Biggles Sweeps the Desert by Captain W.E. Johns
1950. Third impression. 208 pages. No dust jacket. Red cloth covered boards. Black and white illustrations throughout by Stead. Colour frontispiece. Pages with some foxing and tanning, particularly to endpapers and textblock edges. Binding remains firm. Previous owner's name to front pastedown. Front free endpaper missing. Boards have moderate shelf wear with mild bumping and fraying to corners and crushing and fraying to spine ends. All surfaces tanned and sunned, particularly spine. Some additional mild marks and staining. Book has slight forward lean.