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8vo., First Edition, with portrait frontispiece and plates, small neat signature on front free endpaper, some mild offsetting from fold-ins to free endpapers; maroon cloth, gilt back, a very good, bright,clean copy in unclipped dustwrapper, the latter with loss at head and tail of backstrip.
8vo., First Edition, with maps in the text; blue cloth, backstrip lettered in silver, a bright, clean copy in price-clipped dustwrapper.
8vo., Second Edition, with numerous photographs throughout; original pictorial wrappers, lower wrapper lightly age-marked else a very good, clean copy. First published in 1981
8vo., First Edition; pictorial wrappers, a near fine copy. VERY SCARCE.
8vo., First Edition, with portrait frontispiece, photographs and illustrations in the text; pictorial wrappers, a near fine copy. SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR ON HALF-TITLE.
8vo., First Edition thus, with numerous photographs in the text; black cloth, gilt back, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper. First published as 'In Action with the Enemy' in 1986.
4to., First Edition, with pictorial title-spread and very numerous photographs and illustrations in the text; original pictorial wrappers, a near fine copy. Splendid assembly of photographs covering the Dams, Tallboy, Tirpitz, and Grand Slam in WWII, and continuing the story of the RAF's most respected squadron up to the first Gulf War.
8vo., First Edition, with a frontispiece and very numerous photographs in the text; cloth, gilt back, a near fine copy in price-clipped dustwrapper.
Sm. 4to., First Edition, with a frontispiece map, and numerous photographs and maps (a number full-page) in the text, small personal book-label on front inside wrapper; original pictorial wrappers, covers very lightly creased else a very good, clean copy.
8vo., First Edition, with 30 plates on 16, and 30 full-page illustrations of aircraft in the text; blue cloth, gilt back, backstrip heavily sunned else a very good, clean copy in unclipped dustwrapper.
8vo., First Edition thus, with plates and maps; grey cloth, backstrip lettered in black, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper taped to paste-downs. Published in the same year as the Canadian [First] edition.
8vo., First Edition, with frontispiece and very numerous photographs throughout, neat stamps on endpapers; blue cloth, upper board and backstrip blocked and lettered in gilt, a very good, bright, clean copy.
8vo., First Edition, with frontispiece and endpaper maps; brige cloth, backstrip lettered in black, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper. One of comparatively few wartime accounts by a radio operator who began flying pre-WWII with Imperial Airways. His wartime service included National Air Communications, chief radio operator to the Air Observers' Navigation School and finally RAF Ferry Command for the remainder of hostilities. After the war he worked with British South American Airways. SCARCE, ESPECIALLY IN THIS CONDITION.
8vo., First Edition, with frontispiece, numerous photographs and maps throughout, and pictorial endpapers; blue cloth, backstrip lettered in silver, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper.
8vo., First Edition, with portrait frontispiece and endpaper maps; navy cloth, gilt back, backstrip heavily sunned (but all gilt wholly legible), a bright, clean copy. Enser, p.64.
8vo., First Edition, with photographs in the text; pictorial wrappers, a near fine copy.
8vo., First Edition, with plates; blue cloth, gilt back, a near fine copy in price-clipped dustwrapper.
8vo., First Edition, with plates; cloth, a fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper. Long-awaited and detailed history of one of the best-known and strategically most important airfields in Britain from commissioning in 1916 to closure in 1970.
Roy. 8vo., First Edition, with numerous coloured and monochrome photographs and illustrations throughout; grey cloth, backstrip lettered in silver, a fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper
Roy. 8vo., First Edition, with numerous coloured and monochrome photographs and illustrations throughout; grey cloth, backstrip lettered in silver, grey endpapers, a fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper
Roy. 8vo., First Edition, with numerous coloured and monochrome photographs and illustrations throughout; grey cloth, backstrip lettered in silver, grey endpapers, a fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper
Roy. 4to., First Edition, with photographs, maps and tables (several full-page) in the text; original pictorial boards, a fine copy. The first detailed study of the heroic if (predominantly) ill-fated air supply missions to 1 Airborne at Arnhem. Includes aircraft and squadron profiles, navigational aids, record of containers, panniers and parachutes with list of stores dropped, detailed register of aircraft with fates and crews, and ROH. A notable achievement and a valuable addition to the growing recent literature of Arnhem. ALREADY VERY SCARCE.
8vo., First Edition, with numerous photographs in the text; original pictorial wrappers, a near fine copy. Includes indexes by airfield and squadron, and select bibliography.]
Sm. folio, First Edition, with very numerous photographs and illustrations throughout; blue cloth, gilt back, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper. SCARCE.
8vo., Sixth Impression, with frontispiece and 24 plates on 12; handsomely bound in burgundy full crushed morocco, sides with gilt frame border, back with raised bands ruled in gilt, second and fourth compartments lettered in gilt, all other compartments tooled in gilt with a propeller motif, hand-made endpapers, a most attractive copy ideal as a gift or for presentation. SIGNED BY BADER ON DEDICATION. Published five months after the first impression. Written by Paul Brickhill (already celebrated as the author of another RAF classic 'The Dam Busters', 1951), 'Reach for the Sky' remains the best account of the legless Battle of Britain hero. It was the basis of Lewis Gilbert's hugely successful feature film (1954) starring Kenneth More in what was arguably his finest role. One of the legendary figures of the Royal Air Force, Douglas Bader was from the outset an outstanding athlete. As a cadet at Cranwell he gained his 'blues' for cricket, rugby, hockey and boxing. He represented the RAF at both cricket and rugby and would probably have been capped for England but for the accident that changed his life and created a legend. In 1931 a near-fatal air crash left him legless. Knowing that no man with such a handicap had ever walked without a stick he nevertheless found his way back to fitness playing tennis, golf and many others sports. He even flew again, until the authorities determined that a pilot without legs could not fly and discharged him from the service. With the outbreak of War he fought to be readmitted, not merely to a desk job, but back to the cockpit. Finally he was given command of a flight which quickly increased to five squadrons as the RAF realised that he was not only an outstanding pilot but an inspired leader of men and a fighter tactician almost of genius. Even as a POW his spirit was such that his captors were forced at one stage to remove his artificial limbs to prevent the chance of his escaping. Enser, p.375 (recording the first edition)
