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8vo., First Edition, with numerous photographs throughout; pictorial wrappers, a near fine copy.
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.
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.
Sm. folio, First Edition, with very numerous photographs and illustrations throughout; blue cloth, gilt back, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper. SCARCE.
5 vols., 8vo., First Edition, with photographs in the text; cloth, gilt backs, a near fine set in unclipped dustwrapper. The set comprises: Vol. I: September 1939 to September 1940 (1996); Vol. 2: September 1940 to December 1941 (1998); Vol. 3: January 1942 to June 1943 (2001); Vol. 4: July 1943 to June 1944 (2002); Vol. 5: June 1944 to May 1945 (2004). Complete sets of the first edition of this standard reference are very scarce.
8vo., First Edition, with frontispiece and photographs in the text; blue cloth, gilt back, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper.
Roy., 8vo., First Edition, with photographs in the text; printed wrappers, wire-stitched as issued, a near fine copy. Personal account of agent and leaflet drops with European Air Transport Command and 492nd Bombardment Group. VERY SCARCE.
8vo., First Edition, with photographs in the text; pictorial wrappers, a near fine copy.
8vo., Second Edition, with numerous photographs in the text; red cloth, gilt back, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper. A standard reference, first published in 1996.
8vo., Second Impression, some light offsetting from fold-ins to free endpapers; boards and backstrip lettered in blue, a very good, bright, clean copy in unclipped dustwrapper, the latter lightly spotted. Published in the same year as the first edition. Includes 'Jack Overdue' and 'For Johnny'.
8vo., First Edition, with portrait frontispiece, and photographs and maps in the text; black cloth, gilt back, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper.
4to., First Edition, with a coloured frontispiece, 7 coloured plates, 108 monochrome photographs on 48, 12 full-page plates of drawings by Topolski and numerous illustrations, diagrams and tail-pieces in the text; original blue cloth, backstrip lettered in silver, boards and backstrip very lightly rubbed and age-marked else a very good, clean copy. Classic account prepared by the Polish Air Force association in London as the official English language history of Polish flyers in WW 2. The text is based on combat reports, squadron diaries and official records, with personal narratives by many former aircrew and (all-important) ground staff. It is the definitive account of the ten fighter squadrons (302, 303, 306, 307, 308, 309, 315, 316, 317, 318) and four bomber squadrons (300, 301, 304, 305) that flew with the RAF to such notable effect. VERY SCARCE
8vo., First Edition, with photographs and facsimiles in the text; black cloth, gilt back, a fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper.
8vo., First Edition, with numerous photographs and advertisements throughout, neat contemporary signature on upper cover; printed wrappers, wire-stitched as issued, covers lightly age-marked else a very good, bright, clean copy. Records the visit of HM the King, Queen and HRH Princess Margaret. THE UPPER WRAPPER BEARS THE SIGNATURE 'W.E. DUNN, W/Cdr': THIS COULD POSSIBLY BE WALTER 'Wally' DUNN, Chief Signals Officer, No. 5 Group, and radio operator on the night of the Dam Busters raid. IN THIS CONDITION, A RARE SURVIVAL.
4to., First Edition, with numerous photographs throughout; original pictorial wrappers, a very good, clean copy. Includes operations diary and list of personnel
8vo., First Edition, with portrait frontispiece, plates and endpaper maps; blue cloth, backstrip lettered in white, a bright, clean copy in unclipped dustwrapper, the latter moderately rubbed and worn at backstrip and edges. UNCOMMON IN THIS CONDITION. Enser, p.109.
8vo., First Edition, with 34 plates on 23; blue cloth, gilt back, a very good, clean copy in unclipped, lightly browned dustwrapper. The first biography of Group Captain Leonard Cheshire VC, culminating in the bombing of Nagasaki. By the author of 'The Naked Island'. Enser, p. 64; Mulholland & Jordon B105.
8vo., Second Impression, with 34 plates on 23, small neat contemporary signature on front paste-down; blue cloth, gilt back, a very good, clean copy in unclipped dustwrapper, the latter with minor loss (not affecting lettering) at head of backstrip, repairs on inner surface and rubbed and creased at extremities. The first biography of Group Captain Leonard Cheshire VC, by the author of 'The Naked Island'. This second impression was printed to meet demand before publication. Enser, p. 64; Mulholland & Jordon B105 (both recording the first edition).
8vo., First Edition, text in Czech, with frontispiece, title in blue and black, and photographs and charts in the text; grey pictorial cloth, upper board and backstrip blocked and lettered in red and black, blue endpapers, a fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper. LOOSELY INSERTED IS A COLOURED POSTCARD OF A HURRICANE I SIGNED BY SIX CZECH VETERANS, TWO AWARDED THE DFC.
8vo., First Edition, text in Czech, with frontispiece, title in blue and black, and photographs and charts in the text; grey pictorial cloth, upper board and backstrip blocked and lettered in red and black, blue endpapers, lower hinge starting (buit binding entirely sound), a bright, clean copy in unclipped dustwrapper.
8vo., text in Czech, with numerous photographs in the text; pictorial boards, a near fine copy.
8vo., First Edition, with numerous photographs throughout; blue cloth, gilt back, a near fine copy in price-clipped 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.
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
