THE BLACK PERIL A BIGGLES STORY
Written by W.E. Johns
Illustrated by J.E. McConnell
Published by The Thames Publishing Co.
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THE BLACK PERIL
Written by W.E. Johns.
Stock no. 1330367
Circa.
1935.
Hardback.
Almost very good condition.
Blue cloth. Black title and sundial to spine. 222 pages. No catalogue. Colour frontis, 4 blue tinted plates. Spine and corners bumped and rubbed. Some spotting to covers. Tiny water stain to lower margins of some pages. A couple of page corner creases and a couple of page corner tips have very slight loss (text not affected). Some foxing to first few and last few pages else contents clean. A nice copy of a very early reprint.
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Contents
- Set in East Anglia, U.K. and Eastern Europe with the bases of the story being a Russian invasion using Flying Planes. Biggles and Algy stumble into the fray following a forced landing in East Anglia. When their attempts to pass the issue to the local constabulary fail they organize a reconnaissance flight into Russia and a closer than anticipated inspection of the Seaplane HQ. The book marks the introduction of Ginger, and his quick thinking saves the troupe on a series of occasions, enabling them to thwart the plan and have most of the aeroplanes destroyed.
- Original titled The Black Peril when published in 1935 by John Hamilton the book was re-titled Biggles and the Black Peril when re-issued by Thames and Dean with some minor amendments to the text to make it more appealing to the target audience.
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