Johns, Captain W. E. (William Earle) — Biggles Takes the Case

Hodder & Stoughton, London, 1959. Reprint, Hardcover, Illustrated by: Leslie Stead. Good Condition/Good. Black-and-white illustrated frontispiece, by Leslie Stead. Throughout the book there are illustrations by Leslie Stead. Red coloured boards with black coloured illustration and tiles to the front panel and black coloured titles to the backstrip. Illustrated dustwrapper by Stead, with yellow, white, black and red coloured titles to the front panel and backstrip. 9 adventures of Biggles - Dectective Air-Inspector] and Co." Softening of the back strip edges with bumping to the top book corners. Light tanning and foxing of the text block edges with offset tanning and faint foxing to the end pages. Previous owners name to the top left hand corner to the free front end page. Chipping of the dustwrapper corners and back strip corners. Small tears to the back strip edges and there is creasing to the edges. Heavy rubbing to the dustwrapper creases and white noticeable grubby marks to the rear panel – please see photograph. Third impression of the First Edition. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. 189, [3] pages,. Dust Jacket price-clipped. Please refer to accompanying picture (s). Illustrator: Leslie Stead. Quantity Available: 1 .