LATIMER-NEEDHAM C.H.MareMagnum
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19558vo., First Edition, with a full-page photograph and numerous diagrams in the text, and a large folding map; original blue cloth, upper board lettered in gilt, a near fine copy. WITH A LONG T.L.s FROM SIR ALAN COBHAM ON FLIGHT REFUELLING LTD STATIONERY TO V H RABY, DEPUTY UNDER-SECRETARY OF STATE IN THE AIR MINISTRY. Cobham's detailed letter concludes 'The Report may be regarded as a supplement to Mr. Latimer-Needham's book 'Refuelling in Flight' which appeared in 1950. Together these two publications cover the whole history of research and development leading up to the adoption of flight refuelling on the V-class bombers'. With the separately printed Explanatory Note mounted on front free endpaper verso.
20088vo., Second Impression, with a frontispiece and numerous photographs and facsimiles in the text; black cloth, gilt back, a fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper. Published a month after the first edition
19758vo., with numerous photographs and maps throughout; blue cloth, backstrip lettered in silver, a fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper.
19804to., First Edition, with very numerous photographs throughout and illustrated endpapers; brown cloth, gilt back, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper. The original edition of a much-reissued classic. Enser, p.32.
19768vo., First Edition, with numerous plates and maps; black cloth, gilt back, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper. Enser, p.176
1974Sm. 4to., First Edition, with very numerous monochrome photographs; original pictorial boards, a near fine copy.
20098vo., First Edition, with numerous photographs in the text; black cloth, gilt back, a very good, clean copy in unclipped dustwrapper.
20098vo., First Edition, with plates; black cloth, gilt back, a fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper.
1998Roy. 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.
1990Roy. 8vo., First Edition, with illustrated title and numerous photographs in the text; cloth, gilt back, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper. The author is a former PFF Lancaster pilot and master bomber. Scarce, especially in this condition.
19718vo. with plates; black cloth gilt back a very good clean copy in unclipped dustwrapper. Enser p.378
1980Roy. 8vo., First Edition; original printed wrappers, wire-stitched as issued, a near fine copy. VERY SCARCE.
19958vo., First Edition, with photographs in the text; burgundy cloth, gilt back, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper. SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR ON TITLE. Cooper investigates the context of the controversial raid, asking whether the city was a legitimate target and was the attack justified?
2003Roy. 8vo., First Edition, with coloured portrait frontispiece and very numerous photographs and facsimiles in the text; original pictorial wrappers, wire-stitched as issued, a fine copy. Written to commemorate the fiftieth anniversary of the RAF Foundationers' Trust at Christ's Hospital, this deceptively detailed and profusely illustrated account shows how Wallis's schooldays influenced his subsequent life. It covers many aspects of his career including airship, aircraft and armaments design, and his central role in the foundation of the Trust in 1951.
20018vo., with many hundreds of photographs throughout, and photographic endpapers; cloth, a fine copy in dustwrapper. Another of ATB's well-researched 'then and now' series, matching contemporary photographs with their present-day equivalents.
20098vo., First Edition, with plates and double-page cutaway illustration; black cloth, backstrip lettered in silver, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper.
19988vo., First Edition, with plates; red cloth, gilt back, a fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper.
20014to., First Edition, with numerous photographs throughout; red cloth, gilt back, a fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper.
19858vo., First Edition, with numerous photographs throughout; black cloth, gilt back, a very good, bright, clean copy in dustwrapper. Not recorded by Enser.
1983Sm. folio, First Edition, with photographs and maps throughout; black cloth, gilt back, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper. With personal bookplate on front free endpaper.
19858vo., First Edition, with plates; blue cloth, gilt back, a fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper.
19768vo., First Edition, with photographs in the text and endpaper maps; sand cloth, backstrip lettered in black, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper.
20058vo., First Edition, with numerous photographs throughout; black cloth, gilt back, a fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper.
19638vo., 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).
19868vo., First Edition, with photographs in the text; red cloth, gilt back, a fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper. Enser, p.32.
