Field Basil (8 results)

No Binding. Condition: VGF. 920-32. A VG or better original 8 x 10 still. Size: 8" x 10". Photographic Image.

Booklet - Unbound Pages. Condition: Very Good. 5 pages, illustrated. An authentic standalone article, extracted from a larger volume. Not a reprint or reproduction, but an original work in its own right. Supplied without title page or cover. Size: 16 x 24.5 cms. Category: English Illustrated Magazine; Cosmo Books : 29 years on ABE, 47 years taking care of customers. A bookseller you can rely on.

[0-7064-0879-9] [1978]. (4to) Very good in very good dust jacket. 253pp. Illustrated endpapers, frontispiece, black and white and color photographs, black and white and color illustrations, diagrams, index. Contributors include Basil Arkell (Vertical Flight), Cliff Barnett (Sporting Aviation), Hugh Field (General Aviation), Kenneth W. Gatland (Beyond Planet Earth), Bill Gunston (War in the Air), Clive Hart (From Myth to Reality), Mike Hirst (Air Navigation), Andrew Hofton (From Principles to Practice), John Stroud (Airports), John Stroud (Mature Growth), John Stroud (The Pioneers), John Stroud (The Turbine Era). (Transportation, Airports, Ballooning, Bomber Aircraft, Civil Aviation, Fighter Aircraft, Gliders, Kites, Military Aviation, Rocketry and Space Travel).

1p., 12mo. Good, on lightly-aged paper. He begins: 'My bookseller has sent me tonight "Island India at School" - Chicago University Press $2 [in fact 'Island India at School', E. R. Embree et al, 1934], and therefore, presumably, C.U.P. in this country.' He apologises for troubling Driberg unnecessarily: 'But yesterday they told me that they couldn't even trace it in Publishers' Catalogues.' Postscript reads: 'I hope I'm not robbing you of your proper style & title. I feel that it might be "Dr.".

Hardcover. Condition: Good. FRIPP, C. E. (illustrator). 1st Edition. Quarto, grey cloth beveled edges, tiles in red with gilt goblin on front and tiles in gilt across spine, wear to upper spine, bumping to corners, splitting between front end papers and general loosening otherwise good, illu8strated, [10] plus 162 pages. [Nothing is more distasteful to a child than a Preface, unless it be a moral precept buried in the text. In this little book neither will be found . Its one aim is to amuse] [QP].

C. E. Fripp (illustrator). Illustrated by C. E. Fripp. Frontispiece, six plates and illustrations in the text. Printed in black and red. First Edition. Small 4to. [253 x 187 x 22 mm]. [3]ff, 162pp. Bound in the publisher's original blue cloth over bevelled boards, the front cover blocked in gilt and red, the spine lettered in gilt, floral endleaves, plain edges. (Slight wear to headcaps and corners). A very good copy. Contemporary ink inscription: "To Miss Muriel Keyser from Colonel Phillipps".

4pp., 8vo. In good condition, with light signs of age. A lively and vivid account, as the opening indicates: '"Ah! I see you're a member of my Club!" said the Field Marshal, pointing at my tie: and do you know, despite the fact that I doubt if he had set foot in Carlton House Terrace - or any of our subsequent addresses, - more than half a dozen times, he still managed to give the impression by the way he said "My Club!" that, if not actually a Founder Member, he was at least a popular and highly-respected Savage, and that my standing with him was increased by my own membership of an organisation which included himself. | "Anyway," he said, turning to our mutual host Basil Liddell Hart, "what's he doing here and why have you invited him?" - this, I might point out, in Basil's own house! | Basil then explained to him that I had written books on the First World War and was about to start one on the Second, and that I was interested to know the Field Marshal's opinion on the relative merits of the two groups of generals. | "Right!" he said. "Come over to Bentley tomorrow morning and we'll talk about it. Can't stop now. Well Basil, give my love to Kathleen and stop bullying her! She's much too good for you!" and with a curt "Eleven o'clock, don't be late!" to me, he was off.' Pitt gives the Field Marshal's terse evaluations of various generals, and notes that he 'giggled' when reminded of his DSO. 'He gave me lunch - salad with a bottle of light ale for me and lemonade for him, and then he showed me around the main rooms with his trophies - the solid silver coach and six horses from Birmingham, the huge silver Crusader sword from Syria and the curved golden Saracen sword from the sheiks of the Trucial States. And, of course, the beautiful Field Marshal's baton. | "What security system do you have for all this stuff?" I asked. "It must be worth a fortune!" | "None!" he said. "There's always someone here - and anyway, no-one would ever burgle me!" And, tragically, he really believed it!' A second visit, with his son, on leave from the RAF, is described, leading Pitt to a reminiscence of his first encounter with Montgomery, while on active service in Egypt in 1942: 'I have never forgotten my first sight of Monty - short, compact, the rather bird-like head thrown slightly back, clear grey eyes staring straight into mine, stirring uneasy thoughts of sins of omission and commission of which he couldn't possibly have known. Then he was past, but to our increasing wonderment, he then repeated the performance along the second and rear lines.'.

Vintage reference photograph from the 1960 British film, showing actor Kenneth More. With a printed mimeo snipe affixed to the verso, along with the stamp of J. Arthur Rank Productions. A light, space race era romantic comedy, about a seemingly invincible man who is hired to be a guinea pig for the space program. 8 x 10 inches. Near Fine.