JOHNS, Captain W.E. (author). Leslie STEAD (illustrator). Orchids For Biggles: An Adventure of Biggles of the Air Police. Leicester, Brockhampton Press. 1962.
8vo. Original mid-green linson boards lettered and ruled in cream to spine, in pictorial dustwrapper; pp. [vi], 7-168 + [i]; with coloured frontispiece by Leslie Stead; both externally and internally near fine, with only a touch of fading to spine, through jacket, in a near fine, unclipped dustwrapper (8/6) with an owner's neat name and date (16.2.67) to front flap and just a touch of dusting to spine.
First edition. An adventure set in the Peruvian jungle; top secret documents go missing, along with a nuclear scientist.
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