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OGDEN Bob
Aviation Museums (World Wide excluding USA).. NEAR FINE COPY IN UNCLIPPED DUSTWRAPPER
8vo., First Edition, with photographs in the text; green cloth, gilt back, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper.
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PEARCY Arthur
Lend-Lease Aircraft in World War II. NEAR FINE COPY IN DUSTWRAPPER
4to., First Edition, with numerous photographs in the text; black cloth, gilt back, a near fine copy in price-clipped dustwrapper.
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PRICE Dr. Alfred
Pictorial History of the Luftwaffe. FINE COPY IN UNCLIPPED DUSTWRAPPER
4to., First Edition, with numerous photographs in the text; black cloth, gilt back, a fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper.
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THOMAS Gordon
Ruin from the Air. The Atomic Mission to Hiroshima. NEAR FINE COPY IN UNCLIPPED DUSTWRAPPER
8vo., First Edition, with plates; black cloth, backstrip lettered in silver, red top, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper.
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SWANBOROUGH Gordon
United States Navy Aircraft since 1911. BRIGHT, CLEAN COPY IN UNCLIPPED DUSTWRAPPER
8vo., First Edition, with frontispiece and numerous photographs and illustrations throughout; blue cloth, gilt back, blue top, a very good, bright, clean copy in unclipped dustwrapper, the latter mildly rubbed at extremities.
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BUSHBY John
Air Defence of Great Britain. AUTHOR'S PRESENTATION COPY TO ARCHIBALD HOPE
8vo., First Edition, with plates; blue cloth, backstrip lettered in silver, a near fine copy in price-clipped dustwrapper. A PRESENTATION COPY FROM THE AUTHOR TO SIR ARCHIBALD HOPE WITH THE FORMER'S SIGNED HOLOGRAPH INSCRIPTION ON FRONT FREE ENDPAPER. Loosely inserted is an invitation to Sir Archibald and Lady Hope to attend a Private View at the Mall Galleries.
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FALCK Wolfgang
The Happy Falcon. An Autobiography. Father of the Night Fighters. Translated from Wolfgang Falck's original German language tape recordings by Dr. Helga Hosford. Edited by Jeff Millet. SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR
Sm. folio, First Edition, with numerous photographs and illustrations in the text; black cloth, upper board and backstrip lettered in silver, red endpapers, a fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper. SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR ON PHOTOGRAPHIC PORTRAIT MOUNTED ON FRONT FREE ENDPAPER.
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BOWMAN Martin W.
The Reich Intruders. RAF Light Bomber Raids in World War II. FINE COPY IN UNCLIPPED DUSTWRAPPER
8vo., First Edition, with numerous photographs throughout; black cloth, gilt back, a fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper.
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HEGENER Henri
Fokker. The Man and the Aircraft. Compiled and writen by Henri Hegener. Edited by Bruce Robertson. Tone Paintings by W.F. Hepworth. Based on original Drawings by J.D. Carrick, Frank Yeoman and Paul R. Matt. Produced by D.A. Russell. SIGNED BY AUTHOR, EDITOR AND ILLUSTRATORS
Roy. 8vo., First Edition, with coloured frontispiece, full-page portrait and very numerous photographs and illustrations throughout, endpapers mildly spotted; brown cloth, gilt back, a very good, bright copy in unclipped dustwrapper, the latter chafed and creased at edges. WITH LIMITATION PLATE (SERIAL NO. 51) MOUNTED ON FRONT FREE ENDPAPER. THE PLATE IS SIGNED BY HEGENER, ROBERTSON, HEPWORTH, CARRICK AND RUSSELL. With errata slip mounted on rear free endpaper recto. VERY SCARCE.
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MOMBEEK Eric
The History of Jagdgeschwader 1 'Oesau'. Defending the Reich. Translated from the French by John J. Vasco. [First English Edition]. FIRST ENGLISH EDITION: SIGNED BY ROBERT OLEJNIK
Folio, First Edition thus, with frontispiece, photographic title and very numerous photographs and maps throughout; laminated pictorial boards, a fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper. WITH SIGNED PHOTOGRAPHIC PORTRAIT OF ROBERT OLEJNIK MOUNTED ON FRONT FREE ENDPAPER. SCARCE.
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MACKAY Ron
Messerschmitt Bf 110. WITH SIGNED PORTRAIT OF MARTIN BECKER
Roy. 4to., First Edition, with numerous photographs throughout; black cloth, gilt back, a fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper. WITH SIGNED COLOURED PHOTOGRAPHIC PORTRAIT OF MARTIN BECKER MOUNTED ON ON FRONT FREE ENDPAPER. Martin Becker (1916-2006) is the joint tenth leading night fighter pilot of WWII.
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GRAF Oberst Hermann
200 Luftsiege in 13 Monaten. Nacherzahlt von Berthold K. Jochim. [Third Impression] WITH AUTHOR'S PHOTOGRAPH AND SIGNATURE
8vo., Third Impression, text in German, with photographs and illustrations in the text, page-edges lightly tanned; green cloth, a very good, bright, clean copy in unclipped dustwrapper. WITH THE AUTHOR'S PHOTOGRAPHIC PORTRAIT AND SEPARATE SIGNATURE MOUNTED ON FRONT FREE ENDPAPER. The signature records a return flight from RAF Wildenrath to RAF Farnborough in one of four Harrier aircraft of no. 4 Squadron. Hermann Graf (1912 – 1988) was a WWII German fighter ace. He served on both Eastern and Western Fronts, becoming the first pilot in aviation history to claim 200 aerial victories. In over 830 combat missions he claimed a total of 212 aerial victories, most of them achieved on the Eastern Front. EXTREMELY SCARCE.
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PUSHMAN Muriel Gane
We All Wore Blue. [A Young Girl's Adventures in the wartime WAAF]. SIGNED PRESENTATION COPY
8vo., First Edition, with plates; blue cloth, gilt back, a fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper. A PRESENTATION COPY FROM THE AUTHOR WITH HER SIGNED HOLOGRAPH INSCRIPTION ON TITLE. The author served in the Women's Royal Auxiliary Air Force (WAAF).
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GOSS Chris
Brothers in Arms. The Story of a British and a German Fighter Unit, August to December 1940. EDITION LIMITED TO 200 COPIES WITH TEN SIGNATURES
8vo., First Edition, with photographs in the text; grey cloth, gilt back, a fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper. EDITION LIMITED TO 200 NUMBERED COPIES (THIS COPY NO. 31) WITH LIMITATION PLATE SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR AND NINE VETERANS MOUNTED ON FRONT FREE ENDPAPER. The signatories, in addition to the author, are: Stephen Beaumont, John Bisdee, Josef Broker, Willi Ghesla, Heinrich Hohnisch, Werner Karl, Hans Ohly, Walter Rupp and Herbert Tzschoppe.
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HISTORIC AVIATION PHOTOGRAPHS.
From the Archive Collections of Alfred Kruger, JM Bruce, FJ Cable and Wilfrid Dancy. Sale Catalogue. 6 November 2003 FINE COPY
8vo., with numerous photographs throughout; pictorial wrappers, a fine copy. Kruger archive, lots 1-103; Bruce archive, lots 104-112; Cable archive, lots 113-115; Dancy archive, lots 116-121.
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HISTORIC AVIATION PHOTOGRAPHS.
From the Archive Collections of Amedee Gautier, Alfred Kruger and J.M. Bruce. Sale Catalogue. 21 May 2003 FINE COPY
8vo., with numerous photographs throughout; pictorial wrappers, a fine copy. Gautier Collection, lots 1-44; Kruger Collection lots 45-148; Bruce photographs, lots 149-166.
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PAYNE Michael
La Bataille d'Angleterre. Traduction de J-P De Cock. NEAR FINE COPY
8vo., First Edition, text in French, with very numerous coloured and monochrome photographs and illustrations throughout; laminated pictorial boards, a near fine copy. Includes Luftwaffe OOB.
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MUSGROVE Gordon
Operation Gomorrah. The Hamburg Firestorm Raids. NEAR FINE COPY IN UNCLIPPED DUSTWRAPPER
8vo., First Edition, with map as frontispiece, and numerous plates and maps; burgundy cloth, backstrip lettered in silver, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper. A valuable complement to Middlebrook's account, published the year before. Includes many new photographs. Enser, p.114.
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MOGGS Don
Dad's War. FINE COPY IN UNCLIPPED DUSTWRAPPER
8vo., First Edition, with photographs and facsimiles in the text; black cloth, gilt back, a fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper.
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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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McDONALD, ed. Squadron Leader J.D.
The Pitcher and the Well. Edited by Squadron Leader J.D. McDonald. [Second Impression] NEAR FINE COPY IN DUSTWRAPPER
8vo., Second Impression; brown cloth, gilt back, a near fine copy in price-clipped dustwrapper. Sensitive and moving narrative of service in Bomber Command dictated by a New Zealand airman dying of burns in a German POW camp. Published two years after the New Zealand edition. UNCOMMON IN THIS CONDITION. Enser, p.288 (rcording the first edition).
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MACMILLAN Norman
Tales of Two Air Wars. BRIGHT, CLEAN COPY IN UNCLIPPED DUSTWRAPPER
8vo., First Edition, with maps in the text; blue cloth, backstrip lettered in black, a very good, bright, clean copy in unclipped 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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WYNN Humphrey
Prelude to Overlord. An Account of the Air Operations which preceded and supported Operation Overlord, the Allied Landings in Normandy on D-Day, 6th of June 1944. FINE COPY IN UNCLIPPED DUSTWRAPPER
Roy. 8vo., First Edition, with numerous photographs in the text and folding map; brown cloth, gilt back, a fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper.
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WRAGG David
Carrier Combat. Foreword by Vice-Admiral James C. Wood. FINE COPY IN UNCLIPPED DUSTWRAPPER
Roy. 8vo., First Edition, with very numerous photographs throughout; blue cloth, gilt back, a fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper.
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POOLMAN Kenneth
Allied Escort Carriers of World War Two in Action. NEAR FINE COPY IN DUSTWRAPPER
Roy. 8vo., First Edition, with photographic title-spread and very numerous photographs throughout; blue cloth, a near fine copy in price-clipped dustwrapper.
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SKIERA, ed. Joseph A.
Aircraft Carriers in Peace and War. Edited by Joseph A. Skiera. BRIGHT COPY IN UNCLIPPED DUSTWRAPPER
8vo., First Edition, with plates; blue cloth, upper board and backstrip lettered in darker blue, blue top (faded as usual), a good, bright copy in unclipped, moderately rubbed dustwrapper.
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RAWLINGS John D.R.
Pictorial History of the Fleet Air Arm. BRIGHT, CLEAN COPY IN UNCLIPPED DUSTWRAPPER
8vo., First Edition, with very numerous photographs throughout, free endpapers lightly spotted; blue cloth, backstrip lettered in silver, a very good, bright, clean copy in unclipped dustwrapper.
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SMITH P.C.
Eagle's War. The War Diary of an Aircraft Carrier. NEAR FINE COPY IN DUSTWRAPPER
8vo., First Edition, with 46 plates on 24 and a full-page chart in the text; blue cloth, gilt back, a near fine copy in price-clipped dustwrapper. With striking wrap-around dustwrapper artwork by E. Tufnell. Moving account of the famous carrier, told through eye-witness accounts and supplemented by a well-chosen selection of rare photographs (mostly private and almost all previously unpublished). Covers her story from commencement of hostilities to her loss with Operation PEDESTAL.
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MAITLAND Squadron Leader Andrew
Through the Bombsight. FINE COPY IN UNCLIPPED DUSTWRAPPER
8vo., First Edition, with photographs in the text; red cloth, gilt back, a fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper. Enser, p.32.
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ORMES Ian
Clipped Wings. NEAR FINE COPY IN UNCLIPPED DUSTWRAPPER
8vo., First Edition, with illustrations in the text; blue cloth, gilt back, a near fine copy in unclipped, lightly browned dustwrapper.
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JAWORZYN J.F.
No Place to Land. A Pilot in Coastal Command NEAR FINE COPY IN UNCLIPPED DUSTWRAPPER
8vo., First Edition, with plates, front free endpaper clipped; blue cloth, gilt back, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper.
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SMITH E.A.W.
Spitfire Diary. The Boys of One-Two-Seven. NEAR FINE COPY IN UNCLIPPED DUSTWRAPPER
8vo., First Edition, with plates; red cloth, gilt back, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper.
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ORMES Ian
The Sky Masters. NEAR FINE COPY IN DUSTWRAPPER
8vo., First Edition, with plates; blue cloth, gilt back, a near fine copy in price-clipped dustwrapper.
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KNAUSEL Hans G.
Zeppelin and the United States of America. An important Episode in German-American Relations. [Second and Enlarged Edition]. NEAR FINE COPY IN UNCLIPPED DUSTWRAPPER
8vo., Second Edition, text in English and German, with photographs and facsimiles in the text; original printed wrappers, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper. Considerably enlarged version of the original edition of 1976.
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REVELL Alex
Brief Glory. The Life of Arthur Rhys Davids. THE ORIGINAL EDITION IN UNCLIPPED DUSTWRAPPER
8vo., First Edition, with plates; blue cloth, gilt back, a fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper. Not recorded by Noffsinger.
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TOMKINS Nigel M.
Air Transport Hulks. FINE COPY IN UNCLIPPED DUSTWRAPPER
8vo., First Edition, with numerous photographs throughout; red cloth, gilt back, a fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper.
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MESSENGER Charles
'Bomber' Harris and the Strategic Bombing Offensive, 1939-1945. [First South African Edition]. FINE COPY IN UNCLIPPED DUSTWRAPPER
8vo., First Edition thus, with plates, maps and diagrams; black cloth, gilt back, a fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper. Enser, p.213 (recording the first edition).
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WAKEFIELD Kenneth
The First Pathfinders. The Operational History of Kampfgruppe 100 1939-41. NEAR FINE COPY IN UNCLIPPED DUSTWRAPPER
8vo., First Edition, with photographs and maps in the text; black cloth, gilt back, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper. Enser, p.105.
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WHITE Roger Henshaw
Spitfire Saga - with a Spell on Wellingtons. BRIGHT, CLEAN COPY IN UNCLIPPED DUSTWRAPPER
8vo., First Edition, with photographs in the text; blue cloth, gilt back, a very good, bright, clean copy in unclipped dustwrapper. Enser, p.84.
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TAYLOR Geoff
The Nuremberg Massacre. BRIGHT, CLEAN COPY IN UNCLIPPED DUSTWRAPPER
8vo., First Edition, with plates and endpaper charts; black cloth, backstrip lettered in white, a very good, bright, clean copy in unclipped, lightly soiled dustwrapper. Enser, p.166.
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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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MIDDLETON Drew
The Sky Suspended. The Battle of Britain. [First US Edition]. BRIGHT, CLEAN COPY IN UNCLIPPED DUSTWRAPPER
8vo., First Edition thus, with pictorial endpapers, some mild offsetting from fold-ins to free endpapers; black cloth, gilt back, a good, bright, clean copy in unclipped dustwrapper. Vividly-written, largely eye-witness account of the fateful summer of 1940 by the London Correspondent of the New York Times. Published simultaneously with the UK edition. Enser, p.57 (recording the UK edition.
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THOMAS Lowell
Bomber Commander. The Life of James H. Doolittle. [First UK Edition]. FIRST UK EDITION IN UNCLIPPED DUSTWRAPPER
8vo., First Edition thus, with plates; brown cloth, gilt back, a very good, bright, clean copy in unclipped dustwrapper, the latter lightly sunned at backstrip. Published simultaneously with the US edition.
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ZIJLSTRA Gerrit
Diary of an Air War. Allied Flights over Fortress Europe in WWII. A Teenage Witness in the Netherlands. [Revised Edition]. FINE COPY IN DUSTWRAPPER
8vo., Revised Edition, with photographs in the text; blue cloth, gilt back, a fine copy in price-clipped dustwrapper. With personal book-stamp on front free endpaper.
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MILLER Horace Clive
Early Birds. [First UK Edition]. BRIGHT, CLEAN COPY IN DUSTWRAPPER
8vo., First Edition thus, with plates; red cloth, gilt back, a very good,bright, clean copy in price-clipped dustwrapper, the latter sunned at backstrip. Published simultaneously with the US edition. The author served in France in 3 Squadron AFC. Noffsinger 1016.
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SCHARFF Robert
Over Land and Sea. A Biography of Glenn Hammond Curtiss. BRIGHT, CLEAN COPY IN UNCLIPPED DUSTWRAPPER
8vo., First Edition, with plates, fore-edge very faintly spotted; blue cloth, gilt back, a very good, bright, clean copy in unclipped dustwrapper.
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WILLIAMS Dennis
Stirlings in Action with the Airborne Forces. Air Support for SAS and Resistance Operations during WWII. FINE COPY IN UNCLIPPED DUSTWRAPPER
8vo., First Edition, with numerous photographs throughout; black cloth, gilt back, a fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper.
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MACDONALD Patrick
Through Darkness to Light. FINE COPY IN UNCLIPPED DUSTWRAPPER
8vo., Revised Edition, with photographs and illustrations in the text, and endpaper maps; black cloth, gilt back, a fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper. The story of the night bombers of 205 Group RAF and their assaults on Rumanian oilfields.
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McKEE Alexander
Strike from the Sky. The Story of the Battle of Britain. [Revised Edition]. NEAR FINE COPY IN UNCLIPPED DUSTWRAPPER
8vo., Revised Edition, with plates and endpaper maps; black cloth, backstrip lettered in silver, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper. Revised version of the original edition of 1960. Enser, p.57 (recording the first edition).
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