
Description
JOHNS (CAPT. W.E.) Biggles Defies the Swastika, FIRST EDITION IN DUST-JACKET, colour frontispiece, and 6 full-page illustrations by Howard Leigh and Alfred Sindall, publisher's pictorial cloth, top edge red, publisher's pictorial cloth (unclipped priced '4/- Net'), light dust-soiling to lower cover, spine very slightly frayed at foot and with short tear at upper joint but generally very clean, 8vo, John Hamilton Limited, [1934] This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: • • Zero rated for VAT, no VAT will be added to the Hammer Price or the Buyer's Premium. For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com For further information about this lot please visit the lot listing
Buyer's Premium
32%
JOHNS (CAPT. W.E.) Biggles Defies the Swastika, FIRST EDITION IN DUST-JACKET, John Hamilton Limi...
Estimate £600-£800
Current Price (1 bid)
£500
Fine Books, Atlases & Manuscripts
Mar 16, 2026 8:00 AM EDTLondon, UNITED KINGDOM, United Kingdom
TOP

![JOHNS (CAPT. W.E.) Biggles Flies Again, FIRST EDITION IN DUST-JACKET, John Hamilton Limited, [1934]: JOHNS (CAPT. W.E.) Biggles Flies Again, FIRST EDITION IN DUST-JACKET, half-title (listing only earlier titles), colour frontispiece and 4 plates, publisher's blue cloth, top edge blue, light fading](https://p1.liveauctioneers.com/1043/402655/226947133_1_x.jpg?height=181&quality=70&sharpen=true&version=1774026011&width=181)
![JOHNS (CAPT. W.E.) Biggles Hits the Trail, FIRST EDITION IN DUST-JACKET, O.U.P., [1935]: JOHNS (CAPT. W.E.) Biggles Hits the Trail, FIRST EDITION IN DUST-JACKET, half-title, colour frontispiece and 6 full-page illustrations by Howard Leigh and Alfred Sindall, spotting to title, abrasion](https://p1.liveauctioneers.com/1043/402655/226947176_1_x.jpg?height=181&quality=70&sharpen=true&version=1774026011&width=181)
![JOHNS (CAPT. W.E.) Biggles Flies South; Biggles Flies North; Biggles Goes to War, firsts, later ...: JOHNS (CAPT. W.E.) Biggles Flies South, later issue (mentioning 'Biggles Goes to War' on half-title, jacket with piece of lower wrapper torn away, [c.1938]; Biggles Goes to War, jacket frayed with a](https://p1.liveauctioneers.com/1043/402655/226947336_1_x.jpg?height=181&quality=70&sharpen=true&version=1774026011&width=181)

![JOHNS (CAPT. W.E.) Biggles - Secret Agent, FIRST EDITION, IN DUST-JACKET, O.U.P., [1940]: JOHNS (CAPT. W.E.) Biggles - Secret Agent, FIRST EDITION, IN DUST-JACKET, half-title, colour frontispiece, and 6 full-page illustrations by Howard Leigh and Alfred Sindall, publisher's blue](https://p1.liveauctioneers.com/1043/402655/226947364_1_x.jpg?height=181&quality=70&sharpen=true&version=1774026011&width=181)

![JOHNS (CAPT. W.E.) Biggles in the South Seas, FIRST EDITION, FIRST ISSUE, O.U.P., [1940]: JOHNS (CAPT. W.E.) Biggles in the South Seas, FIRST EDITION, FIRST ISSUE, colour frontispiece, and 6 full-page illustrations by Norman Howard, publisher's pictorial green cloth (light fading to](https://p1.liveauctioneers.com/1043/402655/226947127_1_x.jpg?height=181&quality=70&sharpen=true&version=1774026012&width=181)

![JOHNS (CAPT. W.E.) Biggles Investigates, 1965; and 16 other Biggles (17): JOHNS (CAPT. W.E.) Biggles Investigates, price clipped, [1965]; Biggles Looks Back, [1965]; Biggles and the Plot that Failed, [1965]; Biggles Scores a Bull, [1965]; Biggles of the Terai, [1966];](https://p1.liveauctioneers.com/1043/402655/226947438_1_x.jpg?height=181&quality=70&sharpen=true&version=1774026011&width=181)
![JOHNS (CAPT. W.E.) A fine collection of first edition Biggles titles in dust-jackets, 1944-1964: JOHNS (CAPT. W.E.) A fine collection of first edition Biggles titles in dust-jackets, comprising: Biggles in the Orient, [November 1944]; Biggles Delivers the Goods, [January 1946]; Sergeant](https://p1.liveauctioneers.com/1043/402655/226947275_1_x.jpg?height=181&quality=70&sharpen=true&version=1774026011&width=181)
![KERR (JUDITH) The Tiger Who Came to Tea, FIRST EDITION, Collins, [1968]: KERR (JUDITH) The Tiger Who Came to Tea, FIRST EDITION, colour illustrations by the author, a little soiling to first free endpaper and title-page, two pages with tears repaired with tape, a few](https://p1.liveauctioneers.com/1043/402655/226947405_1_x.jpg?height=181&quality=70&sharpen=true&version=1774026012&width=181)






![GREENE (GRAHAM) [Works], 14 vol.; Waugh, 3 vol.; Kipling, 2 vol. (19): GREENE (GRAHAM) [Works], 14 vol., FIRST EDITIONS, comprising: The Man Within, 1929; Rumour at Nightfall, 1931; Stamboul Train, 1932; The Old School. Essays by Divers Hands. Edited by Graham Greene,](https://p1.liveauctioneers.com/1043/402655/226947129_1_x.jpg?height=181&quality=70&sharpen=true&version=1774026011&width=181)
![HEANEY (SEAMUS) A collection of 13 first or limited editions signed by Heaney; and 3 others (16): HEANEY (SEAMUS) A collection of 13 first or limited editions signed by Heaney, comprising; Field Work, signature dated 5 February 1980, [1979]; Selected Poems 1965-1975, [1980]; Preoccupations.](https://p1.liveauctioneers.com/1043/402655/226947241_1_x.jpg?height=181&quality=70&sharpen=true&version=1774026010&width=181)

