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8vo., First Edition, with plates and double-page cutaway illustration; black cloth, backstrip lettered in silver, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper.
8vo., Second Impression; brown cloth, gilt back, a near fine copy in price-clipped dustwrapper. Sensitive and moving narrative of service in Bomber Command dictated by a New Zealand airman dying of burns in a German POW camp. Published two years after the New Zealand edition. UNCOMMON IN THIS CONDITION. Enser, p.288 (rcording the first edition).
8vo., First Edition, with 67 photographs, 5 maps (2 double-page) and 4 charts (2 double-page) in the text, gift inscription on front free endpaper; black cloth, gilt back, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper. The definitive biography, and the first to benefit from access to Harris's extensive private papers. The author was formerly Director of RAF Education and subsequently Head of the Air Historical Branch. He was also a co-founder of the RAF Historical Society.
8vo., First Edition thus, with numerous photographs throughout; blue cloth, gilt back, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper. The US edition was first published in 1976.
Roy. 8vo., First Edition, with coloured portrait frontispiece and very numerous photographs and facsimiles in the text; original pictorial wrappers, wire-stitched as issued, a fine copy. Written to commemorate the fiftieth anniversary of the RAF Foundationers' Trust at Christ's Hospital, this deceptively detailed and profusely illustrated account shows how Wallis's schooldays influenced his subsequent life. It covers many aspects of his career including airship, aircraft and armaments design, and his central role in the foundation of the Trust in 1951.
Roy. 8vo., First Edition, with numerous illustrations throughout; original pictorial wrappers, a very good, bright, clean copy. SCARCE.
Roy. 8vo., First Edition, with numerous illustrations throughout; original pictorial wrappers, a very good, bright, clean copy. WITH T.L.s FROM THE AUTHOR. In this copy a number of the illustrations have been replced by printed coloured stickers mounted as appropriate. A few sheets of unused stickers are loosely inserted. SCARCE.
8vo., First Edition, with plates, maps, diagram in the text, and front and rear endpaper maps; cloth, a very good, bright, clean copy in dustwrapper. Between August 1943 and March 1944 the RAF dropped over 30,000 tons of bombs on Berlin. More than 10,000 aircraft sorties resulted in the loss of 600 bombers and their crews. As always with this author, a detailed and well-researched account with much new information from participating crews and ground staff, and from German civilians who lived through it
8vo., First Edition, with photographs in the text and endpaper maps; sand cloth, backstrip lettered in black, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper.
8vo., First Edition, with plates; green cloth, backstrip lettered in silver, a near fine copy in dustwrapper. Enser, p.64.
8vo., Twelfth Impression, with portrait frontispiece and 17 plates on 12, small neat contemporary signature on front paste-down; navy cloth, gilt back, a very good, bright, clean copy. First published in 1951. The moving story of RAF Bomber Command's most famous squadron and arguably the most famous air exploit of WWII. The stirring 'Dam Busters March', written by Eric Coates as the theme to the movie, was almost immediately adopted as an official march of the Royal Air Force. Enser, p.64; Mulholland & Jordan B121 (all recording the first edition).
8vo., First Edition, with numerous photographs throughout; black cloth, gilt back, a very good, bright, clean copy in dustwrapper. Not recorded by Enser.
8vo., First Edition, with very numerous photographs in the text; cloth, gilt back, a very good, clean copy in unclipped dustwrapper. Meticulously researched history of the famous raid, and a valuable complement to Brickhill's classic account. Includes a detailed record of every crew member and many previously unpublished photographs. Already scarce in this condition.
4to., First Edition, with very numerous photographs throughout and illustrated endpapers; brown cloth, gilt back, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper. The original edition of a much-reissued classic. Enser, p.32.
8vo., First Edition, with numerous plates and maps; black cloth, gilt back, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper. Enser, p.176
8vo., First Edition, with plates and maps, top and fore-edge lightly spotted; blue cloth, gilt back, boards very lightly faded at edges else a very good, bright, clean copy in price-clipped dustwrapper. Enser, p.375.
Sm. folio, First Edition, with very numerous photographs, drawings and tables in the text; cloth, gilt back, a near fine copy in the dustwrapper.
8vo., Second Impression; original printed wrappers, wire-stitched as issued, a near fine copy. A Directorate of Public Relations (Royal Air Force) Monograph, collecting nine short stories concerning men of Bomber Command. Published a month after the first edition. It was the unhappy negotiations surrounding publication of this title and 'How Sleep the Brave' (1943) that led Bates finally to break his relationship with the house of Jonathan Cape. Literary agent Laurence Pollinger became his champion and, in taking charge of his affairs, organised the historic switch from Cape to Michael Joseph with whom Bates remained for the rest of his writing life. SCARCE IN THIS CONDITION. See Eads, A41.
8vo., First Edition, with 60 plates; cloth, a fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper. 205 Group provided the only mobile force of RAF heavy night bombers in the Mediterranean.
Foolscap, 6pp typescript, with 8pp supplementary material in typescript; wire-stitched, a very good, clean copy. Classified 'Most Secret', the operational order is dated 16 May 1943 and arranged under the following headings: General, Enemy Defences, Intention, Code Name, Date of Attack, Effort, Outline Plan, Detailed Plan, Method of Attack, Time of Attack, Routes, Diversions, Armament, Fuel, Navigation, Synchronisation of Watches, Secrecy, Reports, Special Devices, Nickels, Wireless Silence, MF/DF Section, Executive Order. Three technical Appendices covering routes, timings, signals procedures, and light and moon tables are not present with this copy. The order itself is accompanied by a further 8pp of photocopies comprising 1) 2pp of prose by Marshal of the RAF Arthur 'Bomber' Harris written for ex-Pathfinder Hamish Mahaddie and used by him during lecture tours in Australia and New Zealand; 2) a full-page copy of the well-known photographic portrait of Harris with his signature; 3) 5pp photocopy of the Service of Thanksgiving for Air Marshal Sir Harold Martin held at the RAF church St. Clement Danes on 4 January 1989, including the tribute written and delivered by Group Captain Leonard Cheshire.
Roy. 8vo., First Edition, with illustrated title and numerous photographs in the text; cloth, gilt back, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper. The author is a former PFF Lancaster pilot and master bomber. Scarce, especially in this condition.
8vo., First Edition, with 32 plates on 16, small neat signature on front paste-down; cloth, badge blocked in gilt on upper board, gilt back, backstrip sunned (but all lettering entirely legible), a very good, clean copy in unclipped dustwrapper, the latter mildly age-soiled and lightly rubbed at joints and fold-ins. With the trade ticket of Underhills of Plymouth on front paste-down. Uncommon in this condition. Enser, p.288.
8vo., First Edition, with photographs in the text; black cloth, gilt back, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper. A PRESENTATION COPY FROM THE AUTHOR WITH HIS SIGNED HOLOGRAPH INSCRIPTION ON FRONT FREE ENDPAPER. Vividly-written account of Halifax sorties in the Battle of the Ruhr.
8vo., First Edition, with photographs in the text; burgundy cloth, gilt back, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper. SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR ON TITLE. Cooper investigates the context of the controversial raid, asking whether the city was a legitimate target and was the attack justified?
8vo., First Edition, with numerous photographs throughout; blue cloth, gilt back, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper. THIS COPY WAS FORMERLY IN THE LIBRARY OF AIR MARSHAL SIR ERIC DUNN AND BEARS HIS BOOKPLATE ON FRONT PASTE-DOWN. Summary squadron histories with bases and aircraft types.
