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Biggles & Co
by Johns, Capt. W. E. (illus. Alfred Sindall)
- Used
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Good, 1949 reprint (1st in 1936) with unclipped d/j (a little bumped); green boards clean if a little bumped; gilt spine titling
- Seller
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Maidenhead, Berkshire, United Kingdom
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About This Item
London: Geoffrey Cumberlege at Oxford University Press, 1949. reprint. hardback. Good, 1949 reprint (1st in 1936) with unclipped d/j (a little bumped); green boards clean if a little bumped; gilt spine titling bright; text block firm, pages clean and unmarked; some foxing on endpapers and edges (owner's neat inscription on front pastedown).. 12mo (190 x 130 / 7_"" x 5""). In #10, Biggles is approached by Paul Cronfelt from a firm of Bullion Brokers called 'Cronfelt & Carstairs' with a proposition. Cronfelt wants him to set up an airline, a private venture with the primary object of carrying his companies' freight, namely gold and jewellery. Biggles is initially reluctant but decides to accept after receiving a threatening phone call from Germany, warning him not to. Setting up business with Algy, Ginger and Smyth as mechanic, the company is called Biggles & Co. The first load of gold Biggles carries is stolen, but Biggles has replaced the gold with lead. Biggles then reverses his first ruse to fool the criminals a second time when they try to steal his second load of gold. Biggles also delivers the third load of gold safely but by now, Algy has disappeared.
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- Bookseller
- Inklings & Yarnspinners
(GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- IYC101189
- Title
- Biggles & Co
- Author
- Johns, Capt. W. E. (illus. Alfred Sindall)
- Format/Binding
- Hardback
- Book Condition
- Used - Good, 1949 reprint (1st in 1936) with unclipped d/j (a little bumped); green boards clean if a little bumped; gilt spine titling
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- reprint
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Geoffrey Cumberlege at Oxford University Press
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1949
- Pages
- 256
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
- Keywords
- fiction, young people, WEJohns
- Bookseller catalogs
- 2nd-hand books;
- Size
- 12mo (190 x 130 / 7_\"\" x 5\"\")
Terms of Sale
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Inklings & Yarnspinners
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- Gilt
- The decorative application of gold or gold coloring to a portion of a book on the spine, edges of the text block, or an inlay in...
- Reprint
- Any printing of a book which follows the original edition. By definition, a reprint is not a first edition.
- Text Block
- Most simply the inside pages of a book. More precisely, the block of paper formed by the cut and stacked pages of a book....
- Edges
- The collective of the top, fore and bottom edges of the text block of the book, being that part of the edges of the pages of a...
- Spine
- The outer portion of a book which covers the actual binding. The spine usually faces outward when a book is placed on a shelf....
- 12mo
- A duodecimo is a book approximately 7 by 4.5 inches in size, or similar in size to a contemporary mass market paperback. Also...
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