Orchids for Biggles

by Captain W. E Johns

$125 · Offered by Adrian Harrington Rare Books · No longer available

First edition

London: Brockhampton Press, 1962. Boy's adventure novel FIRST EDITION, first impression. Octavo 19 x 13cm , pp.168; 1 , advertisement. With colour frontispiece by Leslie Stead. Publisher's green cloth with titles and publisher's imprint in yellow to spine. Pictorial jacket priced 8s 6d. Simply a lovely fine copy. Biggles travels to Peru in pursuit of a rogue scientist, who has stolen nuclear secrets. On the way, he becomes entangled in the orchid trade.

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