V m yeates henry williamson (4 risultati)

Mass Market Paperback. Condizione: Good. Second Paperback Edition. This is the first printing of the Sphere paperback edition including the preface which Henry Williamson added to his original 1935 tribute (which is also included). There was an earlier paperback edition published by Consul Books, World Distributors, in 1964. The spine has fading to the author's name and the publishers logo along with some brown marking. Light edge wear to the covers. Browning to the page edges. 5 letters have been stamped to the first page but the pages are otherwise unmarked. …

Hardcover. Condizione: Near Fine. Condizione sovraccoperta: Very Good. 2nd Edition. A reprint of this new Jonathan Cape edition, issued one month later. 8vo. 456pp. Blue cloth lettered in silver at the spine and with the publisher's dark blue top edge stain. A very faint vertical crease to the front free endpaper, else fine copy in virtually fine non-price-clipped pictorial dust wrapper. The first edition of this text - deemed one of the cornerstones of Great War aviation literature - was published in June 1934 and dedicated to Henry Williamson at whose suggestion the book was begun, and with whose encouragement and help it was completed. A second impression was issued in November 1934; Yeates died the following month and as a result later copies of that second impression included Williamson's tribute which is dated January 1935. This Cape reprint includes a somewhat revised version of that Williamson tribute plus also a new one-page preface, dated July 1961.…

Hardcover. Condizione: Near Fine. Condizione sovraccoperta: Near Fine. 1963 reprint edition, hardback in blue/red binding with RFC 'pilot's wings' motif in silver, and with pictorial jacket, 305 pages, with tribute from Henry Williamson and b&w frontis. portrait of the author, aged 18yrs | sound, clean copy free of notes etc, shows light general wear, slight uniform yellowing and a few more conspicuous foxing spots to jacket folds and edges, and one spot to side text block edge | carefully packaged and dispatched from UK within two working days. …

Hardcover. Condizione: Very Good.