacherous landscape of Tierra del Fuego, known for its extreme weather, presents Biggles with a formidable challenge as he races against a hostile Chilean official who is also after the lost treasure.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Condition of hardback Book and Dustjacket: Very Good Biggles goes to the southern most tip of South America in search of gold after a tip off from Erich von Stalhein. British gold has been hidden on an unknown island by the German Navy during the Second World War. Partly as a cover story, Biggles is additionally in search of two missing botanists called Carter and Barlow. Von Stalhein, Biggles' former rival has been rescued from a Russian prison colony and settled in London. He offers a tantalizing piece of intelligence. There is a cache of gold which a German warship had captured from a British merchantman during the First World War. Biggles is sent to collect it but to do so he needs to travel to the Tierra del Fuego, at the extreme southern end of South America, literally the world's end. Biggles, tired of using obsolete cast-off or borrowed aircraft, is offered a new amphibian for his Air Police inventory--the Gadfly.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Fair. 1st Edition. First Edition / First Print. Hardback copy in brown cloth boards with black lettering to spine. Price clipped dustjacket in new removable protective clear sleeve. 182pp. Colour frontispiece, 5 colour plates throughout. Not library copy, no inscriptions, foxing to some pages, wear to dustjacket edges, with some tears. (20/5).

Brown hardback cloth cover. Condition: Very Good. First Edition. VG : in Very good condition with rubbed and chipped dust jacket. 185mm x 125mm (7" x 5"). 182pp + ads.

Cream hardback cloth cover. Condition: Very Good. Reprint. VG : in very good condition with dust jacket. 190mm x 130mm (7" x 5"). 182pp.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First Edition. First edition, Pages clean and bright, Binding firm, Light wear to edges, Dust jacket unclipped, Small stain to front cover. ALL ITEMS ARE DISPATCHED FROM THE UK WITHIN 48 HOURS ( BOOKS ORDERED OVER THE WEEKEND DISPATCHED ON MONDAY) ALL OVERSEAS ORDERS SENT BY TRACKABLE AIR MAIL. IF YOU ARE LOCATED OUTSIDE THE UK PLEASE ASK US FOR A POSTAGE QUOTE FOR MULTI VOLUME SETS BEFORE ORDERING.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. First Edition. 1959 first edition, worn and torn dust jacket is in a protective sleeve, bookseller's pencil marks and foxing to the page edges and endpapers, marks on the front endpaper from a removed bookplate.

Hardback. Condition: Very good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very good. Stead (illustrator). Reprint. These two books were printed in 1966 under the 'Hampton Library' imprint and used the same printing plates as the original 1959 and 1961 Brockhampton Press editions and are thus, confusingly, possibly implied to be first editions, which they are not. Nonetheless, they are close to original reading copies, both in overall very good condition with like jackets.

Hard. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good Minus. Stead, Leslie (illustrator). Pages bright with some spotting throughout. Spotting to front/back end papers and hard edges. Previous owner inscription (ink) to front pastedown. Light shelf wear to boards. Moderate shelf wear to dust jacket including rubbing and chipping with some loss to foot of spine. Spine faded. Size: 12mo.