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Spitfire Parade
One of only a handful of Biggles book to be original published without "Biggles" in the title. A collection of stoires most of which have been adapted from World War one stories first issued in BIggles in France. These stories are set at the headquaters of 266 squardron in the second World War.
This title is surprisingly in demand considering it is no one of W.E. Johns finest pieces of work.
Selection of Current stock
Johns, W.E..Illustrated by Wilson, H. Radcliffe. Stock no. 441577
Oxford University Press & Humphrey Milford. 1941. Very good condition with no wrapper. Stories of Biggles in War-time. Blue cloth with dark title to spine and parachutte vignette to front cover. Colour frontis by Radcliffe-Wilson. 256 pages. 1" thick and 2** to half-title page. Covers rubbed and a bit grubby with bumped corners. Inscriptions in ink to front endpaper.
Price: £110.00
Johns, W.E.. No illustrator listed. Stock no. 812425
Oxford University Press & Humphrey Milford. 1st ed . 1941. Very good condition with no wrapper. Stories of Biggles in war time. Blue cloth with picture of aeroplane and parachutist on front cover. Colour frontis plus full-page b/w illustrations. 256 pages. 42mm thick. Boards are marked and rubbed. Spine browned with small amount of fraying to cloth at top and tail. Previous owners stamp and name inscriptions to front endpaper and pastedown. Some brown margin marks to a few pages.
Price: £295.00
Johns, W.E.. No illustrator listed. Stock no. 689359
Oxford University Press. 1941. Very good condition in a good dustwrapper. Stories of Biggles in war time. Blue cloth with picture of aeroplane and parachutist on front cover. Colour frontis plus full-page b/w illustrations. 256 pages. This is the first "thin" edition of this title. Spine slightly bumped. Corners slightly rubbed. A couple of tiny dents to top edge of front cover and one to top edge of rear cover. Slight crease to spine. A few faint foxspots to covers. Name and date in ink to front pastedown. Pale foxing to half-title and a few foxspots to margins of prelims and outer page edges. Pictorial wrapper is worn at edges and slightly grubby with a few small edge-chips and closed edge-tears. There is slight loss from top of spine affecting part of the title lettering. Overall a bright clean copy of this scarce title in its rare original wrapper.
Price: £840.00