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Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: very good. 5 x 7 1/2 inches. 320 pages. Condition of the book is Very Good; bookseller's stamp on ffep [NERJA Book Centre - Grenada] exterior excellnt, text and illustrations are very clean. Dust jacket is Very Good; light wear at edges. RGR.
Published by The Reprint Society London, 1958
Seller: A Book for all Reasons, PBFA & ibooknet, Lowestoft, United Kingdom
Association Member: PBFA
club edn., 320pp, 8pp half tone photo ills., red cloth with black title label lettered and bordered in gilt at spine, top edge coloured, geometric design dustwrapper, the story of an RAF fighter pilot, from a raw Volunteer Reserve sergeant pilot in 1939, his first operational posting was with 616 South Yorks. Squadron which became part of the Tangmere Wing led by Douglas Bader, in 1942 he commanded 610 County of Chester Squadron and 1943 promoted Wing Cdr. to lead the Canadian Spitfire Wing on over 140 sorties over North West Europe. In March 1944 he took command of 144 Canadian Spitfire Wing and in 1945 was promoted Group Captain in command of 125 Spitfire wing until the end of WW2, edges and endpapers tanned, creasing to fiianl pastedown, dustwrapper: rubbed at extrems. with sl. loss at tips and several edge nicks, spine sunned and light overall soiling, very good in a good dustwrapper,
Published by The Reprint Society London, 1958
Seller: A Book for all Reasons, PBFA & ibooknet, Lowestoft, United Kingdom
Association Member: PBFA
club edn., 320pp, 8pp half tone photo ills., red cloth with black leather title label at spine lettered in gilt, upper edge coloured, geometric design dustwrapper, the story of an RAF fighter pilot, from a raw Volunteer Reserve sergeant pilot in 1939, his first operational posting was with 616 South Yorks. Squadron which became part of the Tangmere Wing led by Douglas Bader, in 1942 he commanded 610 County of Chester Squadron and 1943 promoted Wing Cdr. to lead the Canadian Spitfire Wing on over 140 sorties over North West Europe. In March 1944 he took command of 144 Canadian Spitfire Wing and in 1945 was promoted Group Captain in command of 125 Spitfire wing until the end of WW2, small mark to cloth and light bump lower tip upper board, small paper fault fore-edge one leaf (p195/6), dustwrapper: lightly rubbed at extrems., short closed tear upper edge upper panel, very good in a good plus dustwrapper,
Published by Chatto and WindusLondon, 1956
Seller: A Book for all Reasons, PBFA & ibooknet, Lowestoft, United Kingdom
Association Member: PBFA
2nd impr., 320pp, half tone frontis portrait, 17pp half tone photo ills., blue cloth lettered in gilt at spine, coloured pictorial dustwrapper, the story of an RAF fighter pilot, from a raw Volunteer Reserve sergeant pilot in 1939, his first operational posting was with 616 South Yorks. Squadron which became part of the Tangmere Wing led by Douglas Bader, in 1942 he commanded 610 County of Chester Squadron and 1943 promoted Wing Cdr. to lead the Canadian Spitfire Wing on over 140 sorties over North West Europe. In March 1944 he took command of 144 Canadian Spitfire Wing and in 1945 was promoted Group Captain in command of 125 Spitfire wing until the end of WW2, lightly rubbed at tips and boards a little marked, edges tanned, ink date/name front free endpaper, small sharksfin lower edge pp 33/34, dustwrapper: rubbed with slight loss to extrems. and numerous light creases, light overall soiling, repairs to reverse, good plus in a good dustwrapper,