THE BRITISH AIRCRAFT CARRIER.
Pp. 240, text illustrations, appendices, index; med. 8vo; black papered boards, spine lettered in gilt; price-clipped dust wrapper; Patrick Stephens Ltd, Wellingborough, 1984. Second edition. More
Pp. 240, text illustrations, appendices, index; med. 8vo; black papered boards, spine lettered in gilt; price-clipped dust wrapper; Patrick Stephens Ltd, Wellingborough, 1984. Second edition. More
Pp. [viii]+156(printed double column, last blank), text illustrations, appendices, selective bibliography, index; small cr. 4to; boards a trifle canted, bottom fore-corner of upper board slightly bruised; dust wrapper; top edges of leaves faintly foxed; Airlife Publishing, Shrewsbury, U.K., 1986. First edition. *'The Hurricane helped to save Britain from invasion in..... More
Double sided coloured cloth, approx. 68 x 62 cm, scale 1:1,000,000, Sheet Bushire North H- 39 and Tehran N.I - 39 on the reverse; legend across the lower borders; folded; War Office, London, 1951. Fourth edition. *First published in 1942. Fascinating in their detail, maps of this type were issued..... More
Double sided coloured cloth, approx. 80 x 60 cm, scale 1:1,000,000, Sheet Trieste - Budapest North I.33 & part of L34 and Wien - Krakow North M.33 & part of 34 on the reverse; legend across the lower borders; folded; War Office, London, 1952. Third edition. *First published in 1915..... More
A Study of War and Peace. Pp. 218(last blank), 23 plates; demy 8vo; blue cloth, spine lettered in gilt, edges of boards a little worn dust wrapper, worn and foxed, edges lightly split with small tears and chips; ownership inscription and bookseller's sticker on the upper pastedown, endpapers foxed, leaves..... More
The Battle of Britain. Pp. 350(last blank), illustrated title page, 32 plates, bibliography, notes, index; med. 8vo; qr. red cloth, spine lettered in gilt; buff papered boards; dust wrapper; Simon & Schuster, New York, 1999. First U.S. edition. More
Pp. 160, illustrated double page-title page, text illustrations, index; cr. 4to; navy cloth, spine lettered in gilt; dust wrapper, rubbed, edges a trifle browned, backstrip sunned; Arms and Armour Press, London, 1990. First edition. More
The true story of Dan Maukar, ace pilot in the Indonesian Air Force. Pp. 128(last blank), text illustrations (some full page), coloured endpaper map; demy 8vo; printed papered boards featuring a 'tiger skin' design, the edges a trifle rubbed; dust wrapper, slightly worn, the edges lightly rubbed with a few..... More
The bombing of Darwin and Australia's air defence scandal. Pp. 240, text and endpaper illustrations (some full page), double page map, notes, index; sq. demy 8vo; pictorial papered boards; patterned endpapers; New Holland Publishers, Sydney, 2009. First edition. More
The official account of R.A.F. Transport Command's ocean ferry. Prepared for the Air Ministry by the Ministry of Information. Pp. 76(endpapers included in pagination), 8 plates, endpaper map; demy 8vo; printed stiff paper wrappers, stapled, worn, browned and foxed, fore-corners creased; leaves browned and lightly foxed; His Majesty's Stationery Office..... More
The Air Ministry account of the part played by Coastal Command in the Battle of the Seas 1939-1942. Pp. 144(including free endpapers), text illustrations; post. 4to; paper wrappers, worn, edges and fore-corners a little split and creased, fore-edges dog-eared, paper defect due to removal of roundel sticker on front panel;..... More
Pp. 128, text illustrations and maps; small cr. 4to; pictorial paper wrappers, stapled (staples rusted), soiled, edges lightly worn and chipped, upper wrapper lightly creased and with stamp and remains of price sticker; book label of David Levine, Sydney, on title page, edges of leaves lightly foxed; His Majesty's Stationery..... More
Pp. 36, text illustrations; small cr. 4to; pictorial paper wrappers, stapled (staples rusted), wrappers lightly browned and foxed; book label of David Levine, Sydney, on verso of upper wrapper, ownership inscription at head of title page, edges of leaves lightly browned; His Majesty's Stationery Office, London, 1944. *The official story..... More
Pp. iv+28(last 2 blank), 10 plates, appendices, index; demy 4to; printed stiff blue paper wrappers, lower wrapper slightly surface damaged, vertical crease at centre, lower fore-corner of upper wrapper (and several leaves) lightly creased, H.M.S.O. sold stamp on upper wrapper and title page; His Majesty's Stationery Office, London, 1940. With..... More
Prepared for the War Office by the Ministry of Information. Pp. 60. text illustrations and maps (some full and double page); super roy 4to; pictorial paper wrappers, browned and lightly worn; book label of David Levine, Sydney, and bookseller's sticker on verso of upper wrapper; His Majesty's Stationery Office, London..... More
Pp. xiv+330, 32 plates, folding coloured map in pocket at end, appendix; thick med. 8vo; top edge of lower board slightly bumped near centre; dust wrapper; Langate Publishing, Melbourne, 1980. First edition, numbered and signed by the author at colophon. *Extracts from Air Vice Marshal Hewitt's Second World War diaries..... More
Pp. [x]+172+[130](appendices, index), 28 plates, full page illustrations and maps, facsimile journal, index; impl. 8vo; dust wrapper; Langate Publishing, Melbourne, 1984. First edition. *With loosely inserted 20 page Supplement (a record of the author's ultra intelligence mission to the United Kingdom, France & the United States, 1944-1945). More
Pp. [x]+172+[130](appendices, index), 28 plates, full page illustrations and maps, facsimile journal, index; impl. 8vo; dust wrapper; Langate Publishing, Melbourne, 1984. First edition. *Signed and numbered (No 87) by the author. With loosely inserted 20 page Supplement (a record of the author's ultra intelligence mission to the United Kingdom, France..... More
The Rise and Rise of the Luftwaffe. Pp. 320, 48 plates, notes to chapters, appendices, bibliography, glossary, index; dust wrapper, small closed tear (tape repaired) in tail of backstrip, date stamp on upper free endpaper; Arms and Armour Press, London, 1994. First edition. More
No. 27 Squadron, RAF, 1942-45. Pp. 128, 32 plates, text maps, appendices (including In Memoriam, decorations & awards), index; dust wrapper; Blandford Press, Poole, Dorset, 1985. First edition. More
In the air - on the ground. The Peter Isaacson story. Pp. xvi+336, 8 plates, index; med. 8vo; black boards, lettered in gilt, edges shelf worn, upper fore-corners a trifle bruised; dust wrapper, edges slightly worn, head of backstrip slightly creased and split; edges of leaves lightly browned and a...... More
Pp. 176(last blank), pictorial title-page, text illustrations (some full and 1 double page), select bibliography, index; med. 8vo; black boards, spine lettered in gilt, slightly marked; dust wrapper; Pen & Sword Military, Barnsley, South Yorkshire, 2006. First edition. More
A book of portraits. Introduced by Sir Ronald Storrs. Foreword by Charles Portal. Pp. 144(last colophon), black & white frontispiece portrait of the artist, plus 52 plates (4 hand-tipped and coloured), each portrait accompanied by a page of biographical notes; med. 8vo; blue/grey cloth, spine lettered in gilt, edges of..... More
Foreword by Charles Kingsford Smith Jnr. Pp. xviii+680(last blank), 24 plates, text illustrations and maps, plus coloured endpaper maps, endnotes, bibliography, index; thick med. 8vo; white boards, spine lettered in gilt; dust wrapper, bookseller's promotional sticker on the front panel; edges of leaves a trifle browned and soiled; HarperCollins Publishers..... More
Pp. xiv+138, text illustrations and maps, appendices, index; printed paper wrappers; U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, 1978. Asia Monograph Series Volume IV, Monograph 6. More