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SHIPMAN J.
One of 'The Few'. Describing the Experiences of Ted 'Shippy' Shipman, who called his Part in the Battle of Britain 'my Gentle Battle'.
8vo., First Edition, with 63 plates on 32; cloth, gilt back, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper. 'Shippy' Shipman flew in the Battle of Britain with 41 Squadron, only the third RAF squadron to be be equipped with Spitfires. His extensive memoirs, carefully collated by his son, cover his career from initial training to his eventual retirement in 1959. 'Stapme' Stapleton flew Spitfires with 603 Squadron; his 20 confirmed victories include Franz von Werra, later famous as 'the one that got away'. Byron Duckenfield flew Spitfires with 74 Squadron and Hurricanes with 501 Squadron with four enemy aircraft confirmed destroyed. Already scarce in this condition
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SHORES Christopher
Bloody Shambles. The First Comprehensive Account of Air Operations over South-East Asia, December 1941 to 1945. THE TRILOGY COMPLETE IN UNCLIPPED DUSTWRAPPERS
3 vols., 8vo., First Edition, with very numerous photographs and maps throughout; pictorial boards, a near fine set in unclipped dustwrapper. The set comprises Vol. 1: The Drift to War to the Fall of Singapore (1992); Vol. 2: The Defence of Sumatra to the Fall of Burma (1993); Vol. 3: The Allied Air Forces fight back in South-East Asia 1942-1945 (2005). COMPLETE SETS ARE EXTREMELY SCARCE, ESPECIALLY IN THIS CONDITION.
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SHORES Christopher
Dust Clouds in the Middle East. The Air War for East Africa, Iraq, Syria, Iran and Madagascar, 1940-42. [Second Edition.] NEAR FINE COPY IN UNCLIPPED DUSTWRAPPER
8vo., Second Edition, with numerous photographs in the text; red cloth, gilt back, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper. A standard reference, first published in 1996.
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SIMPSON Jim
RAF Gate Guards. A Royal Air Force Aviation Society Project. NEAR FINE COPY IN DUSTWRAPPER
8vo., First Edition, with numerous coloured and monochrome photographs in the text; blue cloth, gilt back, a near fine copy in price-clipped dustwrapper.
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SMALLEY Jonathan
The VJ Hangover. Letters from the East NEAR FINE COPY IN UNCLIPPED DUSTWRAPPER
8vo., First Edition, with double-page map in the text; blue cloth, gilt back, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper. UNCOMMON IN THIS CONDITION.
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SMITH D.J.
Britain's Military Airfields 1939-1945. NEAR FINE COPY IN DUSTWRAPPER
8vo., First Edition, with illustrated title, very numerous illustrations and maps in the text, and pictorial endpapers; cloth, gilt back, a near fine copy in price-clipped dustwrapper. Sequel to the highly acclaimed 'Action Stations' series.
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SMITH Eric
First Things First. RAF Hornchurch and RAF Suttons Farm 1915-1962. [Foreword by Wing Commander Bill Stapleton.] NEAR FINE COPY
8vo., First Edition, with numerous photographs throughout; pictorial wrappers, a near fine copy.
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SMITHIES, ed. Edward
War in the Air. Men and Women who built, serviced and flew War Planes remember the Second World War. FINE COPY IN UNCLIPPED DUSTWRAPPER
8vo., First Edition, with plates; black cloth, gilt back, a fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper, the latter with one short closed tear.
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SMOLDAS Zdenek
Ceskoslovensti letci v boji proti fasismu. BRIGHT, CLEAN COPY IN UNCLIPPED DUSTWRAPPER
8vo., First Edition, text in Czech, with frontispiece, title in blue and black, and photographs and charts in the text; grey pictorial cloth, upper board and backstrip blocked and lettered in red and black, blue endpapers, lower hinge starting (buit binding entirely sound), a bright, clean copy in unclipped dustwrapper.
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SMOLDAS Zdenek
Ceskoslovensti letci v boji proti fasismu. WITH CARD SIGNED BY SIX VETERANS
8vo., First Edition, text in Czech, with frontispiece, title in blue and black, and photographs and charts in the text; grey pictorial cloth, upper board and backstrip blocked and lettered in red and black, blue endpapers, a fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper. LOOSELY INSERTED IS A COLOURED POSTCARD OF A HURRICANE I SIGNED BY SIX CZECH VETERANS, TWO AWARDED THE DFC.
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SPURDLE Bob
The Blue Arena. [Second and Best Edition]. FINE COPY IN UNCLIPPED DUSTWRAPPER
8vo., Second Edition, with plates and facsimiles; black cloth, gilt back, a fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper. Revised version of the original edition of 1986. Enser, p.196 (recording the first edition).
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STEWART Adrian
Hurricane. The War Exploits of the Fighter Aircraft. NEAR FINE COPY IN UNCLIPPED DUSTWRAPPER
8vo., First Edition, with plates and maps, fore-edge lightly dust-soiled; blue cloth, gilt back, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper, the latter lightly sunned at backstrip.
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STEWART Adrian
They Flew Hurricanes.
8vo., First Edition, with plates; black cloth, gilt back, a near fine copy in price-clipped dustwrapper.
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STURTIVANT Ray
Royal Air Force Flying Training and Support Units. FINE COPY
Sm. folio, First Edition, with very numerous photographs in the text; original laminated pictorial boards, a fine copy. The standard reference, giving exhaustive detail on all units, extensive glossary of terms and index of place-names. EXTREMELY SCARCE.
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SUTTON Squadron Leader H.T.
Raiders Approach!. The Fighting Tradition of Royal Air Force Station Hornchurch and Sutton's Farm. With a Foreword by Marshal of the Royal Air Force Sir John Slessor. BRIGHT, CLEAN COPY IN DUSTWRAPPER
8vo., First Edition, with frontispiece, numerous photographs in the text and endpaper maps; blue cloth, gilt back, a very good, bright, clean copy in price-clipped dustwrapper, the latter mildly creased and frayed at edges with minor loss at at head of backstrip. SCARCE IN THIS CONDITION. Enser, p.378.
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TAYLOR Gordon
Sopwith Scout 7309. BRIGHT, CLEAN COPY IN UNCLIPPED DUSTWRAPPER
8vo., First Edition., with plates and a full-page map in the text; blue cloth, backstrip lettered in silver, a very good, bright, clean copy in unclipped dustwrapper, the latter mildly browned at backstrip and lightly rubbed at edges. SCARCE, ESPECIALLY IN THIS CONDITION. Enser, p.124, 306.
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TAYLOR John W. R.
Pictorial History of the RAF. [Volume One 1918-1939. THIS VOLUME ONLY]. NEAR FINE COPY IN DUSTWRAPPER
8vo., with very numerous photographs throughout; blue cloth, backstrip lettered in silver, a very good, bright, clean copy in price-clipped dustwrapper.
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TAYLOR John W.R.
Pictorial History of the RAF. COMPLETE SET IN DUSTWRAPPERS
3 vols., 8vo., Mixed Impressions, with very numerous photographs throughout, neat inscription on front free endpaper of second volume; pale blue cloth, backstrips lettered in silver, a very good, bright, clean set in dustwrapper. The set comprises Vol. I: 1918-1939 (first edition, 1968); Vol. II: 1939-1945 (second edition, 1980); Vol. III: 1945-1969 (second impression, 1971).
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TAYLOR John W.R.
Pictorial History of the RAF. Volume One 1918-1939. Volume Two: 1939-1945. COMPLETE SET IN UNCLIPPED DUSTWRAPPERS
2 vols., 8vo., Mixed Impressions, with numerous photographs throughout; blue cloth, backstrips lettered in silver, a very good, bright, clean set in unclipped dustwrapper. Vol.I (fourth impression, 1971); Vol. 2 (first impression, 1969).
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TAYLOR R.
Royal Air Force Germany since 1945.
8vo., First Edition, with illustrations; cloth, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper
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TAYLOR W.
RAF Winthorpe. A History 1940-1945. NEAR FINE COPY
8vo., First Edition, with photographs and maps throughout; pictorial wrappers, wire-stitched as issued, a near fine copy. SCARCE.
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Taylor, John W. R
Pictorial History of the RAF - Volume One: 1918-1939.
London, Ian Allan, 1968.
Referenz des Buchhändlers : 211387
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TEDDER Marshal of the Royal Air Force Lord
A.L.s on the stationery of his residence at 26 Cadogan Gardens, London SW3, and dated 1 December 1954. A.L.s FROM MARSHAL OF THE ROYAL AIR FORCE LORD TEDDER
Single sheet, 8vo., a near fine copy. Signed simply 'Tedder' in the writer's usual manner, the letter is written to Geoffrey Moore, founder of the Buccaneers Cricket Club, and demonstrates the airman's keen and continuing interest in the sport. Tedder was President of Surrey County Cricket Club from 1953 to 1958. The letter regretfully declines Moore's invitation to attend the Buccaneer's annual dinner (held at Lords): 'I've already got a date I can't budge!'. Marshal of the RAF Arthur William Tedder, 1st Baron Tedder (1890-1967) was one of Britain's most distinguished air commanders. Educated at Whitgift School and Magdalene College, Cambridge, he transferred from the Dorsetshire Regiment to the Royal Flying Corps in 1916, serving in France from 1915- to 1917 and in Egypt from 1918 to 1919. He was then commissioned in to the (new) Royal Air Force where was appointed Director of Training from 1934 to 1936, after which he became Commander RAF Far Eastern Forces. During WWII he was head of RAF Middle East Command, controlling Allied air operations in the Mediterranean and North Africa, including the evacuation of Crete and the defeat of Rommel; his air power was a vital component of Montgomery's victory at El Alamein. Having been promoted to Air Marshal, Tedder then took part in the early planning for D-Day, and was subsequently appointed Deputy Supreme Commander Allied Forces Europe (the most senior such British position) immediately beneath General Eisenhower, on whose behalf he signed at the German Surrender in 1945. In 1947 he delivered the Lees Knowles lecture, afterwards published as 'Air Power in War'. Following his retirement he served as Chancellor of Cambridge University and Vice-Chairman of the Board of Governors of the BBC. Founded in 1930, The Buccaneers is one of the oldest and most famous 'wandering' clubs in English cricket (a 'wandering' club has no fixed home ground but plays consistently as an 'away' team relying on the hospitality of the 'home' clubs against which it competes). The Club's history has been written twice, by Clifford Bax in 1956 and more recently by Howard Spencer. ORIGINAL DOCUMENTS SIGNED BY TEDDER ARE EXTREMELY SCARCE.
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TEDDER Marshal of the Royal Air Force Lord
T.L.s on the stationery of his residence at 26 Cadogan Gardens, London SW3, and dated 4 January 1957. T.L.s FROM MARSHAL OF THE ROYAL AIR FORCE LORD TEDDER
Single sheet, 8vo., a near fine copy. Signed simply 'Tedder' in the writer's usual manner, the letter is written to Geoffrey Moore, founder of the Buccaneers Cricket Club, and demonstrates the airman's keen and continuing interest in the sport. Tedder was President of Surrey County Cricket Club from 1953 to 1958. The letter regretfully declines Moore's invitation to attend the Buccaneer's annual dinner (held at Lords). Marshal of the RAF Arthur William Tedder, 1st Baron Tedder (1890-1967) was one of Britain's most distinguished air commanders. Educated at Whitgift School and Magdalene College, Cambridge, he transferred from the Dorsetshire Regiment to the Royal Flying Corps in 1916, serving in France from 1915- to 1917 and in Egypt from 1918 to 1919. He was then commissioned in to the (new) Royal Air Force where was appointed Director of Training from 1934 to 1936, after which he became Commander RAF Far Eastern Forces. During WWII he was head of RAF Middle East Command, controlling Allied air operations in the Mediterranean and North Africa, including the evacuation of Crete and the defeat of Rommel; his air power was a vital component of Montgomery's victory at El Alamein. Having been promoted to Air Marshal, Tedder then took part in the early planning for D-Day, and was subsequently appointed Deputy Supreme Commander Allied Forces Europe (the most senior such British position) immediately beneath General Eisenhower, on whose behalf he signed at the German Surrender in 1945. In 1947 he delivered the Lees Knowles lecture, afterwards published as 'Air Power in War'. Following his retirement he served as Chancellor of Cambridge University and Vice-Chairman of the Board of Governors of the BBC. Founded in 1930, The Buccaneers is one of the oldest and most famous 'wandering' clubs in English cricket (a 'wandering' club has no fixed home ground but plays consistently as an 'away' team relying on the hospitality of the 'home' clubs against which it competes). The Club's history has been written twice, by Clifford Bax in 1956 and more recently by Howard Spencer. ORIGINAL DOCUMENTS SIGNED BY TEDDER ARE EXTREMELY SCARCE.
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TERRAINE John
A Time for Courage. The Royal Air Force in the European War, 1939-1945. NEAR FINE COPY IN UNCLIPPED DUSTWRAPPER
8vo., First Edition, with plates; blue boards, blue cloth back blocked and lettered in silver, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper.
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TERRAINE John
The Right of the Line. The Royal Air Force in the European War 1939-1945. FINE COPY IN UNCLIPPED DUSTWRAPPER
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.
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THE LONDON GAZETTE.
The Battle of Britain [in] Supplement to The London Gazette, 10 September 1946. BOUND COPY OF THE OFFICIAL AIR MINISTRY REPORT
Roy. 8vo., First Edition, with 3 large folding charts at end; strongly bound in full navy buckram, upper board with printed paper label, a near fine copy. Printing code: 65-37719. Often known as 'Dowding's Despatch', this supplement reprints the official report submitted to the Secretary of State for Air by Lord Dowding (Air Officer Commanding Fighter Command) on 20 August 1941. SCARCE, ESPECIALLY IN THIS CONDITION.
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THOMAS C.
Typhoon Wings of 2nd TAF 1943-45. FINE COPY
8vo., First Edition, with numerous photographs throughout; pictorial wrappers, a fine copy.
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THOMPSON Wing Commander H.L.
New Zealanders with the Royal Air Force. Vol. II: European Theatre January 1943 - May 1945. [THIS VOLUME ONLY]. NEAR FINE COPY IN UNCLIPPED DUSTWRAPPER
8vo., First Edition, with frontispiece, plates and numerous maps and plans (many folding); original series binding of blue cloth, upper board blocked in blind, gilt back, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper.
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TICKELL Jerrard
Moon Squadron. FIRST ACCOUNT OF SOE'S AIRCRAFT
8vo., First Edition; blue cloth, gilt back, a near fine copy in price-clipped dustwrapper. With the trade ticket of Charles Wilson of Liverpool on front paste-down. The first dedicated account, necessarily fragmentary, of the handful of RAF aircraft assigned to SOE. Initially led by Fielden, the 'moon squadrons' (mainly Hudsons and Lysanders) ferried agents to and fro throughout Occupied Europe. SCARCE IN THIS CONDITION. Enser, p.401
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Trendle, Fred
Brennendes Land.
Verlag Fred Trendle, 2005. Der Luftkrieg im Südwesten 1940-1945 ca. 300 S. (30 cm) Großformat, Paperback / kartonierte Ausgabe
Referenz des Buchhändlers : 55417 ISBN : 300017687
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TUCK Robert Roland Stanford
Pilot's Flying Log. [Facsimile Edition]. 2500 COPIES WERE PRINTED
8vo., First Edition thus, text in red, blue and black; brown cloth, upper board lettered in gilt, gilt, a fine copy. EDITION LIMITED TO 2500 NUMBERED COPIES (THIS COPY NO. 152) WITH PRINTED CERTIFICATE OF AUTHENTICITY AND LIMITATION MOUNTED ON FRONT FREE ENDPAPER. Robert [Roland] Stanford Tuck needs no introduction here; as one of the of the leading fighter aces of the Battle of Britain he achieved 29 confirmed victories. This high quality facsimile covers the period October 1935 (initial training in Avro Tutors) to 1954 (as Chief Test Pilot on the EEC Canberra).
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Tugwell, Maurice
Arnheim. Die Operation Market Garden, das größte, aber auch das umstrittenste Luftlandeunternehmen des 2. Weltkrieges. Vorwort v. John Hackett.
Mittler, Herford 1976. 73 S. mit mehreren Abbildungen u. 3 Karten. Ppbd. mit Schutzumschlag. Umschlag mit oben mehreren Einrissen, mit Tesafilm geklebt.
Referenz des Buchhändlers : 8957
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TURNER John Frayn
The Bader Wing. BRIGHT, CLEAN COPY IN DUSTWRAPPER
8vo., First Edition, with plates; blue cloth, gilt back, a very good, bright, clean copy in price-clipped dustwrapper. Enser, p.84.
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VERITY Hugh
We Landed by Moonlight. Secret RAF Landings in France 1940-1944. THIRD (REVISED) EDITION
8vo., Third Edition, with numerous photographs in the text; original pictorial wrappers, a near fine copy. The standard reference on the RAF squadrons that delivered and collected SOE and other agents. Bases included Tangmere and Tempsford; aircraft included Ansons, Hudsons and the immortal Lysander. Includes detailed summary of operations and much other statistical data. Verity's classic account was first published in 1978. A revised edition appeared in 1995, and this is further augmented (particularly in the detailed table of missions) here. SCARCE. Enser, p.206 (recording the first edition).
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VERITY Hugh
We Landed by Moonlight. Secret RAF Landings in France 1940-1944. SECOND (REVISED) EDITION IN DUSTWRAPPER
8vo., Second Edition, with numerous photographs in the text; cloth, a very good, clean copy in the dustwrapper, the latter lightly frayed at extremities. The standard reference on the RAF squadrons that delivered and collected SOE and other agents. Bases included Tangmere and Tempsford; aircraft included Ansons, Hudsons and the immortal Lysander. Includes detailed summary of operations and much other statistical data. Verity's classic account was first published in 1978. This revised edition, with extra notes by the author, is considerably updated (particularly in the detailed table of missions). Extremely scarce. Enser, p.206 (recording the first edition).
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VERITY Hugh
We Landed by Moonlight. Secret RAF Landings in France 1940-1944. THE ORIGINAL EDITION IN UNCLIPPED DUSTWRAPPER
8vo., First Edition, with 32 plates on 16 and endpaper maps; black cloth, gilt back, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper. The original edition of this long-awaited standard reference on the special squadrons that delivered and collected SOE and other agents. Bases included Tangmere and Tempsford; aircraft included Ansons, Hudsons and the immortal Lysander. Includes detailed summary of operations and much other statistical data. EXTREMELY SCARCE, ESPECIALLY IN THIS CONDITION. Enser, p.206.
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VERITY Hugh
We Landed by Moonlight. Secret RAF Landings in France 1940-1944. THE ORIGINAL EDITION SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR
8vo., First Edition, with 32 plates on 16 and endpaper maps; black cloth, gilt back, a near fine copy in dustwrapper. SIGNED AND DATED BY THE AUTHOR ON TITLE. With personal armorial bookplate mounted on half-title. The original edition of this long-awaited standard reference on the special squadrons that delivered and collected SOE and other agents. Bases included Tangmere and Tempsford; aircraft included Ansons, Hudsons and the immortal Lysander. Includes detailed summary of operations and much other statistical data. SIGNED COPIES ARE VERY SCARCE. Enser, p.206.
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Wakefield, Kenneth
Luftwaffe Encore. A Study of Two Attacks in September 1940. Introduction by Friedrich Kless.
Kimber, London 1979. 223 p. with several illustrations. Hardcover with dust jacket. Some spotting. Slight traces of use. Good copy.
Referenz des Buchhändlers : 7166
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WATSON Peter
Tiger Moths to Typhoons. The Story of a World War Two Fighter Pilot. Edited bu Sue and Andy Parlour. SIGNED BY THE EDITORS
Sm. 8vo., First Edition, with 9 plates on 4; original photographic wrappers, a fine copy. SIGNED BY THE EDITORS ON TITLE. Includes an appendix on Typhoon variants.
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WILSON M.C.D.
RAF Coastal Command leads the Invasion. [Foreword by Marshal of the Royal Air Force the Viscount Trenchard]. SCARCE, ESPECIALLY IN THE DUSTWRAPPER
8vo., First Edition, with a frontispiece and 53 plates on 30, endpapers lightly spotted; original backstrip lettered in red, a good, firm copy in unclipped dustwrapper, the latter lightly age-marked and creased and frayed (without significant loss) at edges. Vividly-written and well-illustrated survey of Coastal Command's contribution to the U-boat war. Very scarce. Enser, p.110.
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WILSON M.C.D.
RAF Coastal Command leads the Invasion. [Foreword by Marshal of the Royal Air Force the Viscount Trenchard].
8vo., First Edition, with frontispiece and 53 plates on 30, endpapers lightly spotted, neat ATC Squadron stamp on front free endpaper; original backstrip lettered in red, a very good, firm, clean copy. Vividly-written and well-illustrated survey of Coastal Command's contribution to the U-boat war. VERY SCARCE. Enser p.110.
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WOODWARD David
The Tirpitz. The Story, including the Destruction of the 'Scharnhorst', of the Campaigns against the German Battleship. [Second Edition]. BRIGHT, CLEAN COPY IN UNCLIPPED DUSTWRAPPER
8vo., Second Edition, with frontispiece, 10 plates on 8 and endpaper maps; blue cloth, gilt back, a very good, clean copy in unclipped dustwrapper, the latter lightly rubbed at extremities. Published in the same month as the first edition. The earliest solid account of RN and RAF efforts. Enser, p.60; Law, 1689
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YOUNG-JAMES Douglas
Memoirs of an ASP. SIGNED PRESENTATION COPY
8vo., First Edition, with portrait frontispiece and plates; blue cloth, gilt back, a very good, bright, clean copy in price-clipped dustwrapper. A PRESENTATION COPY FROM THE AUTHOR WITH HIS SIGNED HOLOGRAPH INSCRIPTION ON FRONT FREE ENDPAPER.
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ZIELINSKI Jozef
Asy Polskiego Lotnictwa. NEAR FINE COPY IN ORIGINAL WRAPPERS
Sm. 4to., First Edition, text in Polish, coloured and monochrome photographs hroughout; pictorial wrappers, wire-stitched as issued, a near fine copy.
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