1943 Spitfire Parade

Description

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

The first Canadian edition.

First published in the UK in 1941.

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.

Set in the summer of 1940, this thrilling adventure novel presents Captain Biggles as the Squadron Leader of a daring, somewhat undisciplined team of rogue fighter pilots, with whom he must create a harmonious team.

With an ink inscription 'To Ken, With love from Marjorie'.