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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 Includes a detailed record of every crew member and many previously unpublished photographs.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.
68 pages. Features: Nice cover illustration of lady with horse; One-page Parker Pen ad with military theme; Colour Marboleum ad inside front cover shows vintage kitchen; One-page Singer sewing machine ad includes three photos of their ornate furniture; Wonderful one-page ad for the RCA Victor Globe Trotter Model A-31 radio includes airman; The General's Big Bull (short story); Known to Nobody (short story); Secrets of the German (Nazi) Air-Armadas - fascinating photo-illustrated article; The Ghost of Captain Renny (short story); Where the War Dollar Goes; Canada'a Forgotten Back Door - Will the Nazis Bomb Canada through Hudson Bay?; Beyond the Circle (short story); Carry On - football article includes photo of Squadron Leader Dave Harding at the Malton Airport with new military recruits asking him questions about his days with the Ottawa Rough Riders; Movie news and photos; One-page photo ad for Fleischmann's Yeast features great photos of man cleaning massive locomotive and horse-drawn wagon being loaded with sheaves; Woodbury ad features photo of Annabella; Anothe Woodbury ad features photo of Miss Nancy Weir of Toronto; Small ad for the Chesley Chair Company of Chesley, Ontario; The Ten Bob Note (short story); Homes of Tomorrow - photos of interior design ideas; Saturday Night Bath - tips on how to have a good bath; Fantastic one-page colour-photo ad for Lux soap features three photos of Carole Lombard; Illustrated instruction how to knit soldier and sailor dolls; Win the War in Your Kitchen - cooking article; Nice one-page Magic Baking Powder ad entitled "As Sure as the Sun Rises"; World Sayings; Magnificent red and black Canadian Red Cross ad inside back cover shows nurse with arms outstretched over servicemen and refugees; Great vintage colour Coke ad on back cover shows lovely young lady holding six-pack; and more. Average wear. Unmarked. A sound copy of this wonderful vintage issue. Book
1936038524London: William Hodge & Company Limited 1936 F-/VG. 8vo. original light blue cloth a trifle toned prev. owner's details to FFE else clean & bright throughout in dustwrapper priced 5/- a little rubbed & nicked neat tape repairs on reverse sizeable chip to tail edge rear panel a little toned else quite presentable; pp. xvi 210 last blank with illustrations. A very good copy. Neate C86: Account of the 1933 Houston-Mount Everest aerial survey expedition and flight over the summit. First Edition. Hard Cover. F-/VG. William Hodge & Company, Limited hardcover
196173210London: Oldbourne Book Co. Very Good in Very Good dust jacket. 1961. Hardcover in jacket. THE PITCHER AND THE WELL Edited By Squadron Leader J. D. McDonald from the papers of a New Zealand airman; Oldbourne London. 1962. First English Edition - Previously Published in 1961 in New Zealand By Paul's Book Arcade. 1961. This book is hard-bound in blue-cloth with white lettering on the spine. The binding is solid and tight; contents are bright and clean a nice manuscript of a WWII member of a Bomber Crew dictated while lying in German prison camp suffering from burns he soon dies from. . Oldbourne Book Co. hardcover books
54640Other: Other. Very Good. Hardcover. Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company 1963. First American Edition. Previous owner name and bookplate otherwise Very Good in Very Good DJ. . Other hardcover books
1992P12657Melbourne: N 1992. Pp. xviii306last blank frontispiece and 31 plates within the pagination text maps appendices Honour Roll KIA died of wounds etc Honours and Awards nominal and wounded rolls bibliography list of subscribers index; demy 8vo; purple cloth lettered in gilt & white bottom edges a little shelf worn; dust wrapper; 2/6 Commando Squadron Association Melbourne 1992. First edition. With a loosely inserted typed letter signed from Fred Ashford ex-2/6 Australian Commando Squadron acknowledging the purchase of the book. 2/6 Commando served in the New Guinea Campaign - Kokoda Buna the Markham-Ramu Valleys and Balikpapan Borneo. N unknown
2008P11971Loughborough Leicestershire: Alexander Maclehose 2008. Pp. xviii306last blank frontispiece text illustrations and maps appendices including rolls honours and awards bibliography subscriber listing index; demy 8vo; pictorial laminated boards; Australian Military History Publications Loftus NSW 2008. First published by The 2/6 Commando Squadron Association 1992. A unit history of the 2/6 Independent Company raised in May 1942 and trained at Wilson's Promontory at the Guerrilla Warfare school there. The unit was involved in four major campaigns between 1942 and 1945in PNG and later in Borneo from cover blurb. Alexander Maclehose unknown
Oblong 4to., Second Edition, with very numerous photographs in the text and pictorial endpapers; picctorial blue cloth, backstrip lettered in white, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper, the latter neatly repaired with tape at edges. First published in 1976. The second edition is limited to 300 copies. RARE.
2023__1399062182Air World 2023. Hardcover. New. 256 pages. 9.20x6.10x1.10 inches. Air World hardcover
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.
20032090502113716508Not Available 2003. Soft Cover. Fine. The book is in fine condition. Not Available paperback
Signed and briefly inscribed by author upon title page. xii, 167 pages. Eleven pages of black and white reproductions of photos. "Author recounts his WWII experiences as a radio technician on a bomber base in England. One of 5,000 Canadians trained in the then highly-secret application of radar, he became attached to No. 428 "Ghost" Squadron which flew out of Middleton St. George under Group 6, a Canadian auxiliary to Bomber Command." - paraphrased from back cover. Binding intact. Unmarked with average wear. A sound copy. Book
Roy. 8vo., First Edition, with illustrated title-spread and very numerous photographs in the text; olive cloth, upper board and backstrip lettered in black, marbled endpapers, a fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper.
1st edition. Near fine pbk. ISBN 0722189117. 14322. eng
2006234734Staplehurst, Spellmount, 2006. 192 Seiten. Mit zahlreichen farbigen Abbildungen. Originalpappband mit Original-Schutzumschlag. 25 cm
0853684529.Ghardcover. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book. hardcover
1979Q-0853684529Arms and Armour 1979. Hardcover. New. In shrink wrap. Looks like an interesting title! Arms and Armour hardcover
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.
Abundantly illustrated in black and white. Front cover portrait of Rear-Admiral Reginal Tupper, C.B., Commander of the Blockade Squadron. Contents: Chapter CXCV - The Blockades, 1915-17, British and German Methods; The British Blockade of Germany, The German Submarine War on Enemies and Neutrals; German Crimes Against "The Fellowship of the Sea"; Scope and Limitations of the British Blockade; The Muckle Flugga Hussars; The Peel Committee's Report; Bringing Neutral Ships into Harbour; Discussions with the U.S.; German Evasions of the Blockade; Work of the British Censorship, A Study of German Crimes, The Rappahannock, the North Wales and Artist, The Alnwick Castle, The Kildale, The Caithness, Sufferings of Scandinavian Seamen, The Belgian Prince, German Motives and Methods, Universal Demand for Reparation by Germany. Covers heavily worn and detached as one but present. Textblock sound. Magazine
Roy. 4to., First Edition, with very numerous coloured illustrations throughout; pictorial wrappers, a near fine copy.
Pages 362-448, plus 24 pages of wonderful vintage ads. Many black and white photos and illustrations. Contents include: The Girl With the Red Hair; Across Unknown Arabia in Disguise - part 1; A 'Q" and a "U"; Across East Africa in the Rainy Season; "Bully's" Last Battle; With a Bristol Fighter Squadron; Queer Fixes - Falling Ten Thousand Feet; What Happened to Marshall Mabey; Gassed on a Chimney; My Two Years of Captivity Among the Turks - part 3; Among the Dyaks; The Trials of a Naturalist's Wife - part 3; On Foot Through South America, part 4; Silas Seeks London; In Little Known Afghanistan; Odds and Ends. Bits of clear tape at each end of spine. Unmarked with average wear. Binding intact. A sound copy of this vintage issue. Magazine
Pages 449-536, plus 16 pages of great ads. Features: The Mystery of Dominic Pietro - how an innocent man was saved from the gallows; The Trials of A Naturalist's Wife - part 4; A Woman's Ordeal - Mrs. C.T. Sturgis was a prisoner of Mexican bandits; Across Unknown Arabia in Disguise - Part 2 of the great photo-illustrated story of the author's travels among the Wahhabi Arabs; Hunting the Addo Elephants - they were marked for extinction at the hand of famous hunter Major Pretorius - article with many photos; On Foot Through South America - Part 5 - Adventures in Peru, with great photos, including carrying a piano up a mountain!; Across East Africa in the Rainy Season - terrible flooding makes travel very difficult; Photo of 30,000 coconuts being sprouted in Tobago; In Old Madrid - two Americans are left behind in Madrid with an elephant and soon the animal is matched up for battle with a fine Spanish bull!; Photo of London "Dog Market"; With a Bristol Fighter Squadron - Part 2; Photo of the only inhabited "Cloghaun" in Ireland; My Two Years' Captivity Among the Turks - Part 4 - The Adventures and Daring Escape of Airman Capt. T.W. White; A Land of Gods - photo-illustrated article about the people and places of the Kulu Valley of India; The Hunting of Lot Shumway - the pursuit and ultimate capture of this Northern Arizona badman; How Nixon Made Good - a western railroad tale; Photo of Harry Rich of Kansas City - the Human Gun Carriage!; Photo of large tree growing up through millstone at Sheldon's Mill at South Dover, New York. Somewhat above-average wear with openings along backstrip. Unmarked. A worthy copy of this great vintage issue. Book
Pages 91-176 plus 16 pages of nostalgic ads. Features: The Mystery of the Missing Nun (part 1) - Sister Janina vanished from Isadore, Michigan and it was 12 years before the mystery was solved; Post-Hole Pete - an amusing bear story from the Alaska wilds; The Maddest Exploit of the War - Trooper Gerald Fitzgerald No. 1313 1st King Edward's Horse was unaware of the Armistice so single-handedly pursued the retiring German Army; The Ship That Came Back - the liner "Sesostris" was wrecked off the coast of Guatemala, lifted into a jungle by a volcano, then salvaged to resume her career! - article with photos; Short Stories; The Great Zeebrugge Raid - and After (part 1) - Sergeant H. Wright, D.S.M., of the Royal Marine Light Infantry provides striking narrative; Ants and Other Pests - Mining Engineer E.T. McCarthy's thrilling experiences; Across Unknown Arabia in Disguise - part 4 - Mr. Philby describes his travels in central Arabia among the Wahhabi (Wahabi) Arabs - article with photos; The Hunting of Felizardo, a notorious brigand in the Philippines - photo-illustrated article; On Foot Through South America - part 7 of 7 - travels in the "Great Wilderness" of Bolivia, and a meeting with "Jack Thompson" - photo-illustrated article; With a Bristol Fighter Squadron on the Western Front - part 4 (illustrated); Down at Iceland - sights and events on a trip to Iceland in a typical Grimsby trawler ; A Battle with Bears - an exciting story from the wilds of Wyoming, by Frank M. McMaines; Nice illustrated B.V.D. underwear ad on back cover. Average wear. Unmarked. A quality vintage copy. Book
8vo., First Edition, with photographs and illustrations throughout; pictorial wrappers, a near fine copy.
8vo., First Edition, with plates and rear endpaper map; blue cloth, gilt back, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper.