Biggles & The Penitent Thief

by W. E. Johns, Captain

$265 · Offered by Adrian Harrington Rare Books · No longer available

First edition

London: Brockhampton Press, 1967. Children's adventure novel FIRST EDITION. Octavo 19 x 13cm , pp.151; 1 , advertisement. Publisher's light blue cloth, gilt titles to spine, dust-jacket designed by Studio Stead, clipped and priced at 10/6. Contents clean, no inscriptions, edges gently spotted/toned, bright jacket with trivial rubs to crown. A jewel heist in London's Regent Street leads Biggles of the Air Police to a remote island off the coast of Labrador.

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