Captain Albert Ball VC, DSO.
J. F. A. Higgins & H. A. Jones (Introduction)
Published by Aviation Book Club, 1939
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Complete with All Illustrations. Boards with rubbing, creasing, edge and corner wear, scratches/marks. Top, Tail and Fore edge tanned/marks. Odd page with the odd mark, Internally Good - Quick flick through pages could not see any other issues, binding tight, A Good personal copy for a Book of this Age. **563g** All orders are sent with a tracking /signature service for your peace of mind, so that you can keep tabs on your parcel. For overseas customers - on some sites we use, parcels weighing over the standard rate may incur an additional charge and we will then contact you with the additional shipping fee required. This is for the postage only we do not charge you for our time or our excellent packaging, which we are noted for. Dispatched in cardboard mailers within 24/48 Hours Mon - Friday 2pm, except bank holidays, otherwise next business day - excellent service guaranteed. AANBE20168. Seller Inventory # 20168
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Title: Captain Albert Ball VC, DSO.
Publisher: Aviation Book Club
Publication Date: 1939
Binding: Hardcover
Condition: Fair
Dust Jacket Condition: No Dust Jacket
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Captain Albert Ball: V.C., D.S.O. (two bars), M.C., Croix De chevalier, Legion d'Honneur, Russian Order of St. George
Published by
The Aviation Book Club, London, 1939
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Seller: Clausen Books, RMABA, Colorado Springs, CO, U.S.A.
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Cloth. Condition: Good+. Dust Jacket Condition: Fair (in mylar). b&w Plates (illustrator). Moderately age-toned endpapers, otherwise textblock is clean and tight. Rubbed binding, black cloth, bumped corners; Bumped spine extremities with several shallow, closed edge tears; Very distressed, aged, and edge-worn dust jacket; Chipped spine extremities, soiled folds, worn & chipped corners, large chip to back top corner. Jacket also repaired with brown paper strips along the underside; 223p., including appendix and index. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Hardcover. Seller Inventory # SB9550
Captain Albert Ball, VC, DSO, MC. A Historical Record
Published by
John Hamilton, United Kingdom, 1939
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Hardcover
First Edition
Seller: Pendleburys - the bookshop in the hills, Llanwrda, United Kingdom
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hardback. Condition: Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. hardback, octavo, black cloth lettered yellow to spine. no jacket. A good tightly bound copy, small candle wax stain to the upper board, paper age-toned. Bookplate of a previous owner to the front pastedown, brief synopsis to the front free endpaper, loosely inserted portrait, b&w plates, 223pp. Seller Inventory # 289334
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Captain Albert Ball, V.C., D.S.O. (two bars), M.C., Croix de Chevalier, Légion d'Honneur, Russian Order of St George : a historical record / with a foreword by Air-Marshal Sir J. F. A. Higgins . . . and an Introduction by H. A. Jones
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London: The Aviation Book Club, 1939
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Seller: RightWayUp Books, Woodbridge, SUFFO, United Kingdom
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Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. Kiernan, R. H. Captain Albert Ball, V.C., D.S.O. (two bars), M.C., Croix de Chevalier, Légion d'Honneur, Russian Order of St George : a historical record / with a foreword by Air-Marshal Sir J. F. A. Higgins . . . and an Introduction by H. A. Jones. London: The Aviation Book Club, 1939. Hardback, Good, no dustjacket. Black cloth, bumped to corners with a little fraying to top of the spine. Yellow lettering to spine. Binding strong. Tan endpapers. Ownership signature and date to ffep. Frontispiece b/w portrait. 223pp., b/w illustrations, contents clean and bright. Albert Ball, VC, DSO & Two Bars, MC (14 August 1896 7 May 1917) was a British fighter pilot during the First World War. At the time of his death he was the United Kingdom's leading flying ace, with 44 victories, and a national hero. RightWayUp Books aims to provide accurate and detailed descriptions. All images are of the actual book for sale - no stock images are ever used. Thank you for looking at this listing. Seller Inventory # ABE-1734106904235
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Captain Albert Ball: V.C., D.S.O., (two bars), M.C., Croix de Chevalier, Legion d'Honneur, Russian Order of St. George
Published by
John Hamilton Limited, London, UK, 1939
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Hardcover
Seller: Sarah Zaluckyj, KINGTON, United Kingdom
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Hardcover. Condition: Good ++/Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: No Dustjacket. 2nd Edition. 223 pages. NO DUSTJACKET. B&W plates. Clean black hardback binding with moderate wear to boards' corners and spine-ends. Book plate pasted to flyleaf of Peter Rex Langham dated 1938, Birmingham (UK). Light greying and light browning to page-edges o/w pages clean and tidy. Seller Inventory # 722574
Captain Albert Ball V.C., D.S.O. (two bars), M.C., Croix de Chevalier, Legion d'Honneur, Russian Order of St George; A Historical Record
Published by
The Aviation Book Club, London, 1939
Used
Hardcover
First Edition
Seller: Ground Zero Books, Ltd., Silver Spring, MD, U.S.A.
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Hardcover. Condition: Good. 223, [1] pages. Frontis illustration. Illustrations. Appendix. Index. No Dust Jacket present. Foreword by Air-Marshal Sir J. F. A. Higgins. Introduction by H. A. Jones, British Official Air Historian. The author, Reginald Hugh Kiernan (1899-1983), wrote a number of distinguished biographies and military histories. His appreciation of Albert Ball coincided with the arrival of the Second World War and the need in Great Britain for extraordinary feats from the Royal Air Force. Albert Ball, VC, DSO & Two Bars, MC (14 August 1896 - 7 May 1917) was a British fighter pilot during WWI. At the time of his death he was the United Kingdom's leading flying ace, with 44 victories, and remained its fourth-highest scorer behind Edward Mannock, James McCudden, and George McElroy. Born in Nottingham, Ball joined the Sherwood Foresters at the outbreak of the First World War and was commissioned as a second lieutenant in October 1914. He transferred to the Royal Flying Corps (RFC) in 1915, and gained his pilot's wings on 26 January 1916. Joining No. 13 Squadron RFC in France, he flew reconnaissance missions before being posted in May to No. 11 Squadron, a fighter unit. He accrued many aerial victories, earning two Distinguished Service Orders and the Military Cross. He was the first ace to become a British national hero. Ball was then posted to No. 56 Squadron, which deployed to the Western Front in April 1917. He died when his plane crashed in France on 7 May, sparking a wave of posthumous recognition, which included the award of the Victoria Cross for his actions during his final tour of duty. In 1918, Walter A. Briscoe and H. Russell Stannard released a seminal biography, Captain Ball VC, reprinting many of Ball's letters and prefaced with encomiums by Prime Minister David Lloyd George, Field Marshal Sir Douglas Haig, and Major General Sir Hugh Trenchard. In the book proper, Briscoe and Stannard quote Ball's most notable opponent, Manfred von Richthofen. The Red Baron, who believed in his younger brother's victory award, considered Ball "by far the best English flying man". Elsewhere in the book, an unidentified Royal Flying Corps pilot who flew with Ball in his last engagement was quoted as saying, "I see they have given him the V.C. Of course he won it a dozen times overâ"the whole squadron knows that." After the war the British discovered Ball's grave, which had been behind enemy lines, in the Annoeullin Cemetery. In December 1918, personnel of No. 207 Squadron RAF erected a new cross in place of the one left by the Germans. The Imperial War Graves Commission (now Commonwealth War Graves Commission) were working at the time to consolidate the British war graves into fewer cemeteries; 23 British bodies in graves in the location where Ball was buried were moved to the Cabaret Rouge British Cemetery, but at his father's request Ball's grave was allowed to remain. Albert Sr. paid for a private memorial to be erected over Ball's grave, No. 643, in what later became the Annoeullin Communal Cemetery and German Extension. Ball's is the only British grave from the First World War in this extension, the rest being German. Ball's father also bought the French field where his son had died and erected a memorial stone on the crash site. Memorials to Ball in his native Nottingham include a monument and statue in the grounds of Nottingham Castle. In 2006, Ball was one of six recipients of the Victoria Cross to be featured on a special commemorative edition of Royal Mail stamps marking the 150th anniversary of the award. In 2015, Ball was featured on a £5 coin (issued in silver and gold) in a six-coin set commemorating the Centenary of the First World War by the Royal Mint. His Victoria Cross is displayed at the Nottingham Castle Museum along with his other medals and memorabilia, including a bullet-holed Avro windshield, a section of engine piping from one of his damaged Nieuports, his Freedom of Nottingham Scroll and Casket, and various letters and oth. Seller Inventory # 87996
Captain Albert Ball, V.C., D.S.O. (two bars), M.C., Croix de chevalier, LeÃ?Âgion d'honneur, Russian Order of St. George: A historical record
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Seller: Better World Books Ltd, Dunfermline, United Kingdom
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Condition: Good. Former library copy. Pages intact with minimal writing/highlighting. The binding may be loose and creased. Dust jackets/supplements are not included. Includes library markings. Stock photo provided. Product includes identifying sticker. Better World Books: Buy Books. Do Good. Seller Inventory # GRP97871920
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Captain Albert Ball, V.C., D.S.O. (two bars), M.C., . A historical record by .
Published by
John Hamilton, London, 1933
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Seller: Archway Books, Mana, New Zealand
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Cloth. Condition: Very Good Minus. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First Edition. 22.5 cm, xxii, 203 pp, frontis and b&w photo illus, d/w - very light marginal wear. Flyleaf neatly eacised; else a VG copy. Seller Inventory # 007874
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Captain Albert Ball V.C. D.S.O
Published by
John Hamilton, 1933
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Hardcover
First Edition
Seller: The Plantagenet King ABA : ILAB : PBFA, Birchington, KENT, United Kingdom
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Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. KIERNAN, R.H. - Captain Albert Ball V.C. D.S.O London: John Hamilton (1933) 8vo; in the publisher's black cloth boards with gilt lettering to the upper board and spine; with the superb dust wrapper displaying a portrait by artist Denholm Davis of Captain Ball, that is repeated on the frontispiece; pp xxii, 198 [v]; Overall a near fine copy, the book displaying very little wear at all, the jacket on the reverse showing scorch marks from tape, and on the reverse of the lower panel one strip of tape over a small patch of the wrapper that has thinned the paper; an excellent copy with no loss. Described as a historical record by the author, it is a biography of one of the outstanding fighter pilots of the RFC in the great war. Albert Ball was only 20 years old when he was shot down patrolling the Somme. By that time, he had become a national hero credited with 43 victories. He received the Victoria Cross and D.S.O two bars for his heroic deeds. This book is full of plates about his life and the role he played in the war. Seller Inventory # 003490
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