Captain W. E. Johns - Spitfire Parade - First Edition Children's London: Orion Books

London: Orion Books

George (1920-2020)

London: Serpent's Tail

dust-jacket marginally sunned to spine

titles in gilt to spine and in black to upper

Captain W. E. Johns - Spitfire Parade - First Edition Children's London: Orion BooksJOHNS, Captain W. E. (1893 1968). Spitfire Parade. Stories of Biggles in War time. London: Oxford University Press, 1941. FIRST EDITION, first printing. Octavo (20 x 14cm), pp. 256. Publisher's blue cloth, blocked in black to spine and upper. Colour frontispiece plate and additional in text line drawings. Lacking the scarce dust jacket. Contemporary gift inscription to flyleaf, crescent shaped indentation to title page and following couple for pages.