Peter Townsend Group Captain (7 results)

1st in imprint, paperback, 252pp, [iv] ads., #S448, coloured pictorial upper wrapper, a contemporary account by a Belgian fighter pilot of his escape in 1940 from Belgium and and then France to England, joining the Royal Air Force in time for the Battle of Britain, with 145 Squadron flying from Tangmere and 609 Squadron from Biggin Hill. The author later died in a flying accident in 1942 but he left behind notebooks found after his death containing his thoughts and impressions of each day's battles, edited by a fellow ex-patriot RAF flyer Victor Houart, slight slant and creasing to spine, rubbed at extrems., light creasing upper wrapper, edges tanned, very good,

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good ++. Dust Jacket Condition: Dustcover Very Good +. 1st Edition. Volume Two 128 large format, rectangular pages. Superb colour plates and B&W illustrations. Navy-blue background dustjacket light wear to edges of dustjacket. Very clean blue hardback binding. Pages are very clean.

First edition hard back binding in publisher's original cyan cloth covered boards, blocked and lettered gilt back. 8vo. 9½'' x 6¼''. Contains (xvii), 455 pp with monochrome archive photographs throughout. In Very Good clean condition, no dust wrapper. Member of the P.B.F.A. BATTLE OF BRITAIN.

239 pp, b&w photographic plates, fine copy in very good, price-clipped, pictorial d/j.

paperback. Condition: New. In shrink wrap. Looks like an interesting title!

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. Clean tight copy with no marks or damage. Dust wrapper clean and unmarked. Has small tears at head of dust wrapper at spine. we will dispatch as soon as possible.

8vo (23x15cm), hardback, 351pp + b&w photographs and colour frontispiece. Good condition in goodish dustwrapper (general wear, bumped, a bit grubby, chipped at corners and spine extremities, some small open and closed tears, rubbed, creased, tape repairs on the inside at spine edges and rear corners have left marks). Bumped, green upper edges a little faded, several dents to edges, map at endpapers, rubbed. Pictures available on request. 'Group Captain Peter Townsend's personal story of his 57,000 mile road journey around the world, alone.'.