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Biggles In the South Seas
A chance meeting with Sandy Macaster, from 266 Squadron apparently, leads the team to the Marquesas islands on the trail of pearls. There they rub shoulders with Castanelli, a fiendish trader who runs the area. Helped by some local villagers, in particular a young couple called Shell-Breaker and Full-Moon, the team decamp to a small island off Tahiti and start raking in the pearls.
Of course nothing is ever that simple. There are shark attacks, octopi, hurricanes, floods, and the unwanted attentions of Castanelli and his thugs to contend with.
Selection of Current stock
Johns, W.E..Illustrated by Howard, Norman. Stock no. 1101126
Oxford University Press. 1st. 1940. Very good condition. Light green cloth with dark green titles and vignettes. Colour frontis. B/w illustrations. Inscription in ink to front endpaper. Light foxing to outer page edges. All plates present. Overall a clean copy. [R]
Price: £220.00
Johns, W.E..Illustrated by Howard, Norman. Stock no. 441571
Oxford University Press. 1940. Slightly better than very good condition in a very good dustwrapper. Light brown/orange boards with dark brown titles and decorations. Colour frontis + 6 b/w plates. 1" thick, with 2 ** to half-title page. Wrapper dates from c1942, but correct for book. Price-cut wrapper is edge-creased with small chips to top and tail of spine.
Price: £100.00
Johns, W.E..Illustrated by Howard, Norman. Stock no. 813632
Oxford University Press. 1st. 1940. Nearly fine condition in a nearly fine dustwrapper. Light green cloth with dark green titles and vignettes. Colour frontis. B/w illustrations. A few light grubby marks and foxspots to outer page edges. Pictorial wrapper is NOT price-cut and is in fine condition, except for little grubby marks to rear panel and light edge-creasing to top of spine. Very scarce in this condition! A great copy. [S]
Price: £2900.00
Johns, W.E..Illustrated by Howard, Norman. Stock no. 729152
Oxford University Press. Circa. 1940. Almost very good condition. Beige card wraps with green titles. Colour frontis. B/w illustrations. 255 pages. One asterisk on half-title page. Covers a bit foxed and faded at edges and spine. Spine and corners slightly worn. foxing to contents. Scarce in this card wrap edition.
Price: £70.00