Johns (W.E.) Biggles in Spain

London, New York, Toronto, Oxford University Press, 1939.

First edition, first impression. 8vo. Original pictorial cloth. Second impression dust-jacket, price-clipped.

W.E. Johns drew on the recently concluded Spanish Civil War (1936–39) as his setting, with Biggles operating against a backdrop of the conflict’s final stages. It is among the more topically grounded of the pre-war Biggles titles, the Spanish war having provided Johns with a ready-made theatre of aerial intrigue.