Halliday, Hugh A.MareMagnum
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144 pages. Index. Numerous black and white illustrations. "Tells for the first time in detail, the story of one of Canada's greatest fighter pilots. Traces his career from Tiger Moths in Scotland, then on to advanced training and out to pre-war Egypt to his first posting.... Soon Woody's squadron is called to Greece to face an onslaught of Messerschmitts and Junkers." - from dust jacket. Faint small sticker remnant atop front free endpaper, otherwise clean, bright and unmarked with lightest wear. Excellent copy. Gift quality. Book
8vo., Second Edition, with plates; original laminated wrappers, covers very lightly browned else a near fine copy. First published in 1984. SCARCE IN THIS CONDITION. Graham & Cole U74.
54 pages. Features: P-Boat - Part I of the Consolidated PBY Catalina Story -development and production -article with many excellent illustrations and photos; Colour centerfold illustration of the Consolidated PBY-2 (Patrol Wing Four/Patrol Squadron 17); The Macchi Castoldi Fighters - excellent photo-illustrated article; Daredevil - Ormer Locklear - article with excellent photos. Unmarked with somewhat above-average external wear. A sound vintage copy of this excellent issue. Book
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.
Signed and inscribed by author atop title page. viii, 502pp. Two colour photos. "I have a concern. Was the death of 18,000 Canadian aircrew (in WWII) in vain? Who will carry the torch when we who were there are gone? My position on 'who cares now' may touch a tender spot in some, but my airforce friends did not die in vain. We must be reminded of the horrors of a major war; there is a better way." - from back cover. Light wear. A quality copy. Book
52 pages. Features: Photo and "Aurevoir" by C.H. Greenway, Wing Commander, Commanding Officer; article by Chaplain F/L W.C. Daniel; The Philosopher and the Birds - A short Christmas Story; Ivan Ackery - A Master Showman, by LAC. S.R. Finkel; Station Adjutant Flight Lieutenant R.A. Kirkwood, by W01 K. Pugsley; Tops in Entertainment; Our First Station Dance; Sergeant John Chipman Kerr, V.C.; Film Cutting in One Uneasy Lesson, by Flying Officer Phillip Booth; Sports - considerable news of station sports activities; Phone interview with Lovely Susan Hawyard; Presentation of a Kittyhawk aircraft to the R.C.A.F.; Acceptance Testing of New Aircraft for the R.C.A.F., by W.L. Thomlinson, Squadron Leader; British Columbia Takes a Bow, by F/Sgt., D.J. Miller; Defence of the Airmen's Mess, by F/O H.J. Bird; Wonderful centerfold montage of photos with captions, and message from Commanding Officer; Army News; Women's Auxiliary to the Air Service; Nice photo ad for Harron Bros. Limited Funeral Home; Dozens of excellent vintage ads for Vancouver-area small businesses; and more. Moderate wear. Tiny ink stamp to front cover, otherwise unmarked. Binding tight. A quality copy of this vintage R.C.A.F. publication. Magazine
8vo., First Edition with illustrations; original wrappers, a very good, clean copy. Fred Whitfield served as rear gunner with IX Squadron Lancasters based at Bardney in Lincolnshire. His record of over 30 'ops' includes raids on the Tirpitz and the Eagle's Nest at Berchtesgaden. Extremely scarce due to limited print run
8vo., First Edition, text in Czech, with frontispiece, title in blue and black, and plates; pictorial wrappers, a near fine copy.
8vo., First Edition, with a frontispiece and 20 plates, neat inscription on front free endpaper; black cloth, gilt back, backstrip moderately faded (but all lettering entirely legible), a good, clean copy in unclipped dustwrapper, the latter age-soiled and faded with minor loss at extremities. Detailed account of one of the RAF's greatest fighter squadrons, which served with distinction at both Dunkirk and the Battle of Britain. Appendices include WWI aces, and fighter pilots with more than twelve confirmed victories (to June 1941). Enser, p.377.
8vo., First Edition, with photographs and maps in the text; pictorial wrappers, a very good, bright, clean copy.
8vo., First Edition, with plates and rear endpaper map; blue cloth, gilt back, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper.
8vo., First Edition, with photographs and illustrations throughout; pictorial wrappers, a near fine copy.
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
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 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
Roy. 4to., First Edition, with very numerous coloured illustrations throughout; pictorial wrappers, a near fine copy.
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
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.
1st edition. Near fine pbk. ISBN 0722189117. 14322. eng
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.
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
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.
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.
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
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.
