Biggles Flies North

18.1 Oxford University Press

There a three variations of the ‘1st’ edition, with what seems a fairly clear ‘true’ 1st edition and two 1st issues variants.
Light brown boards with black titles and cover vignette of an aircraft over a compass. Author listed on spine and ‘Oxford’ in plain font. Colour frontispiece by Howard Leigh and 6 b/w illustrations by Will Narraway. Book list prior to frontispiece lists up to Biggles Goes To War. Pictorial dustjacket lists to Biggles Flies North on rear inside borders of straight lines. Dark maroon tinting to page tops. Printed by John Johnson. Width 44mm. Priced at 3/6.
Variant 18.1a has light brown boards with black titles and cover vignette of an aircraft over a compass. Author not listed on spine and ‘Oxford’ with serif font. Colour frontispiece by Howard Leigh and 6 b/w illustrations by Will Narraway. Book list prior to frontispiece lists up to Biggles Goes To War. Pictorial dustjacket lists on rear 10 Biggles books up to Biggles Secret Agent inside borders of straight lines. Printed by John Johnson. Blank front flap, which is unpriced.
Variant 18.1b has light brown boards with black titles and cover vignette of an aircraft over a compass. Author is listed on spine (as “Captain”) and ‘Oxford’ with serif font. Colour frontispiece by Howard Leigh and 6 b/w illustrations by Will Narraway. Book list prior to frontispiece lists up to Biggles Goes To War. Pictorial dustjacket lists on rear 10 Biggles books up to Biggles Secret Agent inside borders of wavy lines. Printed by John Johnson. Blank front flap, which is unpriced.

[A replica dustjacket is avaliable for this edition]

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Binding of 18-01

Spine variants of 18-01