Jefferies Walter (7 results)

Soft cover. Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. This fine copy is bound in illustrated card covers as issued. The contents are bright, tight, white and square. International postal rates are calcu lated on a book weighing 1 Kilo, in cases where the book weighs more than 1 Kilo increased postal rates will be quoted, where the book weighs less then postage will be reduced accordingly. Postage will be reduced on these slim volumes. Profile Publications are respected as an authoritative source famous for a variety of well illustrated profiles of 262 aircraft. Each of these publications highlights a single aircraft and gives full details about it's service, capabilities and specifications. Each issue also includes a variety of photos, many from private collections, some published here for the first time. Each edition has two or four colour pages indicating variant colour schemes and squadron identification references. This impressive series is favoured by aviation historians and aero modellers alike. Ref DFC3 1.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. First Edition. paper covered boards spine rubbed. Book.

Paper Back. Condition: Very Good -. No Jacket. Jefferies, Walter M. (profile drawings) (illustrator). 64pp.; SC white w/yellow&blk.; 2"tear bttm.spine; spine,corners&edges rubbed; PON inside ft.cover; clean,tight pgs. The history of the Twentieth Air Force, the only one to operate almost exclusively with a single type of airplane, the B-29, and the only one to merit the special description of The War Enders. photos throughout. includes photo of a crew.

Second Edition, with a portrait. 8vo., cont. half calf, marble boards, raised bands, leather spine label, (viii), 384pp. Binding rubbed o/w very good.

Single Issue Magazine. Condition: Good. First Edition. Features: W. Starling Burgess - The Burgess Story, Part I - 1910; Mission to Kavieng, New Ireland (New Guinea) - low-level bombing techniques devised by General George C. Kenney; The Curtiss BT-1 Flying Lifeboat; Flying Pioneers - C.R. "Sinnie" Sinclair, Otto W. Brodie, and W. Redmond Cross; Nieuport 28; The Lucky Bastards - Abel L. Dolim of the 396th Bomb Group recounts WWII adventures; U.S. Navy Ship Plane Units; The Friesley Falcon; The Curtiss Shrikes; Bibliography Section; and more. Exceptionally well-illustrated with black and white reproductions of archival photos. Pages 79-151. Cover features a 1934 aerial photo of a Curtiss A-12 Shrike, 33-222, over Louisiana. Unmarked with average wear. A sound copy of this very informative vintage issue.

Single Issue Magazine. Condition: Good. First Edition. Pages 79-150. Features: Ringmasters - A History of the 401st Bombardment Group (H); Mystery of the Dixmude (French navy rigid airship disaster in December 1923); The Old Rifle Range Airport - A field near Kitty Hawk now all but forgotten; Crusader De-Tails - Part II; Mortality in Army Aviation - from a 1914 War Department document describing in detail the 11 fatal aviation accidents which occurred since the initiation of Army aviation in 1908; Wedell-Williams "We Will Jr." - Wedell-Williams Air Service, Inc. resulted after one-eyed Texas flyer James Wedell met Louisiana lumber baron Harry P. Williams in 1928; Last of the Red-Hot Pilots - Flight Officer Ralph K. Hofer and his action over the English Channel in 1943; Mustangs of the Eighth - The NA-73, later renamed the Mustang I, was ordered by the Royal Air Force while the Battle of Britain reached its climax; Spirit of American Youth - The epic coast-to-coast flight of Richard [Dick] E. James, only 17, of Flushing, NY, in 1930; Waco's Military "Ds" - During 1937-38 the Waco Aircraft Company of Troy, Ohio manufactured and exported a number of Model D biplanes to Latin American countries, the WHD, S2HD, and JHD; Governor's Island Aviation School; Bibliography; Cover photo of a Douglas sleeper transport over Manhattan; and more. Profusely illustrated with informative black and white reproductions of archival photos. Unmarked with average wear. A sound copy of this extremely informative issue.

Three-Quarter Leather. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: No Dust Jacket. Limited Edition. 1880 - 1904 Collection of seventeen titles bound in eighteen, including his eulogy, beautifully bound by Sotheran, an elegant and refined "arts and crafts" style; contemporary three-quarter morocco, gilt-decorated spines including floral motifs. Top edges strong gilt, other edges uncut; delicate marbled end papers. Several portrait frontispiece plates of Jefferies with tissue-guards. In near fine condition with minimal rubbing to extremities, the leather is a little faded to brown on the spines, binding firm. Contents clean and tight, a few fine spots to the endpapers, internally clean, no inscriptions.16 TITLES: HODGE AND HIS MASTERS, 1880, 1st edition, two volumes; THE LIFE OF THE FIELDS, 1884, 1st edition; THE OPEN AIR, 1885, 1st edition; THE AMATEUR POACHER, 1889 new edition; NATURE NEAR LONDON, 1893, hand-made paper edition; THE GAMEKEEPER AT HOME, 1896, new edition; THE DEWY MORN, 1900 reprint; ROUND ABOUT A GREAT ESTATE, 1903 new edition; WILD LIFE IN A SOUTHERN COUNTY, 1903 new edition; WOOD MAGIC, 1903 new impression; RED DEER, 1903 5th impression; AMARYLLIS AT THE FAIR, London 1904, new impression; BEVIS, 1904 new impression; THE STORY OF MY HEART, 1904, 8th impression; THE TOILERS OF THE FIELD, 1904, new impression; FIELD AND HEDGEROW, 1904 new impression plus Walter Besant: THE EULOGY OF RICHARD JEFFERIES, 1898, 1st edition. An attractive collection of Jefferies works uniformally bound. Size: 8vo (18.5 x 13 cm). Book.