Fighter by Len Deighton: First Edition (42 results)

Mass-market paperback. Condition: Very good. First edition. Mass market (rack) paperback. Glued binding. Audience: General/trade. book is clean and tight, some light edge wear, no markings.

Hardcover. Condition: Like New. First Edition. First Edition Thus, First Printing. Published by Castle Books, 2000. Octavo. Hardcover. Book is like new. Dust jacket is like new with light shelf/edgewear.100% positive feedback. 30 day money back guarantee. NEXT DAY SHIPPING! Excellent customer service. Please email with any questions. All books packed carefully and ship with free delivery confirmation/tracking. All books come with free bookmarks. Ships from Sag Harbor, New York.…

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. Hardcover with dust jacket, published by Castle, 2000. Originally published in 1979, this is the reprint edition from Castle. Known primarily for his spy thrillers, here Deighton tells the true story of the Battle of Britain. 260 pages with Index, Bibliography, and three sections of photos, 6-1/2" X 9-3/4". Sturdy cover boards are flat, the corners are not bumped or worn, no edge wear. No former ownership marks, no writing on the text pages. Edges of the text block are relatively clean, some areas of age tanning to the bottom edge. The dust jacket is not price clipped. Not a remainder copy, not a library discard copy. Attached photo is of the copy we have in our inventory.…

Mass market paperback. Condition: Fair. xxi, [3], 311, [1] pages. Cover worn and soiled. Some page wear and rippling. Includes Acknowledgments, Introduction by A. J. P. Taylor, Selected Bibilography, and Index. Part One covers Strategy; Part Two covers Air Chief Marshal Sir Hugh Dowding, Commander in Chief Fighter Command; Part Three covers Weapons: The Metal Monoplane and Radar; Part Four covers Tactics; and Part Five covers The Results. The author was the Bestselling Author of The Ipcress File and Funeral in Berlin; Illustrated with over 100 striking photographs, maps, and drawings. Leonard Cyril Deighton (born 18 February 1929) is a British author. His publications have included history and military history, but he is best known for his spy novels. Deighton became a book and magazine illustrator?including designing the cover for first UK edition of Jack Kerouac's 1957 work On the Road. During an extended holiday in France he wrote his first novel, The IPCRESS File, which was published in 1962, and was a critical and commercial success, and he wrote several spy novels featuring the same central character, a working class intelligence officer, cynical and tough. Several of Deighton's works have been adapted for film and other media. Films include The Ipcress File (1965), Funeral in Berlin (1966), Billion Dollar Brain (1967) and Spy Story (1976). In 1988 Granada Television produced the miniseries Game, Set and Match based on his trilogy of the same name, and in 1995 BBC Radio 4 broadcast a "real time" dramatization of his novel Bomber. Derived from a Kirkus review: Len Deighton has written a military delight: a meticulous history of the men and machines of the Luftwaffe and the Royal Air Force in their struggle over Britain in the summer of 1940. Deighton describes the Battle in the stark, no-nonsense terms of a chess player recounting a game; the reader will not feel what it was like to be a Spitfire or Messerschmitt pilot, but he will know all the cold, hard constraints of aero-technology and strategy under which those airmen operated. In layman's terms, Deighton examines the effective range, armaments, and carrying capacities of the planes, the primitive radar systems employed by both sides, and the advantages and disadvantages of different deployments of aircraft. An extensive air war was unprecedented in 1940, and Deighton renders well the suspense of the deadly trials and errors of both air forces as they groped with logistical problems never before encountered. As in all wars, actual combat was but a small part of the war effort; Deighton thus emphasizes the mundane but vital matters of aircraft production and pilot training in Britain and Germany. Although he gives fullest play to these strategic concerns, Deighton does place them in a political context. The British Air Ministry, full of theorists who had never flown a plane, constantly hampered Air Marshal Hugh Dowding in the conduct of Britain's defense. On the other side, Hitler's preoccupation with Russia and the invincible incompetence of Luftwaffe chief Hermann Goering precluded a Nazi victory. Deighton's history will be welcomed by all those who never weary of the world's "last romantic battle" First Ballantine Books Edition. Presumed first printing. Jean Paul Tremblay (Maps) (illustrator).…

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. Previous owner inscription.

Encuadernación de tapa blanda. Condition: Bien. 1ª Edición. 335 páginas.

FIRST. NEW. Paperback, large. Immaculate as-published condition. Perfect spine, tight, unopened, unread. [B184-121].

First Edition. Very good cloth library copy in a very good if somewhat edge-dulled and dust-toned dust-wrapper, now mylar-sleeved. Edges and prelims lightly foxed; some library marks remain. Remains well-preserved overall; internally strong and clean. Physical description; 304 pages, 20 unnumbered leaves of plates : illustrations ; 23 cm. Subjects; Britain, Battle of (1940). Fighter planes. 1 Kg.…

Paperback. first edition. near fine, unread paperback.

First Edition. Very good cloth library copy in a very good if somewhat edge-dulled and dust-toned dust-wrapper, now mylar-sleeved. Edges and prelims lightly foxed; some library marks remain. Remains well-preserved overall; internally strong and clean. Physical description; 304 pages, 20 unnumbered leaves of plates : illustrations ; 23 cm. Subjects; Britain, Battle of (1940). Fighter planes. 1 Kg.…

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. Introduction by AJP Taylor. 304pp with b&w plates.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine in Very Good DJ. First edition. First American edition, near fine hardcover shows some light shelf and trace wear, else tight and clean, in a very good dust jacket that shows a wrinkle at top corner of front flap and wear at top edge including a couple of wrinkles and closed tears. 261 pages with three sets of black & whites. This remains an aatractive copy of this classic account of the Battle of Britain.…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. 1st Edition. Jacket is price clipped and there is small handling wear on it with some fading of the red title on the spine.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. First Edition. The jacket and boards are shelf rubbed with creasing and light scuffing. The binding is secure. Ink inscription from a previous owner on the front end page. There are no other ink inscriptions or annotations. Protected in cellophane. Extra postage required unless posted within South Africa. r*03/09/2025 JHK. Our orders are shipped using tracked courier delivery services.…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good Plus. First Edition. Deighton's non-fiction account of the air war called the Battle of Britain between England and Germany in the summer of 1940; First Printing of the First American Edition; illustrated with photos; boards and text clean, tight; dustjacket shows some creasing and one small tear top of back panel. Collectable.…

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First Edition. Fine-looking, structurally sound hardcover, little discernible wear, bright interior, unmarked. Bright and shiny dust jacket, illustrated, little worn, protected by a plastic coat. Introduction by A.J.P. Taylor and replete with 16 glossy black-and-white illustrations and photographs, printed on high-gloss paper. Both English and German perspectives are considered here and from the points of view of radar specialists, monoplane designers, front-line soldiers, and the like. Volume contains scholarly apparatus in the form of, e.g., notes, index, and bibliography. xxi [4], 4-261 [1] pp.Member, I.O.B.A., C.B.A., and adherent to the highest ethical standards. Additional postage may be required for oversize or especially heavy volumes, and for sets.…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. Alfred A. Knopf, Inc., NY. A history of the famous air battle. Deighton was able to interview Albert Speer, Adolph Galland and numerous German vererans of the battle as well as those who served with the RAF. Very good copy of the stated First American Edition in a very good dust jacket. 261 pages.…

First Edition. Very good cloth copy in a very good edge-nicked and dust-dulled dust-wrapper, now mylar-sleeved. Remains quite well-preserved overall. NOT price-clipped. Physical description; 304 pages, (40) p of plates : ill.(some col.), col. maps, ports ; 23 cm. Subjects; Britain, Battle. Fighter planes. Service Aviation. World War II. Royal Air Force. 1 Kg.…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. First edition, second impression. Minor edge wear to top and bottom of jacket and spine, slight yellowing to white parts of jacket, not price clipped (£4.95), no inscriptions, internally clean tight and square, overall a vg+ copy. 304pp, lavishly illustrated.…

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. Air-force Blue Boards with gilt blocked titles to spine, 220 x 145 mm approx.Top edge stained red with matching red endpapers. 304 pp 62 b/w illustrations on 40 pp of glossy plates + 33 line figs all as called for.Intro by A.J.P.Taylor. First Edition 1st impression 1977. Please see our images of the actual book offered for sale for further details and condition. Near fine/Near Fine (Book- mild general shelf wear, no previous owner name or insc. Dust Jacket- slight rubbing to extremities incl. to laminate, negligible very slight fading to red title to spine, non price clipped cover - £4.95. No other notable defects to book or jacket). PAUL NASH (Cover) (illustrator).…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. First edition, first impression. 304pp, with several sections of black and white plates and figures in text, Deep blue cloth-covered boards, with gilt stamped lettering on the spine. Upper text block edge sprayed red. Bright red endpapers. 8vo. Cloth just a tad rubbed at spine tips else volume is neat, clean, bright and tight throughout. In its original dust wrapper, not price clipped, just a little rubbed on extreme edges. Dust wrapper now protected in an archival-quality Mylar sleeve, fitted without the use of tape or adhesives. Leonard Cyril Deighton was a British author whose works included cookery books, history and military history, but he is best known for his spy novels, including the series featuring the unnamed Harry Palmer. We have many books by Len Deighton in stock, including early, limited and first editions. Please inquire for discounts on multiple titles. …

First Edition. Very good cloth copy in a very good edge-nicked and dust-dulled dust-wrapper, now mylar-sleeved. Remains quite well-preserved overall. NOT price-clipped. Physical description; 304 pages, (40) p of plates : ill.(some col.), col. maps, ports ; 23 cm. Subjects; Britain, Battle. Fighter planes. Service Aviation. World War II. Royal Air Force. 1 Kg.…

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. First Edition. This is a Fine Copy of this Book in Publisher's black cloth with gilt title lettering to spine,in a Fine Dust-jacket,with NO chips or tears to the outer edges of the dust-jacket.Not price clipped and this copy has NO previous names or inscriptions present.The book has a firm binding with no hinge weakness.Contents of the book are clean internally.The d/j comes well protected in a brodart cover sleeve.Lovely copy for the collector,8vo 304pp First Edition 1st Impression [1977].…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. A very good, clean copy of the first edition, with light wear to the edges. The unclipped jacket is now in protective film.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. Very Good/ Fine condition. Jacket not price clipped. Protected by plastic sleeve.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. A good clean copy of this 1st edition in a good jacket, unclipped. Spine fading. Pencil inscription by previous owner inside front.

1st ed. thus stiff wrappers Near Fine octavo 261pp., b/w plates, diags., bibliog., index, Owner's stamp & some underlining /annotations by previous owner who flew with RAF Bomber Command.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. Handsome first american edition . F/F in protective cover.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. DJ in archival cover. Stated first American edition.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. Fighter: The True Story of the Battle of Britain; Len Deighton; with an Introduction by A. J. P. Taylor; Jonathan Cape, London, 1977. First edition. From the blurb Len Deighton's history of the Battle of Britain has already proved outstanding enough to gain high praise, not only from the eminent historian, A. J. P. Taylor, but also from Albert Speer, Hitler's Minister of Armaments. Len Deighton's skill as a novelist is used to show how the human factor influenced every twist and turn of the close-fought battle. His encyclopaedic knowledge of technology is used to explain in simple terms the way in which the machines played a vital role in the fight for Britain's survival. For the first time the battle is described as much from the German as from the British point of view. For people who have been brought up to believe the mythology created by wartime propaganda, reading this sobering account will come as a shock. The book is well illustrated with black and white photographs and many drawings and maps. This book, 304 pages is in fine condition in a fine dust jacket that is now enclosed in a protective mylar wrap.…