Seiler E N Ayling Keith (8 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. Missing dust jacket; Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.

Paperback. Condition: Brand New. 60anniversary ed edition. 304 pages. 8.75x6.00x0.75 inches. In Stock.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good condition. First Printing of the First Edition. Boston: Little, Brown and Company, 1943. Finger soil on covers. Square, tight, unmarked copy. No owner's name or bookplate. Endpaper maps of Casablanca area. History of U. S. Naval aviators in the North African campaign during World War Two. "The story of the Grumman 'Wildcat' fighter squadron which operated from a carrier as part of the umbrella over the American landing operations at Casablanca." Original gray cloth, with decorations and lettering in red. First Printing of the First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good condition. 8vo. x, 309pp .

Hardcover. Condition: Good. First Edition. First edition, General shelfwear to the cover and page edges.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Poor. 1st Edition. private library liquidation slightly read poor dust jacket.

reprint dust jacket Very Good octavo x + 309pp., ep maps, Account of the actions of a Grumman Wildcat Fighter Squadron in North Africa, told by two of its pilots. Neat ownership signature o/w nice copy in decorated cloth boards with a very good pictorial dust jacket.

Boston, Little, Brown and Company, 1943; First edition, June 1943. 21x14 cm. Hardcover, cloth, dustwrapper (d.w.sl.wear, protected by mylar cover). Ix, 309 pp., maps on endpapers. Includes the original rare dustwrapper. Good.

Cloth. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Not Stated (illustrator). First edition. A first edition, first printing of the story of two naval fighter pilots in the Grumman "Wildcat" fighter squadron during the Second World War. The first edition, first printing of this work in the publisher's original cloth binding, with the original unclipped dust wrapper. Bookplate of Frank O'Connor to the verso of the half title page. Ink inscription to the title page, dated September 1943. In collaboration with the journalist Keith Ayling, Lieutenant M. T. Wordell and Lieutenant E. N. Seiler give a thrilling first-hand account of serving in the Grumman "Wildcat" fighter squadron during the invasion of French North Africa in the Second World War. This invasion, known as 'Operation Torch', prompted the first large-scale airborne assault carried out by the United States. In the publisher's original cloth binding, with the original unclipped dust wrapper. Externally, cloth is very smart except for the odd spot to the upper extremities. Internally, firmly bound. Pages are very bright and clean. Dust wrapper remains generally bright except for a little sunning to the spine. Chipping to the head and tail of the spine of the wrap and to the folds. Near Fine. book.