Biggles takes a Holiday by Captain W.E. Johns - 1949

Hodder & Stoughton, 1952. Hardcover. Acceptable/Acceptable. 1952. Fifth Impression. 191 pages. Pictorial dust jacket over red cloth. Jacket is in plastic cover. Contains colour illustrated plates. Pages and plates are lightly tanned and foxed throughout, heavier to endpapers. Previous owner's inscription to front free endpaper. Occasional thumb-marking present. Slight cracking to gutters of a few pages. Binding is slightly shaky. Boards have mild edge wear with slight rubbing to surfaces. Soft crushing to spine ends. Light tanning to spine and edges. Book is slightly forward leaning. Unclipped jacket has heavy edge wear with some areas of loss, heavy tears, chips and creasing. Moderate tanning to spine and edges. Scuffing and light marking overall. Jacket is in plastic cover.

Hodder & Stoughton, 1952. Hardcover. Acceptable. 1952. Fifth Impression. 191 pages. No dust jacket. Orange cloth. Prize plate stuck to front free endpaper. Pages are moderately tanned and foxed throughout. Brown stained and foxed marking to pages. Scuffed loss to rear pastedown, with split along edge. Binding remains firm. Boards have moderate edge wear with bumping to corners and rubbing to surfaces. Soft crushing to spine ends. Scuffing and dark marking overall. Light tanning to spine and edges.

Hodder & Stoughton, 1952. Hardcover. Good. 1952. Fifth Impression. 191 pages. No dust jacket. Red cloth. Illustrated by Stead. Pages and binding are presentable with no major defects. Minor issues present such as mild cracking, inscriptions, inserts, light foxing, tanning and thumb marking. Overall a good condition item. Boards have mild shelf wear with light rubbing and corner bumping. Some light marking and sunning.

Hodder and Stoughton, 1951. Hardcover. Acceptable/Acceptable. 1951. Third Impression. 191 pages. Pictorial jacket over blue cloth. Contains colour illustrated frontispiece, with other plates throughout. Pages and plates are heavily foxed, but text and images remain clear. Binding is firm. Small pencil inscriptions to front free endpaper. Boards and spine have minimal shelf-wear, with mild corner bumping and crushing to ends. Spine and edges are moderately sunned. Boards are noticeably bowed. Unclipped jacket. Light tanning and moderate foxing to interior. Moderate edgewear, with small chips and tears, and visible rip to front panel. Moderate marking to rear panel.

Hodder & Stoughton, 1949. Hardcover. Good. 1949. First Edition. 191 pages. No dust jacket. Blue cloth. Colour illustrated plates. Minor foxing and tanning to pages and plates. Slightly more prominent to text block edges, pastedowns and free endpapers. Mild pen mark to top of page 190; text unaffected. Binding remains firm. Book is slightly bowed and forward leaning with visible tanning, staining and scuffing overall. Spine has heavier tanning with soft crushing to ends.

London: Hodder & Stoughton. Very Good. 1950. 2nd Impression. Hardcover. Very good and sound decorated blue cloth, gift inscription to front endpaper. ; Colour plates; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 190 pages .

London: Hodder & Stoughton, 1952. Book. Illus. by Stead, Leslie. Good. Hardcover. Fifth Impression. G, Shelfwear, slight upward warp to front board, ink name written across leading edge of text-block, ink name & date on inner front board, foxing, browning/NO DUST JACKET. A Biggles adventure. With 8 monochrome illustrations, including the frontispiece. Photo on request..

London: Hodder & Stoughton, 1951. 1951. Hardcover. 8vo. blue cloth hardcover. 190pp. colour plates including frontis. good, cover faded on spine & sunned on corners, owner's inscription on fep. / Poor chipped & worn d/w. .

London: Hodder and Stoughton, 1952. Duo-toned frontis an plates. A Very Good copy in a Good jacket that has fading to spinestrip and is price clipped. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. Fifth Impression. Hard Cover. Very Good/Good. Illus. by Stead. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall.

London : Hodder and Stoughton 1951 3rd impression. hard cover, dust jacket, light blue cloth,191pp, 8 x 2-colour illustrations by Stead, edges and prelims. lightly foxed, dust jacket is in a protective plastic sleeve, spine faded, very good in very good dust jacket, a very nice clean copy. No ISBN