Title: Biggles Breaks the Silence
Author: Captain W. E. Johns
Illustrator: Leslie Stead
Edition: First edition, 1949
Format: Hardcover, with dust jacket
Publisher: Hodder & Stoughton (London)
ISBN: — (published before ISBNs existed)
Language: English
Pages: 191
Dimensions: —
Publication Date: 1949
Genre: Children’s Adventure, Boys’ Adventure, Aviation Fiction
Condition: Good
Description:
Biggles Breaks the Silence is a 1949 adventure from Captain W. E. Johns’s Biggles series, illustrated by Leslie Stead. Biggles is visited by “Jumbo” Grimes, whose son served in his old squadron. Grimes’s information leads Biggles to suspect that Grimes’s employers have found the Starry Crown, a ship said to carry a hoard of gold. Leaving Algy and Bertie on the Falkland Islands as their South Atlantic base, Biggles, Ginger and the two Grimeses make a risky landing in the Antarctic, and the adventure begins. The first edition has black boards with silver titles and a vignette, a blue-and-white full-page illustration series and black-and-white text illustrations. This copy has its illustrated dust jacket, which shows wear. It is a good book for Biggles collectors and for fans of classic aviation and boys’ adventure stories.
Title: Biggles Breaks the Silence
Author: Captain W. E. Johns
Illustrator: Leslie Stead
Edition: First edition, 1949
Format: Hardcover, with dust jacket
Publisher: Hodder & Stoughton (London)
ISBN: — (published before ISBNs existed)
Language: English
Pages: 191
Dimensions: —
Publication Date: 1949
Genre: Children’s Adventure, Boys’ Adventure, Aviation Fiction
Condition: Good
Description:
Biggles Breaks the Silence is a 1949 adventure from Captain W. E. Johns’s Biggles series, illustrated by Leslie Stead. Biggles is visited by “Jumbo” Grimes, whose son served in his old squadron. Grimes’s information leads Biggles to suspect that Grimes’s employers have found the Starry Crown, a ship said to carry a hoard of gold. Leaving Algy and Bertie on the Falkland Islands as their South Atlantic base, Biggles, Ginger and the two Grimeses make a risky landing in the Antarctic, and the adventure begins. The first edition has black boards with silver titles and a vignette, a blue-and-white full-page illustration series and black-and-white text illustrations. This copy has its illustrated dust jacket, which shows wear. It is a good book for Biggles collectors and for fans of classic aviation and boys’ adventure stories.
