JOHNS, Captain W.E. (author). Leslie STEAD (illustrator). Biggles Investigates; and other stories of the Air Police. Leicester; Brockhampton Press. 1964.
8vo. Original palest grey linson boards, lettered in red to spine, in pictorial dustwrapper; pp. [vi], 7-184; with full colour frontispiece by Stead; both externally and internally a very good, sharp, and uninscribed copy in an all-but-fine, unclipped dustwrapper (8/6) with very small rubbing to forecorners; scarce.
First edition. A collection of 8 baffling cases for Biggles, including investigations into the plight of a Spanish monoplane, of a crew of lobster fisherman who "caught a crab", and the interception of a freight-carrier based on the clever contribution of an observant schoolboy.
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