Buy this book on-line JOHNS,Captain W.E:** : BIGGLES FOREIGN LEGIONNAIRE.**LONDON.HODDER & STOUGHTON,1954. ISBN No ISBN.
UK, 8vo HB+dw/dj, 1st edn.VG/VG.No price- clip to dw/dj but minus ffe.Some light creasing to top edge dw/dj and some slight chipping to head of spine/backstrip with some minimal loss.Front inner flap has been trimmed off.8vo,190pp,colour frntis+ colour 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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