BIGGLES IN THE ORIENT
Written by W.E. Johns
Illustrated by Stead
Published by Hodder & Stoughton
in 1945
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BIGGLES IN THE ORIENT
Written by W.E. Johns.
Illustrated by Stead.
Stock no. 1327268
1949.
Hardback.
Very good condition in a fair dustwrapper.
Light blue boards, silver title on front cover and spine. Colour frontis plus b/w plates. 180 Pages. Third impression. Spine and corners slightly bumped. Some slight fading to cover edges and spine. Endpapers browned, foxing to textblock and page margins. Dustwrapper is worn and grubby with old tape marks (tape no longer present). Some loss to both flaps.
Front cover
Contents
- Biggles' Squadron,266, is deployed to India on special assignment. The Japanese have a secret weapon that knocks allied aircraft out of the skies, seemingly at random. This totally perplexes everyone except Biggles and the readers, who gets to the bottom of it by experimentation.