Down Drink by Barker Ralph (33 results)

Condition: Good. Pages intact with minimal writing/highlighting. The binding may be loose and creased. Dust jackets/supplements are not included. Stock photo provided. Product includes identifying sticker. Better World Books: Buy Books. Do Good.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. May have limited writing in cover pages. Pages are unmarked. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.

hardcover. Condition: Acceptable. Most items will be dispatched the same or the next working day. A readable copy. All pages and the cover are intact (dust cover may be missing). Pages can include considerable notes--in pen or highlighter--but notes cannot obscure the text. An acceptable condition book. An ex-library rebind with the usual amount of stamps. No dust jacket. Wear to the book edges and a split down the entirety of one spine edge. A handful of plates are loose but present. A few tidy repairs close to the guttering. The internal contents show a typical amount of tanning and age but also remain unfaded and fine for use as a reading and reference copy.…

Paperback. Condition: Very Good. The book has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged.

Paperback. Condition: Good. Good condition paperback. Book may have toning and foxing. Covers may have light wear, creasing. There will be no loose pages.

Mass Market Paperback. Condition: Good Only. First Pan Edition. G, Edgewear, tears, creases, ink price to front cover, spine lean, first endpaper removed, foxing, browning. Stories of R.A.F. crews who crashed or were shot down at sea and survived, which qualified them as members of the Goldfish Club. 206 pages. Illustrated with photographs and maps. Cover illustration by RexA. Great Pan G133. Photo on request.…

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Light wear to boards. Content is clean with light age tone. DJ with some edge wear, age tone.

Condition: Good. 1955. 2nd Impression. 253 pages. No dust jacket. Blue cloth. Pages and binding are presentable with no major defects. Minor issues present such as mild cracking, inscriptions, inserts, light foxing, tanning and thumb marking. Overall a good condition item. Boards have mild shelf wear with light rubbing and corner bumping. Some light marking and tanning.…

Paperback. first edition. G-133 very good +, store stamp inside paperback.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. 2nd Edition. 'Down in the Drink' by Ralph Barker. Chatto and Windus 1955 second impression. Slight foxing. VG in edge frayed dust jacket.

Hard Cover with Dust Jacket. Condition: Good +. Dust Jacket Condition: Good +. 1st Edition. G+, Shelfwear, thin strip of water damage to top edge of boards, foxing, browning/G+, Price-clipped, edgewear, small chips & tears, abrasion, foxing, browning. "To crash or be shot down into the sea is a terrible experience. To escape to tell the tale is a rare and remarkable achievement. This is precisely what qualified air crews for membership of the 'Goldfish' Club : they had come down 'in the drink' and - miraculously - survived". 253 pages, including the index. Illustrated with photographs and maps. Jacket illustration by Biro. Photo on request.…

Hard Cover with Dust Jacket. Condition: Good +. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. 1st Edition. G+, Shelfwear, bumping, spine crease, ink price, dealer stamp, foxing, browning/G, Price-clipped, edgewear, chips, tears, creases, abrasion, foxing, browning. "To crash or be shot down into the sea is a terrible experience. To escape to tell the tale is a rare and remarkable achievement. This is precisely what qualified air crews for membership of the 'Goldfish' Club : they had come down 'in the drink' and - miraculously - survived". 253 pages, including the index. Illustrated with photographs and maps. Jacket illustration by Biro. Expanded condition report/digital photo on request.…

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: N/A. 1st Edition. 254pp. Cyan cloth-covered boards, gilt titles on spine. Sun faded spine, bumped ends. Text block edges starting to fox. Internally neat, clean, bright and tight. No dust jacket. 8vo. Vividly re-creates the stories of men from all corners of the British Commonwealth fighting for survival against unimaginable odds after being shot down or crashing into the sea.…

No Jacket. hardcover octavo (VG) lacks d/w; all our specials have minimal description to keep listing them viable. They are at least reading copies, complete and in reasonable condition, but usually secondhand; frequently they are superior examples. Ordering more than one book will reduce your overall postage costs.…

Hard Cover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. Reprint. Reprint, 8vo, 253pp, photo illustrations; edges dusty and spotted, previous owner's name writ large across ffep, pale blue cloth foxed about edges and spine o/w G/VG Copy in dusty and edge-worn DJ somewhat spotted on lower panel Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.…

Cloth. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. Second Impression.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. The boards are shelf rubbed and worn. the spine has faded. marked. netting visible at the back and scarring. Previous owner's inscriptions. Well bound.EM. Our orders are shipped using tracked courier delivery services.

First Thus. Edition. Condition: good. WW2 1st edition Pan G133 1958 paperback good condition. In stock shipped from our UK warehouse.

Hardcover. Condition: Fair. No Jacket. 1st Edition. The boards are a bit worn and marked. Internally clean and tightly bound. A little foxing and an inscription. Our orders are shipped using tracked courier delivery services.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. 1st. 1st ed. 253p. Photos. In mylar. Jacket priced. Fine/Fine copy.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Fair. The jacket is torn and marked.Internally clean.Excellent binding.[R.K]. Our orders are shipped using tracked courier delivery services.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Fair. 1st Edition. The jacket is torn and a bit marked - not great paper loss. Internally clean and tightly bound. Our orders are shipped using tracked courier delivery services.

2nd edition. Fine cloth copy in a near-fine, very slightly edge-nicked and dust-dulled dust-wrapper. Remains particularly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and strong. Physical description; 253 p. : illus ; 21 cm. Notes; Includes index. Series; Books for today. Subjects; Goldfish Club. Great Britain. Royal Air Force. Survival (after airplane accidents, shipwrecks, etc). World War, 1939-1945 Search and rescue operations. Shipwreck survival. World War, 1939-1945. World War, 1939-1945 Aerial operations. Survival. Service Aviation - World War II. Airplane crash survival. 1 Kg. …

Second Edition. Good copy in the original gilt-blocked cloth. Spine bands and panel edges somewhat rubbed and dust-toned as with age. Remains quite well-preserved overall: tight, bright, clean and strong. Physical description; 253p., 8 leaves of plates : ill., facsim., frontis., maps, ports. ; 20cm. Subject; World War, 1939-1945 Search and rescue operations. 1 Kg. …

2nd edition. Fine cloth copy in a near-fine, very slightly edge-nicked and dust-dulled dust-wrapper. Remains particularly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and strong. Physical description; 253 p. : illus ; 21 cm. Notes; Includes index. Series; Books for today. Subjects; Goldfish Club. Great Britain. Royal Air Force. Survival (after airplane accidents, shipwrecks, etc). World War, 1939-1945 Search and rescue operations. Shipwreck survival. World War, 1939-1945. World War, 1939-1945 Aerial operations. Survival. Service Aviation - World War II. Airplane crash survival. 1 Kg. …

Second Edition. Good copy in the original gilt-blocked cloth. Spine bands and panel edges somewhat rubbed and dust-toned as with age. Remains quite well-preserved overall: tight, bright, clean and strong. Physical description; 253p., 8 leaves of plates : ill., facsim., frontis., maps, ports. ; 20cm. Subject; World War, 1939-1945 Search and rescue operations. 1 Kg. …

Hardcover. Condition: Good. DJ. First. Some tears to dust jacket, lighty tanned throughout and to page edges otherwise good, intact reading copy.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. First edition, octavo. Publisher's cyan cloth with title to spine in gilt, with a gilt flying fish motif stamped to front corner. Publisher's illustrated dust jacket showing some airmen in need of rescue and a spitfire overhead. Internally bright and clean, page block in tact save the detached frontispiece. Corners a little bumped and the wraps have minor losses, wear on all edges, and some toning. The first book by prolific aviator and writer Ralph Barker, who had completed over 2,000 flying hours with the RAF in WWII before being demobilised in 1946. Post war he worked in Public Relations in Berlin, and later with the British Air Ministry to work on official war narratives. He left he RAF in 1961 to devote more time to writing.…

1st edition orig. cloth Near Fine small octavo 253pp., frontis., b/w pls., index, Story of Airmen who bailed-out into the Sea and Lived.