"Outside of a dog, man's best friend is a book. Inside of a dog, it's too dark to read."
— Groucho Marx
Another Job For Biggles.
London: Hodder and Stoughton Limited, 1951. [Children's adventure novel] FIRST EDITION, first impression. Octavo (19 x 13cm), pp.191 [1]. Illustrations by Stead, including four sepia plates plus a small number of black and white drawings, one as frontispiece. Publisher's red cloth blocked in black to spine and upper. With the colour-illustrated dust-jacket. Black ink gift inscription to fly-leaf dated 1951, and a bookseller's label to rear pastedown, otherwise internally clean. Price-clipped jacket shows quite heavy wear to edges, including losses to spine, and a large closed tear with creases to front panel. Good. Item #75448
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