Shelf Life: Books, Manuscripts and Works on Paper from the Library of Stanley J. Seeger and Christopher Cone

Shelf Life: Books, Manuscripts and Works on Paper from the Library of Stanley J. Seeger and Christopher Cone

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Leslie Stead | "Biggles Second Case...", c.1948, original dust-jacket design

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Leslie Stead


"Biggles' Second Case", c.1948


399 x 307 mm (framed 499 x 406 mm), ink, pencil and gouache, annotated in pencil at edges, mounted, framed and glazed, light spotting, small crease at lower right-hand corner


Original dust-jacket design for Captain W.E. Johns's novel Biggles' Second Case (London: Hodder & Stoughton, 1948). Leslie Stead (1899–1966) illustrated almost all of Captain W.E. Johns's Biggles books after 1942.

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