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ARCHER Robert D.
The Republic F-105 Thunderchief. The Story of Republic's Mach 2 Strike Fighter in Peace and at War. Art Work by Dave Beigle. BRIGHT, CLEAN COPY
Oblong 4to., First Edition, with numerous coloured and monochrome photographs, and coloured illustrations; pictorial wrappers, covers lightly age-browned else a very good, bright, clean copy.
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FALCONER Jonathan
RAF Bomber Command 1939-1945. Operations Manual. Insights into the Organisation, Equipment, Men, Machines, Technology and Tactics of the RAF's Bomber Offensive 1939-1945. NEAR FINE COPY
8vo., First Edition, with coloured and monochrome photographs; laminated pictorial boards, a near fine copy.
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DRENDEL Lou
Aircraft No. 32. F-14 Tomcat in Action. NEAR FINE COPY
Oblong 4to., First Edition, with numerous photographs and fine coloured illustrations throughout; pictorial wrappers, wire-stitched as issued, a near fine copy.
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DAVIES Steve
Lockheed SR-71 Blackbird. 1964 onwards (all Marks). Owner's Workshop Manual. An Insight into the Design, Operation and Maintenance of the secret US Cold War Reconnaissance Aircraft. FINE COPY
8vo., with coloured and monochrome photographs, and numerous diagrams throughout; laminated pictorial boards, a fine copy.
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PRICE, Alfred
Avro Vulcan. 1952 onwards (B2 Model). Owner's Workshop Manual. New and Updated Edition. An Insight into owning, restoring, servicing and flying Britain's iconic Cold War Bomber. FINE COPY
8vo., with coloured and monochrome photographs, and numerous diagrams throughout; laminated pictorial boards, a fine copy.
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HOLMES Tony
Grumman F-14 Tomcat. All Models 1970-2006. Owner's Workshop Manual. Insights into operating and maintaining the US Navy's legendary variable-geometry carrier-based air superiority Fighter. FINE COPY
8vo., First Edition, with coloured photographs, and numerous diagrams throughout; laminated pictorial boards, a fine copy.
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HOWARD Lee
Westland Wessex. 1958 onwards (all Models). Owner's Workshop Manual. An Insight into the Design, Construction, Operation and Maintenance of an anti-submarine, trooping, SAR and WIP Helicopter. FINE COPY
8vo., First Edition, with coloured photographs, and numerous diagrams throughout; laminated pictorial boards, a fine copy.
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HOSKINS Tony
Douglas A-1 Skyraider. 1945-85 (all Marks and Variants). Owner's Workshop Manual. The legendary US post-war single-seat attack Aircraft that found Fame in the Skies over Korea and Vietnam. FINE COPY
8vo., First Edition, with coloured photographs, and numerous diagrams throughout; laminated pictorial boards, a fine copy.
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COTTER Jarrod
Sopwith Camel 1916-20. (F.1/2F.1). Owner's Workshop Manual. An Insight into owning, restoring, servicing and flying Britain's iconic First World War biplane Fighter. FINE COPY
8vo., First Edition, with coloured photographs, and numerous diagrams throughout; laminated pictorial boards, a fine copy.
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FALCONER Jonathan
RAF 100 1918-2018. Technical Innovations Manual. Insights into the Design and Use of 100 technical Innovations that have benefitted the RAF in its first 100 Years. FINE COPY
8vo., with coloured photographs, and numerous diagrams throughout; laminated pictorial boards, a fine copy.
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GRIEHL Manfred
Junkers Ju 87 Stuka. [First English Edition.] FIRST ENGLISH EDITION IN DUSTWRAPPER
8vo., First Edition thus, with numerous photographs throughout; blue cloth, gilt back, a near fine copy in price-clipped dustwrapper. The German edition appeared in 1998.
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BRICKHILL Paul
The Dam Busters. With a Foreword by Marshal of the Royal Air Force The Lord Tedder. [Twelfth Impression.] BRIGHT, CLEAN COPY
8vo., Twelfth Impression, with portrait frontispiece and 17 plates on 12, small neat contemporary signature on front paste-down; navy cloth, gilt back, a very good, bright, clean copy. First published in 1951. The moving story of RAF Bomber Command's most famous squadron and arguably the most famous air exploit of WWII. The stirring 'Dam Busters March', written by Eric Coates as the theme to the movie, was almost immediately adopted as an official march of the Royal Air Force. Enser, p.64; Mulholland & Jordan B121 (all recording the first edition).
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AIRCRAFT PROFILES
Aircraft Profiles Nos. 1-262. MAGNIFICENT UNBROKEN RUN OF AIRCRAFT PROFILES
262 vols., 8vo., First Edition, with coloured and monochrome illustrations, and monochrome photographs; pictorial wrappers, wire-stitched as issued, a few covers lightly age-soiled else all very good, clean copies. The run comprises Nos. 1 - 262, encompassing all three cover styles of this well-known and much-collected series from its inception in the mid-1960s. RUNS OF THIS CALIBRE ARE EXTREMELY SCARCE.
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BRICKHILL Paul
The Dam Busters. With a Foreword by Marshal of the Royal Air Force The Lord Tedder. [Fifth Impression.] SIGNED BY DAMBUSTERS VETERANS
8vo., Fifth Impression, with portrait frontispiece and 17 plates on 12; navy cloth, gilt back, a very good, bright, clean copy in unclipped dustwrapper, the latter lightly chafed at extremities. SIGNED IN PENCIL ON TITLE BY DAM BUSTERS VETERANS JOHNNY JOHNSON (T-Tommy) AND LES MUNRO (W-Willie), AND ADDITIONALLY BY MARY STOPES-ROE (daughter of Barnes-Wallis). A photograph with printed signature of Richard Todd (Wing Commander Guy Gibson in Michael Anderson's well-known film) is mounted on front free endpaper. Published a year after the first edition. The moving story of RAF Bomber Command's most famous squadron and arguably the most famous air exploit of WWII. The stirring 'Dam Busters March', written by Eric Coates as the theme to the movie, was almost immediately adopted as an official march of the Royal Air Force. Enser, p.64; Mulholland & Jordan B121 (recording the first edition).
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BOWYER Chaz
Eugene Esmonde VC, DSO. NEAR FINE COPY IN DUSTWRAPPER
8vo., First Edition, with very numerous photographs in the text; blue cloth, gilt back, a near fine copy in price-clipped dustwrapper. This well illustrated biography of Esmonde - the best to date - inevitably concentrates on the Bismarck and Channel Dash actions. A valuable complement to Robertson's 'Channel Dash' (1958); the attack comprised six Swordfish torpedo bombers, each with a crew of three, versus the battlecruisers SCHARNHORST and GNEISENAU and the heavy cruiser PRINZ EUGEN. Impossibly outgunned, the six old aircraft nevertheless pressed home their attack, during which all six machines were destroyed. Of the eighteen crewmen involved only five survived. Law, 0756; Mulholland & Jordan B87.
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JULLIAN Marcel
The Battle of Britain. July-September 1940. Translated from the French by Ann-Yvette and Alan Stewart. NEAR FINE COPY IN UNCLIPPED DUSTWRAPPER
8vo., with plates and endpaper maps; red cloth, gilt back, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper. One of the best overall histories of the battle, first published in Paris in 1965. Enser, p.57 (recording the first English edition).
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RAMSEY, ed. Winston G.
The Battle of Britain Then and Now. Mk II. [Revised Edition.] NEAR FINE COPY OF THE REVISED EDITION
Roy. 8vo., with many hundreds of photographs and facsimiles throughout, and pictorial endpapers; blue faux-morocco, gilt back, a near fine copy in price-clipped dustwrapper. Revised and updated version of the definitive pictorial retrospective, first published in 1980, based on the 'then and now' photographic matches for which this publisher is renowned.
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EADES Douglas
The Turrets of War. SIGNED PRESENTATION COPY
8vo., First Edition, with photographs in the text; black cloth, gilt back, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper. A PRESENTATION COPY FROM THE AUTHOR WITH HIS SIGNED HOLOGRAPH INSCRIPTION ON FRONT FREE ENDPAPER. Vividly-written account of Halifax sorties in the Battle of the Ruhr.
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AIR MINISTRY.
Pilot's Notes for Firefly. F.Mk.1, FR.Mk.I, NF.Mk.I, NF.Mk. II. Griffon II or XII Engine. Promulgated by order of the Air Council. Second Edition (cancels edition dated Feb. 1944). NEAR FINE COPY IN ORIGINAL WRAPPERS
8vo., Second Edition, with frontispiece, full-page illustration in the text and 3 large folding charts; original printed wrappers, wire-stitched as issued, covers laminated at edges, a near fine copy. Air Publication 2102A & B. VERY SCARCE IN THIS CONDITION.
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WOOD J. P.
Aircraft Nose Art. 80 Years of Aviation Artwork. FINE COPY IN UNCLIPPED DUSTWRAPPER
Folio, First Edition, with coloured title-spread and numerous coloured photographs throughout; white cloth, gilt back, a fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper.
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FUNDERBURK Thomas R.
The Fighters. The Man and Machines of the First Air War. [First UK Edition.] BRIGHT, CLEAN COPY IN DUSTWRAPPER
Roy. 8vo., First Edition thus, with numerous photographs and illustrations in the text, and coloured pictorial endpapers; red cloth, gilt back, a very good, bright, clean copy in price-clipped dustwrapper. Published a year after the US edition. Noffsinger 510.
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FREEMAN Roger A.
The Hub. Fighter Leader. The Story of Hub Zemke, America's great World War II Fighter Commander. NEAR FINE COPY IN UNCLIPPED DUSTWRAPPER
8vo., First Edition, with plates; grey cloth, gilt back, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper. With small personal label on front free endpaper.
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JENKINS Commander C. A.
Warship Profile 23. HMS Furious. Aircraft Carrier 1917-1948. Part 1: The First Eight Years. BRIGHT, CLEAN COPY IN ORIGINAL WRAPPERS
8vo., First Edition, with numerous illustrations (one coloured and double-page) in the text; original pictorial wrappers, wire-stitched as issued, wire-stitches rusting as often else a bright, clean copy. Profile's'Warship' series no.23. Covers the years 1917-1925 with much detail on construction. Law 0963. [A second part not present here covers the years 1926-48]
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OUGHTON Frederick
Ace with One Eye. The Life and Combats of Major Edward Mannock. NEAR FINE COPY IN DUSTWRAPPER
8vo., First Edition, with portrait frontispiece and plates; black cloth, gilt back, a near fine copy in price-clipped dustwrapper, the latter lightly chafed at extremities. SCARCE. Noffsinger 1117.
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HARRIS Arthur T. 'Bomber'
Bomber Offensive. THE ORIGINAL EDITION IN FULL MOROCCO
8vo., First Edition, with endpaper maps; elegantly bound in full navy crushed morocco, sides with gilt frame border, back with raised bands, second and fourth compartments ruled and lettered in gilt, all other compartments tooled in gilt with propeller motif, gilt top, hand-made endpapers, ribbon marker, custom-made slip-case, a most attractive copy ideal as a gift or for presentation. Marshal of the Royal Air Force Sir Arthur 'Bomber' Harris (1892-1984) was Commander in Chief Bomber Command from 1942 (when he replaced Richard Peirse) to 1945. Based on his experiences in London during the Blitz, Harris developed a belief in intensive incendiary bombing as a means not merely of destroying cities but of undermining civilian morale. His new concept of 'area bombing' was put into practice with the first 'thousand-bomber' raid on Cologne in May 1942. Like most large-scale innovations this was a major gamble, but its undoubted success (colossal damage inflicted for the loss of forty aircraft) paved the way for Britain's bombing strategy for the rest of the war. Eventually this policy (which remains controversial to this day) brought him into direct conflict with both Portal and Churchill, but Harris pursued it doggedly until the surrender. Arguably the greatest RAF commander of WWII, Harris was an outstanding and inspiring leader, achieving almost iconic status among staff and crews alike. After the war he refused a peerage but accepted a baronetcy in 1953. Enser, p.65.
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McDONALD Paul
Malta's Greater Siege and Adrian Warburton. 'The Most Valuable Pilot in the RAF'. FINE COPY IN UNCLIPPED DUSTWRAPPER
8vo., First Edition, with coloured and monochrome plates; black cloth, backstrip lettered in silver, a fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper.
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WARNER Graham
The Bristol Blenheim. A Complete History. NEAR FINE COPY IN DUSTWRAPPER
8vo., First Edition, with frontispiece and very numerous photographs (a number full-page) throughout, signature on front paste-down; navy cloth, gilt back, a near fine copy in price-clipped dustwrapper.
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CABELL Craig
Operation Big Ben. The Anti-V2 Spitfire Missions 1944-45. Foreword by Raymond Baxter. NEAR FINE COPY IN UNCLIPPED DUSTWRAPPER
8vo., First Edition, with plates; blue cloth, gilt back, a near fine copy in price-clipped dustwrapper.
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CALDWELL Donald
The JG 26 War Diary. Volume One: 1939-1942. FINE COPY IN DUSTWRAPPER
8vo., First Edition, with very numerous photographs and maps in the text, and endpaper maps; red cloth, gilt back, a fine copy in price-clipped dustwrapper. With striking wrap-around dustwrapper artwork by Chris Thomas. Jagdgeschwader 26 is undoubtedly the best-known Luftwaffe fighter squadron of WWII. One of only two units to remain on the Western Front throughout the entire war, its operational record, available here for the first time, directly reflects the history of the German fighter arm, the Luftwaffe as a whole, and indeed Germany itself.
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SARKAR Dilip
Bader's Duxford Fighters. The Big Wing Controversy. FINE COPY IN UNCLIPPED DUSTWRAPPER
8vo., First Edition, with numerous illustratons in the tedxt; blue cloth, gilt back, a fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper.
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RENAUT Michael
Terror by Night. A Bomber Pilot's Story. [Foreword by Group Captain David Young.] BRIGHT, CLEAN COPY IN UNCLIPPED DUSTWRAPPER
8vo., First Edition, with plates; black cloth, gilt back, a very good, bright, clean copy in unclipped dustwrapper. Enser, p.33.
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SAWYER [Group Captain] Tom
Only Owls and Bloody Fools Fly at Night. [Foreword by Air Chief Marshal Sir Lewis Hodges.] BRIGHT, CLEAN COPY IN UNCLIPPED DUSTWRAPPER
8vo., First Edition, with plates; blue cloth, gilt back, a very good, bright, clean copy in unclipped dustwrapper. Enser, p.33.
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RAPIER Brian J.
White Rose Base. IN ORIGINAL WRAPPERS
4to., First Edition, with photographs and maps in the text; original printed wrappers, wire-stitched as issued, a very good, bright, clean copy. Detailed register of WWII airfields in Yorkshire during WWI and WWII. Includes list of squadron markings.
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PRANGE Gordon W.
At Dawn We Slept. The Untold Story of Pearl Harbor. [First UK Edition.] NEAR FINE COPY OF THE UK EDITION
8vo., First Edition thus, with plates and maps; grey boards, ivory cloth back lettered in red, black endpapers, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper. Published a year after the US edition, the UK version is considerably scarcer than its American counterpart. Enser, p.173.
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CAIDIN Martin
The Ragged Rugged Warriors. [First UK Edition.] BRIGHT, CLEAN COPY IN DUSTWRAPPER
8vo., First Edition thus, with illustrations and maps in the text; maroon cloth, gilt back, a very good, bright, clean copy in price-clipped dustwrapper. The US edition was published in 1966. Enser, p.103 (recording the first edition).
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PRANGE Gordon W.
December 7, 1941. The Day the Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor. With Donald M. Goldstein and Katherine V. Dillon. [First UK Edition.] NEAR FINE COPY IN DUSTWRAPPER
8vo., First Edition thus, with numerous plates and diagrams in the text; black cloth, backstrip lettered in silver, red endpapers, a near fine copy in price-clipped dustwrapper. Third volume of Prange's monumental 'Pearl Harbor' trilogy. THE UK EDITION IS SCARCE IN THIS CONDITION.
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SIZER J. A.
Model Flying Boats. [Revised edition.] NEAR FINE COPY OF THE REVISED EDITION
8vo., with photographs and diagrams throughout; pictorial wrappers, wire-stitched as issued, a near fine copy. SCARCE.
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RICHMOND, Sir Herbert
War Pictures by British Artists. War at Sea [with] Blitz [with] RAF [with] Army. [Series I complete]. BRIGHT, CLEAN SET OF THE FIRST SERIES
4 vols., sm. 8vo., First Edition, with 194 toned full-page illustrations in the text; original plain wrappers, hinges starting as usual (but all bindings wholly sound), one backstrip scuffed else a very good, bright, clean set in pictorial dustwrapper. No.1: War at Sea; No. 2: Blitz; No. 3: R.A.F.; No. 4: Army. Complete set of the first series with fine reproductions of paintings, drawings and sketches by virtually all Britain's leading war artists. The contributors naturally featured many of the most eminent artists of the period, including (among many others) Ardizzone, Bawden, Bone, Kennington, Moore, Nash, Piper, Ravilious, Rothenstein, Spencer, Sutherland, Topolski and Worsley. A second series (dealing primarily with the Home Front) was published separately in the following year. UNCOMMON AS A SET, ESPECIALLY IN THIS CONDITION. Eads, A43 (recording H. E. Bates' introduction to 'RAF').
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TRENCHARD Marshal of the Royal Air Force The Viscount
The Principles of Air Power on War. A RARE SURVIVAL
8vo., First Edition; printed wrappers, wire-stitched as issued, covers mildly browned at edges else a near fine copy in custom-made slip-case. RARE. 'I have endeavoured to make plain in this pamphlet what part Air Power has played in victory over Germany' (Author's Foreword). COPAC records only the Cambridge University Library copy.
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ROBERTSON Bruce
Sopwith. The Man and his Aircraft. Line Tracings by W.F. Hepworth. Based on original Drawings by Peter G. Cooksley. Produced by D.A. Russell and G.R. Duval. NEAR FINE COPY IN UNCLIPPED DUSTWRAPPER
Roy. 8vo., First Edition, with coloured frontispiece, and very numerous monochrome photographs, illustrations and diagrams throughout; blue cloth, gilt back, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper. With striking dustwrapper artwork by J.D. Carrick. SCARCE IN THIS CONDITION.
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MASON Francis K.
Battle over Britain. A History German Air Assaults on Great Britain, 1917-1918 and July-December 1940, and of the Development of Britain's Air Defences between the World Wars. THE ORIGINAL EDITION IN UNCLIPPED DUSTWRAPPER
8vo., First Edition, with coloured plates of insignia and uniforms, numerous monochrome photographs throughout the text, and endpaper maps on blue stock; burgundy buckram, upper board blocked in gilt, gilt back, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper. German research material edited by Martin Windrow. Colour and tone illustrations by Michael P. Roffe. A BRIGHT COPY OF THE DEFINITIVE HISTORY. Enser, p.63.
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MASON Francis K.
Battle over Britain. A History of German Air Assaults on Great Britain, 1917-1918 and July-December 1940, and of the Development of Britain's Air Defences between the World Wars. [Second Edition.] NEAR FINE COPY IN UNCLIPPED DUSTWRAPPER
8vo., Second Edition, with coloured illustrations of aircraft and insignia, and numerous monochrome photographs and maps in the text; blue cloth, gilt back, blue endpapers, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper. German research material edited by Martin Windrow. Colour and tone illustrations by Michael P. Roffe. First published in 1969. much-ndded reissue of the definitive account. Enser, p.63 (recording the first edition).
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KNIGHT, Laura
War Pictures by British Artists. Women [with] Production [with] Soldiers [with] Air Raids. [Series II Complete]. BRIGHT, CLEAN SET OF THE SECOND SERIES
4 vols., 8vo., First Edition, with 194 toned full-page illustrations in the text; original pictorial wrappers, a very good, bright, clean set. No.1: Women; No. 2: Production; No. 3: Soldiers; No. 4: Air Raids. Complete set of the second series with fine reproductions of paintings, drawings and sketches by virtually all Britain's leading war artists. The contributors naturally featured many of the most eminent artists of the period, including (among many others) Ardizzone, Bawden, Bone, Kennington, Moore, Nash, Piper, Ravilious, Rothenstein, Spencer, Sutherland, Topolski and Worsley. The first series (dealing primarily with the fighting forces) was published in the preceding year. This second series deals with the Home Front and was issued without the dustwrappers present in the earlier series. UNCOMMON AS A SET AND ESPECIALLY IN THIS CONDITION.
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HADAR Moshe
The Israel Air Force. NEAR FINE COPY IN UNCLIPPED DUSTWRAPPER
Roy. 4to., First Edition, with numerous coloured and monochrome photographs, illustrations and maps throughout, and pictorial endpapers; white cloth, upper board and backstrip blocked and lettered in blue, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper, the latter with a few short closed tears at lower edge of front panel. SCARCE IN THIS CONDITION.
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435 SQUADRON RCAF
Chinthe. [A History of 435 Squadron RCAF in Burma 1944-1945.] NEAR FINE COPY IN ORIGINAL MAILING CASE
8vo., First Edition, with very numerous photographs throughout and endpaper maps on yellow stock; navy cloth, upper board blocked and lettered in gilt and colours, gilt back, a near fine copy in the printer's original mailing case complete with stamps and frankings. This copy was formerly in the library of 622257 Sgt. P. J. Doswell, Nursing Orderly RAF, and carries on the front free endpaper his service record in MS: India 1943, Ceylon and Burma 1944, Ceylon and Singapore (including relief of Changi) 1945. Arguably the finest of all RCAF squadron histories, considerably detailed and profusely illustrated. Includes ROH, and full personnel listings for BC, Alberta, Saskatchewan, Manitoba, Ontario, Quebec, Maritime Provinces and those from Outside Canada. EXTREMELY SCARCE, ESPECIALLY IN THIS CONDITION.
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WHITEHOUSE Arch
The Early Birds. [First UK Edition.] BRIGHT, CLEAN COPY IN DUSTWRAPPER
8vo., First Edition thus, with plates; blue cloth, backstrip lettered in silver, a very good, bright, clean copy in price-clipped dustwrapper. Published two years after the US edition.
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McCAIRNS James Atterby
Lysander Pilot. Secret Operations with 161 Squadron. FINE COPY
8vo., First Edition, with portrait frontispiece and plates; pictorial wrappers, a fine copy.
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SARKAR Dilip
Battle of Britain. Last Look Back. FINE COPY IN UNCLIPPED DUSTWRAPPER
Roy. 8vo., First Edition, with numerous photographs in the text; black cloth, gilt back, a fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper.
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POOLMAN Kenneth
Escort Carrier: 1941-1945. An Account of British Escort Carriers in Trade Protection. NEAR FINE COPY IN UNCLIPPED DUSTWRAPPER
8vo., First Edition, with 94 plates (one double-page) on 47 and full-page plan in the text; navy cloth, backstrip lettered in silver, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper. Good general operational survey. Not to be confused to with the same author's 'Escort Carrier' (1983) which is a dedicated account of VINDEX. Enser, p.22; surprisingly, not recorded by Law.
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HILLIER, Mark
Westhampnett at War. NEAR FINE COPY IN UNCLIPPED DUSTWRAPPER
8vo., First Edition, with plates; blue cloth, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper. The story of RAF Westhampnett through the eyes of pilots based here during 1940 to 1946. Westhampnett began as an emergency landing ground growing to satellite status and ultimately an important wartime airfield in its own right.
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