JOHNS, Captain W.E. (author). Leslie STEAD (illustrator). Biggles Presses On; More Adventures of Biggles and the Special Air Police. Leicester; Brockhampton Press. 1958.
8vo. Original brown blind-patterned boards decorated with a dog motif, similarly lettered and decorated in white to spine, in pictorial dustwrapper; pp. [vi], 7-192; illustrated with full-colour plates by Leslie Stead; externally fine, internally clean bar dusting and spotting to edges of book block, light diffuse foxing to endpapers, in a fine, crisp, and unclipped dustwrapper (8/6).
First edition. The 50th Biggles title! An exotic adventure involving murder on a Pacific atoll, the dramatic rescue of a sultan's son, and an ingenious way to smuggle mink.
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