*Children’s Books: This week, we return to the adventures of Biggles. Written by Captain W E Johns, the wartime (and later) stories of James Bigglesworth gave us an iconic British hero, a highly competent fighter pilot with a characteristic gentlemanly air, who has gone on to represent an archetypal figure. Nearly 100 Biggles books were written and published and reprinted many times over, and we have a new selection now available, all hardcovers with dust jackets And I wish Biggles, Algy, Ginger and Smyth were still up there now, looking out for us – we could do with them and their wizard prangs. And if they aren’t enough, there’s Worrals too! Joan Worralson and her sidekick Betty ‘Frecks; Lovell, presenting the distaff side of aviation adventure; note the dust jacket illustration by Reginald Heade on our single Worrals addition.
PICTURED: ALL BY W E JOHNS ALL SOLD
BIGGLES DELIVERS THE GOODS Hodder & Stoughton 1952 5th UK HC FN £6 With DJ VG
BIGGLES FAILS TO RETURN Hodder & Stoughton 1951 3TH UK HC FN £5 With DJ GD
BIGGLES FLIES SOUTH Oxford University Press 1951 7th UK HC VG/FN £7 With DJ GD
BIGGLES FLIES TO WORK Dean & Son 1963 6th UK HC VG £4 With DJ GD
BIGGLES IN THE ORIENT Hodder & Stoughton 1949 3rd UK HC VG £8 With DJ VG
BIGGLES’ SECOND CASE Hodder & Stoughton 1950 3rd UK HC VG/FN £9 With DJ GD/VG
WORRALS GOES AFOOT Lutterworth Press 1949 1st UK HC GD £10 With DJ PR