Behind Spitfires by Raff (14 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Good.

Condition: Good. 1941. First Edition. 106 pages. No dust jacket. Red 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 noticeable shelf wear with rubbing and corner bumping. Moderate tanning and marking.…

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Poor. 3rd Edition . Gift inscription from the previous owner. Publication of 106 pages. The dust jacket is worn and the spine is missing. The boards are a touch edge worn. There is foxing on the block of the book and on the early and last few pages. The text remains legible. Tightly bound and presented. in cellophane. The binding is excellent. GK. Our orders are shipped using tracked courier delivery services. …

Hardcover. Condition: Fair. No Jacket. 2nd Edition. 1941 first edition hardback in fair condition. Tanning to inside covers, No other marks to pages, tight binding. The orange cloth boards are soiled, small nick to top of spine, otherwise neat and solid. No dust jacket. Items are dispatched the same or the following working day. Please note our excellent customer feedback.…

Hardcover. Condition: Fair. Dust Jacket Condition: Fair. 3rd Edition. The dustwrapper is in two halves with tanning, has wear to the edges, with some rips to the edges, chips to both ends of spine and edges. The red boards are stained with discolouring, with some bumping to the edges, with blue lettering to the spine. Light tanning to page edges, name to inside front cover, paperclip marks to pages 102-105. Otherwise the binding is firm and the pages appear clean and crease free with some great illustrations throughout. This book has 106 pages. All in all a nice example of this book.…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. First edition. 12mo. 106pp. Original red cloth with blue printed spine. Rear fly creased, pages edges with foxing, spine cocked, spine and edges lightly sunned, still a very good copy.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. Book measures 19x13cm, 106pp, Bound in original publishers red cloth, with title lettering down spine. Binding with minor shelf wear, scuffed corners, Binding in good clean condition. Internally, gift inscription on free end paper, otherwise pages clean. A very good clean copy. …

Condition: Good. 1st ed. Light wear to boards. Content is clean with light age tone. Some spotting to end papers. Owner name to end paper. DJ with some edge wear, toning and creasing.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. FIRST EDITION. 8vo. 7.5 x 5.25 inches. [vi] + 106 pp. Bound in original red cloth, with black titles, in pictorial unclipped dust wrapper, with edge chips and small tears at head and tail of spine, which is sunned. Lower board edges darkened. Scattered foxing, but otherwise a very good copy. Illustrated throughout by cartoons. Decorated by title page vignette and by publisher''s device on verso of title. Humorous cartoons featuring the training and adventures of Aircraftsman 'Plonk.' By cartoonist William Hooper (1916-96), who served on the ground staff. He also jointly devised the character of Pilot Officer Prune, used for pilot instructional purposes. At the end is a two page glossary of terms used in the book. WW2 CARTOON HUMOUR AVIATION WW2 ILLUSTRATED WW2.…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Acceptable. First Edition. First edition hard cover in very good condition, with unclipped dust jacket in acceptable condition. Gift dedication dated Christmas 1941 is penned to FEP. DJ is notably shelfworn, including tanning, creasing and wear to cover, edges and corners. Nicks and chips to edges, foxing and age-related discolouration inside and out. Illustration to front cover remains bright. Red cloth boards bumped and worn at edges, bumped corners and light colour loss spot to rear. Pageblock tanned and foxed, with isolated, light foxing to textblock. Within, pages are firmly bound and content is extremely clean and bright. CN. RAFF (illustrator).…

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Third Edition. Hardback. Dust Jacket. 8vo. pp 106. Original publisher's red cloth, lettered black at the spine. Bookplate on the front pastedown of the aviation collector, K. B. Hiscock. Copiously illustrated in black and white throughout. Very good indeed in slightly used and chipped, near very good dust jacket.…

1941. Methuen & Co. Ltd. Hardback. Book - Fair/Good. Spine faded.

Condition: Very Good. First edition. Hardback. Slightly faded at foot of spine otherwise very good indeed in a very good, unclipped dust jacket, slightly torn and chipped at corners and spine ends with a half-inch loss at foot of spine.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. 1st edition. 8vo. 106pp. Red cloth with black lettering on spine.White dw with colour drawing of Aircraftsman Plonk hands in pockets smoking a cigarette next to a parked aircraft, red lettering, not price clipped 5s. net. Owner's signature and date "November 1941". Covers : slight fade line bottom edge of spine, small knock top edge, slight lean else very clean & bright. Dw : 2cm closed tear top edge (no loss), light patchy foxing, rubs to corners else very clean & complete. Contents : light foxing to outside edges of pages else very clean & tight. Bright attractive copy with light foxing in unchipped dw. VG+/VG+. …