Published by St Martins Press, NY, 1972
Seller: Battleground Books, Yorktown, VA, U.S.A.
First Edition
Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. St Martins Press, NY. A biography of the British aviation engineer and inventor who pioneered many of the advances in aviation and aviation warfare. Morpurgo, a British historian, highlights Wallis' invention of rigid airships in WWI, the Wellesley and Wellington bombers as well as the specially designed bomb used by the RAF s Dam Busters. Very good copy of the first American edition in a very good dust jacket. 400 pages.
Published by Longman, 1972
ISBN 10: 0582103606 ISBN 13: 9780582103603
Seller: Cotswold Internet Books, Cheltenham, United Kingdom
First Edition
1st Edition. 1st UK edition, Longman, 1972; B&W illustrations. Dust jacket a little shelf-worn, with short tear Used - Very Good. VG hardback in Good dust jacket.
Published by Longman, 1972
ISBN 10: 0582103606 ISBN 13: 9780582103603
Seller: G & S Books, Gillingham, KENT, United Kingdom
First Edition
Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. First Edition. Hard cover is bumped to the spine ends. DJ has a small mark at the bottom of the spine where a label used to be, it is covered in a clear protective wrapper. Inside on the reverse of the the title page is an ex library red stamp stating Withdrawn and sold. There areno other stamps or marks and the book is very clean throughout. Contains black & white illustrations. Seller ref: M19472.
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First Edition. First Edition. octavo, blue boards in pictorial dust jacket. (xvi), 400pp. St. Martin's Press, Barnes Wallis has been at the forefront of progress in aviation for virtually the whole history of the aeronautical industry. This book illuminates the social, political, and military history of this century and explores and explains some intriguing paradoxes of Wallis's character. Before WWI he was designing rigid airships; was responsible for the R.80, the most beautiful airship ever built; the R.100, the most successful; introduced geodetic construction into aircraft design, and more recently, the 'swing wing' airplane; designed the Wellesley and Wellington bombers, the Tallboy and Grand Slam bombs; conceived and built the famous dam-busting bouncing bomb; has contributed to the development of radio telescopy; planned nuclear submarines; and devoted much of his time to the advancement of education. Illustrated. Fine copy, jacket not clipped. octavo, blue boards in pictorial dust jacket.
Published by Longman Group Ltd, London, 1972
ISBN 10: 0582103606 ISBN 13: 9780582103603
Seller: CHAPTER TWO, Pinetown, KZN, South Africa
First Edition
Hardcover. Condition: Fair. Dust Jacket Condition: Fair. 1st Edition. Dustjacket is frittered and loose around the boards. Siingle wormhole from inside front board to page 11. Pages xi + 400 including Notes and Index. 8 leaves of illustrations. (PHrvy-EEW-70-1SBy).
Published by St Martin's, 1972., 1972
Seller: Military Books, Washington, DC, U.S.A.
First Edition
Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. 1st. 1st ed. 400p. Photos. Designed rigid airships in UK: Including the R80 & R100. In mylar. Fine/Fine copy.
Published by St. Martin's Press, 1972
Seller: Tacoma Book Center, Tacoma, WA, U.S.A.
First Edition
Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. First edition. ISBN Hardback. First U.S. Printing. Very Good condition book, with slight browning to edges of interior pages, light foxing to top edge of book, slight rubs to cover corners, in a Very Good condition dustjacket with minor rubs and creases around its edges, slight browning to jacket edges. Tight, sound, unmarked copy. $10.95 original price is present and unclipped on front flap of dustjacket.
Published by Ian Allen, 1981
ISBN 10: 0711011192 ISBN 13: 9780711011199
Seller: CurvedLineVintage, Stockport, United Kingdom
First Edition
Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. 1st of an updated 1981 edition. Slight marking / creasig ad shelf wear to the dustwrapper, which has been price clipped. Slight scuffing to flyleaf page.
Published by St. Martin's, NY, 1972
Seller: The Wild Muse, Granville, NY, U.S.A.
First Edition
Hard. Condition: Near Fine. 1st. First U.S. edition. Hard cover in dust jacket. Published NY: St. Martin's, 1972. 8vo., xvi+400pp., illus. b/w photos. Blue/gray cloth with gilt titles. Mild surface abrasion from sticker removal on pastedown, small dot stain on front edge of page block. Clean, well preserved, attractive. Near fine in near fine dust jacket. Size: 8vo.
Seller: Stanley Louis Remarkable Books, Saint Charles, IL, U.S.A.
First Edition Signed
Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near fine to Fine. All 3 are first editions. Operation Chastise, commonly known as the Dambusters Raid, was an attack on German dams carried out on the night of 16/17 May 1943 by 617 Squadron RAF Bomber Command, later called the Dam Busters, using special "bouncing bombs" developed by Barnes Wallis. The Möhne and Edersee dams were breached, causing catastrophic flooding of the Ruhr valley and of villages in the Eder valley; the Sorpe Dam sustained only minor damage. Two hydroelectric power stations were destroyed and several more damaged. Factories and mines were also damaged and destroyed. An estimated 1,600 civilians - about 600 Germans and 1,000 enslaved labourers, mainly Soviet - were killed by the flooding. Despite rapid repairs by the Germans, production did not return to normal until September. The RAF lost 56 aircrew, with 53 dead and 3 captured, amid losses of 8 aircraft. This group includes three key works on Barnes Wallis and the operation that used his creative bombing method. 1. Mathematics with Love, The Courtship Correspondence of Barnes Wallis, Inventor of the Bouncing Bomb, by Mary Stopes-Roe, the daughter of Barnes Wallis, Macmillan, London, 2005. 363 pp. Black cloth with silver titles on the spine. No marks or damage at all. Unclipped DJ is also excellent. It is inscribed by the author on the title page "Best Wishes, Mary Stopes-Roe" Fine/Fine. Quite scarce signed. 2. Dam Buster, Barnes Wallis: An Engineer's Life, by Richard Morris, Weidenfeld & Nicholson, London, 2023, 520 pp. Black cloth with gilt titles on the spine. No marks or damage at all. Unclipped DJ is also excellent. Fine/Fine 3. Barnes Wallis, A Biography, by J. E. Morpurgo, Longman, London, 1972, 400 pp. Gray cloth with gilt titles on the spine. No marks or damage at all. Unclipped DJ has slight fading on the jacket spine, but otherwise undamaged. Fine/Near Fine.