Buy this book on-line JOHNS,Captain W.E:** : BIGGLES HUNTS BIG GAME.**LONDON.HODDER & STOUGHTON,1950. ISBN No ISBN.
UK,8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edn,2nd imp.VG/VG.
No owner inscrptn,no price-clip to dw/dj.
Slightly creased,chipped dw/dj edges,with
very minimal loss.Rear panel slightly grubbed,slightly foxed.UK,8vo HB+dw/dj, 1st edn,2nd imp,211pp,illus by STEAD.
Contents sound and solid.
Leslie Leonard Stead(1899-1966.)Often worked as STEAD.He trained under the artist and designer Eugene Haskin,who was one of Hodder & Stoughton's illustrators.
His own association with H&S began in March 1916,and he later illustrated many of the 'Biggles','Worrals' and 'Gimlet' books written by Captain W.E. JOHNS and published by both Hodder & Stoughton and the Brockhampton Press.He specialised in figures in action (generally treating settings and props in a cursory fashion), and worked in black and white(pen or brush), halftone (crayon or pen and wash),
and full colour.He served in the Army (probably ARP),1943-46.
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