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paperback. Condition: Very Good. Has some shelf wear, highlighting, underlining and/or writing. Great used condition. A portion of your purchase of this book will be donated to non-profit organizations.Over 1,000,000 satisfied customers since 1997! Choose expedited shipping (if available) for much faster delivery. Delivery confirmation on all US orders.…

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. Softcovers; ex-corporate library; minor shelfwear; o/w in very good condition. Book.

Hardcover. HARDCOVER; five USGS bulletins bound together in blue buckram; ex-corporate library; all in very good condition.

Condition: Very Good. 52 pages, illustrated in colour, fold-out page. An authentic standalone article, extracted from a larger volume. Not a reprint or reproduction, but an original work in its own right. Preserved in a modern card cover, prepared for practicality - an unassuming but serviceable presentation that favours function over finery. Size: 16 x 24 cms. Category: National Geographic Magazine; Cosmo Books : 29 years on ABE, 47 years taking care of customers. A bookseller you can rely on. Softcover (Booklet - Unbound Pages).…

Condition: Very Good. 5 pages, illustrated. An authentic standalone article, extracted from a larger volume. Not a reprint or reproduction, but an original work in its own right. Preserved in a modern card cover, prepared for practicality - an unassuming but serviceable presentation that favours function over finery. Size: A4 Size. Category: BBC History Magazine; Cosmo Books : 29 years on ABE, 47 years taking care of customers. A bookseller you can rely on. Softcover (Booklet - Unbound Pages).…

Condition: Very Good. 6 pages, illustrated. An authentic standalone article, extracted from a larger volume. Not a reprint or reproduction, but an original work in its own right. Preserved in a modern card cover, prepared for practicality - an unassuming but serviceable presentation that favours function over finery. Size: A4 Size. Category: History Today; Cosmo Books : 29 years on ABE, 47 years taking care of customers. A bookseller you can rely on. Softcover (Booklet - Unbound Pages).…

Condition: Very Good. 7 pages. An authentic standalone article, extracted from a larger volume. Not a reprint or reproduction, but an original work in its own right. Preserved in a modern card cover, prepared for practicality - an unassuming but serviceable presentation that favours function over finery. Size: 17 x 24 cms. Category: Royal United Service Institution Journal; Cosmo Books : 29 years on ABE, 47 years taking care of customers. A bookseller you can rely on. Softcover (Booklet - Unbound Pages).…

Condition: Very Good. 25 pages, illustrated, 4 maps. An authentic standalone article, extracted from a larger volume. Not a reprint or reproduction, but an original work in its own right. Preserved in a modern card cover, prepared for practicality - an unassuming but serviceable presentation that favours function over finery. Size: 19 x 25 cms. Category: Society for Army Historical Research; Cosmo Books : 29 years on ABE, 47 years taking care of customers. A bookseller you can rely on. Softcover (Booklet - Unbound Pages).…

Map. Condition: Very Good. Open File Report 79-576K; Scale 1: 5,000,000.

Condition: Very Good. 5 pages, illustrated. An authentic standalone article, extracted from a larger volume. Not a reprint or reproduction, but an original work in its own right. Preserved in a modern card cover, prepared for practicality - an unassuming but serviceable presentation that favours function over finery. Size: 16 x 22 cms. Category: Wide World Magazine Articles; Japanese Interest. Cosmo Books : 29 years on ABE, 47 years taking care of customers. A bookseller you can rely on. Softcover (Booklet - Unbound Pages).…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. 8vo. 3 page preface. Illustrated with 8 maps including one fold-out. One page preface by M.F. Force. Original blue cloth stamped in gilt on the spine with stamped in gilt and blind with an imprint of a rifle and sword. Very good. 204 pages + 4 pages of publisher's advertisements. No dust jacket. No signatures or bookplates.…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good +. very good +. First American edition. Author explores the curious traditions of fighter pilots during the world wars and how World War I presented the perfect atmosphere for the re-birth of chivalry. Tight binding. No chips, tears,creases or written inscriptions. Dust jacket front flap is price-clipped. Black and white photographic illustrations. Size: Sm 4to (9" to 11"). 191 pp. PILOTS; WAR; AIRPLANES; AIR FORCE (illustrator). …

Couverture rigide. Condition: Satisfaisant. Pas de jaquette. Format:22/28 EX LIBRIS AND MARKS, COVER IS USED.

Paperback. Includes papers on Why We Will Soon Miss the Cold War; After the Cold War: U.S. Interests in Sub-Saharan Africa; Middle East Diplomacy After the Cold War; How to be the World's Policeman etc. Good. 672pp. 29325.

Condition: Brand New. New. US edition. Expediting shipping for all USA and Europe orders excluding PO Box. Excellent Customer Service.

M. 1 Kte. u. 7 Abb. V, 15 S. (Geological Survey prof. paper 959 H). Sprache: Deutsch 0 gr.

2 pages, 8vo, both with Royal Air Force letterhead bearing the motto 'PER ARDUA AD ASTRA'. Not in good condition - creased, frayed, torn and discoloured - but a marvellous and immediate piece of history, regarding what one authority describes as the 'strategic bombing [.] principally against the Ruhr, on which No.149 concentrated during the winter of 1940-1'. The letter begins 'Dear Mum, | Just a line to thank you for the photographs, I think that one of you is very good. | I have done two raids so far, the last one was very good, we bombed the dockyards on the Ruhr and started three lovely big fires, I think that every bomber in the Air Force was over that night, bombs were bursting everywhere and the A. A. fire was just like bonfire night. I think the German A. A. and their searchlights are rotten, they never got anywhere near our machine. We are doing another raid tonight and I hope we give them another good plastering.' Two sentences of domestic comment conclude the letter. It is a question how the writer was able to give away so much information.…

Tall thick 8vo. lii, [2], 666, [2] pp. With maps, numerous photo plates. Dark blue publisher's cloth, gilt badge lozenge on front cover, gilt lettering on spine, map-illustrated endpapers (minor soiling, edgewear, rubbing), w/ d.j. wraparound map cover art (minor chipping, edgewear, some soiling, slight foxing front cover), still VG-/VG- copy. First edition of this informative final 7th Volume in the series, devoted to the development of the Air Transport Command, Army Airways Communications Systems, and the Aviation Engineers. Of particular interest is the excellent chapter focused on "Women in the AAF" by Kathleen Boom. …

Paperback. Condition: Good. First Edition. 36 pages. Contents: Company Revamps Sales Organization - with photos of R.B. Murphy, N.C. Millidge, R.L. Auld and A.B. Evers; Accounting Geared for Automation - with photos of Allan Bryce, L.A.D. Battrum, M.G. Butler, Robert Sutherland, Kenneth Crowter, J.D. Johnston, Curtis Rice and David Cameron; Personnel Expands Scope - with photos of T.H. Halford, W.E. Wain, O.E. Snead, Dr. J.A. MacMillan, H.L. Brown, A.J. D'Ath and F.G. Fredrickson; Excellent two-page photo and text feature on the closing of the Kerrisdale office, after 38 years, to make way for the more automated Amherst office - the biggest telephone number change in Canada's history - with photos of the operators and some of the new technology - and the old; Details of conversions which took place in March; Venerable Glenburn Yields to Cypress - Another great two-page photo and information feature on a major Burnaby upgrade on Glenburn which, grew from six operators to 155 over the past 35 years; Fascinationg one-page photo feature on new microwave equipment providing long distance service between Vancouver and Kamloops - features a novel 20 x 24-foot passive reflector; 1959 telephone directories issued in Vancouver; Retirement news; Dial phones come to residents of Sidney and Keating on Vancouver Island - with several photos, including Lew Millin, Art Ensor, Gordon Cooper, Harry Potter, and others; Photo and map-illustrated article by Mrs. J.W. Bond explains the impact of improved telephone service to James Island, just off the Saanich Peninsula; Two-page feature on Junior Achievement with photos; Pension plan personalized; One-page map extending from the Lion's Gate Bridge to Horseshoe Bay indicates historical circular (mileage) boundaries formerly used to figure mileage charges; Two historic switchboards now Silent - the old Victoria and Vancouver long distance switchboards - article iwth photos; Teletype sale to East Asiatic Company - article with photo of Robert Turner of this wholesale lumber company; Retirees - Mrs. Minnie Doggett, G.A. Einerson, Edmond McKim, Miss Mary S. Duncan; In Memoriam - John E. Carlile, Mrs. Lily Rollings, James A. Murray, James L. Ward, Arthur Mills.and more. Clean with moderate wear. Binding intact. A sound copy. …

No Binding. Condition: Very Good. Colour map 84x55cm. Very good, folded, with crinkling to the paper. Fifth Edition, corrected to 13 January 1958. This would have provided important practical information to the RAF in navigating the region, with the British retaining significant political, military and economic interests in the Gulf and South Arabia post-Suez, with several RAF bases forming part of their defence. ATC Charts demarcate airspace and reporting points to support navigation and communications during the flight. As they do not show international boundaries or many other geographical features, they include a warning not to use them for plotting purposes. At their broadest level, they divide coverage into Flight Information Regions (FIR), whose boundaries at times follow international boundaries though stated not authoritatively, and mostly tend to be named after prominent locations within them. In this case the FIRs are Teheran, Bahrain, Aden, Baghdad, Damascus, Easternmed, Istanbul, Khartoum, Cairo, Fort Lamy, Malta, etc. Within the FIRs are Control Zones, Control Areas, and Advisory Areas. Airways and Advisory Routes are drawn as a complex web of interconnecting labelled air corridors intended to maintain smooth traffic flow and keep pilots within the authorised areas. Compulsory Reporting Points to assist navigation are marked, including non-directional beacons, radio ranges, fan markers, others, along with geographical locations within the corridors.…

Soft cover. Condition: Good. Is bound by an old fashioned 3 hole metal connector. This copy has a thicker page covering as the title page. AFSWC-TDR-62-138 in upper left and right hand corners. Title as shown and then "Technical Documentary Report Number AFSC-TDR-62-138 December 1962". Research Directorate, Air Force Special Weapons Center, Air Force Systems Command, Kirtland Air Force Base, New Mexico. Project Number 1080, Task Number 10802. (Prepared under Contract AF 29(601)-2390 by N.M. Newmark and J. D. Haltiwanger, The Department of Civil Engineering, University of Illinois, Urbana, Illinois). BR (Box 311).…

Tall thick 8vo. xxix, [1], 947, [1]] pp. With many maps, numerous photo plates. Dark blue publisher's cloth, gilt badge lozenge on front cover, gilt lettering on spine, map-illustrated endpapers (minor shelfwear, dustsoiling, slight bumping to couple corners), w/ d.j. wraparound map cover art (edgewear, small closed tears, minor chipping & tear head of spine, fore-edge front cover), still VG/G copy, w/ former ownership stamp on half-title. First edition of this expansive and surprisingly scarce 3rd Volume in the series, devoted to the the carrying out of air operations and bombing campaigns in Europe and the Mediterranean in 1944 to the end of the War, including supports of the D-Day invasion, Italy landings, and attacks upon German V-weapon rocket installations. Very scarce in original dustjacket.…

Soft cover. Condition: Good+. SUPER WORLD WAR II NORTH AFRICA ROYAL AIR FORCE HANDWRITTEN MEMOIR: "This is an exercise book" which it is stated in the first line of the first entry: 22/2/43 (9 pages); "I bought this book yesterday and am just taking a few spare moments to jot down some of the happenings and events of the last few months. This book is not intended to be a diary as such, as I have found that a day to day record of events becomes monotonous; but rather a medium that permits me to express myself on paper at thise inevitable times, in the service, when, due to ones surroundings and situation, there is nothing else to do. I shall also include such events as seem worthy of record and which I may like to preserve for the future in a clear cut form than memory alone provides. So I am now on the threshold of Operational Flying there should be much of interest and amusement which will be of interest and amusement." He then summarizes his Air Force Career and details what I assume is the "happenings of the last few months" as detailed at the beginning of this entry. This includes Scotland and Durban, South Africa and Egypt. The rest of the journal is concerned with life and training in Africa and finishes abruptly on 21st July 1943. One week after he makes his first Operational flight over the Mediterranean. Dated 5/2/43 - (6.5 pages), Dated 19/3/43 - (4.5 pages), Dated 29/3/43 - (8.5 pages), Dated 4/4/43 - (4 pages), Dated 10/4/43 - (3 pages), Dated 19/4/43 - (4 pages), Dated 03/5/43 - (7 pages), Dated 25/5/43 - (10 pages), Dated 08/6/43 - (5 pages), Dated 13/6/43 - (5 pages), Dated 20/6/43 - (6 pages), Dated 22/6/43 - (2 pages), Dated 09/7/43 - (9 pages), Dated 14/7/43 - (3 pages), Dated 16/7/43 - (5 pages) - This entry starts " I have now done my first operational flight 4.5 hours in duration, and this involved patroling the Med." Dated 21/7/43 - (3.5 pages).…

Condition: Good+. On offer is a super, original manuscript diary handwritten by James C. Dow, trainee of the Royal Air Force, written in England and then at 31 P.D. Training Camp, Moncton, New Brunswick, Canada. Along with the diary is a photograph album titled 'The Canadian Adventure. Sept. 1944 to March 1945.' Historians and researchers of the era and the experience of British training in Canada will find the two items complimenting one another in casting interesting light on the day-to-day training routine of a middle-class 19 year old man training as an RAF radio operator during the Second World War. At the start of the diary Dow is in training in Lincolnshire, engaged in such activities as learning Morse Code and doing transmitter tuning practice. By August he is training in Lancashire, and on 25 August he is drafted to Canada. He usually begins his businesslike entries with a short report of the progress of the war, and end with a mention of the weather. In between are usually several sentences of personal information. A typical entry (12 April 1944) reads: 'The Russians have made considerable progress towards the center of the Crimea. | Had a pretty easy morning; ostensibly cleaning up defense trenches in the Larch Wood on the far side of the North Drome, under Sgt. Fish of the Regiment. Quite restful! | Denis passed his morse this morning: so did Mac. Denis & I spent most of the afternoon in the Information Room (officially "games"). We, Taffy Standish, Dave Hands & Sid Steed are going on day pass to Lincoln tomorrow. | It was quite mild - sunny, with some cloud'. On 26 he reaches the Trois Rivieres camp, seventy miles from Quebec. The following day he complains: 'We are here for nothing more definite than fatigues to pass time until we start training. Dennis & I are in a party which has to clear up variou rubbish dumps around the camp'. On 24 October he starts his course in Moncton: 'It is going to be very hard work for the 22 weeks it lasts (if I stick it out!). We work 8 hours a day, so there are usually extra assignments at night.' By the last entry in the diary Dow is 'Flying again this morning - a pleasant trip. As W/Op once again. I got an all-right'. The diary also contains some addresses, and a list of 25 books Dow has read. Album: landscape 8vo, 24 pp, containing 49 captioned black and white photographs, ranging in size from 8.5 x 12 cm to 6 x 9 cm, together with a postcard of Notre Dame Church Montreal. Internally sound in a worn binding, with the photographs in excellent condition. The first eight pictures are of the training camp at Moncton, mostly with named individuals. The next eight are of Montreal, and these are followed by nineteen pictures under the heading 'Quebec, St. Louis de Courville. Week Ends with the Woods', the first two being captioned 'with Bill Scollay & Taffy Standish near the Wood's [sic] home' and 'Desmond Wood in front, with Jimmy from next door'. There follow two pictures headed 'After we left', and eight of an aircraft, under the heading 'No 8 Air Observer School, Ancienne Lorette, Quebec'. The first shows an 'Anson about to take off', and there are also an 'Interior scene during flight', an 'Astrocompass in silhouette', and five views out from over the wing, including the 'Shawnigan Falls & the Shawnigan River a frew miles north of Trois Rivieres'. The last four images are of a 'New York Interlude - Christmas 1944'. Diary: 12mo, with 91 full pages of neatly-written entries. Text clear and complete. Fair: internally sound and clean on lightly-aged paper, in worn original boards. Dow's ownership inscription, inside the front board, reads 'James C. Dow. | R.A.F. | 1944.' Overall G+. Size: 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall.…