THE “ECONOMY” DUST JACKETS

 

PAGE EIGHT OF EIGHT

 

VIRTUALLY ALL OF THE BIGGLES BOOKS PUBLISHED IN 1946, 1947 AND 1948 HAD “ECONOMY” DUST JACKETS.

 

THIS WAS DUE TO POST SECOND WORLD WAR PAPER SHORTAGES.

 

WHAT OXFORD PUBLISHING DID WAS THEY PRINTED THEIR BIGGLES DUST WRAPPERS ON THE BACK OF OLD POSTERS THAT HAD BEEN CUT TO SIZE.

 

This is best illustrated by showing examples.  What I have done here is I have shown pictures of duplicate books that I have, with economy dust jackets.

The photos are the REAR of the dust jacket, which would normally be blank white paper.  Here you can see what was on the reverse.

 

 

 

 

 

BIGGLES IN AFRICA – 1946

The first example shown is two identical copies of the 1946 version of Biggles in Africa.

What you are looking at is the inside of TWO dust wrappers, placed top and bottom.  It so happens that the picture on the back of the dust wrapper was identical as well.  I assume this was just pure chance.  As to the chances of that, well I suppose it depends how many pieces the posters were cut into and how many identical posters were used.  You will note the top right hand corner has been cut off.  This is where the dust jacket was price clipped.  As it is in the same place on both books, the rotation of the poster must have been the same.

 

 

 

BIGGLES – CHARTER PILOT – 1946

The second example shown is two identical copies of the 1946 version of Biggles – Charter Pilot.

What you are looking at is the inside of TWO dust wrappers, placed top and bottom.  The pictures differ with each other, but it so happens that the picture on the second row is identical with the backs of the dust wrappers for Biggles in Africa displayed above.  That was also published in 1946.

 

 

 

BIGGLES FLIES WEST – 1947

The third example shown is two identical copies of the 1947 version of Biggles Flies West.

What you are looking at is the inside of TWO dust wrappers, placed top and bottom.  It so happens that again, the picture on the back of the dust wrappers are identical as well.  Again, I assume this was just pure chance.  That fact that I happen to have two sets of books, with the same picture on the reverse of the dust wrappers must mean that is reasonably common for that to happen.

 

 

 

BIGGLES IN THE BALTIC – 1947

The fourth and final example shown are two identical copies of the 1947 version of Biggles in the Baltic.

What you are looking at is the inside of TWO dust wrappers, placed top and bottom.  The pictures on the reverse of the dust wrappers are completely different and I presume they came from different posters.

 

 

 

 

 

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