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Biggles Flies to Work – Captain W.E. Johns

Published by Dean, London, no date but 1960’s.

Octavo, 184 pages, ownership to front end papers, dust jacket chipped otherwise a good internally clean copy.

A smorgasbord of eleven Biggles yarns including the case of “the Early Boy”

Fun Biggles Collection

$25.00

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Biggles in Spain – Captain W.E. Johns.

Published by Geoffrey Cumberlege, Oxford University Press, with their style jacket. An early edition, 1948.

Octavo, 183 pages, A couple of pages roughly opened otherwise a very nice copy.

Biggles and his mates are having a hard earned holiday but the Spanish Civil war gets in the way. Can they get the “secret message” through to the Foreign Office. We are not taking bets!!

Biggles in Spain but not on a lounger

SO SORRY SOLD

$30.00

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Biggles and the Black Peril – Captain W.E. Johns

Published by Dean, London, no date but 1960’s.

Octavo, 184 pages, light creases to good jacket, clean internally, a nice copy.

The crash of a mysterious flying boat lead Biggles and his cohorts to Russia and another exciting adventure

Biggles – no Peril too big for him

$30.00

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Biggles Flies Again – Captain W.E. Johns

Published by Dean, London – in arrangement with Thames, no date but 1960’s.

Octavo, 1183 pages, one pen mark on end papers, pages somewhat browned as use with this edition. Dust jacket good all else good to better.

The swamps of British Guiana (British of course). An Arabian island and a Russian Agent

Biggles Again – of course!

$25.00

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The Knightly Quest – A Parody of Espionage Thrillers – (A Novella and Twelve Short Stories) – Tennessee Williams -1968

A first UK edition of this collection published by Secker and Warburg, London in 1968. A novella and twelve short stories. Three of the short stories had appeared in “One Arm” published in 1959 – see our copy.

Octavo, 253 pages, the novella “the Knightly Quest”, a parody of espionage thrillers comprises eighty odd pages. The short stories common with the earlier edition are .. The Poet; Chronicle of a Demise and Desire and the Black Masseur.

The new short stories are … Hard Candy; Rubio y Morena; The mattress by the Tomato Patch; The Vine; The Mysteries of the Joy Rio; Mama’s Old Stucco House; Man Bring This up Road; The Kingdom of Earth and “Grand”. The first two are variations on the same theme, with the same setting but with very different results … interesting idea.

The great Tennessee Williams -his shorter stories and one slightly longer

$40.00

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Candide: or, the Optimist – Voltaire – With Six Striking Full Page Watercolours [Aquarelles]

Voltaire [nom de plume for Francois-Marie Arouet the great 18thC French philosopher and satirist] wrote Candide in three days in the year 1759. It is hilarious and has inspired many comedic scribes.

Martin Seymour-Smith [poet and literary critic] regarded Candide as one of “The 100 Most influential Books Ever Written”. He was right.

This beautiful edition from the 1920’s published in Paris on the Champs-Elysees. It contains six unusual and striking aquarelles (watercolours) by Robert Polack.

Candide Beautifully Illustrated- French

$140.00

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Biggles Flies to Work – Captain W.E. Johns

Biggles in Spain – Captain W.E. Johns.

Biggles and the Black Peril – Captain W.E. Johns

Biggles Flies Again – Captain W.E. Johns

The Knightly Quest – A Parody of Espionage Thrillers – (A Novella and Twelve Short Stories) – Tennessee Williams -1968

Candide: or, the Optimist – Voltaire – With Six Striking Full Page Watercolours [Aquarelles]

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