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8vo., First Edition, with photographs throughout; printed wrappers, a near fine copy.
8vo., First Edition, with numerous photographs throughout; pictorial wrappers, a fine copy.
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
Sm. folio, First Edition, with very numerous coloured and monochrome photographs and illustrations throughout; black cloth, backstrip lettered in silver, blue endpapers, a very good, clean copy in price-clipped dustwrapper.
8vo., First Edition, with 26 plates on 12, and 6 full-page maps and an illustration in the text; cloth, gilt back, a fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper. A PRESENTATION COPY FROM THE AUTHOR WITH HIS SIGNED HOLOGRAPH INSCRIPTION ON TITLE. Working as a key component of 14 Army, 656 Squadron's three flights of tiny Auster aircraft provided air observation for the entire Allied force. Graham & Cole, U42.
10 numbers in 1 vol., 8vo., First Edition, with photographs, illustrations and maps in the text; pictorial wrappers, passe-partout backstrip, a very good, bright, clean copy. SCARCE.
8vo., First Edition, with numerous illustrations in the text; original pictorial wrappers, wire-stitched as issued, covers mildly age-soiled else a very good, bright, clean copy. Typically humorous cartoons enliven this leaflet, which almost certainly takes its name from the popular radio show 'Much Binding in the Marsh' running at the time. Crammed with wartime RAF jargon (and a few explanations). A SCARCE SURVIVAL.
8vo., with folding maps (a number coloured in outline); blue cloth, gilt back, blue top, grey endpapers, a very good, bright, clean copy in unclipped dustwrspper, the latter with closed tear on front panel. Much-needed reissue of the original edition of 1928. Enser, p.17 (recording the first edition).
8vo., First Edition, with plan; printed wrappers, a near fine copy. Displays include Red Pelicans, Sea Vixens, Buccaneer, Vulcan Mk.2, Shackleton, Mosquito. A RARE SURVIVAL of the 24th anniversary of the Batttle of Britain.
8vo., First Edition, with 63 plates on 32; cloth, gilt back, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper. 'Shippy' Shipman flew in the Battle of Britain with 41 Squadron, only the third RAF squadron to be be equipped with Spitfires. His extensive memoirs, carefully collated by his son, cover his career from initial training to his eventual retirement in 1959. 'Stapme' Stapleton flew Spitfires with 603 Squadron; his 20 confirmed victories include Franz von Werra, later famous as 'the one that got away'. Byron Duckenfield flew Spitfires with 74 Squadron and Hurricanes with 501 Squadron with four enemy aircraft confirmed destroyed. Already scarce in this condition
2 vols., 8vo., Mixed Impressions, with numerous photographs throughout; blue cloth, backstrips lettered in silver, a very good, bright, clean set in unclipped dustwrapper. Vol.I (fourth impression, 1971); Vol. 2 (first impression, 1969).
Book shows very light scuffing to covers only, very clean otherwise. Sraight, very tight, solid binding, with sharp corners and creaseless covers and spine. Text/interior is clean and free of marking of any kind. Technical drawings, Stat pages, lots of b&w photos. Chapters include Origin & developmenty, Data, Lightning, flying, FAF Lightning units and markings, Last to fly lightnings, Assessing the legend, Individual aircraft histories. 80 pages.
8vo., First Edition, with a portrait frontispiece and numerous plates, illustrations and facsimiles in the text; cloth, a very good, clean copy in the dustwrapper. Excellent account of the author's service with 544 Squadron at Benson. Already uncommon, especially in this condition..
Sm. folio, First Edition, with photographic title, 16 fine full-page coloured plates of aircraft profiles, and many hundreds of monochrome photographs in the text; maroon cloth, gilt back, a fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper.
8vo., First Edition, with illustrations; cloth, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper
Roy. 8vo., First Edition, with very numerous illustrations in the text; cloth, gilt back, a very good, clean copy in the dustwrapper. The standard history.
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.
8vo., First Edition, with illustrations and maps in the text; cloth, gilt back, a very good, clean copy in the dustwrapper. The story of the race to develop radar told by one of the two survivors of the unit which learned how to jam German radar
Sm. folio, First Edition, with very numerous photographs in the text; original blue cloth, backstrip lettered in silver, a very good, bright, clean copy in dustwrapper. Histories of 241 squadrons with detailed appendices.
8vo., First Edition, with title-vignette and very numerous illustrations in the text; original pictorial blue cloth, upper board blocked in black, backstrip lettered in orange, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper. Delightful wartime satire dedicated 'to the young men of the Air Training Corps, whose enthusiasm is no less overwhelming than their knowledge, and in whose hands to-day rests the skill and reputation of the Air Force of tomorrow'. Very scarce in anything like this condition.
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
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.
4to., First Edition, with numerous photographs throughout; original pictorial wrappers, a very good, clean copy. Includes operations diary and list of personnel
8vo., Uncorrected Proof Copy, [reader's?] details on front free endpaper; original printed wrappers, crease in front wrapper, short tear in lower joint, wrappers lightly age-soiled else a bright, clean copy. PROOF COPIES ARE VERY SCARCE. Enser,p.57.
