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196038994London: Air Ministry 1960. reprint. Very Good. lge. octavo. orig. binder c200pp. text ills. diags. appends. Some use o/w a nice clean manual Air Ministry unknown
8vo., First Edition, with portrait frontispiece and plates; blue cloth, backstrip letterd in silver, backstrip mildly sunned else a very good, bright, clean copy. Enser, p.377.
8vo., First Edition, with illustrated title, very numerous illustrations and maps in the text and pictorial endpapers; cloth, gilt back, a very good, clean copy.
8vo., Fourth Impression, with illustrated title, very numerous illustrations and maps in the text and pictorial endpapers; cloth, gilt back, a very good, clean copy. First published in 1981.
12 vols., 8vo., Mixed Editions, with illustrated titles, very numerous illustrations and maps in the text and pictorial endpapers; cloth, gilt backs, a near fine extended set in dustwrapper. Splendid extended set of the most comprehensive survey of the UK's WWII military airfields ever published and an invaluable tool for historians and scholars alike. The ten volumes of the original series, together with the two complementary works, form a milestone in WWII aviation history. The extended set comprises (first impressions unless otherwise stated):Bowyer (M.J.F). Action Stations 1, [third impression, 1980] [East Anglia]; Halpenny (B.B). Action Stations 2, [1981] [Lincolnshire and East Midlands]; Smith (D.J). Action Stations 3, [1981] [Wales and the North West]; Halpenny (B.B). Action Stations 4, [1982] [Yorkshire]; Ashworth (C). Action Stations 5, [fourth impression, 1982] [South-West]; Bowyer (M.J.F). Action Stations 6, [1983] [Cotswolds and Central Midlands]; Smith (D.J). Action Stations 7, [1983] [Scotland, the North-East and Northern Ireland]; Halpenny (B.B). Action Stations 8, [second impression, 1984] [Greater London]; Ashworth (C. Action Stations 9, [second impression, 1985] [Central South and South-East]; Quarrie (B). Action Stations 10, [1987] [Supplement and Index]; Fairbairn (A). Action Stations Overseas, [1991]; Smith (D.J). Britain's Military Airfields 1939-1945, [1989]. EXTENDED SETS IN DUSTWRAPPERS ARE SELDOM AVAILABLE FOR SALE.
13 vols., 8vo., First Edition, with illustrated titles, very numerous illustrations and maps in the text and pictorial endpapers; cloth, gilt backs, a very good extended set in the dustwrapper. Bright extra-extended set of the most comprehensive survey of the UK's WWII military airfields ever published and an invaluable tool for historians and scholars alike. The ten volumes of the original series, together with the three complementary works, form a milestone in WWII aviation history. The extended set comprises:Bowyer (M.J.F). Action Stations 1, [1979] [East Anglia]Halpenny (B.B). Action Stations 2, [1981] [Lincolnshire and East Midlands]Smith (D.J). Action Stations 3, [1981] [Wales and the North West]Halpenny (B.B). Action Stations 4, [1982] [Yorkshire]Ashworth (C). Action Stations 5, [1982] [South-West] Bowyer (M.J.F). Action Stations 6, [1983] [Cotswolds and Central Midlands]Smith (D.J). Action Stations 7, [1983] [Scotland, the North-East and Northern Ireland]Halpenny (B.B). Action Stations 8, [1984] [Greater London]Ashworth (C. Action Stations 9, [1985] [Central South and South-East]Quarrie (B). Action Stations 10, [1987] [Supplement and Index]Fairbairn (A). Action Stations Overseas, [1991]Cooksley (P.G). Aviation Enthusiasts' Guide to London & the South-East, [1982]Smith (D.J). Britain's Military Airfields 1939-1945, [1989]EXTENDED SETS OF FIRST EDITIONS ARE SELDOM AVAILABLE FOR SALE.
1942192642London: The Amalgamated Press Limited 1942. The copies of Churchill's "accepted star of the Royal Air Force" Air Chief Marshal Sir Charles Portal's specially bound copies of these two introductions to the RAF for which he wrote forewords in his capacity as Chief of the Air Staff. "The opinions entertained of Portal's ability by his wartime colleagues were extraordinarily high. Eisenhower while president told Lord Plowden that he regarded Portal as the greatest British war leader 'greater even than Churchill'" ODNB. Portal was appointed head of the service in October 1940. "The 'accepted star of the Royal Air Force' as Churchill described him he drove himself relentlessly throughout the rest of the war. His leadership was never remotely challenged" ODNB and he was a staunch advocate of the Europe-focused strategy that eventually brought victory. He was promoted to Marshal of the Royal Air Force in January 1944. The Book of the W.A.A.F. is a first edition and the ABC is a new edition expanded from the first of 1941. Both remained in the Portal family until 2026. Two works octavo c. 195 x 130 mm. Frontispieces 1 colour 8 colour plates illustrations in text. Specially bound in contemporary blue pebble-grain cloth gilt badge of RAF on front covers front cover of ABC additionally lettered and with Portal's initials all in gilt blue linen endpapers edges gilt W.A.A.F. with original wrappers bound in. A little rubbing and sunning rear free endpaper of W.A.A.F. affixed to pastedown at bottom right corner by gilding process: well-preserved copies. hardcover
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): 'I've already got a date I can't budge!'. 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; blue boards, blue cloth back blocked and lettered in silver, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper.
8vo., Fourth Impression, with photographs and maps in the text; pictorial wrappers, wire-stitched as issued, a very good, bright, clean copy. SCARCE.
1971104059R. A. F. Regiment Fund. 1971. R. A. F. Regiment Fund. 1971. Second edition. Hardback NO DW. Illustrated and with colour frontis. 4to. Blue cloth boards with gilt to upper. Spine is blank and sunned with some sunning to upper board. Contents clean. hardcover
8vo., First Edition, with frontispiece, plates and maps in the text; green cloth, gilt back, a very good, bright, clean copy in price-clipped dustwrapper.
8vo., First Edition, with photographs and maps in the text; pictorial wrappers, wire-stitched as issued, a near fine copy.
8vo., First Edition, with frontispiece and photographs in the text; printed wrappers, wire-stitched as issued, a near fine copy. SCARCE.
8vo., First Edition, some mild offsetting from fold-ins to free endpapers; navy cloth, gilt back, a very good, bright, clean copy in price-clipped, mildly browned dustwrapper.
8vo., First Edition; printed wrappers, wire-stitched as issued, a near fine copy.
19440001446MONCTON NEW BRUNSWICK CANADA. Good. 1944. On offer is a super original manuscript diary handwritten by James C. Dow trainee of the Royal Air Force written in England and then at 31 P.D. Training Camp Moncton New Brunswick Canada. Along with the diary is a photograph album titled 'The Canadian Adventure. Sept. 1944 to March 1945.' Historians and researchers of the era and the experience of British training in Canada will find the two items complimenting one another in casting interesting light on the day-to-day training routine of a middle-class 19 year old man training as an RAF radio operator during the Second World War. At the start of the diary Dow is in training in Lincolnshire engaged in such activities as learning Morse Code and doing transmitter tuning practice. By August he is training in Lancashire and on 25 August he is drafted to Canada. He usually begins his businesslike entries with a short report of the progress of the war and end with a mention of the weather. In between are usually several sentences of personal information. A typical entry 12 April 1944 reads: 'The Russians have made considerable progress towards the center of the Crimea. Had a pretty easy morning; ostensibly cleaning up defense trenches in the Larch Wood on the far side of the North Drome under Sgt. Fish of the Regiment. Quite restful! Denis passed his morse this morning: so did Mac. Denis & I spent most of the afternoon in the Information Room officially "games". We Taffy Standish Dave Hands & Sid Steed are going on day pass to Lincoln tomorrow. It was quite mild - sunny with some cloud'. On 26 he reaches the Trois Rivieres camp seventy miles from Quebec. The following day he complains: 'We are here for nothing more definite than fatigues to pass time until we start training. Dennis & I are in a party which has to clear up variou rubbish dumps around the camp'. On 24 October he starts his course in Moncton: 'It is going to be very hard work for the 22 weeks it lasts if I stick it out!. We work 8 hours a day so there are usually extra assignments at night.' By the last entry in the diary Dow is 'Flying again this morning - a pleasant trip. As W/Op once again. I got an all-right'. The diary also contains some addresses and a list of 25 books Dow has read. Album: landscape 8vo 24 pp containing 49 captioned black and white photographs ranging in size from 8.5 x 12 cm to 6 x 9 cm together with a postcard of Notre Dame Church Montreal. Internally sound in a worn binding with the photographs in excellent condition. The first eight pictures are of the training camp at Moncton mostly with named individuals. The next eight are of Montreal and these are followed by nineteen pictures under the heading 'Quebec St. Louis de Courville. Week Ends with the Woods' the first two being captioned 'with Bill Scollay & Taffy Standish near the Wood's sic home' and 'Desmond Wood in front with Jimmy from next door'. There follow two pictures headed 'After we left' and eight of an aircraft under the heading 'No 8 Air Observer School Ancienne Lorette Quebec'. The first shows an 'Anson about to take off' and there are also an 'Interior scene during flight' an 'Astrocompass in silhouette' and five views out from over the wing including the 'Shawnigan Falls & the Shawnigan River a frew miles north of Trois Rivieres'. The last four images are of a 'New York Interlude - Christmas 1944'. Diary: 12mo with 91 full pages of neatly-written entries. Text clear and complete. Fair: internally sound and clean on lightly-aged paper in worn original boards. Dow's ownership inscription inside the front board reads 'James C. Dow. R.A.F. 1944.' Overall G.; 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall; KEYWORDS: WORLD WAR II WWII WW2 RAF ROYAL AIR FORCE RADIO OPERATORS CANADA CANADIANA HANDWRITTEN MANUSCRIPT DOCUMENT LETTER AUTOGRAPH DIARY JOURNAL LOG KEEPSAKE WRITER HAND WRITTEN DOCUMENTS SIGNED LETTERS MANUSCRIPTS HISTORICAL HOLOGRAPH WRITERS DIARIES JOURNALS LOGS AUTOGRAPHS PERSONAL MEMOIR MEMORIAL PERSONAL HISTORY TRAVEL 20TH CENTURY antiquité contrat vélin document manuscrit papier Antike Brief Pergament Dokument Manuskript Papier oggetto d'antiquariato atto velina documento manoscritto carta antigüedad hecho vitela documento manuscrito Papel . hardcover
19430001601NORTH AFRICA EGYPT TUNISIA BRITISH PALESTINE. Fair. 1943. On offer is a simply sensational fascinating original World War II British RAF manuscript diary of an airman named K. James Using a very interesting journal with portrait of an Egyptian pharaoh and North Africa maps as the endpapers. Our writer has inserted a block of papers used as a preface explaining the use of the diary he had charmingly dedicated to his parents. He also does a retrospective portion setting up the narrative. His signature ends the preface letter of explanation and then the actual entries begin dated May 14th 1943 through to winter of 1944 and then a final entry for February 23rd 1945. This airman has seen it all and been everywhere throughout the conflict in the Mediterranean and since the notebook is undated as diary goes his entries are long and very detailed. He begins with the end of the battle for Tunisia carries on with a most intimate personal diary that besides the factual details of the War going on around him and his duties he never fails to provide colourful background of his mates the natives his thoughts his loves his boredom his high and lows. In our experience this is a heads above the rest manuscript of the real life and times of this airman during his time throughout North Africa and Italy. The 6½ x 4½ inch book has a well filled 208 pages of which 5 or 6 are pages with autographs of his close personal narrative. The text block is somewhat loose but all pages appear accounted for. Overall G.; 16mo - over 5¾" - 6¾" tall; KEYWORDS: HISTORY OF NORTH AFRICA CAMPAIGN WORLD WAR II BRITISH RAF ITALY ROYAL AIR FORCE K. JAMES WWII WW2 BRITISH ARMED FORCES BRITISH AIRMAN ROMMEL HANDWRITTEN MANUSCRIPT DOCUMENT LETTER AUTOGRAPH DIARY JOURNAL LOG KEEPSAKE WRITER HAND WRITTEN DOCUMENTS SIGNED LETTERS MANUSCRIPTS HISTORICAL HOLOGRAPH WRITERS DIARIES JOURNALS LOGS AUTOGRAPHS PERSONAL MEMOIR MEMORIAL PERSONAL HISTORYantiquité contrat vélin document manuscrit papier Antike Brief Pergament Dokument Manuskript Papier oggetto d'antiquariato atto velina documento manoscritto carta antigüedad hecho vitela documento manuscrito papel. . unknown
183399London: The Royal Air Force Benevolent Fund 1995. It was the crews of Bomber Command who carried our message of defiance into the very heartland of the enemy First edition number 202 of 401 copies signed by the four members of the creative team on the mounted authentication leaf. This magnificent volume contains 25 silhouettes of Bomber Command personnel from Britain Canada and Australia all signed by the sitter and the artist Michael Pierce. Each portrait is accompanied by a biography photographs of memorabilia and facsimiles of handwritten accounts. The creative team included the aviation historian Bill Gunston editor who compiled the biographies in collaboration with the former RAF pilot John Golley and Air Vice Marshal Frederick "Freddie" Charles Hurrell the director of appeals for the RAF Benevolent Fund. The fund's president HRH The Duke of Kent contributed the preface. So Many and its predecessor So Few raised hundreds of thousands of pounds for the charity and were republished in popular editions by W. H. Smith. Folio. With 25 coloured silhouettes on card leaves tipped-in and tissue-guarded as issued signed by the subject and artist and with artist's embossed stamp; "Supporting Cast" silhouette tipped to p. 265 as issued illustrations and facsimiles some colour in text. Original blue crushed morocco over bevelled boards raised bands to spines within gilt rules title to second compartment in gilt front cover lettered in gilt inset bronze bas relief pilot bust by James Butler RA marbled endpapers edges gilt blue bookmarker. Housed in original blue cloth solander box front cover lettered in gilt moiré silk lining. Lacking original prospectus normally housed in pouch of solander box. A few bumps and marks to box else a fine copy. hardcover
8vo., First Edition, with photographs and insignia in the text; blue cloth, upper board and backstrip blocked and lettered in silver, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper. SCARCE.
