Biggles Works It Out. A Story for Air Detective-Inspector Bigglesworth and his Comrades of the Air Police

by Captain W. E. Johns, Leslie Stead

£45 · Offered by Adrian Harrington Rare Books

First edition

London: Hodder and Stoughton, 1951. Children's adventure fiction FIRST EDITION, first impression. Octavo 19 x 13cm , pp.192. 8 full page illustrations by Stead. Publisher's maroon cloth with titles in black to front board and spine, in pictorial dust-jacket illustrated by Stead priced at 7/6. Edges toned, ink note to endpaper. Very good in like, bright jacket with a chip to the crown and foot of spine. Shows well. The blurb sums up the story as follows:

• Printing: first

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