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19675554fdN.l.: RAF Tengah 1967. Octavo softbound 68 pp. Photos maps. Near-Fine with bookplate. RAF Tengah, (1967). paperback books
176p. + Plus photographs. Inked ownership of Michael Raush, Da Nang, Vietnam, United States Naval Medical Corp. 1969-1970, American Naval Hospital. 8vo. Original full cloth binding. Original dust jacket, slightly soiled and worn. WWII 2
8vo., First Edition, with portrait frontispiece, 10 plates on 6, and 3 facsimiles and 2 maps (one double-page) in the text; navy cloth, gilt back, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper. Even by the rip-roaring standards of the time Admiral Dudley de Chair's career was packed with incident. His autobiography begins with his service as a midshipman with the Mediterranean Fleet, his imprisonment by Arabi Pasha (during which Queen Victoria led a national outcry), his uneasy relationship with Churchill and his final command of the renowned Tenth Cruiser Squadron in WWI.
8vo., First Edition, with photographs throughout; pictorial wrappers, wire-stitched as issued, a near fine copy. WITH TWO ITEMS OF RELEVANT EPHEMERA LOOSELY INSERTED.
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.
8vo., First Edition, with coloured frontispiece, numerous monochrome photographs ands facsimiles in the text, and coloured endpaper maps; blue cloth, gilt back, a fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper.
8vo., First Edition, text in Czech, with frontispiece, title in blue and black, and plates; pictorial wrappers, a near fine copy.
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 8 plates and full-page map in the text, some mild offsetting from fold-ins to free endpapers; black cloth, gilt back, a very good, bright, clean copy in unclipped dustwrapper, the latter rubbed at head and tail of backstrip. A key work in the history of the war in the air in Burma, providing a first-hand illustrated account of service with 5 Squadron RAF in the Imphal Valley from 1944 onwards. Graham & Cole U45, V59, V58 respectively.
Roy. 8vo., First Edition, with numerous photographs (many full-page) throughout; blue cloth, gilt back, blue endpapers, a fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper.
8vo., First Edition, with numerous photographs in the text; grey cloth, backstrip lettered in silver, grey endpapers, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper.
2006234734Staplehurst, Spellmount, 2006. 192 Seiten. Mit zahlreichen farbigen Abbildungen. Originalpappband mit Original-Schutzumschlag. 25 cm
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 plates; cloth, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper
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.
8vo., First Edition, with coloured and monochrome photographs, illustrations and maps throughout; pictorial wrappers, a near fine copy.
8vo., First Edition, with photographs in the text; pictorial wrappers, wire-stitched as issued, covers lightly age-soiled else a very good, bright, clean copy. SCARCE.
8vo., First Edition, with photographs and maps in the text; pictorial wrappers, a very good, bright, clean copy.
197845071Walsworth Publishing Company um, 1978.
Roy. 8vo., First Edition, with numerous coloured and monochrome photographs throughout; black cloth, upper board and backstrip blocked and lettered in gilt, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper.
8vo., First Edition, with portrait frontispiece and plates; pictorial wrappers, a fine copy.
Roy. 8vo., First Edition, with photographs in the text; pictorial wrappers, a near fine copy.
4to., Fifth Impression, with a coloured, frontispiece, very numerous coloured and monochrome photographs and illustrations, and a colour plate of RAF paint colours; original cloth, a very good, clean copy in the dustwrapper, the latter lightly frayed at edges. A standard reference unique in its coverage
8vo., First Edition, with plates; black cloth, gilt back, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper.
