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New York: Charle’s Scribner’s & Sons. First Edition. Hardcover (with Dust Jacket). Very Good. Details the history of the P-38 Lightening and its use durign WWII. A very good copy with dust jacket (144 pages, profuse illustrations).

New York: Doubleday & Co., 1974. First Edition. Hardcover (with Dust Jacket). Very Good. The desparate fight against the Japanese in by an outnumbered and poorly equipped USAAF in 1942. A very good copy,, corners slightly worn & bumped, in dust jacket with worn edges & badly chipped spine head. (278p., 71 illus., apdcs., index.)

Reseda, CA: Mojave Books, 1980. First Edition. Hardcover (with Dust Jacket). Very Good. The 42nd Bombardment Group, 13th Air Force, in combat against the Japanese from 1942 to the end. A rare World War II history of an important unit. A very good copy, small tears in inner margins of pp. 125-132,in dust jacket with light edge wear. (196 pages, 61 photos, 4 maps.)

New York: E.P. Dutton and Company, Inc., 1943. First Edition. Hardcover (with Dust Jacket). Very Good. Chicago Times reporter, covering nearly every major action from Pearl Harbor to date. A very good copy, light edge wear, owner’s name on front free endpaper, in badly worn & chipped dust jacket, repaired & reinforced with tape. (383p., 32 photos, map endpapers.)

Annapolis, MD: Naval Institute Press, 1986. First Edition. Hardcover (with Dust Jacket). Very Good. First hand accounts of U.S. Navy and Marine Corps actions (sea, air and amphibious) in World War II by 30 participants. A fine copy, corners very slightly worn, slight smudge at spine tail, in dust jacket with lightly worn corners. (373p., 32 portrait photos, 16 maps, appendix, biblio.)

New York: Theatre Communications Group, 1991. American Reprint Edition. Hardcover in Dust Jacket. Very Good. 8vo (110 pages). As-new copy of this American Reprint edition in an unclipped dust jacket.

New York: Vendome Press, 2015. First Edition. Hardcover (with Dust Jacket). Very Good. 4to (201 pages, profusely illustrated). As-new, in dust jacket.

NY: Cornerstone Library, 1961. First Edition. Paperback. Very Good. 4to (32 pages, illustrated with 16 leaves of color plates). This a virtually mint copy of the First American Paperback edition issued in 1961, photo-reproduced from the First American hardcover edition. The splashes of color in the cover lettering are a nice design touch. The contents are fine and appear unopened. Rare thus.

London: Odhams Press, 1949. First Edition. Hardcover (with Dust Jacket). Very Good. 4to (32 pages of text, plus 18 color plates of paintings.). This is a virtually mint copy of the First English edition in an unclipped dust jacket that is flawless, save for a slight wrinkling at the spine head. Very rare thus.

San Francisco, Beverly Hills: Gump’s Department Store, 1985. Limited Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. 4to (28 pages). Signed. This is a rare limited edition produced by the west coast Gump’s department store chain in 1985. The colophon reads: "Gump's is privileged to have been granted permission to reprint PAINTING AS A PASTIME in a limited edition of 500 copies in honor of the Exhibition, ‘British Style,’ October 1985.” The book reproduces the contents and design of the elegant little Cornerstone Library hardcover edition of 1965, absent that edition’s 18 color plates of paintings. This is a near-mint copy, as issued without a dust jacket; Number 197 of 500 copies. It is inscribed in ink on the second front free endpaper by Winston Churchill’s grandson, who contributed a brief, new introduction to this volume: “To Morelos, from Winston Churchill.” There are two other inscriptions relating to the book in other unidentifiable hands, one on the front free endpaper and another beneath… Leer más

New York: McGraw Hill Book Co., 1950. First Edition. Hardcover (with Dust Jacket). Very Good. 8vo (66 pages; with frontispiece and 32 pages of colour plates on coated stock). This is a very good copy of the First American edition in an unclipped dust jacket that has small rubs at the spine head and another at the upper front corner, otherwise flawless, inside and out. Increasingly rare thus.

Atglen, PA: Schiffer Publishing Ltd., 1995. First Edition. Hardcover (with Dust Jacket). Very Good. 8vo. Author lived in the MACV compound during first 17 days of the siege. A very good copy, in dust jacket (192 pages, 70 illustrations).

New York: Simon and Schuster, 1979. Hardcover (with Dust Jacket). Very Good. 8vo (381 pages). “The greatest untold story of World War II - the extraordinary adventures of the schoolboy who becomes Winston Churchill’s personal agent and assassin.” This is a very good copy of the First American edition in a price-clipped dust jacket. There is a lengthy gift inscriiption on the front free endpaper. The contents are fine

Oklahoma: Norman University of Oklahoma, 1956. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. 8vo (383 Pages). Head and tail of spine are slightly rubbed; page edges have light foxing. Condition is very clean and sound internally.

Squadron / signal Publications, 1976. Softcover. Very Good. 4to. some shelf ware, bumped bottom corner.

Italy: Aperture Foundation, 2009. First Edition. Hardcover (with Dust Jacket). Very Good. 4to (120 pages, profusely illustrated). As-new, in dust jacket.

London: British Broadcasting Corporation, 1983. First Edition. Hardcover in Dust Jacket. Very Good. 8vo. Training Parachute Regiment recruits, by a former para. Companion volume to the BBC television series. A very good copy, spine head & tail slightly bumped, leaves slightly damp rumpled at top, in price-clipped dust jacket, chipped at spine head & tail and slightly dampstained at top (248 pages, profuse illustrations [some color], bibliography).

London: Hodder and Stoughton, 1919. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. 8vo. Details minesweeping in the North Sea following the armistice. A good copy, slightly shelf worn, spine head and tail bumped, binding loose but intact, contents fine (278 pages, illustrations, appendix).

New York: Thames & Hudson, 1991. First Edition. Hardcover (with Dust Jacket). Very Good. 4to ( 159 pages, 104 duotone plates). As-new, in dust jacket.

New York: Vendome Press, 2003. First Edition. Hardcover in Dust Jacket. Very Good. 4to (706 pages, profusely illustrated with many color plates). As-new, in publisher’s original shrink-wrap.