CHANDLER RobertMareMagnum
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8vo., First Edition, with frontispiece and endpaper maps; brige cloth, backstrip lettered in black, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper. One of comparatively few wartime accounts by a radio operator who began flying pre-WWII with Imperial Airways. His wartime service included National Air Communications, chief radio operator to the Air Observers' Navigation School and finally RAF Ferry Command for the remainder of hostilities. After the war he worked with British South American Airways. SCARCE, ESPECIALLY IN THIS CONDITION.
8vo., First Edition, with a portrait frontispiece in sepia, and 45 sepia-toned photographs (many full-page), a full-page plan and a full-page map in the text, front free endpapers lightly spotted; original pictorial boards, very neatly rebacked, old backstrip laid down, a very good, bright, clean copy. Uncommon in this condition
8vo., First Edition, with photographs,maps and facsimiles in the text; grey cloth, backstrip lettered in black, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper. SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR ON FRONT FREE ENDPAPER.
Oblong 4to., First Edition, with very numerous photographs, maps and diagrams in the text; cloth, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper. The first photographic treatment from the German viewpoint.
Roy. 4to., First Edition, with very numerous illustrations in the text; cloth, gilt back, a very good, clean copy in dustwrapper. Well-illustrated account of organisation, personnel, aircraft, airfields, equipment, armament, navigation and tactics. Includes portraits of notable airmen, war diary and exhaustive squadron listings.
8vo., First Edition, with photographs and illustrations in the text; original pictorial wrappers, wire-stitched as issued, a very good, clean copy. ''Flight Deck' is a restricted publication. It is for official use only.' This issue includes a profile of 819 Squadron flying Swordfish. ALL WARTIME ISSUES ARE SCARCE, ESPECIALLY IN THIS CONDITION.
Oblong 4to., First Edition, with numerous photographs in the text; laminated pictorial boards, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper.
8vo., Second Edition, with numerous plates and endpaper maps; blue cloth, gilt back, boards very lightly faded else a very good, bright, clean copy in unclipped, mildly age-marked dustwrapper. A PRESENTATION COPY FROM THE AUTHOR WITH HIS SIGNED HOLOGRAPH INSCRIPTION ON BLANK PRELIMINARY VERSO. Extensively revised and updated version of the original edition of 1967.
8vo., First Edition,with photographs in the text; pictorial wrappers, a near fine copy. VERY SCARCE.
4to., First Edition, with numerous photographs throughout; original pictorial wrappers, a very good, clean copy. Includes operations diary and list of personnel
8vo., First Edition, with plates and endpaper maps neat contemporary inscription on half-title; white cloth, gilt back, a very good, bright, clean copy in price-clipped dustwrapper.
Sm. folio, First Edition thus, with coloured title, and numerous coloured and monochrome photographs and illustrations throughout; grey cloth, backstrip lettered in silver, grey endpapers, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper. Published two years after the German edition.
8vo., First Edition; blue cloth, gilt back, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper. SCARCE IN THIS CONDITION. Enser, p.189.
8vo., First Edition, with coloured photographs, and numerous diagrams throughout; laminated pictorial boards, a fine copy.
8vo., First Edition, with frontispiece, 24 plates on 16, a double-page plan and numerous maps (a number full-page) in the text; green cloth, gilt back, a very good, clean copy in unclipped dustwrapper, the latter lightly rubbed at extremities. With the publisher's errata slip at p.141. One of the most detailed and scholarly single-ship biographies, this is the best account of the wartime career of one of the most famous ships of WWII. Includes a bibliography. SCARCE IN ANYTHING LIKE THIS CONDITION. Enser, p.21; Law, 0961.
Sm. folio, First Edition, with numerous illustrations in the text; cloth, gilt back, a fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper. Lovely copy of the standard reference
Oblong 8vo., First Edition, with 4pp of fine coloured drawings and numerous monochrome photographs and diagrams throughout; original pictorial wrappers, wire-stitched as issued, covers very lightly dust-soiled, a near fine copy. VERY SCARCE
8vo., First Edition., with a portrait frontispiece, plates and endpaper maps; brown cloth, gilt back, a very good, clean copy. SCARCE. Enser, p.123.
8vo., First Edition, with illustrations in the text; blue cloth, backstrip lettered in silver, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper. A PRESENTATION COPY FROM THE AUTHOR WITH HIS SIGNED HOLOGRAPH INSCRIPTION ON SLIP MOUNTED ON FRONT FREE ENDPAPER. Enser, p.7.
4to., First Edition, with frontispiece and very numerous photographs and maps in the text; blue cloth, gilt back, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper. HMS GLORY arrived in the Far East too late to take an active combat role in WWII, but she accepted the surrender of Japanese forces in New Guinea and participated in the operation to repatriate British and Commonwealth POWs after the war. She conducted several active tours of duty during the Korean War in the early 1950s. Detailed account from builders to breakers, drawing on first hand accounts and including many previously unpublished photographs
8vo., Uncorrected Proof Copy, [reader's?] details on front free endpaper; original printed wrappers, crease in front wrapper, short tear in lower joint, wrappers lightly age-soiled else a bright, clean copy. PROOF COPIES ARE VERY SCARCE. Enser,p.57.
8vo. First Edition with numerous plates; black cloth gilt back a fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper. Lovely copy of the best and most detailed single-volume history of the RAF in WWII. Enser p.196.
8vo., First Edition, with numerous photographs in the text, small blind-embossed personal book-stamp on front free endpaper; cloth, gilt back, a near fine copy in price-clipped dustwrapper, the latter mildly age-soiled and with two short tape repairs. Published in Horrocks' concise Famous Regiments series.
8vo., First Edition, with portrait frontispiece and many plates, small neat signature on front free endpaper; green cloth, backstrip lettered in black, a near fine copy in price-clipped dustwrapper.
8vo., First Edition thus; red cloth, backstrip lettered inj black, a good, firm copy in unclipped dustwrapper, the latter worn, frayed and with loss at edges. The UK edition, published under wartime rules, is far scarcer than its earlier US counterpart. VERY SCARCE, ESPECIALLY IN THE DUSTWRAPPER. Graham & Cole, U78 (recording the US edition).
