Buy this book on-line JOHNS**, Captain W. E: : BIGGLES FOLLOWS ONLONDON.HODDER & STOUGHTON,1959. ISBN No ISBN.
UK,12mo HB+dw/dj, 1st edn,2nd imp (1st edn was 1952 - this edn 1959).VG/VG.No owner inscrptn and no price-clip to dw/dj.
Pictorial colour decorated [STEAD] dw/dj, with minimal shelf-wear and creasing to bottom edge and circled number 36 to foot of spine/backstrip.Top edge slightly more creased with some rubbing and miniscule loss to top right corner.Head+foot of spine/backstrip lightly bumped,chipped and creased.All edges aged as usual/normal, with contents remarkably bright,tight, clean and fox-free.Bright,clean,red paper-covered boards with black ink printed letters to upper board and spine/backstrip and an illustrated design to upper board and plain white endpaers.UK,8vo HB+dw/dj, 1st edn,2nd imp,5-158pp [paginated] includes 8 full-page b/w illustrations by L[eslie] L[eonard] STEAD (1899-1966),all called for.
Often worked as STEAD.Trained under the artist and designer Eugene Haskin,who was one of H&S's illustrators.His own association with H&S began in March 1916, and he later illustrated many of the Biggles,Worrals and Gimlet books by W E. JOHNS and published by H&S and the Brockhampton Press.He specialised in figures in action (generally treating settings and props in a cursory fashion), and worked in black+white (pen or brush), halftone (crayon or pen and wash),and full colour.
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