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3 vols., 8vo., with numerous photographs in the text; original pictorial wrappers, a very good, bright, clean set. The set comprises Vol. 1: Operational Losses: Aircraft and Crews 1939-1941 (1997); Vol. 2: Operational Losses: Aircraft and Crews 1942-1943 (1998); Vol. 3: Operational Losses: Aircraft and Crews 1944-1945 (incorporating Air Defence Great Britain and 2nd TAF) (2000). The standard reference. COMPLETE SETS ARE NOW VERY SCARCE.
Sm. folio, First Edition, with very numerous photographs in the text; original laminated pictorial boards, a fine copy. The standard reference, giving exhaustive detail on all units, extensive glossary of terms and index of place-names. EXTREMELY SCARCE.
8vo., First Edition, with illustrations; cloth, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper
8vo., First Edition, with very numerous photographs throughout; pictorial wrappers, a near fine copy.
4to., First Edition, with a coloured frontispiece and very numerous coloured and monochrome illustrations in the text; cloth, gilt back, green endpapers, a very good, bright, clean copy in the dustwrapper.
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.
177632London: The Royal Air Force Benevolent Fund 1990. Signed by 25 Battle of Britain RAF fighter pilots First edition number 221 of 401 copies signed by all six members of the creative team on the mounted authentication leaf. This magnificent tribute contains 25 superb silhouette portraits of distinguished RAF pilots from Britain and the Commonwealth all signed by the sitter and the artist Michael Pierce together with his embossed stamp. Each portrait is accompanied by a biography of the subject together with photographs of memorabilia and facsimiles of letters. The prospectus details the meticulous attention to detail during production: 500 sets of sheets were printed with the best 401 chosen and the rest pulped. The editor was the noted historian of aviation Bill Gunston who compiled the biographies in collaboration with the former RAF pilot John Golley. Prince Edward contributed the preface. So Few and its 1995 successor on Bomber Command So Many raised hundreds of thousands of pounds for the RAF Benevolent Fund a success which led to trade issues by W. H. Smith. The first copy of each volume was presented to Queen Elizabeth II. The list of contributors names several charitable organizations and other members of the Royal Family for whom copies would likely have been reserved. Folio. With 25 coloured silhouettes on card leaves tipped-in as issued signed by the subject and artist artist's embossed stamp tissue-guards numerous photographs colour and black-and-white and facsimiles to text. Prospectus inserted in sleeve in inner box lid. Original blue crushed morocco over bevelled boards raised bands to spines within gilt rules titles to second compartments gilt front cover lettered in gilt with inset embroidered RAF brevet and gilt decoration marbled endpapers all edges gilt blue silk bookmarkers. Housed in original moiré silk-lined blue cloth solander box. A few tiny bumps to box else a fine copy. hardcover
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.
2009210573Osprey Publishing, 2009.
210572Osprey Publishing, 2016.
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.
210575Osprey Publishing, 2017.
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).
193532747X.Gperfect. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book. unknown
2007211489Abbeydale Press, 2007.
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.
