1943 Biggles Flies East

Description

First Edition, Publishers' Original Binding, Very Scarce, With Dustwrapper

The first Canadian edition.

First published in the UK in 1935. 

Scarce to see with the original, unclipped dust wrapper.

Written by William Earl Johns, an English First World War pilot and writer of adventure stories, who wrote under the pen name Capt. W. E. Johns. He is best known for creating the fictional air-adventurer Biggles.

This thrilling novel opens with Biggles being accosted by a stranger when on leave in London. The stranger mistakes him for an enemy agent, giving Biggles the ingenious idea to pose as this agent and report back his findings to the British Air Board.