Eaker Ira (37 results)

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Hard Cover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: DJ VG (# written on front). 187pp + index. Dust jacket has three small internal repairs, not apparent from without. Size: Large Quarto.

Hard Cover. Condition: vg. Dust Jacket Condition: good. 4th 1980s reprint. 430 pages; b/w photos, maps, & facsimile illustrations; contents unmarked; slight lean to spine; chips & tears (some taped) to edges of dj. Hardcover (dj).

Hard Cover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. First Edition; First Printing. Profusely illustrated. Foreword by Lieutenant General Ira C. Eaker. ; Tight, clean and crisp. No inscriptions. No remainder mark. Not price clipped. Not ex-library. An excellent copy of the First Printing of the First Edition protected in a new Mylar cover. As New. ; 11.30 X 8.90 X 1.50 inche; 416 pages.

Hardcover. Condition: Fair. 1 st Edition. FAIR/WITH NO JACKET, 255 pp. Text has some mild staining and usual library treatments; has numerous b/w illustrations. Has library rebound green boards. Binding stitched and firm.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. 1st Edition. This wonderful book traces the rapid development from the first flight in a balloon in 1783 to the lastest combat jet. The planes and weapons, the campaigns and battles are described and illustrated with over ninety superb colour photographs. Technical details are given on air to air and air to surface armament, anti-aircraft weapons and air tactics. These topics are brilliantly explained with over fourty five diagrams. This blue hardback is in reasonably good condition with normal wear and marks consistent with use and age. There is some wear to hardback edge and corners and some shelf-life wear. All 187 and index pages, text and illustrations are in good order. Dust jacket included. This is a large heavy book therefore the postage may increase from listed postage price depending on final destination. A really wonderful informative book perfect for any aircraft and Air Warfare enthusiasts or historians.

Paperback. Condition: new. New Copy. Customer Service Guaranteed.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First thus. Hardcover in dust jacket. First Robson Books reissue edition of the 1944 classic. Book and price-clipped dust jacket are in very good condition, generally crisp and clean, with tight binding and sharp corners. Many historic photographs throughout. Large 8vo. 242 pp. Including index. In protective Mylar.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. Very good with good to very good dust jacket. Dust jacket is worn at spine tips and corners with bumps at top corners, is lightly bumped and rubbed at top and bottom edges, and has a one inch tear at bottom front edge. 206 pages with index plus 35 illustrations.

Hard Cover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. First Edition; First Printing. The book is in As New condition, clean, tight, and crisp with solid binding. A hint of very light shelf wear to dustjacket with a short closed tear to top, otherwise As New. An excellent copy that looks great in the new Mylar cover that now protects it. No inscriptions. No remainder mark. Not price clipped. Not ex-library. ; Foreword by Lt. Gen. Ira C. Eaker. Illustrated with photographs. ; 1 x 9.1 x 5.8 Inches; 206 pages.

Hard Cover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. First Edition. First edition. Boards a bit stained, a bit smoky. Binding tight and square, pages clean, bright, and unmarked. 1942 Hard Cover. xiii, 299 pp. An excellent inspirational wartime reference on what to expect as a military aviator. CONTENTS: Part One: Orientation; Part Two: Career Details; Part Three: Air Warfare.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: No Dust Jacket. Second Printing. (1982) Original glazed pictorial boards, very bright and clean. Corners and spine ends a bit bumped. Light foxing to edges of text block. This volume reprints 5 issues of "Impact" Magazine. Illust. w/ numerous b/w photos. Contents very nice.

Ephemera. Condition: Very Good with no dust jacket. Stapled binding is sound. Pages clean, slightly off-white. Wraps have light handling wear. Contents: Eaker, Air Chiefs Patrick and Fechet. The South African Air Force (A Short Official History). Test, The Hustler's Record. Morrow, The Prussian Army and the Aircraft Industry, 1909-14. The F-100 in Pictures. Henshaw, On Testing Spitfires, 1939-45. Whitley, Airways 1923. The Second Air Division Memorial. ; 11.25" tall; 60 pages.

hardcover. Condition: Good. No dust jacket. Names inside. Seam split at the front cover. Priority Mail is available on this item. No international shipping.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. Missing dust jacket; Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.

hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Fair. Dust jacket is heavily chipped, including over half of spine missing, taped edges, and chipping. Previous owner name present. Tape residue on inside covers.

Condition: Good. Good condition. Poor dust jacket. (air pilots, united states, aeronautics ) 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.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. HARDBACK IN JACKET. Clean and tight. Neatly written inscription. Jacket has a few short tears. Jacket is now under clear removable covers. Dispatched ROYAL MAIL FIRST CLASS with TRACKING next working day or sooner securely boxed in cardboard. ref o2299. The Decline and Fall of Nazi Germany and Imperial Japan.

Octavo blue cloth boards, illus. endpapers (map), xv+265pp, illus., VG (moderate fading, scuffing and soiling to boards, light tanning within and to edges, lacks d/w).

Super octavo (NF) 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.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good -. Dust Jacket Condition: Fair. Third Edition. Light blue cloth with gilt and dark blue lettering. Edges are sun faded/lightly soiled; Right book edge is rough-cut and lightly yo moderately soiled; Bottom corners are very lightly bumped; Maps on endpapers have some tanning and foxing/soiling mostly near gutters; book interior is clean and tight; illustrated in black-and-white; 8vo; 265 pages; indexed; illustrated; dustjacket is protected by a mylar wrapper; front panel of dustjacket has heavy chipping at top edge, heavy rubbing along right fold edge and a large chip with closed tears and creasing at bottom edge; spine panel of dustjacket has a strip missing at lower and uupper edges; white rear panel of dustjacket is lightly to moderately soiled and the upper edge is torn off with a closed tear and lower edge has a small chip at lower left corner and a large chip, part of the lower spine chip; left edge of rear panel has some creasing inside rear flap of dustjacket is soiled; front flap of dustjacket has price intact.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: No Dust Jacket. Fifth Edition. Black cloth cover has lightly crushed caps, corners are bumped and rubbed but cover is clean, bright and in very good condition. Boards and spine are straight. Binding is tight. Pages are lightly toned, clean and in very good condition. B&W photographic frontispiece.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. private library liquidation previous owner stamp and inscription.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. [432] pp. ; 28 cm. ; exhaustive collection of photographs (some rarely seen, from the Militaergeschichtliches Institut Freiburg and the Bundesarchiv Coblenz) and detailed maps cover the end of World War II ; red cloth ; no dustjacket ; Contents : The end of the Greater German Reich -- The Road to Catastrophe -- The conquest of Germany -- The Division of Germany -- THe meeting on the Elbe and the division of Germany -- The German collapse in Hungary, Yugoslavia, Italy, Czechoslovakia and Austria -- THe German collapse in Scandinavia -- THe red flag over the Reichs Chancellery -- THe war at sea in the Atlantic and the Baltic -- The War in the air over Germany -- The military victory of the allies -- The beginning of political tension between East and West -- Europe at the end of the Second World War -- The collapse of Japan's Co-Prosperity Sphere in S. E. Asia -- A God is defeated -- AMerica's attack on Japan's inner defences -- The recapture of Japanese-occupied East and South-East Asia -- Crucial battles in the Pacific -- US Air supremacy -- The fateful decision -- A god is vanquished -- The struggle against colonialism -- Asia at the end of the Second World War -- The consequences of the Second World War in Europe and Asia -- The Catastrophe in figures ; Large, thick volume ; VG. Book.

Hard Cover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. First Edition; First Printing. SIGNED and inscribed on front endpaper by Vern Haugland. The book is also signed by the President of the Eagle Squadron Association, Edwin Dale "Jessie" Taylor. Foreword by Lt. Gen. Ira C. Eaker. Illustrated with photographs. ; Tight binding, clean and crisp pages with very mild spotting to top edge, and a hint of light shelf wear with sunning to jacket spine, otherwise an excellent copy now protected in a new Mylar cover. ; 1 x 9.1 x 5.8 Inches; 206 pages; Signed by Author.

Paperback. Condition: Good. Page edges yellowed slightly. Otherwise good. New, revised and expanded edition. Soft cover.

New revised and expanded edition in publisher's original illustrated stiff card wrap covers [soft back]. 4to. 11½'' x 8¼''. The world's greatest air museum of aeroplanes, missiles, and aviation exhibits, from the Wright Brothers to the then present day. Contains 216 printed pages with over 500 monochrome archive photographs throughout, descriptive text to each. In Very Good clean condition, no dust wrapper as issued. Member of the P.B.F.A. ISBN 0517533588 AEROPLANES.

1st edition dust jacket Nice Copy quarto 416pp., colour & b/w plates, text ills., index, Comprehensive & well-illustrated.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. 1st Edition. Photo illus throughout. A clean unmarked copy in dust wrapper with few small chips along top edge, jacket retains $3.00 publication price.

Condition: fair to good, fair. First Edition. 265, illus., endpaper maps, index, some pencil notes to text, DJ worn & soiled: small tears, DJ in plastic sleeve.