Biggles Works It Out: A Story of Air Detective-Inspector Bigglesworth and His Comrades of the Air Police.
by Johns, Captain W. E.; Stead, illustrator
- Used
- Hardcover
- Condition
- See description
- Seller
-
Annandale, New South Wales, Australia
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
London: Hodder & Stoughton, 1952. Reprint ed.. Hardback small, dustjacket, very good condition (in fair dustjacket), red cloth covers, sepia & single-colour plates (including frontispiece portrait), black & white vignettes, edges little foxed, pieces missing top edge & base spine jacket (front flap large-clipped affecting text, small edge tears, reverse side little toned & foxed), edgewear, old price marks (small biro mark), minimal annotation front flyleaf (few digits), protected by removable semiarchival plastic sleeve. 192 pp. Detective Air Inspector Biggles and colleagues track down gold nuggets stolen from an Australian mining town. The investigation takes him to France and Algeria. (Second impression, originally published 1951.)
Reviews
(Log in or Create an Account first!)
Details
- Bookseller
- Bookhome Sydney
(AU)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 4164
- Title
- Biggles Works It Out: A Story of Air Detective-Inspector Bigglesworth and His Comrades of the Air Police.
- Author
- Johns, Captain W. E.; Stead, illustrator
- Book Condition
- Used
- Edition
- Reprint ed.
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Hodder & Stoughton
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1952
- Keywords
- young adults fiction, australian fiction, transport, aviation, collectible, collectable
- Bookseller catalogs
- YOUNG ADULTS;
Terms of Sale
Bookhome Sydney
Parcels posted within Australia by Australia Post. Overseas parcels from Australia posted by Air Mail with full tracking (about 10 to 30 days delivery, but delays in post possible). Expertly wrapped. Genuine guarantee. We request extra postage for heavy books.
About the Seller
Bookhome Sydney
Biblio member since 2004
Annandale, New South Wales
About Bookhome Sydney
Friendly family-owned internet bookshop located in Sydney's inner west. Selling books since 1998 (online since 2000). A broad range of quality secondhand and antiquarian books, particularly Australian history and society (Australiana), psychology, health, animals/pets, environment, science, religion, books for children. Mostly nonfiction.
Glossary
Some terminology that may be used in this description includes:
- Edges
- The collective of the top, fore and bottom edges of the text block of the book, being that part of the edges of the pages of a...
- Fair
- is a worn book that has complete text pages (including those with maps or plates) but may lack endpapers, half-title, etc....
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- Foxed
- Foxing is the age related browning, or brown-yellowish spots, that can occur to book paper over time. When this aging process...
- Reprint
- Any printing of a book which follows the original edition. By definition, a reprint is not a first edition.
- Spine
- The outer portion of a book which covers the actual binding. The spine usually faces outward when a book is placed on a shelf....
This Book’s Categories
Collecting Vintage Valentine’s Day Cards
Exchanging Valentines can be an awkward process, especially when you consider “Vinegar Valentines” and other snarky sentiments - whatever your tastes, enjoy the sweet and sour cards alike in this gallery!
Signed vs. Inscribed
Know what you are getting into when purchasing rare books, and learn the difference between signed books and inscribed books.
