Biggles on the Home Front - Captain W.E. Johns

1957 - Hodder and Stoughton, London - First Edition
With six full page colour illustrations by Leslie Stead.

Another adventure of Biggles and his Air Police Pilots. This time Biggles, Ginger, Algie and Bertie go to the rescue of Inspector Gaskin of the C.I.D., who has a hunch that aviation plays a part in the latest crop of jewel robberies in London.

Crime in the air is Biggles’ job, and he fastens onto the trail leading from the Barnstaple Arms in Soho with his usual zest and courage.
 
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Price HK$ 1,200



1955 - Brockhampton Press, Leicester - First Edition in Hardback (see below for details).
Scarce first hardback edition of ‘Biggles Learns to Fly’ which first published in the ‘Boys' Friend Library’ magazine issue No. 501 - dated 7th November 1935. It has not been available in any form since that year, and has been personally revised by Captain W.E. Johns for re-issue in this edition’ (as stated on the copyright page). Making this the first edition in hard back and the first edition with Johns revisions.

How Biggles, at seventeen, joined the royal Flying Corps and after a few flights went to war.
A tense tale of lonely patrols, fierce dogfights and split-second rescues
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Price HK$ 4,000