Captain W. E. Johns - Spitfire Parade - First Edition

JOHNS, Captain W. E. (1893-1968).

Spitfire Parade. Stories of Biggles in War-time.

London: Oxford University Press, 1941.

FIRST EDITION, first printing. Octavo (20 x 14cm), pp.256. Publisher's blue cloth, blocked in black to spine and upper. Colour frontispiece plate and additional in text line drawings. Lacking the scarce dust-jacket.

Contemporary gift inscription to flyleaf, crescent shaped indentation to title page and following couple for pages. Textblock very clean and bright with just a couple of marks within. Edges toned with a few spots. Binding shows well, some light wear to extremities, marking to upper board, faint vertical creases to spine. Tricky to find in decent condition. Very good.