MISCELLANEOUS PUBLISHERS OF BIGGLES BOOKS

Including Penguin, Scottie Books, Severn House, Swift Books, White Lion & Yellow Jackets

 

Biggles Learns to Fly

Published by Severn House Publishers Ltd 1980

Price £3.75

160 pages

 

 

 

Biggles Goes to War

Published by Severn House Publishers Ltd 1980

Price £3.95

159 pages

 

 

Biggles Flies Again

Published by Penguin as book number 348 on 25th November 1941

Price 6d

128 pages

 

 

Biggles Flies East

Published by Hodder & Stoughton in May 1942

Price unknown

192 pages

 

 

Sergeant Bigglesworth C.I.D.

Published by Hodder & Stoughton in 1954

Price 2 shillings

187 pages

 

 

Biggles’ Second Case

Published by Hodder & Stoughton in 1954

Price 2 shillings

192 pages

 

 

Spitfire Parade

Published by Scottie Books (Transworld Publishers Limited) in 1956

Price 2 shillings

219 pages

 

Biggles Follows On

Published by Scottie Books (Transworld Publishers Limited) in 1955

Price 2 shillings

160 pages

 

Biggles – Secret Agent

Published by White Lion in 1974

Price £1.50

184 pages

 

 

Biggles in Borneo

Published by White Lion in 1973

Price £1.25

184 pages

 

 

Biggles & Co (The very last Oxford University Press edition)

Published by Oxford University Press in 1966

If you thought the Oxford University Press finished publishing Biggles books in 1953 when they ended their “Flying Jacket” reprints, you were wrong!

Original Price Unknown

78 pages.  On the last page this book states “First published in 1952.  Eighth impression 1966”

This book was in fact last published in 1952 as a “Flying Jacket” reprint and that 1952 edition was the seventh impression.

 

            

Biggles & Co (Three Dutch Publications in English)

Published by J.M. Meulenhoff, Amsterdam

The first book is the 1956 original (for Dutch Schools)

The second book is the 1958 reprint and the third book is a 1970 reprint

Original Price Unknown

50 pages for the first two editions, then 72 pages for the third edition

 

Biggles in the Baltic

Published by J.M. Meulenhoff, Amsterdam 1949

Price unknown

170 Pages – “Abridged and annotated by M. J. C. Buchli

The is a Dutch publication – published in 1949 for Dutch Schools

The book is all in English

 

 

 

 

Biggles Delivers the Goods

Publisher – P. Noordhoff N.V. – Groningen-Djakarta 1953

Price F 2.50

164 Pages – “adapted and annotated” as the cover says.

This is a Dutch publication – published in the Dutch province of Groningen –

Although it has a Dutch forward, the book is all in English and the illustrations for the book have all been redrawn – click on the book cover above to see them!

 

 

Biggles Hunts Big Game

Published by Brockhampton Press Ltd in 1953

Price 1 shilling and 9d

48 pages

 

 

Biggles Breaks the Silence

Published by Brockhampton Press Ltd in 1953

Price 1 shilling and 9d

48 pages

 

 

Biggles in the Antarctic

Published by Severn House Publishers Ltd 1983

Price £5.95

158 pages

 

 

Biggles Breaks the Silence

Published by Longman Group Ltd in 1976

The first book is the 1976 original (a ‘Structural Reader’ to assist reading)

The second book is the 1981 reprint and the rear cover of the reprint is also shown

Price unknown

60 pages

 

 

Biggles in Australia – Front and Back

Published by Angus & Robertson Publishers in 1981

Price Unknown

218 pages

 

Biggles Forms a Syndicate

Published by Swift Books (Chivers Press) in 1986

Price £5.50

155 pages

 

 

Biggles Investigates

Published by Swift Books (Chivers Press) in 1986

Price £5.50

174 pages

 

Biggles and the Plot that Failed

Published by Swift Books (Chivers Press) in 1986

Price £5.50

172 pages

 

Biggles Sees Too Much

Published by Swift Books (Chivers Press) in 1986

Price £5.50

170 pages

 

 

 

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