Biggles Sets a Trap by Johns, First Edition (17 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. 1st Edition. 'Biggles Sets a Trap' by Captain W. E. Johns. Hodder & Stoughton 1962 first edition. Very good in unclipped dust jacket with a few small closed tears and associated creasing. Fraying to the spine tips and a small piece missing at the top of the rear panel.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Leslie Stead (illustrator). 1st Edition. Mild foxing to the closed page edges. The jacket is not price clipped and has only minor rubbing. Number 63 in the series. Biggles is visited by Sir Leofric Landaville who has a surprising tale to tell. For generations his family has suffered from what could be called "the curse of the Landavilles". Intrigued, Biggles and Bertie travel to Ringlesby Hall in Hampshire to hear the story (Algy and Ginger being on leave). On 22nd August 1485 at the Battle of Bosworth Field, Henry VII defeated Richard III. Henry's life was saved at the battle by a squire named Leofric Landaville who was knighted and given Ringlesby Hall with 100 acres of land and a pension of £400 in perpetuity. Ever since then, Landavilles have been dying mysterious and violent deaths and legend has it that such deaths are preceded by the croak of a Raven. Leofric's elder brother Charles has recently died a violent death after being shot, supposedly in an accident. Leofric heard a Raven croak before it happened. Biggles investigates the death and discovers it was murder. Ringlesby Hall has also been entered by an intruder. Biggles is invited to stay and sets a trap to alert him to any further entries by the mysterious intruder. Making enquiries in the locality, Biggles finds out about the De Warine family who owned Ringlesby Hall before the Landavilles. Eventually the trap is sprung and an intruder is discovered. In trying to escape, the intruder is killed in a car crash. The identity of the intruder and the explanation for the "curse" are revealed. The dust cover of the book shows Biggles sitting in a chair in Ringlesby Hall, in front of a suit of armour.

Condition: Good. DW: Price clipped - but in fair cond - intact but heavily rubbed. Book: Some words redacted in text with a ball point pen.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. Stead (illustrator). 1st Edition. Biggles Sets a Trap 1962, inscribed, near-Fine in a near-Fine unclipped d/w, short dashes against many titles on back panel, still very nice.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. The boards and spine are clean and straight. There are two small tape marks to rear board. There are tape marks to the end papers and inside boards. There is a small inscription to the top of the front end paper. Internally the book is clean and bright and the binding is tight. Dust wrapper/ The entire jacket is clean except for a mark to the front flap. There are tape marks to the rear of the jacket, this is showing through slightly to the rear panel. Not price cut.

Hardcover. Condition: Very good-. Dust Jacket Condition: Good+. Leslie Stead (illustrator). 1st Edition. Price clipped dust jacket is a little rubbed to the front panel which seems to be common for Sets A Trap . Jacket is quite worn to the corners small water stain near the heel. Ink number to front free endpaper. True 1st edition 1st printing. Scarce title that was never printed in paperback.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Stead (illustrator). 1st Edition. 1962 hardcover with dust jacket. 1st edition. The book is in very good condition. clean, square and tight. corners and edges sharp. The dust jacket is also very good condition. clean and bright. chipped and bumped to extremities. see photos.

Condition: Very Good. Protected by plastic sleeve.

Hardback. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Stead, (illustrator). First edition. 1st 1962. Very good condition in a very good dustwrapper. Biggles is on the trail of an extraordinary series of murders. History and excitement combine to make this a thrilling detective story. Red boards, black lettering. B/w illustrations. 159 pages. Spine slightly bumped. Front pastedown has become slightly unstuck from cover allowing the front board to slide back when the book is closed (hard to explain - see picture!). Contents bright and clean. Price-cut wrapper is slightly edge rubbed and scuffed with a small patch of surface paper damage to rear panel. Packaged with care and promptly dispatched!

1st edition hardback with dust jacket Nice copy small octavo 159pp., illusts., Nice copy in a bright slightly chipped unclipped dust jacket. Scarce.

Cloth. Condition: Near Fine. Stead (illustrator). First edition. A lovely first impression 'Biggles' novel, an exciting adventure novel by Captain W. E. Johns, complete with illustrations. The first edition, first impression of this work.In the original unclipped dust wrapper.The seventy-third 'Biggles' novel, following the exploits of the pilot and adventurer James Bigglesworth, exciting novels for younger readers.Illustrated with in-text illustrations throughout by Stead.By Captain W. E. Johns. In the original publisher's cloth binding, in the original unclipped dust wrapper. Externally, smart. Very light bumping to the head and tail of the spine. A couple of light marks to the boards. Small mark to the recto to the front endpaper. Dust wrapper is a little edge worn, with a little discolouration and some marks to the wraps, otherwise very bright. Internally, firmly bound. Pages are bright and clean. Near Fine. book.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. b&w illustrations in-text (illustrator). 1st Edition.

Hardback. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Stead, (illustrator). First edition. 1st 1962. Slightly better than very good condition in a very good dustwrapper. Biggles is on the trail of an extraordinary series of murders. History and excitement combine to make this a thrilling detective story. Red boards, black lettering. B/w illustrations. 159 pages. Minimal bumping to spine. Light foxing to textblock. Dustwrapper is slightly edge rubbed and has some light creasing to front flap. Packaged with care and promptly dispatched!

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. Stead (illustrator). 1st Edition. Black & white illustrations. A very light mark to free front endpaper and a few foxing marks to closed page edges. All else is extremely clean and firm inside and out. No inscriptions. A bright and complete dustjacket with very minor edge wear.

Hard Cover. Dust Jacket Condition: Dust Jacket. First Edition. First UK Edition. Publisher's red boards with black lettering to the spine. Boards really bright and clean. Scattered foxing to the closed page edges (chiefly to the top and fore-edges). No inscriptions. A VG+ copy. The VG+ first issue dustwrapper (priced 8s 6d net to the inside flap) is lightly rubbed/creased to the spine tips but has a really clean back panel. Biggles # 63. A nice, clean copy of a moderately scarce title. Great period cover art by Stead. Photographs/scans available upon request.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Included. First Edition. London, Hodder & Stoughton, 1962 [first edition]. Octavo, 159 pages with illustrations by Leslie Stead. Red papered boards; a very fine copy with the near-fine price-clipped dustwrapper very lightly rubbed. Number 63 is printed on the spine of the dustwrapper.

Hard Back. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First Ed. No inscriptions etc. DJ has some edge rubbing and some small edge tears and is price-clipped. Please contact O'Connell's Bookshop Adelaide (est. 1957) to check availability etc. We have thousands more books in our shop than appear on line.