John Tanner General Editor (8 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Good+. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. green boards, some minor shelf wear, some minor wear to edges and corners, jacket has minor wear and scuffing, a very good tight clean copy. loads of illustrations, the official combat technique instructions for british fighter pilots, as given out from the first world war all the way through to the second, including intstruction on shooting rifles or guns in the air! Book.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. First printing of the American edition. Illustrated. A fine copy in near fine dust jacket. BX43.

Octavo, green heavy boards, gilt lettering to spine, 207pp, illus, VG+ (minor foxing to page edges, occasional sl foxing throughout) in d/w, VG (light creasing to edges, moderate fading to spine, light chafing & soiling).

Super octavo, green heavy boards, gilt lettering to spine, folding aeroplane diagram frontispiece, 351pp, illus, VG+ (sl rubbing to extrems, light foxing to page edges, light tanning to eps) in d/w, VG (price clipped, moderate fading to spine, light creasing & chipping to edges, light chafing & soiling).

First edition hard back binding in publisher's original green cloth covers, gilt title and author lettering to the spine. 8vo. 9½'' x 6ĵ''. Contains 307 printed pages of text with monochrome illustrations throughout. Fine condition book in Fine condition dust wrapper, unused new book. Dust wrapper supplied in archive acetate film protection. Member of the P.B.F.A. ISBN 0853683921 ROYAL AIR FORCE (RAF).

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. A rare green-boards hardback with an unclipped dust jacket now protected in a new archival-quality, removable plastic cover. [From the back cover]- "This volume is part of a series of reprints from official air publications- originally compiled by the Air Ministry for service use- affords an entirely new dimension in the study of combat aircraft." This fifty-year-old book is not in 'perfect' condition, but has an "opened-only-a-few-times" look & feel with no crushes to the boards' corners. Illustrated with 26 figures and 32 facsimile colour chips. Yes, the colour chips foldout remains attached to the rear-inside boards, but there are visible glue-stains. Stored in sealed plastic protection and mailed (bubble-wrapped) in a sturdy Jiffy Rigi Bag envelope. We ship (tracking included) promptly from Roswell, Ga. Proudly serving satisfied book customers for over thirty years. 56-stated pages.

23 x 24 cm, 313 Seiten, mit zahlreichen Abbildungen und Illustrationen, dunkelgrüner Pappband in Leinenstruktur, goldgeprägter Rückentitel, Original-Schutzumschlag. Schutzumschlag leicht gewellt, Abrisse von Vorsatz und Tesafilm auf Nachsatz (beides von einem privaten Schutzumschlag), sonst in guter Erhaltung. RAF Museum Series: Volume 4. Sprache: Englisch.

First edition hard back binding in publisher's original teal covers, gilt title and author lettering to the spine. Square. 9'' x 9''. Contains 313 printed pages of text with monochrome illustrations and photographs throughout. Fine condition book in Fine condition dust wrapper, not price clipped. Originally published by the RFC for use by groundcrew working on the aircraft, this volume provides a uniquely authoritative survey of the construction, mechanics and rigging of Britain's first generation of fighting aircraft. SIGNED to the front free end paper in different ink by John Tanner [Director RAF Museum], J. M. Bruce [Keeper of Aircraft & Research Studies, RAFM], MRAF Sir Arthur Harris [WW1 Fighter Pilot and CinC Bomber Command in WW2], and Lord Balfour of Inchyre [WW1 Fighter Pilot and Politician in WW2]. Dust wrapper supplied in archive acetate film protection, it does not adhere to the book or to the dust wrapper. Member of the P.B.F.A. ISBN 088254408X AEROPLANES.