Capka Jo (23 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Binding tight and square. Pages clean and free of writing or marks.

Paperback. Condition: Very Good. FIRST THUS. First Edition Thus, First Printing. Not price-clipped. Published by A Panther Book, 1959. 12mo. Paperback. Code of 926 on cover and spine. Book is very good with light toning on page ends. Covers have some light shelf wear. 100% positive feedback. 30 day money back guarantee. NEXT DAY SHIPPING! Excellent customer service. Please email with any questions. All books packed carefully and ship with free delivery confirmation/tracking. All books come with free bookmarks. Ships from Sag Harbor, New York.…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First Edition. First Edition, Second Printing. Not price-clipped (16s price intact). Published by Anthony Blond, 1958. Octavo. Red cloth boards stamped in gold. Book is very good; with no writing or names. Sharp corners and spine straight. Binding tight and pages crisp. Dust jacket is very good with shelf and edge wears. Edges reinforced and discolored by tape on interior and exterior. Book placed in custom acetate protector. 190 pages. 100% positive feedback. 30 day money back guarantee. NEXT DAY SHIPPING! Excellent customer service. Please email with any questions or if you would like a photo. All books packed carefully and ship with free delivery confirmation/tracking. All books come with free bookmarks. Ships from Southampton, New York. We Buy Books! Individual titles, libraries, collections. Message us if you have books to sell.…

First edition, 2nd impression. Hardcover book bound in the publisher's original full cloth-gilt. 23 cm. 192 pages. Contains black-and-white illustrations throughout. With a foreword by Sir Archibald McIndoe. The book is in near fine condition. No ownership marks/writing present within. Hinges tight, pages bright. Light bumping/toning to the covers. …

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 2nd printing. nice copy; memoir of a Czech pilot who flees his own country and joins the French Foreign Legion, the French Air Force, and then the RAF.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. First Edition. Foreword by Sir Archibald McIndoe. A clean, unmarked and unclipped copy in a Brodart jacket cover.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. First American Edition. Ink number in corner of flyleaf, otherwise about good with no other markings or bookplates. Slight corner bumps. In good dust jacket with a 3+" closed tear on front panel, some rubbing, and some edgewear including shallow chipping at base of spine, some fraying, and short tears. Not price-clipped. Paper has standard age-darkening. Illustrated with b&w photos.…

Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. First Edition. First edition. Shelf and handling wear to cover and binding, with general signs of previous use. Secure packaging for safe delivery.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. 1958, 192 pages; hardback pub by Anthony Blond. No subsidiary material (index notes, etc) - just text. Illus. Capka escaped from his native Czechoslovakia at the German occupation in 1939 and joined Czech comrades in the RAF. He flew on numerous raids over Germany and was shot down. Despite serious injuries he survived and returned, postwar, to his native country. The Czech communist regime imprisoned him for ten years after which he started a new life in England. Condition: a sound, clean hardback but with no d-j. Text without blemishes.…

No Jacket. Octavo hardcover (VG, lacks d/w); all our specials have minimal description to keep listing them viable. They are at least reading copies, complete and in reasonable condition, but usually secondhand; frequently they are superior examples. Ordering more than one book will reduce your overall postage costs.…

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition Thus. 4.5" x 7" First paperback edition. 190 pp. Creasing to joints and corners, rubbing to extremities. Interior age toned. Ex libris label to flyleaf. Jo Capka is no ordinary hero. He holds the D.F.M., the Croix de Guerre and the highest decorations of his home country, Czechoslovakia; but his story cannot be told by a row of medals alone.…

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First Edition. Hardcover in dust jacket. Second printing of first edition. Book is crisp and clean in red cloth boards; just a touch of wear. Unclipped dust jacket is intact, with discreet tape repairs along edges. The story of a Czech pilot in World War II whose decorations include the Croix de Guerre. Foreword by Archibald McIndoe. Photo illustrations. 8vo. 192 pp. In protective Mylar.…

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Enige verkleuring. Dutch.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. 8vo. Full red paper boards. 192 pp. [8] double-sided B&W plates. Dust jacket is price clipped, chipped to spine ends, soiled and worn to rear. Jo Capka is no ordinary hero. He holds the D.F.M., the Croix de Guerre and the highest decorations of his home country, Czechoslovakia; but his story cannot be told by a row of medals alone.…

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 2nd ed. 192p. Photos. The story of a Czech RAF pilot in World War II, decorations included the Croix de Guerre. In mylar. Price clipped. Fine/Very Good copy.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Poor. Book good condition, dust jacket ripped but still intact.

Paperback. first edition. 925 very good -fine, reading crease paperback.

192 pp, b&w photographic plates, b&w photographic plates, d/j edges chipped, else very good copy in like, illustrated, price-clipped d/j.

2nd imp. chipped dust jacket Very Good octavo 192pp., frontis., b/w plates, Foreword by Archibald McIndoe. Jo Capka is no ordinary hero. He holds the D.F.M., the Croix de Guerre and the highest decorations of his home country, Czechoslovakia; but his story cannot be told by a row of medals alone.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. CAPKA, Jo D.F.M. [192] pp. Roy Publishers 1958 8 3/4" x 5 3/4".

1st edition / 1st printing dust jacket Nice Copy octavo 192pp., frontis., b/w plates, Foreword by Archibald McIndoe. Jo Capka is no ordinary hero. He holds the D.F.M., the Croix de Guerre and the highest decorations of his home country, Czechoslovakia; but his story cannot be told by a row of medals alone. Name blacked out on free front end paper o/w a nice copy.…

Paperback. Condition: Fair. 1959. Tight, firm copy. Cover is bright & clean, has light shelfwear/rubbing to extremities, a 13mm closed tear with some creasing. Bookseller's stamp on ffep. The tanned pages are free of any inscription/annotations or creases, although have waterstain to one corner thus 'Acceptable' but barely noticable except for very start & end of book. If you have any queries please contact me by e-mail. Images of items also available on request. We endeavour to send orders as quickly as possible & in most cases are sent by first available post 6 days a week. (3,3-150/1).…

hardcover. Condition: Acceptable. NOT an ex-library book. Clean copy in good condition. Some marking due to age on pages, but overall book remains in good condition considering age. With Dust Cover. Quick dispatch from UK seller.