Biggles Second Case by Captain W E Johns Stead (16 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. Stead (illustrator). 1st Edition. APPEARS VERY LITTLE READ. Minimal wear to hard back book. 191 pages. Pages are clean and tight. No name or inscription.2nd impression.Includes the front flap only of a dustjakcet.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. Stead (illustrator). 1st Edition. APPEARS VERY LITTLE READ. Minimal wear to hard back book. 193 pages. Pages are clean and tight. Inscription on f.e.p. Very top corner of f.e.p. cut off.

Hardcover. Condition: Fair. No Jacket. Stead, Leslie (illustrator). 1st Edition. Fair, Shelfwear, insect damage & fraying to corners & spine ends (with chipping and loss to spine ends and top front corner), bumping, spine browned, foxing & soiling to boards, dealer sticker at foot of inner front board, ink gift inscrption dated 1948 on front free endpaper, foxing & browning to page edges/NO DUST JACKET. 'A Biggles Adventure'. With colour frontispiece and black & white illustrations in the text. Photo on request.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Very Good Hardback. Dust Jacket Condition: No Dust Jacket. Stead (illustrator). 4th Impression.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Stead (illustrator). First Edition. Hardback: colour frontispiece + b/w pictures by STEAD, dj is slightly worn on the edges, rear panel is a little dusty, price clipped, beige covers with green front vignette and titles, spine is lightly foxed, presentation plate on the front flyleaf, some light foredge foxing, else vg. 8vo, 191pp.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. Stead (illustrator). 1st Edition. True first British printing. No jacket. Illustrated by Stead. All illustrations are present and in very good condition. Pale yellow boards with green lettering to spine and green lettering and design to front are very good with a few marks, little darkening to spine, minor pushing/bumping to corners, the odd minor bump/rub to edges and minor pushing/rubbing to head/tail of spine. Hint of spine lean. Pages are generally clean and the binding is tight. Pages bit tanned. Odd small mark/mild foxing to page edges, tops and bottoms. Occasional small mark/minor foxing to pages. Top of pages slightly dusty. No other faults. All books described honestly and accurately. Paypal accepted.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. Stead (illustrator). 1st Edition. True first British printing. No jacket. Yellow boards are only good with a little pushing/rubbing to head/tail of spine, few marks (including large mark to back), little rubbing to edges and minor pushing to a couple of corners. The binding is tight and book is square and true. Top of pages bit dusty. Few marks/spots of foxing to page edges, tops and bottoms. Occasional mark to pages. Smells a bit musty. No other faults. Illustrations by Stead. All books described honestly and accurately. Paypal accepted.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. Stead (illustrator). First Edition. No dj, beige boards with green front vignette and titles, a bit dusty, corners bumped, rubbed on edges and folds, colour frontispiece + b/w pictures by STEAD, hinge exposed at front endpapers but binding tight, inscription on half title, some light foxing, a couple of page corners torn off (no text loss), else g. 8vo, 191pp.

Hardcover. Condition: Good+. No Jacket. Stead (illustrator). Tense adventure for Sergeant Bigglesworth, Scotland Yard Air Squad as he tracks down a ruthless Nazi Submarine Commander. Illustrated with a Coloured Frontis and other B&W illustrations by Stead. Title page Illustrated with a Harpoon Gun. Colour Frontispiece Illustrated with Biggles' Seaplane flying over the Nazis. First Edition, First Printing. Buff cloth cover illustrated with the Amphibian Aircraft on the front, with Blue Title above. Blue lettering to spine. 7 1/2" Tall, 190 Pages, 270g. Spine very slightly faded and a little very light soiling to cloth. Top corner bumped. Previous owner's name, dated 1948 on ffep. No other inscriptions. Size: 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. Stead (illustrator). 1st Edition. True first British printing. No jacket. Pictures by Stead. All illustrations are present and in very good condition. Light yellow boards with green lettering to spine and front and design in green to front are only good with a little pushing/bumping to corners (especially to front lower corner), a few small marks, a little patchy browning, the odd bump/rub to edges and a little pushing/rubbing/bumping to head/tail of spine. Pages are generally clean and the binding is tight. Previous owner's name in pen to front end-paper. Pages little tanned. Odd small mark/spots of foxing to page edges, tops and bottoms. Very occasional small mark to pages. Odd small crease to a couple of pages. No other faults. All books described honestly and accurately. Paypal accepted.

Hardback. Condition: Very Good. Leslie Stead (illustrator). 1st Edition. NO JACKET. 1950 3rd impression. Red hard boards. THE FRONT END PAPER HAS BEEN REMOVED. Clean & tight book. No inscriptions. NO JACKET. Dispatched Royal Mail First Class with TRACKING next working day or sooner securely boxed in cardboard. ref sh89.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. Stead (illustrator). 1st Edition. Tense adventure for Sergeant Bigglesworth, Scotland Yard Air Squad as he tracks down a ruthless Nazi Submarine Commander. Illustrated with a Coloured Frontis and other B&W illustrations by Stead. Title page has Vignette Illustration of a Harpoon Gun. Colour Frontispiece Illustrated with Biggles' Seaplane flying over the Nazis. 9 more Full-Page and In-text B&W illustrations. First Edition, Third Impression. Red cloth cover illustrated with the Amphibian Aircraft on the front, with Black Title above. Black lettering to spine. 7 1/2" Tall, 191 P.Pages, 270g. Presentation Label on ffep. No other inscriptions.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Stead (illustrator). 5th. Near fine book in clean red cloth covers. Internally fine and free of inscriptions or markings; binding tight; no foxing or tanning; well illustrated in b/w. The dust jacket is near fine and not price clipped. A most attractive copy.

Hard Cover. Condition: VG. Dust Jacket Condition: VG-. Stead, Leslie (illustrator). Third Impression. VG/VG-. 12mo. original red boards (leaf edges dustmarked, some spotting) in dustwrapper (rubbed & a little frayed with small chipping at extremities, discreet closed tear to upper panel); pp. 192, with illustrations A very good copy. No. 37 in the Biggles series, this one set on and around the Kerguelen Islands in the southern Indian Ocean.

Hard Cover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Stead (illustrator). 5th Impression. Very good copy of both the dust jacket and book. Book has clean white pages, straight spine and tightly bound. Dust Jacket has good colour front and back, no tears chips etc. clipped price. Clean red boards front and back. Colour plate in front by Stead and other illustrations by Stead. Size: 19cm. Under 500gms to Post.

Cloth. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. Leslie Stead; William Randell (illustrator). 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. book.