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Octavo, blue cloth (hardcover), silver letters, 258 pp. Very Good, with speckling to edges; in a Very Good, mylar protected dust jacket with edgewear. From dust jacket: "In earlier books," says Sir Philip, "I attempted a contribution to the history of the Royal Flying Corps and Royal Air Force, but a life spent in the services brings many experiences not suited to inclusion in such records. Some could not be told till now because the people concerned were still alive, some infringe on security and cannot be told even yet in exact detail as they happened, and some belong to the lighter side of my career. From time top time I may have availaed myself of storyteller's licence, but, oddly enough, on those very occasions when my publisher accused me of having most drawn the long bow I could truthfully plead innocence -- life is like that." From the time when he learned to fly, in days when a handy piece of string might make the difference between a crash and a good landing, to his specialization in radar while at the Air Ministry during the Second World War, Sir Phliip Joubert has always been at the focus of events. Gifted with a zest for travel, an eye for foibles of character, a lively turn as a raconteur, and an unihibited love of good food, he makes the ideal companion behind the scenes of the historical events he commemorated more formallyin The Fated Sky and such other studies as Rocket (the story of Peenemunde), Birds and Fishes (Coast Command), and The Forgotten Ones (a tribute to the Ground Crews). Not least in interest are the years of his retirement, when he tackled a number of daunting projects, and developed his interests in such directions as exotic cookery and science fiction. Aviation, Author Biography, Military History, British History, Royal Air Force, Royal Flying Corps. bslic.…

Magazine. 32p. includes covers, 8x10.75 inches, listings, articles, news, reviews, photos, ads, very good magazine in stapled pictorial wraps. Also Escape to San Quentin, (San Quentin Drama Workshop) Club Crazy, Sir Ian McKellen. States 30 years in print so may be related to Data-Boy Nightlife.

Secondhand, Hardback. , . NB: This is a secondhand book in very good condition. See our FAQs for more information. Please note that the jacket image is indicative only. A description of our secondhand books is not always available. Please contact us if you have a question about this title.Author: Philip Jones Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 304 For Philip Jones and his long term partner Barrie Reid, Heide renowned as the birthplace of Australian modern art was a place to call home for more than twenty-five years and John and Sunday Reed were like surrogate parents. Art + Life, his deeply personal account of post-war Melbourne at Heide, is in part a debt of gratitude and in part an effort to set the record straight, to separate the real people from the larger-than-life mythologised figures the Reeds have become in the annals of Australian art history. Philip Jones was there, in the midst of this high bohemian world where the boundaries between art, sexual experimentation, indulgence and talent were stretched. The Reeds and their peers were his circle of friends from the 1950s to the present day. He knew them all Sidney Nolan, Arthur Boyd, Joy Hester, Albert Tucker, Fred Williams, Charles Blackman, Hal Porter, Sumner Locke Elliott, Don Dunstan, Jim Cairns, the Moras, Max Harris and saw them at their best and worst. Never short of opinions, Philip Jones offers a candid account of a time where art and life coalesced into a revolutionary gesture flung into the face of a rigidly conventional, bigoted, if happily provincial, society'. The rebels in this narrative changed the way we live and think, by embracing the modern and scorning the parochial. Art + Life lays out the canvas of their lives in all its messy and sophisticated glory. Secondhand, Hardback. …

Cloth. Condition: Vg. Dust Jacket Condition: G+. First Edition. 258pp. Size: 8vo.

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. First Pan Paperback Edition / First Print. Paperback copy, no dustjacket as issued. 185pp. B/w photographs. Not library copy, no inscriptions, light crease to spine. (34/2).

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Book condition is very good. Hard cover. 1st edition, published 1960. Dust jacket is very good, some edge wear and small light tear on the rear top right corner. Book boards clean and unmarked front and back of the book. Spine intact. Text body is clean and unmarked throughout the book and no foxing throughout as well. The first fly leaf page has an ink stamp from the ex-owner top-right corner. Pages are crisp. Book block is clean and unmarked on the side and bottom, some light foxing the top. 224 pages. Over-all a great and neat copy of the book. No extra charges for over-sea shipping as the weight under 500grams. Actual weight of the book is 0.427kg. Key Details of the Book: The Metaphor: The title Birds and Fishes refers metaphorically to the relationship between military aircraft (the birds) and submarines or naval vessels (the fishes) that they tracked and combated. Historical Scope: It details the origins of British naval air power, starting from the Admiralty's 1908 rejection of the Wright brothers' patent, through the creation of the Royal Naval Air Service (RNAS), and its expansion through both World Wars. Focus on Anti-Submarine Warfare: A significant portion of the narrative focuses on Coastal Command's vital anti-submarine operations during World War II, specifically their grueling campaign against German U-boats in the Battle of the Atlantic.…

Hardback. Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. Large octavo size [14x22cm approx]. Near Fine copy in a Very Good dustjacket. DJ now protected in our clear archival purpose-made plastic sleeve. An excellent copy. DJ spine mildly age-toned. Illustrated with Black and White Photographs. Robust, professional packaging and tracking provided for all parcels. 224 pages. Includes their anti-submarine activity. …

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. Hardback. Important autobiography by this Air Chief Marshall who also served in the RFC. 1st Edition 1955. 274pp., ills., appendices, index. Very nice copy in very slightly chipped, still very good dustwrapper. Signed signature plate to endpaper. Signed by Author(s).…

Drawn by Spy Original chromolithograph. Page size approx. 40 x 26.5cm. Image size approx. 33 x 20cm. With original leaf of biographical text.

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Red Cloth. Condition: Very Good +. No Dust Jacket. First Edition. Red Cloth. First Edition. Very Good+, No Dust Jacket. "Compiled Under The Direction Of The Committee On Scientific Method In The Social Sciences Of The Social Science Research Council." 822 Pages, Slightly Age-Toned At Edges. Five Words Underlined In Red Pencil On Pg.Ix Of The Table Of Contents.No Other Underlining Or Marking. Previous Owner's Name In Very Light Pencil On Front Endpaper. Covers Clean And Unmarked. Top Of Spine Frayed. Bottom Of Spine Shelfworn. A Solid, Tight Book.…

Hardback. Condition: New. Since multimedia systems are required to store and manipulate a variety of media types - including text, graphics, images, sound, audio, and video among many others - applications such as video-on-demand systems, interactive television, and video conferencing are becoming widely available at warp speed. This presents new challenges and obstacles to those in the multimedia industry. ""Multimedia Information Storage and Retrieval"" offers solutions to these challenges, providing data placement techniques, scheduling methods, caching techniques and emerging characteristics of multimedia information. Academicians, students, professionals and practitioners in the multimedia industry will benefit from this ground-breaking publication.…

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Condition: New. Num Pages: 2464 pages. BIC Classification: 1DBK; 3JMG; JPHF; LNDS; LNDU. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 248 x 156 x 46. Weight in Grams: 1361. . 2016. Paperback. . . . .

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Paperback. Condition: New. Cornerstone's Electoral Legislation covers the five principal kinds of UK elections: Parliamentary; European; Local Government; Parish; and Referendums.The legislation governing the conduct of elections is necessarily technical and highly prescriptive with electoral officers expected to absolutely adhere to the rules. As legislation is amended every year this title enables electoral officers ready access to up-to-date legislation.This is a new title in the 'Cornerstone' series which is published with the highly respected chambers.This title is included in Bloomsbury Professional's Local Government Law online service.…

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