Biggles Learns to Fly - Captain W.E. Johns, Leslie Stead (illustrator) 1955 - Brockhampton Press, Leicester - First Edition in Hardback (see below for details). Scarce first hardback edition of ‘Biggles Learns to Fly’ which first published in the ‘Boys' Friend Library’ magazine issue No. 501 - dated 7th November 1935. It has not been available in any form since that year, and has been personally revised by Captain W.E. Johns for re-issue in this edition’ (as stated on the copyright page). Making this the first edition in hard back and the first edition with Johns revisions.

How Biggles, at seventeen, joined the royal Flying Corps and after a few flights went to war.
A tense tale of lonely patrols, fierce dogfights and split-second rescues
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  Small octavo (book size 19.1x13.1cm), pp. [4] 9-192 [1 (list of Biggles books)] [1]. In publisher’s faux quilted red cloth, with diamond and publisher’s logo pattern in blind to boards and spine, spie lettered and decorated in black. Dust jacket priced ‘6/- NET’ to lower corner of front flap.   Condition: Near fine but for foxing along page edges and to prelims, in very good dust jacket, wear to corners and spine ends, some tape repair to verso.   Ref: 111431   Price: HK$ 4,000