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8vo., First Edition, with photographs and maps throughout; pictorial wrappers, wire-stitched as issued, a near fine copy. SCARCE.
8vo., First Edition, with numerous coloured and monochrome photographs in the text; blue cloth, gilt back, a near fine copy in price-clipped dustwrapper.
8vo., First Edition, with a frontispiece and 53 plates on 30, endpapers lightly spotted; original backstrip lettered in red, a good, firm copy in unclipped dustwrapper, the latter lightly age-marked and creased and frayed (without significant loss) at edges. Vividly-written and well-illustrated survey of Coastal Command's contribution to the U-boat war. Very scarce. Enser, p.110.
8vo., First Edition, with frontispiece and 53 plates on 30, endpapers lightly spotted, neat ATC Squadron stamp on front free endpaper; original backstrip lettered in red, a very good, firm, clean copy. Vividly-written and well-illustrated survey of Coastal Command's contribution to the U-boat war. VERY SCARCE. Enser p.110.
8vo., with coloured photographs, and numerous diagrams throughout; laminated pictorial boards, a fine copy.
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 plates; blue cloth, gilt back, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper.
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.
8vo., First Edition, with plates; blue cloth, gilt back, a fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper.
8vo., Third Edition, with diagrams in the text; original printed wrappers, wire-stitched as issued, covers very lightly dust-soiled else a very good, bright, clean copy. Publication Code: AP 2095. With Amendment List mounted on rear wrapper and several printed pasted at relevant positions in text. Very scarce, especially in this condition.
8vo., First Edition thus, text in red, blue and black; brown cloth, upper board lettered in gilt, gilt, a fine copy. EDITION LIMITED TO 2500 NUMBERED COPIES (THIS COPY NO. 152) WITH PRINTED CERTIFICATE OF AUTHENTICITY AND LIMITATION MOUNTED ON FRONT FREE ENDPAPER. Robert [Roland] Stanford Tuck needs no introduction here; as one of the of the leading fighter aces of the Battle of Britain he achieved 29 confirmed victories. This high quality facsimile covers the period October 1935 (initial training in Avro Tutors) to 1954 (as Chief Test Pilot on the EEC Canberra).
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).
3 vols., 8vo., Mixed Impressions, with very numerous photographs throughout, neat inscription on front free endpaper of second volume; pale blue cloth, backstrips lettered in silver, a very good, bright, clean set in dustwrapper. The set comprises Vol. I: 1918-1939 (first edition, 1968); Vol. II: 1939-1945 (second edition, 1980); Vol. III: 1945-1969 (second impression, 1971).
8vo., with very numerous photographs throughout; blue cloth, backstrip lettered in silver, a very good, bright, clean copy in price-clipped dustwrapper.
8vo., First Edition, with photographs throughout; printed 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 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
8vo., First Edition, with plates; blue cloth, gilt back, a very good, bright, clean copy in price-clipped dustwrapper. Enser, p.175.
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 plates and illustrations in the text; blue cloth, gilt back, a near fine 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 plates, front free endpaper clipped; blue cloth, gilt back, 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 frontispiece, plates and numerous maps and plans (many folding); original series binding of blue cloth, upper board blocked in blind, gilt back, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper.
8vo., Second Edition, with portrait frontispiece, and coloured and monochrome photographs throughout; blue cloth, upper board blocked and lettered in gilt, gilt back, blue endpapers, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper. EDITION LIMITED TO 500 NUMBERED COPIES SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR (THIS COPY. NO.161). Revised and enlarged version of the original (family) edition of 1989.
