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THE
OXFORD FLYING JACKET REPRINTS 1950 - 1953
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SIX OF EIGHT THERE WERE 85
DIFFERENT EDITIONS OF THE 20 OXFORD BIGGLES BOOK TITLES PUBLISHED BY “OXFORD
UNIVERSITY PRESS” BETWEEN 1946 AND
1953. THIS PAGE GIVES THE
INFORMATION ABOUT THE 45 FLYING JACKET
REPRINTS PUBLISHED FROM 1950 TO 1953 INCLUSIVE |
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1950 |
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IN 1950 NINE
BIGGLES TITLES WERE REPRINTED. THOSE 9
TITLES WERE:- BIGGLES – AIR
COMMODORE BIGGLES FLIES SOUTH BIGGLES FLIES NORTH THE RESCUE FIGHT BIGGLES IN SPAIN BIGGLES – SECRET
AGENT BIGGLES IN THE
SOUTH SEAS BIGGLES IN THE
BALTIC BIGGLES – CHARTER
PILOT |
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NONE OF THESE NINE
BOOKS HAD ECONOMY DUST
WRAPPERS THEY HAD NORMAL
DUST JACKETS NONE OF THESE BOOKS
HAD A COLOUR FRONTISPIECE ALL OF THESE 1950
BOOKS WERE PRICED AT FIVE SHILLINGS 5/- The book boards are
now consistently a light green with either silver or gold titles There is more
consistency with the use of the author’s name. He is W. E. Johns on every book bar one. “Biggles – Charter
Pilot” refers to the author as Johns.
Because the book is so thin the title is on the book longways
otherwise it would have been very difficult to get on. |
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1951 |
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IN 1951 SIXTEEN
BIGGLES TITLES WERE REPRINTED. THOSE
16 TITLES WERE:- BIGGLES FLIES EAST BIGGLES HITS THE
TRAIL BIGGLES FLIES WEST BIGGLES FLIES SOUTH BIGGLES GOES TO WAR BIGGLES FLIES NORTH THE RESCUE FLIGHT BIGGLES IN SPAIN BIGGLES IN THE
SOUTH SEAS BIGGLES IN THE
BALTIC BIGGLES DEFIES THE
SWASTIKA BIGGLES SEES IT
THROUGH SPITFIRE PARADE BIGGLES IN THE
JUNGLE BIGGLES – CHARTER
PILOT BIGGLES IN BORNEO |
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NONE OF THESE
SIXTEEN BOOKS HAD ECONOMY DUST
WRAPPERS THEY HAD NORMAL
DUST JACKETS NONE OF THESE BOOKS
HAD A COLOUR FRONTISPIECE ALL OF THESE 1951
BOOKS WERE PRICED AT FIVE SHILLINGS 5/- The book boards are
now are darker green with the titles in red. There is more consistency
with the use of the author’s name. He
is W. E. Johns on every book. Two
books, ‘Biggles Defies the Swastika’ and ‘Biggles in Spain’ have W. E. Johns
lower down the spine than the others. “Biggles – Charter
Pilot” refers to the author as just as ‘Johns’ because the book is so thin. The title is on the
book longways otherwise it would have been very difficult to get on. |
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1952 |
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IN 1952 SEVENTEEN
BIGGLES TITLES WERE REPRINTED. THOSE
17 TITLES WERE:- BIGGLES FLIES EAST BIGGLES & CO. BIGGLES IN AFRICA BIGGLES – AIR
COMMODORE BIGGLES FLIES WEST BIGGLES FLIES SOUTH BIGGLES GOES TO WAR BIGGLES FLIES NORTH BIGGLES – SECRET
AGENT BIGGLES IN THE
SOUTH SEAS BIGGLES IN THE
BALTIC BIGGLES DEFIES THE
SWASTIKA BIGGLES SEES IT
THROUGH SPITFIRE PARADE BIGGLES IN THE
JUNGLE BIGGLES – CHARTER
PILOT BIGGLES IN BORNEO |
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NONE OF THESE
SEVENTEEN BOOKS HAD ECONOMY DUST WRAPPERS THEY HAD NORMAL
DUST JACKETS NONE OF THESE BOOKS
HAD A COLOUR FRONTISPIECE ALL OF THESE 1952
BOOKS WERE PRICED AT SIX SHILLINGS 6/- This is the first
rise in price for a number of years.
The Biggles books had effectively been priced at five shillings since
1943. That is effectively
a decade! The book boards are
now all the same shade of light green. There is more
consistency with the use of the author’s name. He is W. E. Johns on the spine boards of
every book. Again, the same two books,
‘Biggles Defies the Swastika’ and ‘Biggles in Spain’ have W. E. Johns lower
down the spine than the others, but here you only see that on “Biggles Defies
the Swastika”. That is because
“Biggles in Spain” is published next year, 1953, with the same positioning of
the author’s name. “Biggles – Charter
Pilot” refers to the author as just as ‘Johns’. The book is so thin the title is on the
book longways otherwise it would have been very difficult to get on. NB – Both Biggles
in Africa 1952 and Biggles Air Commodore 1952 had two DIFFERENT coloured
board versions. One is dark green and
one is light green. Clearly the light
green one is the one that is uniform with all of the other 1952 reprints. You can see the
differences here |
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1953 |
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IN 1953 THREE
BIGGLES TITLES WERE REPRINTED. THEY WERE
THE THREE TITLES THAT WAS NOT PRINTED THE YEAR PREVIOUSLY THOSE 3 TITLES WERE:- BIGGLES HITS THE
TRAIL THE RESCUE FLIGHT BIGGLES IN SPAIN |
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NONE OF THESE THREE
BOOKS HAD ECONOMY DUST
WRAPPERS THEY HAD NORMAL
DUST JACKETS NONE OF THESE BOOKS
HAD A COLOUR FRONTISPIECE ALL OF THESE 1953 BOOKS
WERE PRICED AT SIX SHILLINGS 6/- The book boards are
the same green as the 1952 release of 17 books so you could now get a full
set of all 20 Oxford Biggles books in the identical binding. Click
here to see what that looked that |
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