Biggles Spitfire Parade by W E Johns (12 results)

Condition: Good. Pages intact with minimal writing/highlighting. The binding may be loose and creased. Dust jackets/supplements are not included. Stock photo provided. Product includes identifying sticker. Better World Books: Buy Books. Do Good.

Hardcover. Condition: Fair. Dust Jacket Condition: Fair. 2nd Edition. rough but sound, foxing, lots of wear to jacket, owner notation on book lists. Free front end paper neatly removed, Just post war dust jacket has pic of train on obverse. Radcliffe Wilson (illustrator).

Soft cover. Condition: As New. 1st Edition. Produced by Red Fox in house for publicity department editorial sales reps, We have a very few of these all in as new condition.

Paperback. Condition: Very Good. The book has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged.

paperback. Condition: Good. Our good condition books are generally good for reading but not for gifting or collecting. They could have imperfections such as creasing, fanning, inscriptions, margin notes, yellowing, staining on edge or cover or pages, bumps, scuffs, etc etc (sometimes multiple of these). It's a wide category that encompasses anything that isn't almost-new down to anything that is slightly better than poor. We would NOT recommend gifting Good books - these should be considered reading copies. Our books are dispatched from a Yorkshire former cotton mill. We list via barcode/ISBN so please note that the images are stock images and may not be the exact copy you receive, furthermore the details about edition and year might not be accurate as many publishers reuse the same ISBN for multiple editions and as we simply scan a barcode or enter an ISBN we do not check the validity of the edition data when listing. If you're looking for an exact edition please don't order (at least not without checking with us first, although we don't always have time to check). We aim to dispatch prompty, the service used will depend on order value and book size. We can ship to most countries, see our shipping policies. Payment is via Abe only.…

Soft cover. Condition: As New. First Thus. As new, Unread.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. 1941 First edition, first printing as 1st but thin edition,original wrapper. Binding severely cocked with browning to margins of front panel, Heavy bump to top right corner and slight rubs to other corners. Internally long neat inscription and other pencil marks to FEP. Textblocks and pages slightly browned clean and good. Dust Wrapper 2cm v shaped loss to spine bottom with smaller nick to left corner, small rubs related. Minor nicks to all corners with 1cm split to front flap bottom corner, Rubs to spine hinges with creases top to bottom minor loss to spine top extreme edge with rubs, creases and two 1cm closed tears to front panel spine corner. 1cm closed split to rear panel top edge with attached long crease slightly grubby to rear panel price cut. VG.…

Cloth. Condition: Very Good Indeed. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. First edition. A smart first Australian edition of this collection of Biggles stories from Captain W. E. Johns. First Australian edition. Illustrated throughout. At the end of summer 1940, Biggles has been given command of the 666th Fighter Squadron. He soon realises his new squad consists of officers who do not take too kindly to discipline. Written by William Earl Johns, an English First World War pilot, and writer of adventure stories best known by his pen name Capt. W. E. Johns, Illustrated by Radcliffe Wilson, a British artist and illustrator. In the original red cloth binding. Externally, very smart with minor bumping to the extremities. Original price-clipped dust wrapper is sound with light wear and the odd small closed tear to the panel edges. Loss to the head and tail of the spine with the odd mark to the panels. Internally, firmly bound. Pages are very bright with the odd small spot. Light age toning to the extremities. Contemporary ink inscription to the front endpaper with previous owner's bookplate to the front pastedown. Very Good Indeed. Radcliffe Wilson (illustrator). book.…

2nd edition chipped dust jacket Nice copy small octavo 256pp., illusts., Illustrated by Radcliffe Wilson. Nice tight, clean copy in nice jacket chipped at edges.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good-. 1st Canadian Edition. 250 pages in very good condition. Pages are clean and unmarked with occasional black and white illustrations throughout. Page edges are lightly darkened and spotted. Bound in orange cloth with black titles. Lightly worn around the edges. Yellow dustjacket in good condition with red and black titles. Heavily worn around the edges with chips, creases, and tears. Lightly smudged. NPC ($1.25 on flap). 1ST CANADIAN EDITION. SCARCE. VG/G- Size: 8vo: 5 x 7 1/2. Book.…

Cloth. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. A delightful collection of twelve illustrated Biggles novels, being a mixture of impressions and all in the publisher's uniform dust wrappers. A set of twelve adventure novels following the popular pilot hero James Bigglesworth, more commonly known as "Biggles".Created by World War One pilot, William Earl Johns, better known by his pen name Captain W. E. Johns. These stories were aimed at young readers and feature Biggles on an array of air adventures.With charming full-page illustrations to each. Most works are illustrated by Alfred Sindall. Those with different illustrators are otherwise specified.Each volume comes with the publisher's original dust wrapper. With a few being wartime economy wraps, with previous materials visible to the reverse.All dust wrappers are unclipped with the exception of 'South Seas' and 'Biggles Goes to War'.The content of the set is detailed below.'Biggles in the South Seas' (1940) - First thus. With a colour frontispiece and six illustrations by Norman Howard.'Biggles Flies West' (1947) - Fourth printing. With a colour frontispiece and seven illustrations.'Biggles Goes to War' (1947) - Fourth printing. With an additional coloured frontispiece and four illustrations by Martin Tyas.'Biggles Defies the Swastika' (1947) - Third printing. Six illustrations.'Biggles Sees it Through' (1947) - Second printing. With an additional coloured frontispiece.'The Rescue Flight' (1948) - Second printing. Six illustrations.'Biggles Secret Agent' (1949) - Third printing. Six illustrations.'Biggles Flies South' (1949) - Fifth printing. Six illustrations by Jack Nicolle.'Spitfire Parade' (1949) - Third printing. Four illustrations by Radcliffe Wilson.'Biggles Flies North' (1950) - Fourth printing. With six illustrations by Will Narraway.'Biggles in Spain' (1950) - Fifth printing. Six illustrations by J. Abbey.'Biggles in the Baltic' (1952) - Ninth printing. Six illustrations.Collated, complete. In the original cloth bindings. In the original dust wrappers, with 'South Seas' and 'Goes to War' being clipped. All other wraps unclipped. Externally, generally very smart. With slight rubbing and bumping to the extremities. Dust wrappers are smart. With edge wear and instances of chipping largely to 'Baltic' and 'Sees it Through', but most to the spine head and tail. Large closed tears to 'Sees it Through' and fading to 'South Seas'. Marks to all the wraps, heaviest to 'South Seas'. Internally, firmly bound. Pages are generally bright and clean, several with contemporary ink inscriptions to the front endpapers. Scattered spotting to 'Biggles in Spain'. The odd spot to the endpapers of 'Spitfire Parade' and offsetting to the endpapers of 'Flies North' and 'Baltic'. Very Good. Various (illustrator). book.…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Included. 1st Edition. FIRST EDITION, first printing. Octavo (20 x 14cm), pp.256. Publisher's blue cloth, blocked in black to spine and upper. Colour frontispiece plate and additional in text line drawings. Lacking the scarce dust-jacket. Contemporary gift inscription to flyleaf, crescent shaped indentation to title page and following couple for pages. Textblock very clean and bright with just a couple of marks within. Edges toned with a few spots. Binding shows well, some light wear to extremities, marking to upper board, faint vertical creases to spine. Tricky to find in decent condition. Very good.…