Basil Embry (23 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. BCE - Book Club Edition. 248 pp. Solidly bound copy and dj with moderate external wear, crisp pages and clean text. Dj torn along top of spine. Light foxing on page edges.

Soft cover. Condition: Near Fine. No Jacket. 18 x 11 cm; 189 pages of authentic stories of the RAF Escaping Society.

Super octavo hardcover (VG) lacking d/w; all our specials have minimal description to keep listing them viable. They are at least reading copies, complete and in reasonable condition, but usually secondhand; frequently they are superior examples. Ordering more than one book may reduce your overall postage costs.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. No dj, cloth sunned on spine with some staining, spine tilted, cloth wear at extremities, foxing on eps and sides, tiny bookstore label on fpd, otherwise vg. 600 grams.

Octavo hardcover (VG-) in d/w (tatty); all our specials have minimal description to keep listing them viable. They are at least reading copies, complete and in reasonable condition, but usually secondhand; frequently they are superior examples. Ordering more than one book may reduce your overall postage costs.

Paperback (VG); all our specials have minimal description to keep listing them viable. They are at least reading copies, complete and in reasonable condition, but usually secondhand; frequently they are superior examples. Ordering more than one book may reduce your overall postage costs.

Octavo hardcover (VG) in d/w (VG-); all our specials have minimal description to keep listing them viable. They are at least reading copies, complete and in reasonable condition, but usually secondhand; frequently they are superior examples. Ordering more than one book may reduce your overall postage costs.

Soft cover. Condition: Near Fine. No Jacket. "First published by Cassel & Company Ltd, London 1957" and "Ballantine Books edition, October 1960" stated. Near fine, if not near fine plus or fine wraps/paperback. Only trivial, of any signs of age/wear/previous use.

Condition: Good. Good condition. Good dust jacket. (World War 2, Royal Air Force, Great Britain) A copy that has been read but remains intact. May contain markings such as bookplates, stamps, limited notes and highlighting, or a few light stains.

Octavo, red buckram boards, gilt lettering to spine, 173pp, illus/photos, VG (light bruising & scuffing to extrems, 1cm closed tear to top spine extrem, sl soiling to boards, light tanning & foxing to page edges & eps, prev. bookseller's sm ink stamp to ffep) in d/w, G+ (heavy creasing & chipping with heavy loss to edges, front flap completely detached but present, tears to flap hinges and extrems, price clipped, light discolouration to spine).

First Edition / First Print. Hardback copy in light blue cloth boards with gold gilt letering to spine. Unclipped dustjacket (15s. net) in new removable protective clear sleeve. 191pp. B/w photographs throughout. Not library copy, no inscriptions, light foxing to endpapers, foxing to dustjacket (77/7).

1st edition dust jacket Nice Copy 8vo. 350pp., frontis., b/w plates, maps, appends., index, Personal story of a man of action. Author flew Blenheims & made several remarkable escapes. Some edge-wear to boards & ownership signature o/w a very good copy.

Mass Market Paperback. Condition: Good. Embry had a distinguished RAF career. pp316, ads. Illus.

First Edition / First Print. Hardback copy in light blue cloth boards with gold gilt lettering to spine. Unclipped dustjacket (25s. net) in new removable protective clear sleeve. 350pp. B/w photographic portrait frontispiece, b/w photographs and maps throughout. Not library copy, no inscriptions, light foxing to tect block. (77/7).

Condition: Bueno. París 1958. Presses de la Cité. Holandesa, lomo piel con dorados y nervios. 312 pp. 21x14. Ilustrado. Texto en FRANCÉS.

Couverture rigide. Condition: bon. R160169733: 1958. In-8. Relié. Bon état, Couv. convenable, Dos satisfaisant, Intérieur frais. 312 Pages - Quelques planches photos en noir et blanc. . . . Classification Dewey : 820-Littératures anglaise et anglo-saxonne.

Couverture rigide. Condition: bon. R300263172: 1958. In-8. Relié. Etat d'usage, Coins frottés, Dos satisfaisant, Intérieur frais. Paris, Presses de la Cité, 1958, in 8, reliure éditeur, photos, 312 pp. . . . Classification Dewey : 380-Commerce, communications, transports.

Couverture rigide. Condition: bon. R260152353: 1958. In-8. Cartonné. Etat d'usage, Coins frottés, Dos abîmé, Intérieur frais. 312 pages. Jaquette illustrée en couleurs collée sur papier kraft, restes de papier vert collés au dos. Jaquette abîmée. Tampons et codes de bibliothèque. . . . Classification Dewey : 820-Littératures anglaise et anglo-saxonne.

Couverture rigide. Condition: bon. R160031186: 1958. In-8. Relié. Bon état, Couv. convenable, Dos satisfaisant, Intérieur frais. 312 pages. Illustré en noir et blanc hors texte. . . . Classification Dewey : 820-Littératures anglaise et anglo-saxonne.

First edition. 350pp. Numerous photographic illustrations. Original publisher's pale blue cloth, lettered in gilt. Without dustwrapper. Extremities rubbed and sunned. Internally clean and crisp. Armorial bookplate of Field Marshal Slim to FEP and his inked ownership inscription 'Bill / 6th August 1957' to recto of FFEP. The first edition of Air Chief Marshall Sir Basil Embry's (1902-1977) memoirs of his service with the Royal Air Force during the Second World War. Field Marshal William 'Bill' Slim, first Viscount Slim (1891-1970), British Army officer. Slim joined the army at the outbreak of the First World War and fought in the Dardanelles, France, and Iraq. In 1920 he received a regular commission and joined the Indian army, in which he served throughout the interwar period. At the beginning of the Second World War, he participated in the British conquest of Italian East Africa (1940). In 1942 he was appointed to command the 1st Burma Corps, conducting the retreat from superior Japanese forces that had overrun Burma. In 1943 he was given command of the 14th Army, with which he stabilised the front of the first Arakan campaign (February 1944), arguably up to then the worst-managed British offensive operation of the war. In consequence Slim devised new tactics adapted to jungle warfare, using aerial resupply and guerrilla warfare to assist his efforts in pushing the Japanese out of Burma. Rangoon (Yangon) fell on May 3, 1945, and in June Slim was made supreme Allied commander of ground forces in Southeast Asia. Following the war, in 1946, Slim was appointed commandant of the Imperial Defence College, and in 1948 became chief of the Imperial General Staff with a promotion to field marshal. He served as governor-general of Australia from 1953 to 1960. His memoirs, a personal narrative of the Burma campaign entitled Defeat into Victory (London, 1956) are a classic of the genre and amongst the best thought of campaign histories of the Second World War. Size: 8vo.

8vo., First Edition, with portrait frontispiece and 11 plates on 8; blue cloth, backstrip lettered in black, backstrip faintly sunned at head else a very good, bright, clean copy in unclipped dustwrapper, the latter mildly rubbed at extremities. Bright copy of one of the earliest and most popular RAF escape stories of WWII, published just a month after the first edition. Shot down near St. Omer, Embry made his return to England via Spain just nine weeks and five days later. He subsequently commanded 2 Group Bomber Command, and although ranked Air Vice Marshal flew several operations under the name 'Wing Commander Smith'. His Mosquitos were renowned for their skill and accuracy in precision daylight bombing, and he would have led personally Operation JERICHO - the raid on Amiens prison in February 1944 (in which his substitute Pickard was killed) - had higher authority not ordered him to stand down. Post-war, Embry served as Commander-in-Chief Fighter Command from 1949 to 1953. VERY SCARCE IN THIS CONDITION. Enser, p.151.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. Corner unclipped, some wear to edges and corners of dustjacket, edges and corners a little creased and worn, some small rips at top of spine, shiny laminated surface chipped on cover edge gutter of spine, laminated surface bubbling on back cover gutter join with spine, some light wear to covers and spine, top and bottom of spine a little bumped, internally in good condition, pages crisp and clear, signed by the author on a plaque stuck to half title page. Signed by Author(s).

8vo., Third Impression, with portrait frontispiece and 11 plates on 8; blue cloth, backstrip lettered in black, backstrip faintly sunned else a very good, bright, clean copy in unclipped dustwrapper, the latter mildly rubbed at extremities. SIGNED BY EMBRY ON FRONTISPIECE. Bright copy of one of the earliest and most popular RAF escape stories of WWII, published just a month after the first edition. Shot down near St. Omer, Embry made his return to England via Spain just nine weeks and five days later. He subsequently commanded 2 Group Bomber Command, and although ranked Air Vice Marshal flew several operations under the name 'Wing Commander Smith'. His Mosquitos were renowned for their skill and accuracy in precision daylight bombing, and he would have led personally Operation JERICHO - the raid on Amiens prison in February 1944 (in which his substitute Pickard was killed) - had higher authority not ordered him to stand down. Post-war, Embry served as Commander-in-Chief Fighter Command from 1949 to 1953. SIGNED COPIES ARE EXCEEDINGLY SCARCE. We are told that this copy was signed by Embry for Wing Commander Tom 'Ginger' Neil (Battle of Britain ace and RAF test pilot), but there is no formal evidence to this effect. Enser, p.151 (recording the first edition).