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JOHNS, Captain W.E.

Biggles - Air Commodore.

Biggles - Air Commodore.

Stock Code 109875

London, Oxford University Press, 1937

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The true first edition of this early, and uncommon, Biggles title.

First edition, first impression; 8vo; illustrations, including colour frontispiece, light foxing to text block, hinge pulled on frontis, otherwise binding tight; publisher's pictorial brown cloth, blue lettering to spine and upper cover, dark blue topstain, minor rubbing to head of spine, corners slightly bumped, with the unclipped pictorial dust-jacket, corners chipped, spine ends chipped with loss, large closed tear to rear panel, a few short closed tears to top edge.

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