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Johns, W. E.
Biggles and the Lost Sovereigns.
Publisher: Brockhampton Press, Leicester;
Date of Publication: 1964
Stock Code: 11223
First edition. Octavo, pp. 184. Colour frontispiece by Leslie Stead. Publishers’ canary yellow cloth with dark green titles to spine in unclipped pictorial dust-jacket. A clean bright copy, with no annotation or inscriptions. Text-block edge lightly foxed, and spine tips a touch creased. Dust-jacket a little rubbed to edges with minor loss at spine tips and corners. ‘Gold and trouble go together,’ says Biggles before he flies off to Singapore to investigate the mystery of the dead canoeist. Novel in the popular Biggles series, featuring treasure hunting on the coast of Burma. £85.00