Biggles and The Black Raider by Johns, Captain W E - 1953

Hodder & Stoughton, 1953. Hardcover. Good. 1953. First Edition. 192 pages. No dust jacket. Red cloth covered boards. Pages and binding are presentable with no major defects. Minor issues present such as mild cracking, inscriptions, inserts, light foxing, tanning and thumb marking. Overall a good condition item. Boards have mild shelf wear with light rubbing and corner bumping. Some light marking and sunning.

Hodder & Stoughton, 1953. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/No Jacket. Stead. The boards are a little shelf rubbed. They are strong and sturdy. Internally, there is a previous owners signature on the early pages. Light foxing. Clean and complete. Tightly bound. r*03/09/2023. [Ak]. Our orders are shipped using tracked courier delivery services.

Hodder & Stought, 1953. Hardcover. Poor/No Jacket. Ex-library book. 192 Pages. The boards are a little shelf rubbed and edge worn, despite this the boards remain strong and sturdy. Internally, there are previous owners inscriptions and stamp marks on the early pages, the remaining pages are clean and complete. Tightly bound. r* 02/09/2021. ak.. Our orders are shipped using tracked courier delivery services.

London: Hodder & Soughton. Very Good+ in Good dust jacket. 1953. First Edition. Hardcover. Edges and endpapers lightly foxed. Old school prize label to half title. Jacket worn and chipped, old tape to rear, price clipped; Original red papered boards, black lettering; 12mo 7" - 7½" tall; 192 pages .

London: The Children's Book Club, n.d.. Another adventure of Air Detective-Inspector Bigglesworth and his Air Police. With illustrations by Stead. Pp. 192, black & white title page vignette; cr. 8vo; beige boards, spine lettered in black, fore-corners of boards a trifle bruised; dust wrapper, lightly soiled and worn, the edges rubbed and creased, with a few small chips and splits, larger pieces torn from top edge of back panel and foot of backstrip; a couple of spots of foxing; The Children's Book Club, London, n.d. Children's Book Club edition. *Originally published (with a different dust wrapper illustration) by Hodder & Stoughton in 1953.

hardcover. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book.

London: Hodder and Stoughton, 1953. First edition. Cloth. Very Good/Very Good. 7.5" by 5". Leslie Stead. A smart first edition of this brightly illustrated Biggles adventure from Captain W. E. Johns. First edition, first impression. Illustrated with a colour frontispiece and eight colour plates. Collated complete. The forty-fourth book in the Biggles series. Set in Central Africa, Biggles is sent on an urgent assignment to search for the elusive black elephant. Written by William Earl Johns, an English First World War pilot and writer of adventure stories, who wrote under the pen name Capt. W. E. Johns. He is best known for creating the fictional air-adventurer Biggles. Illustrated by Leslie Stead, a British artist and illustrator who worked on many of the books in this series. In the original red cloth binding. Externally, smart with minor rubbing and light bumping to the extremities. Original unclipped dust wrapper is also smart with light wear and minor chipping to the… Read More

London: Hodder & Stoughton, 1953. Another adventure of Air Detective-Inspector Bigglesworth and his Air Police. With illustrations by Stead. Pp. 192, 8 coloured plates, black & white title page vignette, endpaper map printed in red; cr. 8vo; maroon boards, lettered and decorated in black; price-clipped dust wrapper, slightly soiled and faintly foxed on reverse, edges lightly rubbed and split, with a couple of tiny chips; outer leaves and edges slightly foxed; Hodder & Stoughton, London, 1953. First edition. *Biggles in Africa.