Title: Biggles Takes a Holiday
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: About 190
Dimensions: —
Publication Date: 1949
Genre: Children’s Adventure, Boys’ Adventure, Aviation Fiction
Condition: Fair
Description:
Biggles Takes a Holiday is a 1949 adventure from Captain W. E. Johns’s Biggles series, with illustrations by Leslie Stead. Biggles hears that an old squadron comrade, Angus, is in trouble, and he and his crew set off for the middle of South America to rescue him from the Valley of Paradise, an experimental colony where people are tricked out of their money and can’t get home. The first edition has light blue boards with red titles and a panther vignette, and eight full-page illustrations. It is a good book for Biggles collectors and for readers of classic aviation and boys’ adventure stories. This copy has its bright illustrated dust jacket, which shows wear and soiling.
Title: Biggles Takes a Holiday
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: About 190
Dimensions: —
Publication Date: 1949
Genre: Children’s Adventure, Boys’ Adventure, Aviation Fiction
Condition: Fair
Description:
Biggles Takes a Holiday is a 1949 adventure from Captain W. E. Johns’s Biggles series, with illustrations by Leslie Stead. Biggles hears that an old squadron comrade, Angus, is in trouble, and he and his crew set off for the middle of South America to rescue him from the Valley of Paradise, an experimental colony where people are tricked out of their money and can’t get home. The first edition has light blue boards with red titles and a panther vignette, and eight full-page illustrations. It is a good book for Biggles collectors and for readers of classic aviation and boys’ adventure stories. This copy has its bright illustrated dust jacket, which shows wear and soiling.
