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Anah Dunsheath RareBooks ABA ANZAAB ILAB, Auckland, NZ, New Zealand
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AbeBooks Seller since May 3, 2010
pp.191. Black and white illustrations throughout. A very good copy of this first edition in near fine dust wrapper. Seller Inventory # 020306
Title: Biggles Looks Back
Publisher: Hodder & Stoughton, Leicester
Publication Date: 1965
Binding: Original Cloth
Illustrator: Stead
Condition: Near Fine
Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good
Edition: 1st Edition
Seller: The Dickensian Bookshop, Featherston, New Zealand
Condition: Good. DW: Price clipped - but in fair cond - intact but heavily rubbed with pieces missing from spine and corners. Seller Inventory # DB00434
Quantity: 1 available
Seller: Books at yeomanthefirst, Folkestone, United Kingdom
Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Leslie Stead (illustrator). 1st Edition. Hardback. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very good. Leslie Stead (illustrator). 1st UK, 1st impression. Boards are clean, minimal bumping and no spine lean. Faint, criss criss cross indentations to front board, presumably from bookend, barely noticeable and not actual damage. Contents clean, unmarked in any way and free from previous owner's names or annotations. Dust jacket is worn with some colour grazing to edges and spine (see additional photos) wholly intact and not price clipped (8s 6d net). Seller Inventory # 005209
Quantity: 1 available
Seller: Stella & Rose's Books, PBFA, Tintern, MON, United Kingdom
Hardback. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Stead, (illustrator). First edition. 1st 1965. Very good condition in a very good dustwrapper. Red boards, black title to spine. B/w illustrations. 191 Pages. A story of Biggles and the Air Police. A few tiny dents at cover edges and a few light marks to covers. A tiny tear to edge of front fly-leaf. Minor foxing to textblock. Dustwrapper is price-cut to top of front flap, is edge rubbed with a couple of small tears and rear panel is slightly grubby. There is a small patch of surface paper damage to front panel of wrapper. Packaged with care and promptly dispatched!. Seller Inventory # 1326204
Quantity: 1 available
Seller: Broadhursts of Southport Ltd, Southport, United Kingdom
Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. b&w illustrations in-text (illustrator). 1st Edition. Seller Inventory # 012856
Quantity: 1 available
Seller: Stella & Rose's Books, PBFA, Tintern, MON, United Kingdom
Hardback. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Stead, (illustrator). First edition. 1st 1965. Very good condition in a very good dustwrapper. Orange boards, black title to spine. B/w illustrations. 191 Pages. Bumping to spine. Inscription in ink, with white tippex fluid marks to front endpaper. Foxing and browning to outer page edges. Wrapper has top corner of front flap cut off; edge-creasing with a few chips and nicks; a few marks to rear panel. Packaged with care and promptly dispatched!. Seller Inventory # 2137306
Quantity: 1 available
Seller: Really Good Books, Stockport, United Kingdom
Hardback. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very good. Leslie Stead (illustrator). 1st UK, 1st impression. Attractive first printing of this Biggles story, in attractive dust jacket with six full page mono illustrations. The book is fine with just a little hint of spotting to text block edges but very clean and tight inside. There are no marks or inscriptions. The unclipped jacket shows the correct price of 8/6 has a little wear to the jacket's spine extremities, especially the top, but no losses. Seller Inventory # 1410
Quantity: 1 available
Seller: David Schutte, Lydbury North, Shropshire, United Kingdom
Hardcover. Condition: As New. Dust Jacket Condition: Mint. Andrew Skilleter (illustrator). First Edition Thus. Limited to 300 numbered copies, of which this is no.26, with a numbered insert signed by the publisher and illustrator. Originally published in hardback in 1968, this is one of the harder-to-find Biggles titles, and is here reprinted in hardback for the first time. The new dustwrapper is by Andrew Skilleter, who has also drawn a b/w frontispiece. Skilleter has also added an ORIGINAL colour drawing of 3 of the main characters to the ffep. A Mint unread copy in Mint d/w. Signed by Illustrator and Publ. Seller Inventory # 005660
Quantity: 1 available
Seller: Caerwen Books, Forrestfield, WA, Australia
Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good -. Leslie Stead (illustrator). 1st Edition. Tidy copy in orange boards. Clipped jacket has small foxing marks to the flaps and some tiny losses at the head of the spine 3-5 mm. Endpapers slightly darkened. Presents very well. Jacket is in a new protective sleeve. The last Biggles book featuring Von Stalhein. Seller Inventory # 036078
Quantity: 1 available
Seller: James M Pickard, ABA, ILAB, PBFA., LEICESTER, United Kingdom
Hard Cover. Dust Jacket Condition: Dust Jacket. First Edition. First UK Edition. Publisher's salmon pink boards with black lettering to the spine. A fine copy in an attractive VG+ D/W with very slight soiling to the yellow portion of the spine. The price 8s 6d net shows to the inside flap without any later price label over the top. Illustrated by Studio Stead. Shows well. Biggles adventure # 71. A bibliographical note: this is the first time that we have encountered pink boards for this title which may, perhaps, be a variant of the usual red. Photographs/scans available upon request. Seller Inventory # 355490719905
Quantity: 1 available
Seller: Elder Books, Ross on Wye, Herefordshire, United Kingdom
Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. ILLUSTRATED BY STUDIO STEAD. HARDBACK IN THE ORIGINAL CLOTH WITH THE ORIGINAL DUST JACKET, HALF TITLE. BOOK MEASURES APPROX 8 x 5 INCHES WITH 191 PAGES. SOME LIGHT EDGE WEAR TO JACKET WITH A FEW MINOR MARKS TO JACKET, LIGHT MARKINGS TO ENDPAPERS. SOME OCCASIONAL LIGHT FOXING MOSTLY TO PAGE FORE-EDGES. OVERALL A LOVELY COPY WITH MINIMAL FAULTS. PLEASE NOTE THAT THE DUST JACKET HAS A CLEAR REMOVABLE COVER THAT DOES SHOW SOME REFLECTIONS IN IMAGES. EXTRA POSTAGE COSTS MAY APPLY TO OVERSEAS ORDERS. Seller Inventory # 006077
Quantity: 1 available