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1949-1964 Biggles Takes a Holiday; Biggles Gets His Men; Another Job for Biggles; Biggles: Foreign Legionnaire; Biggles’ Chinese Puzzle; Biggles on the Home Front; Biggles on Mystery Island; Biggles and the Poor Rich Boy; Orchids for Biggles; Biggles Sets a Trap; Biggles and the Black Mask
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Description
Colour Plates, First Edition, Illustrated, Publishers' Original Binding, With Dustwrapper
Offering eleven first edition titles from W. E. Johns' popular Biggles series. Biggles and the Poor Rich Boy (1961) - With a colour frontispiece Orchids for Biggles (1962) - With a colour frontispiece Biggles and the Black Mask (1964) - With numerous full-page black-and-white illustrations Collated, complete.
Complete with original dust wrappers, unclipped except for Gets His Men and Sets the Trap. Additional clear protective wraps have been either adhered to or taped down to the original wraps. In some cases the dust wrappers as a whole have been taped down to the boards, making them difficult to remove.
This prolific series centres around title character and hero, James Charles Bigglesworth, better known by his nickname "Biggles". Written by English novelist and First World War pilot, W. E. Johns.
The entirety of this set includes the following:
Biggles Takes a Holiday (1949) - With a colour frontispiece and seven colour plates
Biggles Gets His Men (1950) - With numerous full-page illustrations
Another Job for Biggles (1951) - With a frontispiece and four colour plates
Biggles: Foreign Legionnaire (1954) - With a colour frontispiece and five colour plates
Biggles’ Chinese Puzzle (1955) - With a colour frontispiece and five colour plates
Biggles on the Home Front (1957) - With a colour frontispiece and five colour plates
Biggles on Mystery Island (1958) - With a colour frontispiece and five colour plates
Biggles Sets a Trap (1962) - With numerous full-page black-and-white illustrations
Condition
In the original cloth bindings. With the original dust wrappers, all unclipped except for 'Gets His Men' and 'Sets the Trap'. Externally, condition of the majority of the volumes are unknown due to difficulty removing taped-down dust wrappers, however with shelf wear to 'Biggles Gets His Men', fading and a couple marks to 'Orchids' and only minor shelf wear to 'Foreign'. Dust wrappers are edge worn, with chipping to the spine heads and tails and handling marks to the extremities. With a larger chip to the front cover of 'Chinese Puzzle'. Occasional small closed tears to the edges. Internally, firmly bound. Pages are generally bright and clean, with offsetting to the endpapers. Occasional ink inscriptions (mostly ownership) to the front free endpapers. Occasional spots to 'Holiday' and spots to the endpapers of 'Black Mask'. With library stamp to title page of 'Black Mask'.
Very Good
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