Bates h e flying officer x (29 risultati)

Card Covers. Condizione: Good +. Reprint. G+, Edgewear, tear, chipping to spine ends, creases, ink price, previous owner stamp, browning. A Guild Six. Short stories. Expanded condition report/photo on request.

Card Covers. Condizione: Good. First Guild Books Edition. G, Edgewear, tears, chipping to spine ends, creases, fading, browning. Guild Books No. 17. Short stories. A Guild Six. Expanded condition report/photo on request.

Hardcover. Condizione: Very Good. No Dustjacket. Stated First American Edition. Clean gray cloth boards with red decoration on cover, red lettering and decoration on spine. Hint of very light sunning to board edges. No bumping, no wear. Binding is tight and square, hinges are sound. Small previous owner ink-stamp of name and address on front fixed endpaper - no other marks. 172 pages.…

Hardcover. Condizione: Near Fine. Condizione sovraccoperta: Very Good. 1st Edition. Slim 12mo. 80pp. Sharp First British Edition of this anthology of stories about the men of the Royal Air Force, published while the war was still raging bound in blue cloth with titles in silver on front board. Square, tight and clean throughout with just a touch of edge-wear. Some mild spotting to the cloth particularly on outer edges. Attractive unclipped dust-jacket, (2s. 6d. net), has some rubbing to surface and edges. A tiny closed edge-tear. Spine panel toned. Still fresh and bright with no creases or chipping. A very pretty collectable copy at a great price. …

Card cover. Condizione: Good. [First Edition]. G: in Good condition without dust jacket as issued. Covers marked. Spine faded. Pages browning. 180mm x 120mm (7" x 5"). 80pp.

Blue hardback cloth cover. Condizione: Very Good. First Edition. VG: in very good condition with rubbed and chipped dust jacket. 180mm x 120mm (7" x 5"). 80pp.

First Edition 16. Condizione: vg+. vg+ 1st Jonathan Cape Ltd 16 1942 edition paperback In stock shipped from our UK warehouse.

Condizione: vg. 1943 Guild 224 edition paperback vg condition In stock shipped from our UK warehouse.

First Edition 17. Condizione: vg+. vg+ 1st Jonathan Cape Ltd 17 1943 edition paperback name and date stamp inside front cover In stock shipped from our UK warehouse.

Soft cover. Condizione: Near Fine. First Thus. This near fine copy is bound in printed card covers as issued. The contents are bright, tight, white and square. International postal rates are calculated on a book weighing 1 Kilo, in cases where the book weighs more than 1 Kilo increased postal rates will be quoted, where the book weighs less then postage will be reduced accordingly. First published under the pseudonym of Flying Officer X, H. E. Bates's stories of the heroic exploits of British bomber crews during the Second World War created a sensation when they appeared in 1942, selling over two million copies all over the world. Bates lived among the painfully young pilots and recorded their lives, and those of their loved ones, with an emotional attention that deeply moved the generation that lived through the war, and an intensity that reverberates down the decades. Ref O 6.…

Small 8vo, 80pp. A good hardback copy in like dust jacket.

Paperback. Condizione: Good. First Guild Edition. Soft cover 1943. 1st Guild Edition. 80 pages. Book production war economy standard. PAPER SPINE HAS SOME DAMAGE. Clean & tight book. PAGES ARE BROWNED. No inscriptions. Dispatched Royal Mail First Class with TRACKING next working day or sooner securely boxed in cardboard. ref opnc. How Sleep the Brave and Other Stories. Guild Books No. 17. A Guild Six by Flying Officer "X" aka H. E. Bates. Published in 1943 by Guild Books and Jonathan Cape, London.…

1st edition stiff wrappers Nice Copy small octavo 80pp., Guild Books No. 17.

Paperback. Condizione: Very Good. First Guild Edition. Soft cover 1942. 79 pages. Book production war economy standard. BROWNED PAGEES. Clean and tight. No inscriptions. Dispatched ROYAL MAIL FIRST CLASS with TRACKING next working day or sooner securely boxed in cardboard. ref Sm-USR. The Greatest People in the World and Other Stories. Guild Books No. 16. A Guild Six by Flying Officer "X" aka H.E. Bates. Published in 1942 by Guild Books and Jonathan Cape, London.…

Paperback. Condizione: VG-. 1st Thus. Typographic cover. Clean tight book but paper a little browned. Lacks 10mm at top of spine and bit rubbed at bottom of spine.

Paperback. Condizione: VG+. 1st Thus. Typographic cover. Name of owner at front of book. Very clean bright tight copy but slight wear to base of spine.

Hardcover. Condizione: G+. Condizione sovraccoperta: Good. 1st Edition. 1st edn. Hb. Cloth. DW. G+/G+. Slight damp staining on covers. "Comprising 'The Greatest People in the World' and 'How Sleep the Brave'.". Book.

Hardcover. Condizione: Near Fine. Condizione sovraccoperta: Near Fine. Price clipped. First Edition/First Printing. Owners name to fep, light fading to jacket spine. Comprising The Greatest People In The World and How Sleep The World. Stories include It's Never In The Papers, There's No Future In It, The Young Man From Kalgoorlie, It's Just the Way It Is, The Sun Rises Twice, No Trouble At All, A Personal War, K For Kitty, The Greatest People In The World, How Sleep The Brave, The Beginning Of Things, The Disinherited, Croix De Guerre, Yours In The Earth and There's Something In The Air.…

Boards. Condizione: VG-. VG- Pc DW. 1st Edition. Bates contributes MORNING VICTORY.

Hardcover. Condizione: Very Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. 80 pages in pale blue cloth, titles embossed in silver. small slim octavo, all very clean and hardly read, cloth very good. War economy production, with short war themed stories.

Hardcover. Condizione: Fine. Condizione sovraccoperta: Fine, Not Price Clipped. First Edition/First Printing. Now in protected jacket, not price clipped. A collection of short stories including:- How Sleep The Brave, The Beginning Of Things, The Disinherited, Croix De Guerre, Yours is The Earth and There's Something In The Air.…

Hardcover. Condizione: Fine. Condizione sovraccoperta: Fine, Not Price Clipped. First Edition/First Printing. Now in protected jacket, not price clipped, owners name to fep. A collection of short stories including:- It's Never In The Papers, There's No Future In It, The Young Man From Kalgoorlie, It's Just The Way It Is, The Sun Rises Twice, No Trouble At All, A Personal War, K For Kitty and The Greatest People In The World. …

First edition publisher's original card wrapped covers, WRAF wings in blue title block to upper panel. 7½" x 4¾" 72 pp. Light abrading to extremities. Scarce. Acetate protected. Member of the P.B.F.A. BATES, H. E. (1906-1974).

Jonathan Cape. 1942. Second Impression. Hardback with DW. Some wear to extremities of the wrapper and browning to pages, but o/w a nice sound copy with lovely silver-gilt title and author on front panel.

148 pp. 8vo. Original cloth in lightly rubbed and chipped dustwrapper, a touch darkened on backstrip. Minor canting, otherwise a very good copy. . First Edition thus. Originally published in two volumes, The Greatest People in the World [1942] and How Sleep the Brave [1943]. Eads, A 52. Scarce.

First Edition: Blue bds., silver titles, 120 x 190 mm., 100 grms., 80 pp., original dw., unclipped, faded spine, VG/VG copy.

NEAR FINE IN A VERY GOOD D.J. BOOK IS ABOUT FINE WITHOUT ANY MARKS TO THE BINDING OR THE TEXT WITH JUST A TRACE OF DUST SOIL. D.J.HAS A COUPLE OF QUARTER INCH DEEP TRIANGUALAR CHIPS AT THE BOTTOM OF REAR PANEL AND SPINE WITH THE LATTER PARTIALLY AFFECTING THE VERY LOW SET PUBLISHER'S NAME, SOME VERY SHALLOW CHIPPING ALONG THE TOP OF THE REAR PANEL, A COUPLE OF SHORT EDGE TEARS, A SMALL STAIN NEAR THE BASE OF THE FRONT PANEL, AND IS NOT PRICE-CLIPPED. AN EXCELLENT CLEAN, BRIGHT, UNFADED COPY WITH NO REMAINDER MARK. THIS EDITION COMBINES "THE GREATEST PEOPLE IN THE WORLD" WITH "HOW SLEEP THE BRAVE" ORIGINALLY PUBLISHED BY JONATHAN CAPE IN ENGLAND IN 1942 AND 1943 RESPECTIVELY WTIH THE NEW TITLE UNDER WHICH THE COMBINED EDITION WAS RELEASED IN 1944 BY JONATHAN CAPE. FIRST EDITION. Binding is HARDCOVER.…

First edition, 8vo., pp.79, blue cloth; contemporary ownership autograph to front free endpapera very good, fresh copy, in unclipped dust-jacket which is rubbed to extremities, and has 3cm closed tear to lower fold of spine, with creasing to adjacent area, and small closed tear to lower margin of rear cover, now in protective cover and o/w very good. With 'London Calling Overseas' advert to rear flap of dust-jacket.…

Condizione: Very Good. First edition hard back publisher's original grey cloth covers, maroon stamping to spine and vignette to upper panel, lower edge untrimmed. 8vo 7¾" x 5¼" 172 pp. Very Good in Very Good Hallock dust wrapper, light tanning to spine and tops of inner flaps, not price clipped. Dust wrapper protected. Member of the P.B.F.A. BATES, H. E. (1906-1974). …