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London: CBC. Very Good- with no dust jacket. Hardcover. hbk; no d/w; book has tan boards with black lettering to spine; generally nice clean copy; a little foxing to very page edges; 6 full page colour plates nice and bright; vg-; ; Biggles; Vol. 50; 8vo 8" - 9" tall .

Leicester, England: Brockhampton Press. Very Good. 1958. First Edition. Hardcover. First edition with the phrase "First Published 1958 by Brockhampton Press Ltd." Previous owner label on endpaper. According to the label, this book was awarded to a student at Milford-on-Sea Primary School in 1960 as a progress prize. Illustrated with 6 full color plates. Spine slanted. Minor foxing to all page edges. Minor foxing to full title page. Ships same or next business day well protected in a box. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 192 pages .

Brockhampton Press, 1958. Hardcover in Dustjacket. Very Good for its age.. First Edition with dustjacket, in very ""collectable"" condition! pp. 192First edition dust jacket showing the original price of 8 shillings and 6 pence(Number annotation on fep., some glue remnants of sellotape)All this information courtesy of biggles.infoThis contains eleven short stories. These are as follows:-THE CASE OF THE MAN ON A SPOT (Pages 7 to 25)A Polish man with secret documents has had his wife kidnapped to make him hand them back. This story was never published elsewhereTHE CASE OF THE SUBMERGED AIRCRAFT (Pages 26 to 45)A Gipsy Moth found ditched in a Scottish Loch leads Biggles to a wife murderer. This story was subsequently published in 'Open-Air Adventure Stories for Boys' 1965 (by Odhams Books Ltd)THE CASE OF THE SABOTAGED PARACHUTE (Pages 46 to 67)A parachute with the cords cut leads Biggles to uncover more than just a corpse. (Dust cover). This story was never published… Read More

Leicester: Brockhamton Press. Fine in Very Good dust jacket. 1958. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover with dust jacket. First Edition. Fine blackberry coloured boards with title and embellishments to the spine. Colour pictorial dust jacket very good but with some minor edge wear, price clipped. Faded inscription to the top of the front endpaper, hints of foxing - particularly to the closed page edges, coloured frontispiece being Prince Chan, plus five more coloured plates by Leslie Stead. A very nice example of this title. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 192 pages .