James Bond First Editions

Biggles and the Noble Lord.

JOHNS, W. E., Captain (1893-1968).

Leicester: Brockhampton Press, 1969. [Children's adventure novel] FIRST EDITION, first impression. Octavo (19 x 13cm), pp.152. Publisher's light blue cloth, gilt titles to spine, illustrated dust-jacket priced at 12s / 60p. Contents clean, no inscriptions, some spotting to page edges, jacket is clean and bright with some trivial rubbing to crown. A near fine copy; wrapper virtually as new. "London-Sussex-Normandy; All these areas play a major part in tracking down the master-mind behind the large scale robberies which have bedevilled Britain for the past year..." A literary ancestor of secret agent James Bond, "Biggles globetrotted like 007, and his recruitment to a special elite in the later novels seems very Bondian" (The Rough Guide to James Bond, 2002, p.47). Item #67810

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