Biggles - Air Commodore.

£5,000 · Offered by Shapero Rare Books

The true first edition of this early, and uncommon, Biggles title. First edition, first impression; 8vo; illustrations, including colour frontispiece, light foxing to text block, hinge pulled on frontis, otherwise binding tight; publisher's pictorial brown cloth, blue lettering to spine and upper cover, dark blue topstain, minor rubbing to head of spine, corners slightly bumped, with the unclipped pictorial dust-jacket, corners chipped, spine ends chipped with loss, large closed tear to rear panel, a few short closed tears to top edge.

• Binding: Hardcover

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