Johns (W.E.) Biggles Flies West

London, Oxford University Press; Humphrey Milford, 1937.

First edition. 8vo. Original dark blue cloth with gilt stamp to upper cover and stamped in black to spine. Third issue (1942) dust-jacket, price-clipped.

First serialised in twelve parts as ‘Biggles’ Treasure Island’ in The Modern Boy between June and September 1937, the plot sends Biggles, Algy and Ginger to the Caribbean in search of a cursed doubloon and a long-lost pirate hoard.