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Hardback. Zustand: Very Good. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Very Good. Revised and enlarged edition hardback, 1985, with unclipped jacket. In overall very good condition with only minor signs of handling and storage - dj spine head slightly worn with chip. Internally very clean. Binding tight and appears little read, no annotations or inscriptions; text and illustrations bright and clear throughout. From a private collection, not an old library book. Photograph available.…

Couverture rigide. Zustand: bon. R160134018: 1966. In-8. Relié. Bon état, Couv. convenable, Dos satisfaisant, Intérieur acceptable. 311 pages. Nombreux dessins en noir et blanc dans le texte et hors texte. Jaquette abimé avec un scoth sur le premier plat, et des agraphes pour maintenir la jaquette a la couverture. Avec Jaquette. . . Classification Dewey : 820-Littératures anglaise et anglo-saxonne.…

First edition, first printing. Inscribed by the author. Publisher's original blue cloth with gilt titles to the spine, in dustwrapper. Illustrated with 15 full page plates in black and white and colour by David Shepard. An excellent near fine copy, the binding square and firm, the cloth bright and fresh. The contents with the bookplate of the RAF pilot and aviation author Derek Mason to the front pastedown are clean throughout and without previous owner's inscriptions or stamps. Complete with the bright, lightly rubbed and nicked price-clipped dustwrapper that is otherwise without loss. A very attractive example. Inscribed by the World War II flying ace author in blue ink on the front endpaper "Derek / with all good wishes / Johnnie Johnson / 27 July 1972". Air Vice-Marshal "Johnnie" Johnson flew nearly 700 Spitfire combat missions during the 1939-45 War, from the end of the Battle of Britain to the defeat of Germany in 1945, a record matched by few other Allied Pilots. Possessing tactical experience and displaying leadership of a high order, Johnson received a Squadron Command in 1942 and went on to prove himself the equal of his mentor Douglas Bader as one of the four great Allied Wing Leaders of the War. His aggressive leadership of the Kenley based Canadian Spitfire Wing saw his personal tally rocket to 25 victories during a few hectic months. After a short rest from operations, he returned to the fray in 1944 to lead No. 144 Canadian Wing into Europe. On D-Day+2 the Wing became the first R.A.F. unit to operate from France since June 1940. He subsequently led 127 and 125 Wings with high success in battles for local air superiority over North-East France and Germany. In a Fighter-Bomber role, his operations contributed to the destruction of the Seventh German Army in the Falaise Gap. Famously Johnson was the Royal Air Force's officially recognised top-scoring Fighter Pilot of the War with 38 confirmed victories. Further details and images for any of the items listed are available on request. All items are catalogued by humans. Lucius Books welcomes direct contact with our customers.…

dj. First U.K. Edition. Octavo. 22cm. Publisher's blue cloth titled in gilt to spine. Dustjacket. [xi]; 290pp. Light wear to extremtiies and spine ends, tight and strong; internally clean, blue topstain, inscribed by the author to the title page, illustrated throughout; in a clean, bright example of the dustjacket with two closed tears at the head of the spine, sunning to the spine panel, and some old tape residue to the verso. A very good, inscribed copy. From the library of Nathaniel Tarn, noted poet, translator, and aviation enthusiast, inscribed to him on the title page: "Nathaniel Tarn, All good wishes, Johnnie Johnson, 19:vi:94" A handsome copy of Johnson's potted history of air warfare, with the title describing Johnson's point that in the beginning fighter aircraft flew alone, then as aviation warfare developed they flew in pairs, and then "wings", during WW2 enormous wings of aircraft did battle against each other, however as air warfare has entered the jet age fighter pilots fly alone or in pairs again - and the day of the great wing or "circus", has passed. Signed.…