30 January 2002 (5 results)

Softcover. Condition: VG. Pictorial wraps. Unpaginated. Numerous color plates.

Condition: Fine. Second edition (originally published in 1965) hard back binding in publisher's original blue cloth covered boards, blocked and lettered gilt back. 8vo. 9½'' x 6''. Autobiography of Tony Spooner from his early flying days in the 1930s to wartime operations in the Atlantic and Mediterranean, flying for BOAC post-war and his final role as Chief of Accident Investigation at ICAO. Contains 267 pp with monochrome archive photographs throughout. Fine condition book in Fine condition dust wrapper, not price clipped. SIGNED by the author to the title page 'Tony Spooner'. Dust wrapper supplied in archive acetate film protection. Member of the P.B.F.A. BIO (Résumé, Memoir).…

Condition: Very Good. First edition hard back binding in publisher's original black cloth covered boards, blocked and lettered gilt back. 8vo. 9½'' x 6¼''. Contains (xxvi), 358 pp with 3 maps, 16 pp monochrome archive photographs to the centre pages. Small bump to the bottom front corner. Very Good condition book in near Fine condition dust wrapper. SIGNED by the author framed white label to the title page 'Tony Spooner'. Dust wrapper supplied in archive acetate film protection. Housed in Fine condition marble paper covered open-fronted slip case. Member of the P.B.F.A. MALTA (Maltese History).…

Condition: Fine. First edition hard back binding in publisher's original blue cloth covered boards, blocked and lettered gilt back. 8vo. 9½'' x 6¼''. Contains 205 pp with monochrome archive photographs throughout. Fine condition book in Fine condition dust wrapper, not price clipped. + No. 722 of 1366 Squadron Leader Terence Malcolm Bulloch flown cover Post Office stamp 10th January 1978 SIGNED 'T. M. Bulloch' to the front cover | Two stamps to the rear (i) Royal Air Force 120 Squadron Kinloss (ii) United States Naval Station Keflavik. Certification signed by L. Marney. + Loosely inserted hand written George Cross Island Association letter headed paper dated 24th December 1992 from the author who at the time was the Vice President | SIGNED 'Tony Spooner'. Dust wrapper supplied in archive acetate film protection. Housed in Fine condition marble paper covered open-fronted slip case. Member of the P.B.F.A. WORLD WAR II (Second).…

Condition: Near Fine. First edition hard back binding in publisher's original navy cloth covered boards, blocked and lettered gilt back. 8vo. 9½'' x 6¼''. Years of speculation about Warburton's fate came to an end in 2002, when his remains were found with his aircraft, buried about 2 yards deep in a field near the Bavarian village of Egling an der Paar, 34 miles west of Munich. According to witnesses, the aircraft fell there on 12 April 1944, around 11:45. One of the propellers had bullet holes in it, which suggests that Warburton had been shot down. Contains 222 pp with monochrome archive photographs throughout. Fine condition book in in near Fine condition dust wrapper with light rubbing across the spine ends, not price clipped. SIGNED by the author to the title page 'To Harry Kirk - who was also there (see next page) With best regards Tony Spooner | November 1987'. A unique signed copy to Harry Kirk, reference is being made to the RAF's defence of the strategically important defence of the Maltese Islands. There is a typed correction laid in by Kirk as follows 'I asked Warby if he ever saw a camel train' Tony altered it to read that I asked Warby 'What was a camel train' | pp 66 has another paper laid-in 'This should read that I asked Warby if he ever saw any camel trains on his trips along the African coast' Dust wrapper supplied in archive acetate film protection. Member of the P.B.F.A. MALTA (Maltese History).…