BIGGLES HITS THE TRAIL
Written by W.E. Johns
Published by Brockhampton Books
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BIGGLES HITS THE TRAIL
Written by W.E. Johns.
Illustrated by Alfred Sindall.
Stock no. 1327192
1951.
Hardback.
Good condition.
Green cloth, dark red/brown title to spine. B/w illustrations. 256 pages. Spine and corners bumped and worn. Covers slightly grubby. Writing to front free-endpaper (and some blotted out with black crayon). Top 1" of front joint is cracked. Foxing to contents.
BIGGLES HITS THE TRAIL
Written by W.E. Johns.
Illustrated by Howard Leigh, Alfred Sindall.
Stock no. 1326369
1941.
Hardback.
Fair condition.
Pyramid Edition. Blue cloth, black titles and vignettes. Colour frontis, b/w illustrations. 256 pages, Covers are worn and grubby. Rear edge of spine is split. Contents are grubby.
Front cover
Contents
- Professor Richard Bigglesworth, know to most as Dickpa, while exploring on the eastern frontier of Tibet, discovers a mountain with curious properties, guarded by an unknown race, the Chungs, who, in addition to many remarkable scientific weapons, possess the power of making themselves invisible. The Professor escapes from the hostile Chungs and returns to England, but his enemies pursue him, and he calls in his nephew, Captain BIgglesworth, with whose help he returns to Tibet to discover the secret of the Mountain of Light. The Party is from the first Attacked by the Chungs, and it is only after being in great peril that they eventually escape, having first destroyed the remarkable power house in the Mountain with the aid of which this strange race hoped to conquer the world.
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