Yet Another Biggles Site (YABS)

Title Compendiums

Chancellor

The Bumper Biggles Book Hardback with Dustjacket (1983 - 1986)

720pp, blue boards with embossed WW1 biplane, no illustrations, ISBN 0-907486-32-0. Contains five stories:

According to the Burnet bibliography this collection was published three times: 1983, 1984, 1986. The final edition, 1986, had coloured laminated boards with small illustrations of each of the books.

The Best of Biggles Hardback (1985)

701pp, laminated boards, no illustrations, ISBN 0-907486-59-2. Contains five stories:

Hodder & Stoughton

no image available (yet) The First Biggles Omnibus Hardback (1953)

640pp. Contains four stories:

Reprinted 1960. No other details available.

no image available (yet) The Biggles Air Detective Omnibus Hardback (1956)

Contains four stories:

At least 2 editions were produced:

  • 1st impression, 640pp, dustjacket. No other details available.
  • 2nd impression, 1959, red cloth. Rear of dustjacket lists 54 numbered Bigggles books distributed by Hodder & Stoughton plus Comrades in Arms and two H&S Omnibus books. [thanks CML, for details]
no image available (yet) The Biggles Adventure Omnibus Hardback (1965)

574pp, dustjacket. Contains four stories:

No other details available.

Leopard

A Biggles Omnibus Hardback with Dustjacket (1995)

624pp, no illustrations. Laminated boards match dustjacket, by FABA/NORMA. Price GBP10.99. Contains three stories:

According to the Burnet bibliography this collection was published twice: 1994 (Crescent Editions, laminated boards, dustjacket) and 1995 (as shown).

Oxford University Press

no image available (yet) The Biggles Omnibus Hardback (1938)

Contains three stories:

No other details available.

no image available (yet) The Biggles Flying Omnibus Hardback (1940)

Contains three stories:

No other details available.

no image available (yet) The Third Biggles Omnibus Hardback (1941)

Contains three stories:

No other details available.

Prion

Biggles' Big Adventure Paperback (2007)

781pp, ISBN 978-85375-616-0, price GBP14.99. Contains four stories:

Contains seven B&W illustrations taken from original editions (and acknowledged appropriately). Jacket front and spine by Matthew Laznicka. Jacket rear by Alfred Sindall.

Red Fox

Biggles Story Collection Paperback (1999)

702pp, no illustrations, ISBN 0-09-940154-1, price GBP5.99. Contains three stories:

Biggles Story Collection II Paperback (2001)

424pp, no illustrations, ISBN 0-09-942706-0, price GBP4.99. Contains two stories: