Sir Miles Thomas (16 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. VG condition book with dust jacket. Unclipped DJ is clean, has fresh colours and some minor wear to edges. Book has clean and bright contents with no inscriptions, 406pp with B&W plates.

Condition: Good. 1964. First Edition. 406 pages. Dust jacket over black cloth. Contains black and white photographic plates. Pages and binding are presentable with no major defects. Minor issues present such as mild cracking, inscriptions, inserts, light foxing, tanning and thumb marking. Overall a good condition item. Boards have mild shelf wear with light rubbing and corner bumping. Some light marking and sunning. Clipped dust jacket. Panels to dust jacket have noticeable edge wear with chips, tears and creasing.…

Condition: Good. 1964. Second Impression. 406 pages. Dust jacket over paper covered boards. Bright and clean pages with light tanning to text block edges. Binding is firm throughout with minor thumb-marking. Pencil inscription to front endpaper. Boards have light shelf-wear with corner bumping. Mild scratching and marking to boards. Book has forward lean. Boards are mildly warped. Unclipped jacket has light edgewear with tears and creasing. Mild tanning to spine and edges. Light rubbing and marking all over. Sticker to rear panel.…

hardcover. Condition: Good. Murray, London, c.1953, 1st., 7-1/2"x10", pictorial cloth, 56pp., mostly photos of or from the Comet jetliner. G $.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. Good for year hardcover. Some dusting to top of page edges Dustjacket good but a little shelfworn 112 pages. A book from another age.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. British 1st edition, VG/VG, ill., price intact on flap at 30/-.

Undated book club edition, c.1965. Text clean; binding tight; dust jacket a little worn at edges Used - Very Good. VG hardback in VG dust jacket Used - Very Good. VG hardback in VG dust jacket.

8vo. 406pp. Original boards in dustwrapper.Black and white illustrations; a near fine copy. . First edition.

hardback, 8vo, 406pp, illustrated, slight browning, text clean and sound, no inscriptions, Very Good / Good dustwrapper; wrapper corners rubbed and frayed, not price-clipped.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. First edition, second impression (so stated; "November, 1964). 8vo. Illustrated with 17 halftones from b/w photographs. Dust jacket designed by Kenneth Farnhill (unclipped; hinges starting; few chips; nicks; creases). Very good. 406 pages. No other signatures or bookplates. Signed and inscribed by Miles Thomas on the front free endpaper in blue ink: "To my very good friend Gordon Freshman with great appreciation for his companionship and . . . both in business and social circles. Miles Thomas. Feb. 1971, London". Inscribed by Author(s). …

Condition: Good. 1964. Second impression. 406 pages. Signed by the author. Pictorial dust jacket over black cloth. Signed with dedication from the author on front free endpaper. Pages with some foxing and tanning, particularly to endpapers and textblock edges. Cracking to front hinge with netting exposed. Binding loose. Boards have noticeable shelf wear with rubbing and corner bumping. Mild tanning and marking. Unclipped jacket has heavy edge wear with tears, chipping and creasing. Extensive tape repairs. Shortened top and bottom.…

Hardback. Condition: Very Good. includes experience with Rolls Royce armoured cars in East African Campaign; Binding: Orig. black cloth with dust-jacket; Condition notes: V. Good; Illustrations: Frontis + 16 B/W photos; Pages: 406; Edition/printing: 1st.

First Edition. Pp. 406, frontispiece portrait, plus 8 plates, index; demy 8vo; black boards, spine lettered in gilt; price-clipped dust wrapper, edges lightly rubbed and split, the back panel slightly soiled; bookseller' sticker at foot of upper pastedown, endpapers and edges of leaves slightly foxed; Michael Joseph, London, 1964. First edition. *Autobiography of the Welsh businessman. Sir Thomas Miles (1897-1980) was Managing Director of Morris Motors from 1940 6o 1947 and Chairman of the British Overseas Airways Corporation from 1949 to 1956.…

1964. Michael Joseph. Hardback. Book - VG. DJ - Good.

First edition. Michael Joseph, London. 1964. Hardback with DW. 406 pages. B&w photograph plates. Index. Sl. wear and discolouration to dust-wrapper mostly to extremities. Signed inscription from the author to "Fritz" Harris to front free end-paper and signed type-written letter to same recipient + other ephemera loosely inserted.…

Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First Edition. Sir Miles Thomas a prominent Welsh businessman aviator and pioneer in the British Aviation industry This is his autobiographical account of his fascinating life across military aviation automotive manufacturing and commercial airlines A 1964 first edition copy with an inscription from the author to the front free endpaper Complete with its dust jacket in very good condition despite minor edge wear The pages remain clean and bright and illustrated with several black and white photographs pp 406 Overall a very good copy A must for any aviation enthusiastnbsp. book.…