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Johns (W.E.) Biggles Flies South
£975
London, Oxford University Press, 1938.
First edition, first impression. 8vo. Original pictorial pale brown cloth. Dust-jacket.
A notoriously difficult Biggles title to find in the dust-jacket, especially bereft of restoration work. Biggles & Co. get sidetracked into an Egyptian quest for a lost oasis whilst on their way to a squadron reunion dinner in South Africa.
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Light foxing and toning to text-block; cloth slightly bumped but overall very good; jacket with some loss to spine ends and foot of upper panel, some minor creasing and chipping.
Plates and jacket artwork by Howard Leigh and Jack Nicolle.
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