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MARTIN (ed.) G.C. Sqdn.-Ldr.
Royal Air Force C-130 Hercules. The First 25 Years. 1967-1992. [Foreword by Gp. Cpt. D N Adams, Station Commander, RAF Lyneham]. NEAR FINE COPY IN ORIGINAL WRAPPERS
Roy. 8vo., First Edition, with very numerous coloured and monochrome photographs and drawings throughout; original pictorial wrappers, wire-stitched as issued, a near fine copy. With many trade advertisements. Contents includes history of RAF Lyneham, history of the aircraft, technical specifications (with cutaway drawings), squadron histories and accounts of Marshalls of Cambridge and Lockheed. Scarce.
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GLINES Carroll V.
Attack on Yamamoto. SIGNED BY REX BARBER
8vo., First Edition, with plates; brown cloth, blue cloth back lettered in silver, a near fine copy in price-clipped dustwrapper. SIGNED BY COLONEL REX BARBER ON BOOKPLATE MOUNTED ON FRONT FREE ENDPAPER. Rex Barber was one of the three 'killer' pilots responsible for the successful interception and death of Admiral Yamamoto at Bougainville Island in 1943.
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CURTIS Des
A Most Secret Squadron. The First Full Story of 618 Squadron and its Special Detachment Anti-U-Boat Mosquitos. FINE COPY IN UNCLIPPED DUSTWRAPPER
8vo., First Edition, with photographs and facsimiles in the text; blue cloth, backstrip lettered in silver, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper.
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FRANCILLON Rene J.
McDonnell Douglas Aircraft since 1920. BRIGHT, CLEAN COPY IN DUSTWRAPPER
8vo., First Edition, with frontispiece, and very numerous photographs and diagrams throughout; blue cloth, gilt back, a very good, bright, clean copy in dustwrapper, the latter sunned at backstrip.
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COOPER Alan
The Dambusters Squadron. Fifty Years of 617 Squadron RAF. [Foreword by Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth, the Queen Mother]. NEAR FINE COPY
4to., First Edition, with pictorial title-spread and very numerous photographs and illustrations in the text; original pictorial wrappers, a near fine copy. Splendid assembly of photographs covering the Dams, Tallboy, Tirpitz, and Grand Slam in WWII, and continuing the story of the RAF's most respected squadron up to the first Gulf War.
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HYDE Andrew P
The First Blitz. The German Bomber Campaign against Britain in the First World War. SIGNED PRESENTATION COPY
8vo., First Edition, with plates; black cloth, gilt back, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper A PRESENTATION COPY FROM THE AUTHOR WITH HIS SIGNED HOLOGRAPH INSCRIPTION ON HALF-TITLE.
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BURGE Major C. Gordon
The Annals of 100 Squadron. Being a Record of the War Activities of the Pioneer Night Bombing Squadron in France during the Period March 1917 to 11 November 1918. With a Foreword by Air Marshal Sir Hugh Trenchard. [Facsimile reissue.] 500 COPIES WERE PRINTED
Roy. 8vo., with portrait frontispiece and photographs in the text; blue cloth, upper board and backstrip lettered in gilt, a fine copy. EDITION LIMITED TO 500 NUMBERED COPIES (THIS COPY NO. 143). Facsimile reissue of the original edition of 1918.
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KERR Wing Commander George P.
Time's Forelock. A Record of Shell's Contribution to Aviation in the Second World War. [Illustrations by Laurence Scarfe]. NEAR FINE COPY
8vo., First Edition, with frontispiece, and photographs, illustrations and charts in the text; patterned boards, blue cloth back lettered in gilt, a very good, bright, clean copy.
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SMITH J Richard
Focke-Wulf Fw 200. [Aircraft Profile 99]. BRIGHT, CLEAN COPY IN WRAPPERS
8vo., First Edition, with coloured and monochrome photographs and illustrations throughout; pictorial wrappers, wire-stitched as issued, a very good, bright, clean copy. [Aircraft Profile 99].
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BRINDLEY John F
Mikoyan MiG-21 ('Fishbed') variants. [Aircraft Profile 238]. BRIGHT, CLEAN COPY IN WRAPPERS
8vo., First Edition, with coloured and monochrome photographs and illustrations throughout; pictorial wrappers, wire-stitched as issued, a very good, bright, clean copy. [Aircraft Profile 238].
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PRICE Alfred
Heinkel He 177. [Aircraft Profile 234]. BRIGHT, CLEAN COPY IN WRAPPERS
8vo., First Edition, with coloured and monochrome photographs and illustrations throughout; pictorial wrappers, wire-stitched as issued, a very good, bright, clean copy. [Aircraft Profile 234].
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TURNER Paul St. John
Lockheed C-130 Hercules. [Aircraft Profile 223]. BRIGHT, CLEAN COPY IN WRAPPERS
8vo., First Edition, with coloured and monochrome photographs and illustrations throughout; pictorial wrappers, wire-stitched as issued, a very good, bright, clean copy. [Aircraft Profile 223].
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BACHELOR Len
Supermarine Seafires (Merlins). [Aircraft Profile 221]. BRIGHT, CLEAN COPY IN WRAPPERS
8vo., First Edition, with coloured and monochrome photographs and illustrations throughout; pictorial wrappers, wire-stitched as issued, a very good, bright, clean copy. [Aircraft Profile 221].
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BOTQUIN Gaston
The Morane Saulnier 406. [Aircraft Profile 147]. BRIGHT, CLEAN COPY IN WRAPPERS
8vo., First Edition, with coloured and monochrome photographs and illustrations throughout; pictorial wrappers, wire-stitched as issued, a very good, bright, clean copy. [Aircraft Profile 147].
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SHORES Christopher F
The Brewster Buffalo. [Aircraft Profile 217]. BRIGHT, CLEAN COPY IN WRAPPERS
8vo., First Edition, with coloured and monochrome photographs and illustrations throughout; pictorial wrappers, wire-stitched as issued, a very good, bright, clean copy. [Aircraft Profile 217].
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STOTT Ian G
The Fairey Swordfish Mks I-IV. [Aircraft Profile 212]. BRIGHT, CLEAN COPY IN WRAPPERS
8vo., First Edition, with coloured and monochrome photographs and illustrations throughout; pictorial wrappers, wire-stitched as issued, a very good, bright, clean copy. [Aircraft Profile 212].
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COBHAM Sir Alan
Twenty Thousand Miles in a Flying-Boat. My Flight round Africa. [Second Impression]. BRIGHT, CLEAN COPY
8vo., Second Impression, with frontispiece, plates and folding map, neat contemporary inscription on front free endpaper; blue cloth, gilt back, covers gently age-soiled else a very good, bright, clean copy. Published a year after the first edition.
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GANN Ernest K.
Gann's Flying Circus. Paintings by Robert Parks. NEAR FINE COPY IN DUSTWRAPPER
8vo., First Edition, with17 double-page coloured plates; black cloth, gilt back, a near fine copy in dustwrapper.
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BUDLER Julius
Malaula!, Der Kampfruf meiner Staffel. Vom Dachdeckerlehrling zum Pour le Mérite-Offizier. Eingeleitet von Peter Supf. BRIGHT, CLEAN COPY
8vo., text in German, with plates, wanting front free endpaper; grey cloth, upper board and backstrip blocked and lettered in blue, covers mildly age-soiled else a very good, bright, clean copy. SCARCE.
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MILLER Lt. Max
Daybreak for our Carrier. Official US Navy Photographs by Lt. Charles E. Kerlee. BRIGHT, CLEAN COPY
8vo., First Edition, with frontispiece and numerous photographs throughout; pictorial cloth, backstrip lettered in white, a very good, bright, clean copy. Enser, p.22.
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LAYMAN R.D.
Naval Aviation in the First World War. Its Impact and Influence. [Second Edition.] NEAR FINE COPY IN UNCLIPPED DUSTWRAPPER
8vo., Second Edition, with plates; pictorial boards, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper. First published in 1996.
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JUBELIN Rear-Admiral Andre
The Flying Sailor. Translated from the French by James Cleugh. [First English Edition.] NEAR FINE COPY OF FIRST ENGLISH EDITION
8vo., First Edition thus, with portrait frontispiece and plates, neat contemporary signature on front free endpaper; blue cloth, gilt back, a near fine copy. Published two years after the French edition.
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AIR MINISTRY.
Airborne Forces. The Second World War 1939-1945. Royal Air Force. AP 3231. BRIGHT, CLEAN COPY OF THE ORIGINAL EDITION
8vo., First Edition, with coloured maps; original blue cloth gilt, a very good, bright, clean copy. Publication AP 3231. Restricted official history. EXTREMELY SCARCE.
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MOXON Oliver
Bitter Monsoon. The Memoirs of a Fighter Pilot. BRIGHT, CLEAN COPY IN UNCLIPPED DUSTWRAPPER
8vo., First Edition, with 8 plates and full-page map in the text, some mild offsetting from fold-ins to free endpapers; black cloth, gilt back, a very good, bright, clean copy in unclipped dustwrapper, the latter rubbed at head and tail of backstrip. A key work in the history of the war in the air in Burma, providing a first-hand illustrated account of service with 5 Squadron RAF in the Imphal Valley from 1944 onwards. Graham & Cole U45, V59, V58 respectively.
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TAYLOR, ed. William B.
14th Combat Bombardment Wing (H). NEAR FINE COPY
8vo., with numerous photographs in the text; blue cloth, upper board blocked and lettered in silver, a fine copy.
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PRICE Alfred
Battle of Britain: The Hardest Day. 18 August 1940. NEAR FINE COPY IN UNCLIPPED DUSTWRAPPER
8vo., First Edition, with plates and maps in the text, publisher's file stamp on front paste-down; black cloth, backstrip lettered in silver, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper. Enser, p.22.
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WALKER Oliver
Sailor Malan. A Biography. BRIGHT COPY IN DUSTWRAPPER
8vo., First Edition, with portrait frontispiece and plates; black cloth, gilt back, a very good, bright, clean copy in dustwrapper, the latter with scuffs on front panel and tiny loss at lower edge of rear panel. SCARCE IN THIS CONDITION.
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LORD Walter
Day of Infamy. [First UK Edition.] BRIGHT, CLEAN COPY IN UNCLIPPED DUSTWRAPPER
8vo., First Edition thus, with 50 plates on 32 and front and rear endpaper maps, some faint offsetting from fold-ins to free endpapers; blue cloth, gilt back, a very good, bright, clean copy in unclipped dustwrapper, the latter mildly rubbed at extremities. With striking dustwrapper artwork by W. Harry Sheldon. Classic early account of Pearl Harbor by the author of 'A Night to Remember'. Using a similar technique Lord interviewed nearly six hundred eye-witnesses and others associated with the disaster. The first UK edition is strangely elusive in this condition. Enser, p.325.
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54 SQUADRON RFC
Cinquante Quatre. Flying Corps Songs. [Third Impression.] BRIGHT, CLEAN COPY OF THE [?LAST] EDITION
8vo., Third Impression, with full-page illustrations in the text; blue cloth, upper board lettered in gilt, a remarkably well-preserved, bright, clean copy. This privately printed collection of RFC songs was first published in July 1917 with a second impression in April 1918. This third (and we believe final) impression was issued in October 1918 shortly before the Armistice. EXTREMELY SCARCE. Noffsinger 278 (recording only the second impression).
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FUTRELL Robert Frank
The United States Air Force in Korea 1950-1953. BRIGHT, CLEAN COPY IN UNCLIPPED DUSTWRAPPER
8vo., First Edition, with very numerous plates and maps; blue cloth, upper board blocked in black, backstrip lettered in black, upper hinge tender (but binding entirely sound), a bright, clean copy in unclipped dustwrapper.
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BROWN J.D.
Carrier Operations in World War II. Edited by David Hobbs. NEAR FINE COPY IN UNCLIPPED DUSTWRAPPER
4to., First Edition, with frontispiece and very numerous photographs throughout; dark green cloth, gilt back, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper.
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STEVENS Steve
Beaufighter over the Balkans. From the Balkans Air Force to the Berlin Airlift. SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR
8vo., First Edition, with numerous photographs in the text; black cloth, gilt back, a fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR ON TITLE.
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DOUGLAS-HAMILTON James
The Air Battle for Malta. The Diaries of a Spitfire Pilot. Introduction by P.B. 'Laddie' Lucas. [Fourth Edition]. FINE COPY IN WRAPPERS
8vo., Fourth Edition, with numerous photographs in the text; pictorial wrappers, a fine copy. First published in 1981. Enser, p.150 (recording the first edition).
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REES Wing Commander Ken
Lie in the Dark and listen. The remarkable Exploits of a WWII Bomber Pilot and Great Escaper. With Karen Arrandale. FINE COPY IN UNCLIPPED DUSTWRAPPER
8vo., First Edition, with plates; navy cloth, gilt back, a fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper. Vividly-written account of over fifty bomber sorties, capture, imprisonment in Sagan Stalag Luft III, and participation in the The Great Escape and subsequent Death March to Bremen.
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RANDLE Bill
Kondor. SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR
8vo., First Edition; black cloth, gilt back, a fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper. SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR ON HALF-TITLE. Vividly-written novel based closely on the author's service in WWII.
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LONDON Peter
U-Boat Hunters. Cornwall's Air War 1916-19 NEAR FINE COPY
8vo., First Edition, with photographs and maps in the text; pictorial wrappers, a near fine copy. SCARCE.
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LUCAS Laddie
Flying Colours. The Epic Story of Douglas Bader. NEAR FINE COPY IN DUSTWRAPPER
8vo., First Edition, with plates; green cloth, backstrip lettered in silver, a near fine copy in price-clipped dustwrapper.
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CUTHBERT Geoffrey
Flying to the Sun. Quarter Century of Britannia Airways, Europe's leading leisure airline. NEAR FINE COPY IN UNCLIPPED DUSTWRAPPER
Roy. 8vo., First Edition, with numerous photographs and maps throughout; blue cloth, gilt back, marbled endpapers, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper.
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CHARTRES John
Shackleton at War and Peace. NEAR FINE COPY IN UNCLIPPED DUSTWRAPPER
Sm. folio, First Edition, with photographic title-spread and numerous photographs and illustrations throughout, neat personal name-stamp on endpapers; blue cloth, gilt back, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper.
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FRANKS Norman L.R.
Royal Air Force Fighter Command Losses of the Second World War. [Complete set.] BRIGHT, CLEAN SET
3 vols., 8vo., with numerous photographs in the text; original pictorial wrappers, a very good, bright, clean set. The set comprises Vol. 1: Operational Losses: Aircraft and Crews 1939-1941 (1997); Vol. 2: Operational Losses: Aircraft and Crews 1942-1943 (1998); Vol. 3: Operational Losses: Aircraft and Crews 1944-1945 (incorporating Air Defence Great Britain and 2nd TAF) (2000). The standard reference. COMPLETE SETS ARE NOW VERY SCARCE.
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JAMESON William
Ark Royal 1939-1941. IN FULL MOROCCO
8vo., First Edition, with frontispiece, 24 plates on 16, a double-page plan and numerous maps (a number full-page) in the text; handsomely bound in full navy crushed morocco, sides with gilt frame border, back with raised bands, second and fourth compartments lettered in gilt, all other compartments tooled with gilt anchor, gilt top, hand-made endpapers, a most attractive copy ideal as a gift or for presentation. 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. Enser, p.21; Law, 0961.
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ROYAL AIR FORCE
No. 5 Group Operation Order No. B.976. [Photocopy of the Operational Order for Operation CHASTISE]. THE 'DAM BUSTERS' OPERATIONAL ORDER IN FACSIMILE
Foolscap, 6pp typescript, with 8pp supplementary material in typescript; wire-stitched, a very good, clean copy. Classified 'Most Secret', the operational order is dated 16 May 1943 and arranged under the following headings: General, Enemy Defences, Intention, Code Name, Date of Attack, Effort, Outline Plan, Detailed Plan, Method of Attack, Time of Attack, Routes, Diversions, Armament, Fuel, Navigation, Synchronisation of Watches, Secrecy, Reports, Special Devices, Nickels, Wireless Silence, MF/DF Section, Executive Order. Three technical Appendices covering routes, timings, signals procedures, and light and moon tables are not present with this copy. The order itself is accompanied by a further 8pp of photocopies comprising 1) 2pp of prose by Marshal of the RAF Arthur 'Bomber' Harris written for ex-Pathfinder Hamish Mahaddie and used by him during lecture tours in Australia and New Zealand; 2) a full-page copy of the well-known photographic portrait of Harris with his signature; 3) 5pp photocopy of the Service of Thanksgiving for Air Marshal Sir Harold Martin held at the RAF church St. Clement Danes on 4 January 1989, including the tribute written and delivered by Group Captain Leonard Cheshire.
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AERO MODELLER.
Aero Modeller Annual 1957-58. A Review of the Year's Aero-modelling throughout the World in theory and practice. Compiled by D.J. Laidlaw-Jackson and edited by C.S. Rushbrooke A RARE SURVIVAL IN UNCLIPPED DUSTWRAPPER
8vo., First Edition, with coloured frontispiece and very numerous illustrations and diagrams throughout, some mild offsetting from fold-ins to free endpapers; terracotta cloth, upper board and backstrip lettered in gilt, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper with small label scar on front panel. IN THIS CONDITION, A RARE SURVIVAL.
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GRAHAME-WHITE Claude
Heroes of the Flying Corps. A Description of the Work of the Airmen during the Early Stages of the War. Illustrated by Cyrus Cuneo. THE ORIGINAL EDITION, WANTING FRONTISPIECE
8vo., First Edition, with 5 fine coloured plates BUT WANTING COLOURED FRONTISPIECE; pictorial green cloth, upper board and backstrip blocked and lettered in gilt and colours, blue edges, pale blue endpapers, expertly recased, covers worn else a sound, firm copy. Arguably the scarcest of the Grahame-White and Harper collaborations, with striking plates by Cuneo senior. The missing frontispiece notwithstanding, a very good, bright, clean copy. EXTREMELY SCARCE. Enser, p.305; Noffsinger 557 (recording only the second edition of 1919).
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AIRCREW ASSOCIATION
Intercom 1-10. [The magazine of the Aircrew Association.] BRIGHT, CLEAN COPY
10 numbers in 1 vol., 8vo., First Edition, with photographs, illustrations and maps in the text; pictorial wrappers, passe-partout backstrip, a very good, bright, clean copy. SCARCE.
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LISIEWICZ, et al, eds.] [M.
Destiny can wait. The Polish Air Force in the Second World War. Foreword by Marshal of the RAF Viscount Portal of Hungerford. THE SCARCE ORIGINAL EDITION
4to., First Edition, with a coloured frontispiece, 7 coloured plates, 108 monochrome photographs on 48, 12 full-page plates of drawings by Topolski and numerous illustrations, diagrams and tail-pieces in the text; original blue cloth, backstrip lettered in silver, boards and backstrip very lightly rubbed and age-marked else a very good, clean copy. Classic account prepared by the Polish Air Force association in London as the official English language history of Polish flyers in WW 2. The text is based on combat reports, squadron diaries and official records, with personal narratives by many former aircrew and (all-important) ground staff. It is the definitive account of the ten fighter squadrons (302, 303, 306, 307, 308, 309, 315, 316, 317, 318) and four bomber squadrons (300, 301, 304, 305) that flew with the RAF to such notable effect. VERY SCARCE
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HERWIG Dieter
Luftwaffe Secret Projects. Strategic Bombers 1935-1945. [Translated from the German by Elke and John Weal. First English Edition.] NEAR FINE COPY IN UNCLIPPED 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.
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LANDE D.A.
From Somewhere in England. [The Life and Times of 8th AF Bomber, Fighter and Ground Crews in WWII.] NEAR FINE COPY IN UNCLIPPED DUSTWRAPPER
Sm. folio, First Edition, with numerous coloured and monochrome photographs throughout; black cloth, backstrip lettered in silver, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper.
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KINGSFORD-SMITH Sir Charles
My Flying Life. An Authentic Biography prepared under the personal supervision of and from the Diaries and Papers of the late Sir Charles Kingsford-Smith. [Second Impression.] BRIGHT, CLEAN COPY IN UNCLIPPED DUSTWRAPPER
8vo., Second Impression, with portrait frontispiece and plates, wanting front free endpaper; red cloth, backstrip lettered in black, a bright, clean copy in unclipped dustwrpper, the latter rubbed and frayed at edges. Published a month after the first edition.
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KINGSFORD A. R.
Night Raiders of the Air. NEAR FINE COPY IN UNCLIPPED DUSTWRAPPER
8vo., with plates; black cloth, gilt back, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper. Much-needed reissue of the original edition of 1930. SCARCE IN THIS CONDITION. Noffsinger 848 (recording the 1939 edition).
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