Wing Commander George (18 results)

Condition: Good. 256 pages. No dust jacket. Orange cloth. Pages are lightly tanned and thumbed at the edges, with light foxing. Binding has remained firm. Boards are a little rub worn, slight shelf wear to corners, spine and edges. Corners are a little bumped. Spine ends are mildly crushed. Light tanning to spine and edges. Boards are bowed. Book has a forward lean.

Hardback. Condition: Good+. 1st Edition. First edition first printing small quarto hardback xviii + 82 pages Illustrated Good + condition No inscriptions.

Condition: Good. 1951. Revised Edition. 82 pages. Blue dust jacket over pictorial paper covered boards with blue cloth to spine. Black and white and blue illustrations with black and white photographs throughout. Binding remains firm. Pages and illustrations have light tanning and foxing throughout. Pencil inscriptions and pen marking to front free endpaper. Boards have light shelf-wear with corner bumping. Slight crushing to spine ends. Unclipped jacket has heavy edgewear with areas of loss, heavy tears, chips, and creasing. Light tanning to spine and edges. Foxing overall.

Condition: Good. 1948. First Edition. 256 pages. No dust jacket. Beige cloth. Pages and binding are presentable with no major defects. Minor issues present such as mild cracking, inscriptions, inserts, light foxing, tanning and thumb marking. Boards have mild shelf wear with light rubbing and corner bumping. Some light marking and tanning.

Cloth. Condition: Good +. Dust Jacket Condition: Fair +. First Edition. Price clipped. dj chipped & torn at corners/edges. A piece missing from top & bottom of dj spine.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good Hardback. No Jacket. No date. fading to spine.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Very Good Hardback. Dust Jacket Condition: No Dust Jacket. Coloured Frontis (illustrator). An award sticker inside the front cover.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. WITH COLOURED FRONTISPIECE. NO DJ, SPINE LEANING, CREASE TO CORNER OF REAR BOARD, CLOTH WEAR AT EXTREMITIES, HEAVY TANNING ON FFEP, FOXING ON EPS, FOXING ON SIDES, SOME PLAY IN FRONT HINGE, OTHERWISE VG.

Condition: Good. Most items will be dispatched the same or the next working day. A copy that has been read but remains in clean condition. All of the pages are intact and the cover is intact and the spine may show signs of wear. The book may have minor markings which are not specifically mentioned. A few small tears at the edges of the dust jacket. A tan to the page edges. Contents otherwise clear and unmarked, with firm binding, and a colour frontispiece. A lovely, bright copy overall.

8vo., First Edition, with frontispiece, and photographs, illustrations and charts in the text, neat stamp on front free endpaper; patterned boards, blue cloth back lettered in gilt, a very good, bright, clean copy.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. Designed by Paul Hogarth and with 20 illustrations by Laurence scarfe, mostly in green-blue. Also reproductions of maps, photographs, etc. Blue quarter buckram, spine gilt, patterned boards (to a design by Edward Bawden). Dust-jacket very faintly worn and invisibly repaired. A very good to fine copy. Attractively printed at the Curwen Press.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good+. First Edition. 81 pp. Illustrated in black, white and blue. Black and white frontispiece. Decorated title page. Decorated paper bound boards with blue cloth spine. Dustwrap chipped with small loss to head and tail of spine. Book designed by Paul Hogarth. With illustrations by Lawrence Scarfe at the Curwen Press, London. Maps, diagrams.; 001704; 8vo.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Fair. - (illustrator). FIRST EDITION & FIRST PRINTING. [This is an extremely rare book with the original first issue dustjacket] - Condition & Description: The original dustjacket accompanies this book. Price is 5/- net to the front inner prelim. Fairly creased with small chips on the corners. Closed edge tears and soiling to the lighter areas. Now housed in a removable archival sleeve. -- Orange cloth boards with dark lettering to the spine, and front board. Minimal soiling. Slight lean. -- Endpages are browned. Superb colour frontispiece by 'OLIFFE'. All pages are clean and tightly bound. - Our orders are shipped within 1 or 2 business days.- Thanks for your interest and I hope you like the book enough to buy it.

Illustrated by L. F. Lupton. Pp. 240, frontispiece; small cr. 8vo; beige cloth, lettered and decorated in dark blue, fore-corners of boards faintly bruised; price-clipped dust wrapper, lightly soiled and worn, edges rubbed and chipped, with a couple of closed tears and a few tape repairs on reverse, small red sticker near top fore-corner of front panel, price sticker on front flap; the free endpapers faintly offset, outer leaves and edges lightly foxed; Frederick Warne & Co., Ltd., London, n.d. *Adventure story set in Palestine.

1st edition dust jacket Near Fine lge. octavo xviii + 82pp., b/w pls., text ills., appends., Shell War Achievements (2) A Record of Shell's Contribution to Aviation in WW2.

Paperback. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: no dj. Burma Story. Book.

Hardcover. Condition: Nr Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. Published to coincide with the 22nd and final reunion of the RAF Record Office Ruislip Apprentice Clerks (1925-1942) held on the 11th June 2005 (letter placed inside book loosely) excellent fine interior and boards, no usage marks or inscriptions just very faint foxing specks to top closed edge of pages but this really is minimal; d/j near fine as slight colour change/sunned to spine but title here still clear and bold and excellent appearance mostly./.

Single Issue Magazine. Condition: Good. Illustrated by Lowthian, Louis R.; Garland, C. George; Smith, Ralph C.;Mastri, Fiore; Clymer, John F.; Diamond, Hal (illustrator). First Edition. 40 pages. Features: Ad for yellow 1941 Pontiac Fleetleader inside front cover; News digest discusses the illusions of a year ago; Poem "Land of Wish-It-Were", by James Byrne; Interesting photo-illustrated article on the people of the far reaches of the Commonwealth who are contributing to the British war effort; Never Goodby (short story); Mr. Barbury's Hands (short story); Victim of Circumstance (short story); Doves of War - wonderful photo-illustrated article on how homing pigeons are used as emergency messengers at home and abroad; Sixty Days to Live (short story, part 3 of 6); Movie news and photos; Half-page Department of Trade and Commerce ad says "There is no sign of a single German ship delivering a single bale of goods anywhere across the Seven Seas"; How Good-Looking Are You?; Do You Want to be Popular?; Oddments in Cookery; World Sayings; Mussolini's Revealing Speech; Heinz Ketchup ad on back cover; and more. Unmarked with moderate wear. Binding sound. A quality copy of this excellent wartime issue.; Folio - over 12" - 15" tall; National Home Monthly Magazine, January (Jan.) 1941 - Homing Pigeons as Emergency Messengers yellow 1941 Pontiac Fleetleader inside front cover; News digest discusses the illusions of a year ago; Poem "Land of Wish-It-Were", by James Byrne; Interesting p.