Biggles Forms Syndicate by Johns Captain (26 results)
Language: English
Published by Hodder and Stoughton 1961
- Hardcover
Seller: Feldman's Books, Menlo Park, U.S.A.Feldman's Books
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Add to basketHardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First Editiion. Dust jacket has wear to the extremities but miniscule loss of paper.

Language: English
Published by Hodder and Stoughton, London 1961
- Hardcover
- First Edition
Seller: Buybyebooks, Honiton, United KingdomBuybyebooks
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Add to basketFabric & Board. Condition: Very Good +. Dust Jacket Condition: Fair / Good. 1st Edition. Red fabric on board covers with black titles to spine & small illustration to front, light wear and fading. D/w price clipped, chips, tears, crease marks and staining to back. 160 numbered pages, unmarked, previous owners monogram to inside…front cover, light foxing. Binding secure. Size 13 x 19 cm Scarcer 1st. Stead (illustrator).

Published by Hodder & Stoughton 1961
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Seller: Chapter 1, Johannesburg, South AfricaChapter 1
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Add to basketHardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. First Edition. The boards are a bit shelf rubbed. They are strong and sturdy. Internally, previous owners inscription on the early pages. Otherwise clean. Tightly bound. r*04/03/2024. [ak]. Our orders are shipped using tracked courier delivery services.
Published by Lond. Hodder and Stoughton. 1961
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Add to basketCol.ill.bds. 160pp. (sl foxing) b/w ills. Borads sl.rubbed else a very good copy. 1st ed. When Biggles visits Squadron Leader Dizzy Digwell, he suggests that they go in search of the lost city of Ophir & its cave of ancient gold coins. Unfortunately the local Arab Sheikhs have other ideas.

Language: English
Published by Hodder and Stoughton 1961
- Hardcover
- First Edition
Seller: Neville Wade, Berkhamsted, United KingdomNeville Wade
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Add to basketHardcover. Condition: Fair. Dust Jacket Condition: Fair. First Edition. Illustrated by Stead - 160 pages - minor bumping on boards and spine top and tail - foxing on page edges - dustwrapper rubbed and worn with corner, edge and spine bumping.

Published by Hodder & Stoughton Ltd, London 1961
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Seller: Barter Books Ltd, Alnwick, United KingdomBarter Books Ltd
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Add to basketRed hardback cloth cover. Condition: Good. First book form Edition. G: in good condition with rubbed and chipped dust jacket. 190mm x 130mm (7" x 5"). 160pp.
Published by Hodder & Stoughton 1961
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- First Edition
Seller: O'Connell's Bookshop Est. 1957, Adelaide, AustraliaO'Connell's Bookshop Est. 1957
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Add to basketHardback. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First Ed. No inscriptions etc. Minor edge wear on DJ & price-clipped. Please contact O'Connell's Bookshop Adelaide to check availabiltiy etc.
Published by Hodder & Stoughton London 1961 1961
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- First Edition
Seller: Andrew Barnes Books / Military Melbourne, Melbourne, AustraliaAndrew Barnes Books / Military Melbourne
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Add to basket1st edition laminated boards Nice copy small octavo 160pp., Nice copy of the first edition published in laminated boards & without illustrations. Scarce.
More imagesPublished by Hodder and Stoughton 1961
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Add to basketHardcover. Condition: Very Good. First Edition. First edition, Pages clean and bright, Binding firm, Light wear to edges. 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.
Published by Hodder and Stoughton Limited, London 1961
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Seller: BOOKMARK, Auckland, New ZealandBOOKMARK
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Add to basketHb. Condition: VG. None. First Edition. Laminated coloured cover with mild soiling to rear cover. Spine: Small thin splitting of lamination to head & bottom edge. No. 59 on spine. Edges: mild foxings.Clean contents. Line drawings. Binding is As New. 160p. Stead (illustrator).
More imagesPublished by London. Hodder and Stoughton. 1961. 1961
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Add to basketFirst edition Hardback. A Fine book in a Very Good unclipped dust jacket. Illustrated by Stead. The fifty-ninth Biggles book in exceptional condition for it's age. Jacket fitted with a new removable clear cover. Securely packaged.
Published by Hodder & Stoughton, London 1961
- Hardcover
- First Edition
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Add to basketHard. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. 1st Edition. 1st Edition. Pages clean and bright. Binding tight. Boards tidy. Light foxing to pastedowns. Moderate shelf wear to dust jacket including rubbing, bumping and slight chipping. Previous owner inscription (ink) to front end paper. Size: 12mo.
More imagesPublished by HODDER AND STOUGHTON, LONDON 1961
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- First Edition
Seller: Ron Weld Books, Great Yarmouth, United KingdomRon Weld Books
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Add to basketHardcover. Condition: Vg-plus to Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Good-plus to Very Good. 1st Edition. First edition 1961, excellent clean crisp interior for the age just very faint tan to lower title page (minimal) no marks, name inscribed neatly to front e/paper, clean white pages, contains a colour frontispiece and several f…urther illustrations in black and white, excellent clean firm boards; d/jacket has light surface marks to rear, toned to edge as shown in photos but with a very good bright frontage mostly, no nicks or tears, covered with a new removable sleeve-protector, price-clipped neatly to inner flap. STEAD (illustrator).
Published by Hodder and Stoughton Limited, London 1961
- Hardcover
- First Edition
Seller: BOOKMARK, Auckland, New ZealandBOOKMARK
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Add to basketHb. Condition: VG. None. First Edition. Clean colour illustrated laminated boards. Spine: tiny rubbed spots to head & foot. Edges: top-edge moderately faded. Ffep & refp with small faded ex-cellotaqpe residue. Clean contents. Illustrated drawings. Binding is As New.160p. Stead (illustrator).
More imagesPublished by Hodder and Stoughton, London 1961
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Seller: Rooke Books PBFA, Bath, United KingdomRooke Books PBFA
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Add to basketHardback. Condition: Near Fine. First edition. A bright first edition, first impression of this adventurous Biggles novel, illustrated throughout by Leslie Stead. The first edition, first impression of this work in the original pictorial laminated boards. Ink markings to the list of Biggles books facing the title page. The sixty…-ninth book of the Biggles series, which was written for young readers, and features James Bigglesworth as a fictional pilot and adventurer. These popular works were written by William Earl Johns (1893 -1968), who was himself a pilot in the First World War. With illustrations by Leslie Stead, who worked on many of the books in the Biggles series. In the original pictorial laminated boards. Externally, very smart and bright with just a little wear to the laminate to the front joint. Internally, firmly bound. Pages are bright and clean. Near Fine. Leslie Stead (illustrator). book.

Published by London: Hodder and Stoughton, 1961 1961
- Hardcover
- First Edition
Seller: Adrian Harrington Ltd, PBFA, ABA, ILAB, Royal Tunbridge Wells, United KingdomAdrian Harrington Ltd, PBFA, ABA, ILAB
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Add to basketFirst Edition. [Adventure novel] FIRST EDITION, glazed boards issue. Octavo (19 x 13cm), pp.160. With occasional in-text illustrations by Stead. Publisher's laminated boards with exactly the same artwork and layout as the jacketed edition, top edge tinted blue. No inscriptions, contents clean, edges slightly dusty with light spo…tting, minor wear. Very good indeed. Biggles finds himself batting for the other team in this adventure, in which he joins a syndicate to loot treasure from a cave in Arabia. The laminated editions state 'First Published' and use first edition sheets; they were bound up later from unsold stock and do not include any colour illustrations (where present).
Published by Hodder & Stoughton 1961
- Hardcover
- First Edition
Seller: Harry Righton, evesham, United KingdomHarry Righton
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Add to basketHard Cover. Condition: Good +. Good +. First Edition. jacket edges creased, jacket edges rubbed. damage to top 8mm of jacket at spine top. spine leaning. biro mark to top corner of fep. some grubby marks and red ticks to backcover of jacket. Stead (illustrator).

Published by London: Hodder and Stoughton, 1961 1961
- Hardcover
- First Edition
Seller: Adrian Harrington Ltd, PBFA, ABA, ILAB, Royal Tunbridge Wells, United KingdomAdrian Harrington Ltd, PBFA, ABA, ILAB
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Add to basketdj. First Edition. [Adventure novel] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (19 x 13cm), pp.160. With a colour frontispiece and occasional in-text illustrations by Stead. Publisher's red cloth with black titles to spine and a black design to upper board. With the dust-jacket illustrated in colour, also by Stead, priced at 8/6. No inscriptions, c…ontents clean, unfortunate bump/knock to top corner, jacket shows well with some minor rubs, rear panel clean. Overall very good. Biggles finds himself batting for the other team in this adventure, in which he joins a syndicate to loot treasure from a cave in Arabia.
Published by Hodder & Stoughton, London 1961
- Hardcover
- First Edition
Seller: Bookcase, Carlisle, United KingdomBookcase
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Add to basketHard. Condition: Good. Good Minus. First. First edition. D-j edgeworn, scuffed in places. Slight signs of shelf wear to front and rear boards along corners and edges, slight spotting to front and rear paste downs, pp clean and bright, spotting along closed edges especially head and fore edges. Size: 12mo 0.0. Stead (illustrator)….
More imagesPublished by Hodder & Stoughton, London 1961
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Seller: Really Good Books, Stockport, United KingdomReally Good Books
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Add to basketHardback. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very good. 1st UK, 1st impression. Attractive first printing of this Biggles story, in attractive dust jacket and colour frontispiece and further illustrations throughout. The book is fine with just a little spotting to text block edges but very clean and tight inside. There are…no marks or inscriptions. The unclipped jacket shows a correct original price of 8/6. There is a little wear to the jacket's spine extremities with minor losses and the rear is a little grubby. Leslie Stead (illustrator).
Seller: Hay-on-Wye Booksellers, Hay-on-Wye, United KingdomHay-on-Wye Booksellers
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Add to basketCondition: Good. Lean to spine & wear to cover edges. Marks/scratches/scuffs/some stains to dustjacket. Inscription on ffep. Dark tanning/foxing to textblock edges. Light foxing to pages. Text good.
More imagesPublished by London: Hodder and Stoughton, 1961 1961
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Seller: Adrian Harrington Ltd, PBFA, ABA, ILAB, Royal Tunbridge Wells, United KingdomAdrian Harrington Ltd, PBFA, ABA, ILAB
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Add to basketdj. First Edition. [Adventure novel] FIRST EDITION, first impression. Octavo (19 x 13cm), pp.160. With a colour frontispiece and occasional in-text illustrations by Stead. Publisher's red cloth with black titles to spine and a black design to upper board. With the dust-jacket illustrated in colour, also by Stead, priced at 8/6.…A clean, fine copy of the book in a particularly bright jacket. A fresh-looking copy. Biggles finds himself batting for the other team in this adventure, in which he joins a syndicate to loot treasure from a cave in Arabia.
More imagesPublished by Hodder & Stoughton 1961
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Seller: Parrot Books, Hemel Hempstead, United KingdomParrot Books
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Add to basketHardcover. Condition: Very Good. Includes dust jacket. First Edition. Near fine copy. Non price clipped dust wrapper. No inscriptions.
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Add to basketHardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. 1st Edition. Biggles Forms a Syndicate by Captain W.E. Johns. Publisher: Hodder and Stoughton Limited, London, 1961, first edition. Very good hardback with unclipped jacket. Binding firm. Red boards are a little faded at top edge, minor bumping and rubbing to corners…and edges. Name and address to front and rear end-papers. Foxing to first few pages and page edges. Jacket is rubbed, creased, marked, foxed and chipped with small tear on top edge, and an abrasion to front, 59 on spine. Colour frontispiece, b&w line drawings.
More imagesPublished by Hodder & Stoughton. 1961 1st edition 1961
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Add to basket7.5 x 5.0 inches. In red cloth covers with black lettering to spine and camel rider to front. With illustrated dustwrapper. In very good condition with very good dustwrapper. (d/w. Spine slightly rubbed at ends. Not price clipped. With protective plastic wrap). Mild foxing to edges. Else a clean and tight copy. 160 pp. With colo…ur frontis and b/w illustrations by Leslie Stead. Biggles goes treasure hunting in Arabia.
More imagesPublished by London Hodder & Stoughton 1961
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Seller: Shapero Rare Books, London, United KingdomShapero Rare Books
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Add to basketFirst edition, first impression; 8vo; illustrations, including colour frontispiece by 'Stead', internally fine; unclipped pictorial dust-jacket, a little chipped and rubbed on extremities of upper panel and spine, otherwise very good. 'Squadron Leader ''Dizzy'' Digswell thinks he has found, in a desert cave, treasure from the an…cient city of Ophir. Having formed a syndicate of treasure-hunters with Dizzy, Ginger and Bertie, Biggles finds himself involved in a highly unofficial adventure in Arabia.'; from the upper flap synopsis.