Biggles' Combined Operation by Captain W.E. Johns - 1959

London: Hodder and Stoughton Limited, 1959. Clean red cloth on boards with black titles and black aeroplane flying over the parthenon ruins. Edges: light foxings and dusting of soiling. Clean contents. Colour illustrations. Binding is VG albeit ever so slightly cocked. 158p Dj: No. 54 on foot of spine. Moderate soiling, rubbing and fading. Spine: lightly sunned, head with tiny splits and chips; foot with thin wear and teeny chips. Head & foot of flaps spine with tiny wear and chips.. First Edition. Hb. VG/VG. Illus. by Stead.

In the original dust sheet. Red cloth binding with black titles on the spine and on the front board.
James Bigglesworth, nicknamed "Biggles", is a fictional pilot and adventurer, the title character and hero of the Biggles series of adventure books, written for young readers by W. E. Johns (1893–1968). Biggles made his first appearance in the story The White Fokker, published in the first issue of Popular Flying magazine and again as part of the first collection of Biggles stories, The Camels Are Coming (both 1932). Johns continued to write "Biggles books" until his death in 1968. The series eventually included nearly a hundred volumes – novels as well as short story collections – most of the latter with a common setting and time. The chronology of the canon, spanning both world wars, set up certain inconsistencies over the unavoidable ageing of Biggles and his friends. Also, later editions had to be somewhat edited in line with changing norms of acceptability, especially regarding racism, and… Read More