Orchids For Biggles

2024-05-08 11:28:33: London: Brockhampton Press, 1962. [Boy's adventure novel] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (19 x 13cm), pp.168; [1], advertisement. With colour frontispiece by Leslie Stead. Publisher's green cloth with titles and publisher's imprint in yellow to spine. Pictorial jacket priced 8s 6d. Simply a lovely fine copy. Biggles travels to Peru in pursuit of a rogue scientist, who has stolen… Read more about this item

Leicester: Brockhampton Press, 1962. An Adventure of Biggles of the Air Police. Illustrated by Leslie Stead. Pp. 168+[1](advertisement, printed on recto of lower free endpaper), coloured frontispiece; cr. 8vo; red papered boards, spine lettered and ruled in black, top fore-corner of upper board slightly bruised; dust wrapper, edges a trifle rubbed and split, several small ink marks to list… Read more about this item

London: Brockhampton Press, 1962. First printing. Hardcover. Very Good. slight cock to spine. 168 pages. List of biggles titles glued into front endpapers. Price clipped dj - also slighty trimmed to allow view of aforementioned list. No 62 book. Green cloth boards

Leicester: Brockhampton, 1962. (1st edition). Nice copy. small octavo. hardback with dust jacket 168pp., colour frontis., colour illusts., Genuine first edition. Scarce

London: Children's Book Club, 1962. 1st ed. thus. Nice copy. small octavo. hardback with dust jacket 168pp., Nice copy in bright blue boards in a nice unclipped dust jacket with light tape-mark. This childrenÕs Book Club edition has a completely different dust jacket (& much more interesting) to the Brockhampton edition. These editions appear to be rather… Read more about this item