Introduction Max Arthur (12 results)

Trade Paperback. Condition: Good. A very good copy of this book which has been very carefully read. No creases to the covers. One very light reading crease to the spine. 326 pages, clean and firm. Illustrated. History - War.

Hardcover in Dust Jacket. Condition: Very Good. First Edition. First American Edition. As-new, in dust jacket.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. 8vo. First edition thus. Classic personal narrative of aerial combat on the Western Front in World War One, and of postwar experiences as a pilot in China. ppXIV,230 with photographic frontispiece portrait, and 10 monochrome plates after Nevinson lithographs. Olive-green cloth, backstrip titled in red, white and blue, front cover with Nevinson illustration in monochrome. No dust jacket as issued. Fine copy in Near Fine red corrugated card slipcase.…

20.5x13.5cm. Reprint. The lyrics of some 100 songs sung by British soldiers and their Australian, Canadian and American allies, with in-text illustrations from the period. ppXXX,130. Hardback / hard cover: brown boards, backstrip titled in gilt. VERY GOOD+ copy in VERY GOOD+ unclipped dust jacket.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. First published in 1936, this is a Folio Society edition of 1993. Illustrated boards, red slipcase as issued. Some minuscule edge wear to top and bottom of slipcase, looks almost unread, internally clean tight and square, overall a vg+ copy. 230pp. One of 'the definitive accounts of aerial combat, full of passion and poetry'. It is the autobiography of an ace, and no common ace either. The boy had all the noble tastes and qualities, love of beauty, soaring imagination, a brilliant endowment of good looks this prince of pilots had a charmed life in every sense of the word' so said George Bernard Shaw. Sent to France with the Royal Flying Corps at just seventeen, and later a member of the famous 56 Squadron, fighter ace Cecil Arthur Lewis (1898-1997), was an illustrious and passionate fighter pilot of the First World War, described by Bernard Shaw in 1935 as 'a thinker, a master of words, and a bit of a poet'. In this vivid and spirited account the author evocatively sets his love of the skies and flying against his bitter experience of the horrors of war, as we follow his progress from France and the battlefields of the Somme, to his pioneering defense of London against deadly night time raids. A classic. Lithographs by C. R. W. Nevinson (illustrator).…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. First Folio Society Edition / Second Print (first in this edition published in 1998). Hardback copy in pictorial cloth boards, dark green cloth spine with red/white lettering. No dustjacket as issued. 230pp. B/w photographic portrait frontispiece, full page b/w lithographs. Housed in plain red card lipcase. Not library copy, no inscriptions. (76/1). Nevinson, C. R. W. (lithographs) (illustrator).…

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. First Edition Thus; First Printing. Still stiff to open in decorated green cloth; about new but for a few specks to spine; in red slipcase with faint scuffing.; 230 pages. Illustrated by C. R. W. Nevinson (illustrator).

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. 1999 reprinting. C R W Nevinson (illustrator).

paperback. Condition: New. In shrink wrap. Looks like an interesting title.

Condition: Fine. First edition hard back binding in publisher's original black paper covered boards, gilt title and author lettering to the spine. 8vo. 9½'' x 6¼''. Contains 326 pp with monochrome photographs throughout. Fine condition book in Fine condition dust wrapper, price clipped. Dust wrapper supplied in archive acetate film protection. Member of the P.B.F.A. ISBN 0091882095 FIRST WORLD (Great) WAR.…

Hardcover. Condition: Brand New. 486 pages. 9.50x6.50x1.25 inches. In Stock.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. 1st Edition. Volume Ii Only, Pp 507-1063.Hardcobver, First American Edition, English Sheets With Funk & Wagnalls Title Page. Common Sense Advice For The General Reader, But Written By Leading German Specialists. Green Cloth, Gilt. Would Be Near Fine, Some Flecking Of Color To Green Cloth, Gilt Still Brilliant.…