Biggles and the Missing Millionaire by Johns, Captain W.E - 1961

Brochampton Press, 1961. Hardcover. Good/Acceptable. 1961. First Edition. 170 pages. Illustrated dust jacket over orange cloth. Mild tanning to pages with heavier tanning to pastedowns and endpapers. Light tanning to text block edges and binding is loose. Boards have light rubbing and minor bumping to corners. Soft crushing to spine ends. Unclipped jacket with heavy edge wear and visible tearing to corners, edges and spine ends.

The Children Books Club, 1961. Hardcover. Good. 1961. First Edition. 170 pages. No dust jacket. Blue cloth. Clean pages with mild tanning and foxing throughout. Tightly bound with mild thumb-marking throughout. Pencil marks to adverts. Moderate foxing to text block edges. Boards have light edgewear with corner crushing and notable marking to boards. Notable sunning to board edges and spine, which has mild crushing to ends.

Leicester, Great Britain: Brockhampton Press, 1961. Book. Illus. by Stead, Leslie. Good. Hardcover. First Edition. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. Hardcover with laminated pictorial boards, no dust jacket, first edition, 170pp, weighs 220 gms, blank endpapers. Book is in good condition with minor general wear and tear and moderate page discolouration/spotting throughout. Boards are in good condition with only light shelf wear and scuffing, otherwise no other pre-loved markings..

GB: Childrens Book Club Edition/Brockhampton, 1961. Hardcover. Very Good/No Jacket. Stead, Leslie. H/B 170 pages, condition is very good, very good DJ.

London: Brockhampton Press, 1961. Biggles and Co. are on the trail of a yacht that sailed away and never came back. Pp. [iv]+170+[6](blank, list of titles, last blank); cr. 8vo; orange papered boards, spine lettered in black, the boards slightly soiled, bottom fore-corners lightly bruised, small damp stain to lower board and centre of spine; dust wrapper, lightly worn, foxed on flaps and reverse, edges rubbed and slightly chipped, small damp stain to back panel extending into backstrip; small piece clipped from top fore-corner of Contents page, occasional slight soiling, outer leaves and edges foxed; Brockhampton Press, Leicester, 1961. Reprinted. *The title page calls for illustrations by Leslie Stead, and the copyright page is dated 1961, as for the first edition (which contained a frontispiece by Stead), but this is a later printing, date unknown, with no illustrations.

JOHNS, Captain W.E
Biggles and the Missing Millionaire (1st ed.)
Brockhampton Press, Leicester, 1961, 1st Edition, hardback with dust wrapper, VG/vg, boards orange/black, 170 pp.
Boards clean and firm, no inscription, neat annotation to front free end paper, sound tight binding, pages clean, lightly tanned, foxing to edges of text block. Wrapper clean and crisp, rubs and abrasions to edges and corners, small chips to head and tail of spine, price not clipped. Nice readable copy.
CHILDREN'S, 1ST EDITION, HARDBACK, BIGGLES ADVENTURE STORY, CAPTAIN W.E. JOHNS
46708 CHILD'S/BIGGLES £13.00

Leicester: Brockhampton Press, 1961 First edition. Hardcover. Orange cloth with black title and pictorial dust jacket by Leslie Stead. 170pp. Covers clean with very light edge rubbing; light spotting to fore-edge; owner's surname in ink to flyleaf. Jacket has light edge rubbing with nicks, creases and tiny losses, and overall light handling marks to rear . Very Good in Very Good protected jacket. Pictures available.

London: Brockhampton Press, 1961. First edition. Cloth. Very Good Indeed/Good. 7.5" by 5". Leslie Stead. A smart first edition of this Biggles adventure from Captain W. E. Johns. First edition, first impression. The seventieth book in the series. With a colour frontispiece. Biggles and his team are on the trail of a yacht that sailed away and never came back. With no clues and the whole world to choose from, they embark on an adventure as exciting as anything in their history of successful scoops. 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. In the original yellow cloth binding. Externally, very smart with minor wear to the extremities and the odd small mark to the boards. Original unclipped dust wrapper is… Read More

Leicester: Brockhampton, 1961. 1st edition. Nice copy. small octavo. hardback with dust jacket 170pp., This edition is published in bright orange boards in a very nice unclipped dust jacket without any illustrations

London: Brockhampton, 1961. 1st edition. Nice copy. small octavo. hardback with dust jacket 170pp., colour frontis., Ownership inscription o/w nice bright copy in like dust jacket