Gibson Colin Foreword (6 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good+. First Edition; First Printing. Blue boards sharp, age toning and shelf wear to spine ends. Very Good+. Book is firm in binding, b&w historic photographs throughout, 404 pages include Index. Gift inscription on free front endpaper. Else free of any markings, not ex-library. ; B&W Photographs; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 404 pages.

Cloth Hard Cover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fair Dust Jacket. (18)404pp. Indexed. Roll of Honour. Full-page photos. Dj has a 2" chip along top edge front panel.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. Photo reproductions. (illustrator). Binding tight, no markings, DJ are complete with edge wear, tearing. "Wings" DJ is worn and taped on inside. Binding tight, no markings, edge wear, tearing on DJ's."Wings" is taped inside DJ at top of spine. W2 1.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Blue cloth, lettering and decoration in gilt on spine; dust jacket; 8vo; illustrated in b/w throughout. All volumes in VG or better condition, with bumped spine tips and corners, in about VG dust jackets, with sunned spines, some light creasing and chipping along the edges. An excellent working set, with clean and unmarked text blocks, and jackets displaying nicely in mylar.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First edition. Second volume only. 404pp. Illustrated from black and white photographic plates. Pages lightly age-toned, spine ends and corners lightly bumped, spine slightly cocked a bit, a very good copy in a good only edgeworn dustwrapper with tears and tape repair being W.G.M. Hume's copy with his name inked on the front fly and his disagreeable notation on page 135 in which Hume exclaims "I NEVER DID!!" in respect to the incident occurring on May 3rd, 1944 when his Spitfire Mk.IX MK179 of No.403 Sqn RCAF was hit by flak and he baled out 12 miles off Le Treport. He drifted about an hour in a dinghy until he was rescued by an Air Sea Rescue Walrus. This is the second volume in the story of the Royal Canadian Air Force squadrons during World War II. An interesting association copy.

Hardcover. First Edition, First Printings. pp. xv, 376; xviii, 404; xi, 537. 8vo's., measuring 6.25" x 9.25". Uniformly bound in publisher's original navy-blue cloth over boards, gilt lettering and ornamentation over maroon spine labels. Black-and-white photographic frontispieces, accompanied with dozens of black-and-white photographs, portraits, illustrations, aerial photographs, charts, tables, illustrations, etc. Light rubbing, and edgewear to the cloth extremities, slight bump to head and tail of spines. Contents remain entirely without blemish with clean, and unmarked pages, and firm sound bindings. Overall, very good. Vol. I & II lacking their dustjackets, Vol. III accompanied with its original shelfworn dustjacket showing chips and short closed tears along the edges of the panels (now housed in protective mylar cover). Overall, very good. Scarce to be offered in commerce as a complete three-volume set.