Dagger Tom (11 results)

Condition: Good. 1961. First Edition. 223 pages. Dust jacket over blue cloth. Clean pages with mild tanning throughout. Tightly bound with mild thumb-marking throughout. Pencil inscription to front endpaper. Boards have light shelf-wear with corner bumping. Mild tanning to spine, which has mild crushing and wear to ends. Mild mottling to boards. Book has forward lean. Unclipped jacket has light edgewear with tears and creasing. Moderate tanning to spine. Notable rubbing and marking all over.

Octavo, blue boards (hardcover), gilt letters, top edge blue, [223] pp. Near-Fine, with bookplate and slight sunning to top edge; in a Near-Fine, mylar protected dust jacket with light edgewear. From dust jacket: To command a Royal Air Force Station is perhaps the most varied and exciting post that an officer can achieve -- before he ascends to the realm of "Top Brass." Tom Dagger, who is in an actual life a serving officer, recently commanded a Fighter Station himself; here he describes some aspects of a Station Commander's life, from the bewildering morning, when he finds himself the "owner" not only of four Squadrons of Hawker Hunter fighters, but also of a farm, a private railway, 482 buildings, and several hundred children. Any young man who is thinking of joining the Royal Air Force, any veteran of pre-jet days -- or, indeed, anyone who has an interest in modern flying -- will find in this novel a vivid and warmly personal picture of life in the Air Force today. Frank Cullens, the new C.O. of a larger Fighter Station at Bahrdorf in Germany, flies himself in to take over just before Christmas, and soon the traditional festivities are in full swing -- involving several entertaining customs which tax his ingenuity and stamina to the utmost. Office work seems endless but remembering that the real point of his job is to provide and lead aircraft and pilots that can fight in the air, he finds time to indulge in the side of his work that he loves best -- flying jet aircraft. With him we pilot a Hunter for the first time, go through the sound barrier, and navigate across half Europe by night. One day he is faced, in the air, with one of the alarms and immense decisions that are inseparable from flying. With good nature and first-hand authority, Tom Dagger takes us behind the scenes of a fascinating command in the flying service. Literature, Aviation, Historic Fiction, Royal Air Force, RAF, Military Fiction. zslic.

Hardcover. Condition: Good+. Dust Jacket Condition: Good+. 1st edition. 222pp, small octavo w/jacket in mylar, tight binding, clean throughout, mild fading to the edges, heavier at top of spine, spine ends worn, jacket is torn at top of spine with heavy wear to the edges, jacket remains colorful but soiled on back.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Included. THE DUST JACKET IS RUBBED AND FADED. THE CORNERS ARE BUMPED. THE SPINE IS RUBBED AND FADED. BOTH ENDS OF THE SPINE ARE SCUFFED. THE REAR OF THE JACKET IS HEAVILY RUBBED AND YELLOWED. THE PAGE EDGES HAVE FOXING. THE PRICE IS UNCLIPPED. THE BINDING IS TIGHT. PAGES GENERALLY APPEAR CLEAN AND CREASE FREE. ALL IN ALL A NICE EXAMPLE OF THIS BOOK.

Condition: Good. 1961. First Edition. 222 pages. Blue pictorial dust jacket over blue cloth. Pages are lightly tanned at the edges, with light foxing. Binding has remained firm. Boards have slight shelf with bumping to corners. Spine ends are a little crushed with light tanning. Light wear to unclipped dust jacket with tears, nicks and creases to spine, edge and corners. Light tanning to spine and edges.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Dustjacket included. First Edition. ISBN . Hardback. No Statement of later printing on the copyright page, assumed first printing. Very Good to Near Fine condition in a Price clipped Very Good to Near Fine condition dustjacket. Tight bright attractive copy with no markings to the book. We have placed the dustjacket in a Brodart clear plastic protective cover and it looks much better than described. No Signature.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Blue boards, gilt stamping to spine, near-fine in like dj.

First Edition. Very good cloth copy in a near-fine, very slightly edge-nicked and dust-dulled dust-wrapper, now mylar-sleeved. Remains particularly and surprisingly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and strong. Physical description; 223p. ; 21cm. Subjects; Prose. Great Britain. 3 Kg.

First Edition. Very good cloth copy in a near-fine, very slightly edge-nicked and dust-dulled dust-wrapper, now mylar-sleeved. Remains particularly and surprisingly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and strong. Physical description; 223p. ; 21cm. Subjects; Prose. Great Britain. 1 Kg.

222 S., Opbd. mit Su., leichte Lagerspuren, etwas bestossen. 34 Sprache: Englisch.

Hardcover. Condition: Acceptable. Ex-library book, usual markings. Book cover is laminated to hardback. Clean copy, water damage to cover and some water damage to a few pages. Quick dispatch from UK seller.