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Author:	Captain W. E. Johns
Title:	Biggles In The Orient
Publisher:	Armada
Country:	UK
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Format:	Paperback
Cat#:	C277
Total Editions:	4
First Published:	1945
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first published in the uk in hardcover in 1945 by hodder & stoughton ltd., london.

copyright w. e. johns (publications) ltd.

this (armada paperbacks) edition was first published in 1963 by may fair books ltd., 14 st. james's place, london sw1a 1pf (uk)

printed in great britain by love & malcomson ltd, brighton road, redhill, surrey, england.

(no date nor ordinality of impression, or printing, given. retains. cover art from the 1969 presumed second impression, which bears new cover art; printing undated, covers of second armada printing shown: http://www.biggles.info/Armada/Page3/ )

cover art by peter archer (credited in presumed second impression)
full-page b+w frontispiece uncredited, as per earlier armajda books impressions
cover price 40p, australia $1.25°, new zealand $1.10°, canada $1.25
°recommended price
160pp. including 6pp. titles, indica, 1¼p "the way the air force says it" (nf) glossary. no .end pp. triangular bottom corner armada token.

set mostly in india (now bangladesh) & burma in the second world war, c.1942

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Captain W. E. Johns - Biggles In The Orient - Hodder And Stoughton - Hardcover - UK (1952)

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ppint. 3rd Sep 2024		collins/wm. collins sons/(variations) continued reprinting their armada imprint biggles p/b's until the middle of the 1980s. they closed the armada books imprint down in 1995.



ppint. 8th Feb 2019		cover art differs from that on the second impression, and is distinctly less accurate: so the above credit may well be wrong. reference copy provided courtesy of tony at the old pier bookshop, morecambe seafront.

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