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London: Hodder and Stoughton, 1955. 192 pages, last blank, list of illustrations. The text is illustrated with eight halftone illustrations by Leslie Stead. Red coloured boards with black illustration on the front panel and black writing on the front panel and spine. Very minor bumping to the head of the spine and to the lower book edges. A little marking to the paper edges. Offset tanning to the end papers and is a little browning as well. Illustrated dustwapper, again by Leslie Stead, with yellow and blue writing on the front panel and spine. The dustwapper is rubbed and faded and there is a little rubbing to the dustwapper edges. Rubbing and chipping to the dustwapper corners and there is a small piece missing from the top rear dustwapper panel. Clipping of the dustwapper, front fold over, lower right-hand corner. This Biggles story is based on a true mystery of the sea -- the fate of the " Starry Crown ". Biggles and his comrades go adventuring in the Antarctic.. Reprint. Red Boards with Illustration. Reasonable for Age/Reasonable -- Priced Clippped. Illus. by Leslie Stead. Octavo - up to 9 ¾" Tall. Adolescent Reading.