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8vo., First Edition, with photographs, illustratons and maps throughout; pictorial wrappers, a near fine copy.
8vo., First Edition; blue cloth, gilt back, a near fine copy in price-clipped dustwrapper. With the trade ticket of Charles Wilson of Liverpool on front paste-down. The first dedicated account, necessarily fragmentary, of the handful of RAF aircraft assigned to SOE. Initially led by Fielden, the 'moon squadrons' (mainly Hudsons and Lysanders) ferried agents to and fro throughout Occupied Europe. SCARCE IN THIS CONDITION. Enser, p.401
8vo., First Edition, with portrait frontispiece and plates; blue cloth, gilt back, a very good, bright, clean copy in price-clipped dustwrapper. A PRESENTATION COPY FROM THE AUTHOR WITH HIS SIGNED HOLOGRAPH INSCRIPTION ON FRONT FREE ENDPAPER.
8vo., First Edition, with coloured and monochrome plates; black cloth, backstrip lettered in silver, a fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper.
8vo., First Edition, with plates; 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 with propeller motif in gilt, gilt top, hand-made endpapers, ribbon marker, a most attractive copy ideal as a gift or for presentation. Enser, p.57.
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.
4to., First Edition, with frontispiece and very numerous photographs in the text; original pictorial wrappers, covers very slightly age-marked else a very good, clean copy. Detailed account of raids and losses, with bibliography and year-by-year crash list for the county.
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, text in French, with very numerous coloured and monochrome photographs and illustrations throughout; laminated pictorial boards, a near fine copy. Includes Luftwaffe OOB.
8vo., First Edition, with a frontispiece, 31 plates on 16, 2 large folding maps, a full-page map and 2 full-page plans in the text, and endpaper maps in orange; original buff cloth, gilt back, a remarkably bright, fresh, clean copy in unclipped, moderately age-soiled dustwrapper. Sold from an institution with its inscription on front board, small label scar on front paste-down, bookplate on half-title verso and neat blind stamp on title. THESE ATTRIBUTES NOTWITHSTANDING, THIS IS A REMARKABLY BRIGHT, CLEAN COPY OF A PRACTICALLY UNOBTAINABLE WORK. With dustwrapper artwork by Anthony Gross. This important account covers the diplomatic and military history of the Mosul dispute between Great Britain and Turkey from 1918 to 1925, with a detailed appreciation from the author's own experiences as political officer and member of the Anglo-Iraqi delegation of the Committee of the League of Nations. In addition it contains much new information of the geography and antiquities of north-eastern Iraq , the secular frontier dispute between the Ottoman and Persian Empires, the organization and influence of the mystical dervish fraternities, modern cultural activity and other facets of Kurdish society. THIS REGION ALSO SAW THE FIRST ASSIGNMENT ANYWHERE IN THE WORLD OF THE ROYAL AIR FORCE AS THE ARM PRIMARILY RESPONSIBLE FOR EXTERNAL DEFENCE AND INTERNAL ORDER. Rare.
12 numbers, 8vo., First Edition, with numerous photographs and diagrams throughout; original pictorial wrappers, wire-stitched as issued, all near fine copies. The run comprises: Autumn 1988, Winter 1988, Spring 1989, Summer 1989, Autumn 1989, Winter 1989/1990, Spring 1990, Summer 1990, Winter 1990, Spring 1991, Summer 1991, Autumn 1991.
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 plates; black cloth, gilt back, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper. SCARCE.
8vo., First Edition, with plates and maps, fore-edge lightly dust-soiled; blue cloth, gilt back, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper, the latter lightly sunned at backstrip.
Oblong, 4to., First Edition, with numerous coloured and monochrome photographs throughout; pictorial wrappers, a fine copy.
8vo., First Edition, with plates; blue cloth, gilt back, a near fine copy in price-clipped dustwrapper.
8vo., Second Impression, with numerous photographs and maps in the text; original pictorial wrappers, a very good, clean copy. First published in 1981.
8vo., First Edition, with numerous plates; brown cloth, gilt back, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper. Enser, p.128.
Roy. 4to., First Edition thus, with a frontispiece and very numerous photographs throughout; laminated photographic boards, blue endpapers, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper.
8vo., First Edition, with photographs in the text; black cloth, backstrip lettered in silver, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper.
8vo., First Edition, with 35 plates on 16 and 2 maps in the text; blue cloth, gilt back, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper.
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, with plates, some mild offsetting from fold-ins to free endpapers; blue cloth, gilt back, a very good, bright, clean copy in unclipped dustwrapper. Livingston served from the early days of the RAF in India and Iraq. After specialising in ophthalmology he studied aircrew visual acuity during WWII and ended his career as Director-General of RAF Medical Services. SCARCE IN THIS CONDITION.
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..
8vo., First Edition, with plates; blue cloth, gilt back, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper. Enser, p.195.
