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8vo., First Edition, with a coloured frontispiece, 14 coloured plates on 8, and 25 monochrome and sepia-toned plates on 14; original green cloth, gilt back, green endpapers, a very good, clean copy in unclipped dustwrapper. Good general history of the Navy, Army and Air Force Institutes from the Crimea onwards
8vo., First Edition, with 15 plates on 8; sky blue boards, gilt back, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper. With the separatrely printed erratum slip.
4to., First Edition, with a frontispiece, and numerous photographs and illustrations throughout; cloth, upper board and backstrip lettered in blue, a very good, bright, clean copy in unclipped dustwrapper.
8vo., First Edition, on laid paper, with a frontispiece and 12 plates and plans, endpapers lightly browned; original cloth, gilt back, backstrip lightly sunned else a near fine copy. With a personal bookplate on front paste-down. A second edition was published in 1954. Very scarce, especially in this condition.
8vo., Second Edition, with very numerous photographs in the text, free endpapers lightly dust-soiled, text lightly browning at outer edge as often; original decorative cloth, upper board blocked and lettered in gilt, gilt back, very neatly rebacked with original backstrip laid down, a very good, clean copy. Includes the well-known full-page portrait of Jesse Owens at the start of the 200m sprint.
8vo., First Edition, with very numerous coloured and monochrome photographs, facsimiles and reproductions throughout; original printed wrappers, a near fine copy. The catalogue lists 206 notable items and includes a biographical summary by Dudley Massey and full bibliography of references. As staff member and subsequently proprietor of Frank Hollings bookshop (a career spanning the period 1925-1969), Miller was, with Percy Muir and Bertram Rota, one of the founding fathers of the modern first editions market.
8vo., Second Edition, with engraved and printed titles, endpapers very lightly spotted; tan cloth, backstrip lettered in black, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper. The striking image on dustwrapper and illustrated title is by Agnes Miller Parker. Wide-ranging anthology of verse and prose relating to animals. First published in 1945 without the benefit of an index.
Oblong 4to., First Edition, with very numerous plates, illustrations and diagrams in the text; cloth, glt back, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper, the latter very lightly chafed at head and tail of backstrip.
8vo., First Edition, endpapers mildly browned; brown cloth, gilt back, a very good, bright, clean copy.
8vo., Third Impression, with numerous plates, and endpaper maps; grey cloth, gilt back, a fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper. Published a month after the first edition. A wide-ranging compilation of eye-witness accounts from both sides.
8vo., First Edition; beige faux-morocco cloth, black cloth back, upper board and backstrip blocked and lettered in gilt, silver and red, uncut, backstrip just a trifle chafed at headband else a near fine copy.
8vo., text in French, page-edges very lightly tanning; original paper wrappers printed in green and black, uncut, a near fine copy.
8vo., First Edition, with plates; black cloth, backstrip lettered in white, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper.
8vo., First Edition, with portrait frontispiece, photographs and illustrations (a number full-page) in the text and full-page map; pictorial wrappers, covers mildly age-browned else a very good, clean copy.
8vo., First Edition thus; pictorial wrappers, covers lightly browned else a very good, bright, clean copy. Penguin 1666.
Roy. 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.
8vo., Second Edition, with title-vignette and 73 fine wood-engravings by Parker; green cloth, gilt back, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper. Long-awaited reissue of the original edition of 1936. THIS EDITION IS NOW ELUSIVE IN ITS OWN RIGHT.
8vo., First Edition, with very numerous photographs throughout; green cloth, gilt back, buff endpapers, a fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper. SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR ON FRONT FREE ENDPAPER.
8vo., First Edition; blue cloth, backstrip lettered in silver, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper.
8vo., First Edition, with illustrations in the text; blue cloth, gilt back, a fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper. Miller was a member of the resistance movement in Berlin, subsequently spending three years in concentration camps. VERY SCARCE.
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.
8vo., First Edition, with frontispiece and numerous photographs throughout; pictorial cloth, backstrip lettered in white, a very good, bright, clean copy. Enser, p.22.
8vo., First Edition, with numerous photographs in the text; brown cloth, gilt back, cream endpapers, a very good, bright, clean copy in unclipped, lightly age-soiled dustwrapper.
4to., First Edition, with photographs in the text; pictorial wrappers, a near fine copy. Monograph 56.
8vo., First Edition thus, text in English, with full-page illustrations in the text and printed endpapers, small tape-marks on front free endpaper corners; green cloth, upper board and backstrip lettered in red, a very good, bright, crisp copy. With personal bookplate on front free endpaper. This edition was published for sale solely in Holland.
