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8vo., First Edition; blue cloth, upper board and backstrip blocked and lettered in gilt, a fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper. Important record covering Coastal Command, Intelligence, Equipment and Techniques, and including a German perspective by Dr. J. Rohwer. UNCOMMON.
8vo., First Edition, with photographs in the text; blue cloth, backstrip lettered in silver, a fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper.
8vo., First Edition, with very numerous coloured and monochrome illustrations throughout, chapters with thumb-tabs, neat contemporary signature on front cover, a few wartime anntations; original blue boards printed in black, backstrip rubbed else a very good, bright, clean copy. Publication code: A.P. 1795. VERY SCARCE IN THIS CONDITION.
8vo., First Edition., with plates and a full-page map in the text; blue cloth, backstrip lettered in silver, a very good, bright, clean copy in unclipped dustwrapper, the latter mildly browned at backstrip and lightly rubbed at edges. SCARCE, ESPECIALLY IN THIS CONDITION. Enser, p.124, 306.
8vo., First Edition, with a portrait frontispiece, 48 plates on 30, 4 maps (one double-page, 3 full-page) in the text and endpaper maps; navy blue cloth, backstrip lettered in white, a very good, clean copy. Air Vice-Marshal Lee's account is uncommon. Enser, p.377.
Roy. 4to., with numerous coloured and monochrome photographs throughout, and photographic endpapers; laminated photographic boards, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper.
4to., Third Impression, with many hundreds of photographs and detailed drawings in the text, and fine coloured pictorial endpapers illustrating 140 variants of the aircraft; terracotta cloth, upper board and backstrip lettered in gilt, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper. Morgan and Shacklady's definitive history of the most famous fighter in aviation history was first published in 1987. It constitutes a massive bank of information, including rare photographs, detailed technical drawings and operational data on more than 22,500 individual aircraft. This is the revised edition, incorporating much of the additional material that has subsequently become available.
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., Revised Edition, with plates and endpaper maps; black cloth, backstrip lettered in silver, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper. Revised version of the original edition of 1960. Enser, p.57 (recording the first edition).
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.]
Single sheet, 8vo., a near fine copy. Signed simply 'Tedder' in the writer's usual manner, the letter is written to Geoffrey Moore, founder of the Buccaneers Cricket Club, and demonstrates the airman's keen and continuing interest in the sport. Tedder was President of Surrey County Cricket Club from 1953 to 1958. The letter regretfully declines Moore's invitation to attend the Buccaneer's annual dinner (held at Lords). Marshal of the RAF Arthur William Tedder, 1st Baron Tedder (1890-1967) was one of Britain's most distinguished air commanders. Educated at Whitgift School and Magdalene College, Cambridge, he transferred from the Dorsetshire Regiment to the Royal Flying Corps in 1916, serving in France from 1915- to 1917 and in Egypt from 1918 to 1919. He was then commissioned in to the (new) Royal Air Force where was appointed Director of Training from 1934 to 1936, after which he became Commander RAF Far Eastern Forces. During WWII he was head of RAF Middle East Command, controlling Allied air operations in the Mediterranean and North Africa, including the evacuation of Crete and the defeat of Rommel; his air power was a vital component of Montgomery's victory at El Alamein. Having been promoted to Air Marshal, Tedder then took part in the early planning for D-Day, and was subsequently appointed Deputy Supreme Commander Allied Forces Europe (the most senior such British position) immediately beneath General Eisenhower, on whose behalf he signed at the German Surrender in 1945. In 1947 he delivered the Lees Knowles lecture, afterwards published as 'Air Power in War'. Following his retirement he served as Chancellor of Cambridge University and Vice-Chairman of the Board of Governors of the BBC. Founded in 1930, The Buccaneers is one of the oldest and most famous 'wandering' clubs in English cricket (a 'wandering' club has no fixed home ground but plays consistently as an 'away' team relying on the hospitality of the 'home' clubs against which it competes). The Club's history has been written twice, by Clifford Bax in 1956 and more recently by Howard Spencer. ORIGINAL DOCUMENTS SIGNED BY TEDDER ARE EXTREMELY SCARCE.
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 frontispiece and numerous photographs throughout; black cloth, backstrip lettered in silver, a fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper.
8vo., First Edition; blue cloth, gilt back, a very good, bright, clean copy in price-clipped dustwrapper, the latter frayed and creased at edges. INCREASINGLY SCARCE IN THIS CONDITION.
8vo., First Edition, with plates; blue cloth, gilt back, a very good, bright, clean copy in price-clipped dustwrapper. Enser, p.84.
Roy. 8vo., First Edition, with 3 large folding charts at end; strongly bound in full navy buckram, upper board with printed paper label, a near fine copy. Printing code: 65-37719. Often known as 'Dowding's Despatch', this supplement reprints the official report submitted to the Secretary of State for Air by Lord Dowding (Air Officer Commanding Fighter Command) on 20 August 1941. SCARCE, ESPECIALLY IN THIS CONDITION.
Sm. folio, First Edition, with a coloured frontispiece, very numerous coloured and sepia-toned photographs in the text; cloth, gilt back, a near fine copy in price-clipped dustwrapper.
Oblong 4to., First Edition, with frontispiece and very numerous fine full-page photoographs throughout, neat inscription on front free endpaper; laminated pictorial boards, a near fine copy in price-clipped dustwrapper.
8vo., First Edition, with 56 plates on 24; cloth, backstrip lettered in silver, a very good, bright, clean copy in price-clipped dustwrapper, the latter lightly creased at edges. The first full account, published to mark the battle's twentieth anniversary. Valuable also for its well-chosen and wide-ranging selection of photographs, which include a number from German sources. Enser, p.56.
8vo., First Edition, with 56 plates on 24; handsomely bound in full navy crushed morocco, sides with gilt frame border, back with raised bands, second and fourth compartments lettered and ruled in gilt, all other compartments tooled in gilt with a propellor motif, gilt top, hand-made endpapers, a most attractive copy ideal as a gift or for presentation. Elegant copy of the first full account, published to mark the battle's twentieth anniversary. Valuable also for its well-chosen and wide-ranging selection of photographs, which include a number from German sources. Enser, p.56.
8vo., First Edition thus, with 29 plates on 16 and endpaper maps; blue cloth, backstrip lettered in silver, a very good, bright, clean copy in price-clipped, mildly age-soiled dustwrapper. One of the best overall histories of the battle, first published in Paris in 1965. Enser, p.57.
8vo., with plates and endpaper maps; red cloth, gilt back, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper. One of the best overall histories of the battle, first published in Paris in 1965. Enser, p.57 (recording the first English edition).
8vo., Second Edition, with plates and facsimiles; black cloth, gilt back, a fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper. Revised version of the original edition of 1986. Enser, p.196 (recording the first edition).
8vo., Second Edition, with frontispiece and very numerous photographs and illustrations in the text; blue cloth, gilt back, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper, the latter mildly frayed with minor loss at edges. Standard reference first published in 1967. SCARCE IN THIS CONDITION.
8vo., Second Edition, with frontispiece and very numerous photographs and illustrations in the text; blue cloth, gilt back, dark top, a very good, bright, clean copy in unclipped dustwrapper, the latter mildly frayed with minor loss at edges. Standard reference first published in 1965.
