BIGGLES' SECOND CASE
Written by W.E. Johns
Illustrated by Stead
Published by Hodder & Stoughton
in 1948
- Categorised in:
- CHILDRENS
- BIGGLES
- BOYS
- BOYS ADVENTURE
BIGGLES' SECOND CASE
Written by W.E. Johns.
Illustrated by Stead.
Stock no. 1323316
1950.
Hardback.
Very good condition in a very good dustwrapper.
Red boards, black titles and vignette to front. Colour frontis. B/w illustrations. The case of the pirate U-Boat. Spine bumped. Browning to endpapers and inscription in ink to front free-endpaper. Heavy foxing to preliminary pages and to textblock. Dustwrapper is slightly edge worn and just a little grubby to rear panel.
Front cover
Contents
- The titles refers to this been the second case of the Air Police, but they are already of out of the UK.
- A German submariner is shot trying to get a message to British Headquarters in Germany. His dying words tell of a missing U-Boat returning to the Southern Ocean to pick up a stash of stolen Allied gold from its secret base. Biggles and the team de-camp to Kerguelen Island to try and locate it and retrieve the gold for HM government.