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hardcover. Condizione: Very Good. Hardcover with dust jacket. DJ is price-clipped, but crisp and glossy housed inside a protective mylar cover. Book is bound in dark blue cloth over boards with gold lettering on the spine. Binding is tight and secure. Corners are square. FFEP has mild wear from what seems to be a sticker removal. Pages are crisp, clean, and bright. Images are printed in B&W. Putnam. No date on title page. Copyright page is dated 1984. 486 pages. A very good copy. This volume comes from the Aviation collection of Prof. Chris Sterling. Sterling spent his lifetime teaching, writing, and collecting books on civil and military aviation. We are proud to house his Aviation collection, part of the extensive library which is his legacy. We ship everyday from a real neighborhood bookstore. This description is written by an actual person, who is holding the book in front of them to make sure it?s properly described. Please contact us with questions or if you would like to see photographs.

Condizione: Very Good +. Condizione sovraccoperta: Very Good. London: Putnam / Bodley Head, 1984. First Edition. Octavo; publisher's simulated cloth in yellow photo-illustrated price-clipped dust jacket; x,486pp.; photographic illus. throughout. Light soil to jacket, spine panel a shade sunned, corners gently tapped, else Very Good or better overall.

Hardback. Condizione: Very Good. First Edition. Hardback. Dust Jacket. 8vo. pp 486. Original publisher's blue cloth, lettered gilt at the spine. Copiously illustrated in black and white throughout. ISBN: 0370305388 About fine, in near fine dust wrapper.

1984 publication with numerous B&W illustrations; tightly bound in blue cloth with gilt lettering to spine; dust jacket price-clipped with yellow parts of spine faded; pale foxing to top page fore-edge; otherwise, a clean, tidy copy. Used - Very Good. VG hardback in VG dust jacket.

Hardcover. Condizione: Very Good. Condizione sovraccoperta: Very Good. 1st Edition. Blue hard cover with gilt titles on spine. Contents tight and clean with no inscriptions. DW very good with minor edge-wear. It has been price clipped. Very slight musty odour. "The result of many years' research, this book describes fully for the first time the work of the British aircraft and aircrews charged with repelling the German day and night raiders of the First World War.".

1st Edition. Top corner of front free end paper creased, with thinning of paper; dust jacket spine little faded. Otherwise a very nice bright, clean copy Used - Very Good. VG hardback in VG dust jacket.

Hardcover. Condizione: Fine. Condizione sovraccoperta: Fine. 1st Edition. 486 pages, 850g. Blue cloth boards, FINE in a FINE d/w with sunned spine in clear protective sleeve. Illustrated with b/w photographs.

Cloth. Condizione: Fine. Condizione sovraccoperta: Very Good. Standard account; an excellent reference. pp486. Illus. DW has crease on front, otherwise fine. Now in archival sleeve.

First Edition. First Edition. octavo, blue boards in pictorial dust jacket. (x), 486pp. Putnam, Extensively illustrated with black and white photos and maps. A comprehensive account of the work of the British aircraft and aircrews charged with repelling the German day and night raiders of World War I. "Thorough research is evident in this account of the Home Defence reply to German air raids on Great Britain. "Every aircraft recorded as having taken off in response to a raid is listed, where possible with its service number and the names of the crew" [Noffsinger 537]. Chapters on all operations from December, 1914 to August, 1918, Zeppelins, Gothas, Evolution of the Night Fighter, Premature Optimism and Defense Cuts, RAF Home Defense Wings and Squadrons of November, 1918. Index includes aircraft, aerodromes, service formation and units, and people. Very fine, jacket not price clipped. octavo, blue boards in pictorial dust jacket.

Cloth, Hardcover. Condizione: Very Good. Condizione sovraccoperta: Very Good. Apart from the few who shot down German airships, the home defence pilots of the First World War have had far less attention than the 'aces' who flew in France, yet their task demanded comparable skill and courage. Every aircraft recorded as having taken off in response to a raid is listed, where possible with its Service number and the names of the crew. 486pp well illustrated in black and white. Size: 220x140mm.

Hardcover. Condizione: Fine. Condizione sovraccoperta: Very Good. 1st Edition. 8 vo, total of 496 pp. Royal blue cloth. Square and solid, corners sharp. Clean, no names, notes. Dust Jacket has two small self healing tears on rear panel where it meets the spine. Not price clipped.

First edition, octavo, dark blue cloth boards with gilt lettering to spine, frontispiece, x + 486pp, illus, VG+ (dint to upper front board edge, v v slight soiling to page edges) in d/w, VG+ (covered in clear contact, slight creasing to edges).

1st edition dust jacket Very Nice Copy 8vo. 486pp., frontis., b/w plates, diags., drawgs., appends., indexes, Putnam Aeronautical Series.