Gibbs Wing Commander R P M (5 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Fair. Dust Jacket Condition: Poor. First Edition. Dust wrapper with loss along top front edge and top/bottom of spine, creasing and edge wear, rubbing, marks, fading. Top and Fore edge with spotting/discolouration, Tail edge with ink marks. Boards with edge and corner wear, fading, Gift inscription written on fep, small label on inside front board. Endpapers with discolouration, marks, Internally - pages with Age discolouration/ tanning to edges, light marks, A Good personal copy. Price clipped dust wrapper has now been fitted with removable archive acetate film. **496g ** 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. AANBE12260.

Condition: Good. Title: Not Peace But a SwordAuthor: Wing Commander R P M GibbsPublisher: Cassell & CompanyPublication date/edition: 1943 1st edition Binding: HardbackIllustrated: NoPages: 255 Description / Condition: Signed, with presentation message by the squadron of the Air Training Corps Trowbridge High School 1943. Wear, discolouration, grub, scuff and stain marks to boards, dents to corners and edges. Foxing to fore-edge, browning to endpapers, discolouration to pages, shipped from the UK Please see pictures for further information.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good.

hardcover, 8¾" x 5¾", with dust jacket 256 pages Grey cloth-bound boards with dark-blue type to spine. After training at Cranwell, Gibbs then details his wartime flying exploits off Norway, France, and up and down the English Channel, bombing and torpedoing enemy shipping and attacking U-boat lairs. Book is a war-time economy production - published mid-war - and has 3" crumple to top of rear jacket. 2" x 1/2" torn from half-title page (previous owner's name?). An eminently forceful and convincing narrative. VERY GOOD book in GOOD unclipped dust jacket.

1st edition stiff wrappers Very Good octavo 270pp., Story of a Torpedo Airman. Front hinge broken o/w VG copy.