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BIGGLES AND THE LEOPARDS OF ZINN
Written by W.E. Johns. Illustrated by Leslie Stead.
Stock no. 1330803
Published by The Children's Book Club. Circa 1960. Very good condition in a good dustwrapper.

In Central Africa Biggles & Co. free a primitive race from sinister influences and expose a plot. Green boards, black title to spine. 6 colour illustrations. Spine and corners bumped. A few small light marks to lower edge of textblock. Dustwrapper is edge worn and chipped with slight loss, rear panel is grubby.

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BIGGLES AND THE POOR RICH BOY
Written by W.E. Johns. Illustrated by Leslie Stead.
Stock no. 1330798
Published by The Children's Book Club. Circa 1961. Almost very good condition in a good dustwrapper.

Pale blue boards. Dark titles to spine. B/w illustrations. 182 pages. Spine and corners bumped. Very pale browning to spine. Foxspot to lower edge of front cover. Some foxing and other marks to textblock, slight foxing to endpapers. Dustwrapper is edge worn with loss to top and tail of spine and grubby, particularly to rear panel.

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BIGGLES AND THE LEOPARDS OF ZINN
Written by W.E. Johns. Illustrated by Leslie Stead.
Stock no. 1330792
Published by The Children's Book Club. Circa 1960. Very good condition in a good dustwrapper.

In Central Africa Biggles & Co. free a primitive race from sinister influences and expose a plot. Green boards, black title to spine. 6 colour illustrations. Spine and corners bumped. Light foxing/dustiness to top edge of textblock. Contents clean. Dustwrapper is edge worn and creased, slightly grubby and foxed on rear panel.

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BIGGLES SCORES A BULL
Written by W.E. Johns.
Stock no. 1330767
Published by The Children's Book Club. Circa 1966. Good condition.

Blue boards, black title to spine. Spine and corners bumped and slightly worn. Some scratch marks to covers. Both free-endpapers have been torn out and are missing. Contents are clean.

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ORCHIDS FOR BIGGLES
Written by W.E. Johns. Illustrated by Leslie Stead.
Stock no. 1330738
Published by The Children's Book Club. Circa 1962. Very good condition in a good dustwrapper.

Blue boards, black title to spine. No illustrations despite accreditation to Leslie Stead. 168 pages. Spine and corners bumped. Some light foxing to textblock. Dustwrapper is edge worn and torn with small tape repairs on verso, rear panel is grubby.

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BIGGLES AND THE MISSING MILLIONAIRE
Written by W.E. Johns.
Stock no. 1330720
Published by The Children's Book Club. Circa 1961. Very good condition in a very good dustwrapper.

Biggles & Co. are on a trail of a yacht that sailed away and never came back. Blue boards, black titles. Not illustrated. Spine bumped. Slight loss to lower edges of free-endpapers. Light foxing to endpapers and textblock. Contents clean. Dustwrapper is edge rubbed, grubby to rear panel and has a small brown mark to top edge of front panel.

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BIGGLES TAKES IT ROUGH
Written by W.E. Johns.
Stock no. 1330719
Published by The Children's Book Club. Circa 1963. Very good condition in a very good dustwrapper.

Red boards, black title to spine. Front endpapers are maps of the island of Tola. No other illustrations despite accreditation to Leslie Stead. 184 pages. Spine and corners bumped. Contents clean. Dustwrapper is edge rubbed, slightly grubby to rear panel.

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BIGGLES AND THE LOST SOVEREIGNS
Written by W.E. Johns. Illustrated by Leslie Stead.
Stock no. 1330717
Published by The Children's Book Club. Good condition.

Green boards, black title to spine. Colour frontis. 184 pages. Spine and corners bumped. Covers lightlyk marked and spine sunned. Front free-endpaper has been removed. Half-title/frontis is part detached at lower 2". Some foxing else contents clean.

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THE FOURTH KEY
Written by Malcolm Saville. Illustrated by Lunt Roberts.
Stock no. 1330598
Published by The Children's Book Club. Very good condition in a very good dustwrapper.

The sixth adventure of Mike and Mary Bishop, with their Scottie Dog, Dougal. Blue boards, black title to spine. B/w illustrations, 181pp. 7.5 x 5". Spine and corners slightly bumped. Small (and very faint) mark to centre of front cover. Foxing to textblock. Dustwrapper is edge rubbed and slightly browned to spine.

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SAUCERS OVER THE MOOR
Written by Malcolm Saville. Illustrated by Bertram Prance.
Stock no. 1330590
Published by The Children's Book Club. Almost very good condition in a good dustwrapper.

A gripping and fast-moving adventure story set on Dartmoor. Pale blue boards, black titles to spine. Endpapers are maps. B/w illustrations. Dustwrapper illustration is by Geoffrey Whittam. 244 pages. Spine and corners bumped. Some foxing and light spotting to covers. Contents are well browned but otherwise clean. Dustwrapper is edge worn with tape repairs (both to front and on verso). Rear panel is foxed.

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THE LONG PASSAGE
Written by Malcolm Saville. Illustrated by Alice Bush.
Stock no. 1330589
Published by The Children's Book Club. 1960. Very good condition in a very good dustwrapper.

A Buckingham story. Red boards, black title to spine. B/w illustrations. Foxspots to textblock. Small indentation to rear cover. Dustwrapper is foxed on verso, is slightly edge rubbed and is slightly grubby to rear panel.

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THE FUTURE TOOK US
Written by David Severn. Illustrated by Jillian Richards.
Stock no. 1330339
Published by The Children's Book Club. Circa 1958. Almost very good condition in a almost very good dustwrapper.

Pale blue covers with black title to spine. B/w illustrations. Spine and corners bumped. Spine lightly browned. Covers lightly foxed and marked, some biro marks to front cover. Endpapers browned. Foxing throughout else contents clean. Dustwrapper is foxed and edge worn with some loss, spine and rear panel of wrapper foxed and marked. No. 1 written to base of spine of wrapper.

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