Biggles Foreign Legionnaire
by Johns W E
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good in Good dust jacket
- Seller
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Horsham, West Sussex, United Kingdom
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About This Item
London: Hodder & Stoughton. Very Good in Good dust jacket. 1954. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover with dustjacket. First edition very good decorated red cloth. The dust jacket has some loss to lower and upper spine and top left but is not price clipped. 6 colour illustrations including frontis - all present. No inscriptions. ; Colour plates; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 190 pages .
Synopsis
W. E Johns was born in Bengeo, Hertfordshire in 1893. During the First World War he served in the Machine Gun Corps, and then in the Royal Flying Corps. In 1918 he was shot down and captured in France. His first book, The Camels are Coming , was published in 1932.
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- Bookseller
- WWW.HORSHAMRAREBOOKS.COM (GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 17037
- Title
- Biggles Foreign Legionnaire
- Author
- Johns W E
- Illustrator
- Studio Stead
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover with dustjacket
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good in Good dust jacket
- Edition
- First Edition; First Printing
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Hodder & Stoughton
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1954
- Keywords
- Biggles
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- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- First Edition
- In book collecting, the first edition is the earliest published form of a book. A book may have more than one first edition in...
- Spine
- The outer portion of a book which covers the actual binding. The spine usually faces outward when a book is placed on a shelf....
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- Price Clipped
- When a book is described as price-clipped, it indicates that the portion of the dust jacket flap that has the publisher's...