JOHNS, Captain W.E.
Biggles and the Black Raider.
Biggles and the Black Raider.
Stock Code 124835
London, Hodder & Stoughton, 1953.
First edition, first impression; 8vo (190 x 130 mm); eight colour plates and monochrome title-page by 'Stead', only the occasional minor spot or mark, else very good plus; publisher's red cloth boards with black lettering and plane illustration to upper board and spine, illustrated endpapers, unclipped pictorial dust-jacket, a little soiled to rear panel from age, some light signs of wear to extremities, else very good plus; 192pp.
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