Buy this book on-line JOHNS,Captain W. E: : Another Job for BIGGLESLONDON.HODDER & STOUGHTON,1951.
UK,8vo HB+dw/dj,Ist edn.VG/VG.No owner inscrptn,price-clip to dw/dj,ffe removed
- but could stand sympathetic restoration.
Colour,pictorial,upper dw/dj panel+spine/
backstrip,author's letter facsimile signatured advert for GIMLET books,to rear
panel,with negligible shelf-wear and light,sporadic foxing/spotting to both panels.Generally a VG+ wrapper that is showing minimal chips with reciprocal loss
to the corners,head+foot of spine/
backstrip - all without affecting letters
or titles,some slight fading of author's name,but readable,to the spine/backstrip,
and a few tiny,closed,edge tears.Publisher
adverts to both inner flaps of dw/dj.
Described hard but honestly - reads worse than actually is!! Top edge dust-soiled
with sporadic foxing/spotting;fore-edge brighter,cleaner,but also sporadically foxed/spotted,contents generally bright, tight and clean - apart from aforementioned page-edge spotting.Bright,
clean,publisher's original red paper-covered bds with bright,black ink stamped lettering to upper bd+spine/backstrip,with
a b/w vignette to upper bd's lower right-hand corner,clean,plain white eps,with
bookseller's dentelle to front pastedown.
8vo,9-191pp [paginated] includes 15 chapters,illustrations by Stead,comprising
4 subtley coloured plates plus a small number of b/w line drawings throughout the
text and the book,one as a frontispiece, plus [unpaginated] lightly grubbed half-title page,frntis,title-page and contents+
illustrations lists/tables.
Leslie Leonard Stead(1899-1966.)Often worked as STEAD.He trained under the artist and designer Eugene Haskin,who was
one of Hodder & Stoughton's illustrators.
His own association with Hodder&Stoughton
began in March 1916,and he later
illustrated many of the 'Biggles',
'Worrals' and 'Gimlet' books written by Captain W.E. JOHNS and published by both Hodder&Stoughton and the Brockhampton Press.He specialised in figures in action (generally treating settings and props in a cursory fashion),and worked in black and
white (pen or brush),halftone (crayon or pen and wash),and full colour.He served
in the Army (probably ARP),1943-46.
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