Biggles Interpol by Captain Johns (19 results)

Mass Market Paperback. Condition: Good. First Knight Books Edition. G, Edgewear, tears, creases, abrasion, indentations, foxing, browning. Eleven Biggles stories. A Green Knight Book. Photo on request.

Condition: Fair. No Edition Stated. 181 pages. Blue and yellow pictorial dust jacket over blue cloth. Pages and binding are presentable with common faults. Text is legible throughout. Some issues present such as cracking, inscriptions, inserts, moderate foxing, tanning and thumb marking. Binding remains firm. Boards have mild shelf wear with light rubbing and corner bumping. Some light marking and tanning. Unclipped jacket has moderate edge wear with tears, chips, and some areas of loss. Noticeable rubbing and marking. Light tanning to spine and edges.…

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. No edition or date stated. Small stamp mark. Publication of 181 pages. The dust jacket is a little shelf rubbed and a touch edge worn. The boards are in good condition. The pages are complete and the text is legible. Tightly bound and presented in cellophane. The binding is excellent. GK. Our orders are shipped using tracked courier delivery services.…

Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. First Edition. the boards are shelf rubbed and scuffed. foxing, a bit marked. all pages and plates are clear and presentable. a fairly good copy. [SK]. Our orders are shipped using tracked courier delivery services.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. 1st Edition. Some light rolling and pushing to the leading corners and spine tips. Light foxing to the prelims and closed page edges. The jacket is not clipped at 8/6 net and has a minor damp stain, A small repaired closed tear and some light edgewear and rubbing. Leslie Stead (illustrator).…

Paperback. Book is in Fine condition. 164pp. Securely packaged.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. First Edition. The jacket is worn and marked.Foxing.Tightly bound.09-12-2020. Our orders are shipped using tracked courier delivery services.

Hardback. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. Undated Hampton Library edition circa 1958. Hardback. 19x13cm. 181 pages without illustration. Clean & tight book. TANNED PAGES. No inscriptions. Jacket has edge wear with a little loss at spine ends. Front flap is not price-clipped: 3/6 net. Jacket is now under clear removable covers. Dispatched Royal Mail First Class with tracking next working day or sooner securely boxed in cardboard. ref hm. …

Condition: Very Good. Mass market paperback. Cheap paper browning and in Very Good condition. Member of the P.B.F.A. JOHNS, Captain W. E.

1st edition hardback in original cloth Nice copy small octavo 181pp., colour frontis., colour plates, No dust jacket & a neat ownership signature o/w nice copy.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good+. Foxing. 12mm tears and chips at corners of dust-jacket. 6mm chips at ends of dust-jacket spine. Dust-jacket is price-clipped. Dust-jacket protected in archival mylar cover.; "Hampton Library" edition. No date [1965]. 181, [3 (blank)] pages.Blue boards with dark green lettering on spine. Page dimensions: 185 x 119mm. [Reference: Burnet 58.2]. …

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good-. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good-. First Edition. No signatures. Some foxing to endpapers. Small tears and chips to corners of dustjacket and ends of dustjacket spine. Dustjacket rubbed at edges. Dustjacket is not price-clipped. Dustjacket protected in archival mylar cover.; 181, [3] pages. Red boards with black lettering on spine. Page dimensions: 184 x 120mm. Number "48" on dustjacket spine.; 12mo.…

Hard. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First Edition. Pages clean and bright, ight spotting on closed edges and prelims, boards and binding tidy, light shelf wear and rubbing to dust jacket but overall very neat. Size: 8vo. Stead, Leslie (illustrator).

Reprint of the book first published in 1977. Very good condition in a very good unclipped dustwrapper.

Hardback. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First Ed. No inscriptions etc. Price clipped DJ with minor edge wear. Please contact O'Connell's Bookshop Adelaide to check availabiltiy etc. Stead, Leslie (illustrator).

Hard Cover. Condition: VG+. Dust Jacket Condition: VG+. First Edition. VG+/VG+. 12mo. original red blindstamped boards (inscrip. to FFE, slight spotting to leaf edges and outer leaves) in dustwrapper (a trifle rubbed & frayed, bookseller's small label over price); pp. 182 (last blank), [2 (pubs. cat.)], with illustrations. A very good copy. No. 61 in the Biggles series, this one a collection of short stories. Stead, Leslie (illustrator). …

dj. First Edition. [Adventure novel] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (19 x 13cm), pp.181. Contains six boldly coloured plates, including frontispiece, all by Leslie Stead. Publisher's bright red cloth in original pictorial dust-wrapper priced 8/6 to front flap. Contents clean, no inscriptions. Simply a beautiful fresh copy. Sort stories featuring Biggles backed the world famous law enforcement agency. A literary ancestor of secret agent James Bond, "Biggles globetrotted like 007, and his recruitment to a special elite in the later novels seems very Bondian" (The Rough Guide to James Bond, 2002, p.47).…

Cloth. Condition: Very Good. A smart mixed-edition selection of W. E. Johns' popular air-adventure series, four of which are first impressions. This set offers eleven titles from the 'Biggles' series of adventure books for young readers, written by English novelist and First World War pilot, W. E. Johns.In the publisher's original cloth binding.A prolific series, the stories centre around title character and hero, James Charles Bigglesworth, better known by his nickname "Biggles".Majority of these volumes are illustrated by Leslie Stead or Alfred Sindall.The entirety of this set comprises the following titles:Biggles Breaks the Silence (1949) - First impression. With four double-sided colour plates and vignettes.Another Job for Biggles (1951) - First impression. With a frontispiece and four colour plates.Biggles Flies East (1951) - Sixth impressionBiggles - Air Commodore (1952) - Sixth impression. With seven full-page illustrations.Biggles - Secret Agent (1952) - Fifth impression. With six full-page illustrations.Biggles of the Interpol (1957) - First impression. With a colour frontispiece and five colour plates.Biggles and the Black Raider (1959) - Second impression. With eight colour plates. Biggles and the Black Raider (c1959) - Children"s Book Club Edition.Biggles Goes Alone (1962) - First impression. With a colour frontispiece and numerous in-text and full-page illustrations. Orchids for Biggles (1962) - Children"s Book Club Edition Biggles Flies South (1963) - New edition Collated, complete. In the original cloth binding. Externally, smart, with generally only mild shelf wear to majority of the volumes. Exceptions include handling marks to the cloth and the number 7 inscribed in ink to the front board of 'Secret Agent'; heavier rubbing and marks to the boards of 'Flies East', and most notable fading to the spines of 'Silence', 'Orchids', 'Black Raider' and 'Interpol'. Hinges tender to 'Black Raider' second impression. Internally, firmly bound. Pages are generally bright and clean, with occasional contemporary ink inscriptions to the front endpapers and occasional scattered spots, largely concentrated to the endpapers. 'Jersey Home for Boys' ink impression to the front free endpaper of 'Silence'. Age toning to 'Flies South'. Very Good. Stead; Alfred Sindall (illustrator). book. …

Cloth. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. A delightful collection of Biggles books with dust wrappers, including three first editions and two Children's Book Club editions. A collection of eight titles in Captain W. E. Johns' Biggles series. In publisher's original cloth binding. With unclipped dust wrappers.Featuring five colour frontispieces. Four of the books are also illustrated with black-and-white plates and vignettes.Comprised of the following:Biggles in the Orient;Sergeant Bigglesworth C.I.D.;Biggles' Second Case;Biggles Learns to Fly (First Edition);Biggles and the Missing Millionaire;The Biggles Book of Treasure Hunting (First Edition);Biggles and the Lost Sovereigns (First Edition);Biggles of the Interpol.Biggles and the Missing Millionaire and Biggles and the Lost Sovereigns are Children's Book Club editions, re-printed for London bookshop Foyles.This delightful children's series follows the character of James Charles Bigglesworth and his friends as they embark on exciting adventures. Many of the stories are set in wartime, echoing Captain W. E. Johns own experience as a First World War pilot. The first Biggles story, The Camels are Coming, was published in 1932 and Johns continued writing up until his death in 1968, having written almost one hundred Biggles novels and short-story collections. In publisher's original cloth binding. With unclipped dust wrappers. Externally, excellent condition with minor shelfwear and the odd mark. Inscription to front free endpaper in three volumes. The Biggles Book of Treasure Hunting is an ex-library book and has stamps to both the front and rear free endpapers. It also contains the odd child-like ink annotation. All dust wrappers reinforced with archival bindings. Moderate loss to wrap on certain volumes, namely Biggles Learns to Fly, and closed tear to Biggles of the Interpol. Slight spotting to all wraps. Internally, firmly bound. Pages generally bright and clean with the exception to spotting heavier to the first and last few pages. Very Good. Leslie Stead; William Randell (illustrator). book. …