Biggles Flies South

by Howard Leigh, Jack Nicolle, illustrators, Captain W. E.

£120 · Offered by Adrian Harrington Rare Books

First edition

London: Oxford University Press, 1938. Children's Adventure FIRST EDITION, first impression. Octavo 19 x 13cm , pp.255 1 . With a colour frontispiece by Leigh, and a sketch-map and six black and white illustrations by Nicolle. Publisher's tan cloth with brown titles and decoration to spine and upper. Top edge brown. School prize inscription in black ink to fly-leaf, dated 1939, and a black ink ownership to half-title. Occasional thumb marks to margins.

• Printing: first

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