1953 Biggles in Blue

Description

Colour Plates, First Edition, Illustrated, Original Binding, Publishers' Original Binding

First edition, first impression. Illustrated with a colour frontispiece and five colour plates. Collated complete. The forty-fifth book in the Biggles series. A battle of wits set in the vivid blue of the West Indian skies amongst the flamingoes. 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. Illustrated by Leslie Stead, a British artist and illustrator who worked on many of the books in this series.