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Author:	Captain W. E. Johns
Title:	Biggles Of The Special Air Police
Publisher:	Regent Classics
Country:	UK
Date:	Sep 1953
Format:	Hardcover
Genre:	Fiction, Crime, Transport
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Collection:	I Own It I Want It
Community:	1 Owns
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ppint. 4th Jul 2023		published in regent classics by xmas 1953, as at least one copy bought and given then as a present. the month and year of publication are given on the front of what would have been the front fly page had the book been made with normal endpapers, but is instead glued to the inside of the front board.° ° i've read that this may be made visible temporarily by spraying with isopropyl alcohol, aka isopropanol, aka rubbing alcohol - which should be done in a well-ventilated space - ditto if using stamp collectors' benzene (n.b. must not be inhaled, either of them; benzene should be washed off skin immediately) will presumably work as well. n.b. the print will be visible - and legible - temporarily, in mirror image until the alcohol evaporates out.



ppint. 4th Jul 2023		the thames publishing co. london regent classics imprint h/cvr first printings, first edition there are four known variants, two with red cloth, two with blue cloth-covered boards: the first printing is red cloth-covered, and has a colour plate frontispiece cover (d-j) art by jace m torneli ((sp?) (not very legibly-)signed, uncredited) cover (d-j) price (none printed) 256pp? (re-check!) eight unnumbered pp. implicity counted as four, including titles, indicia (ha!), table-of-contents etc, sewn in signatures - - but bound without fly endpapers, the first leaf of the first signature and the last leaf of the last signature being glued into the inside of the boards over the book hinges and the inside edges of the boards' red cloth covering.

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