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Langate Publishing, Melbourne, 1980. First Edition. Hardcover. Good Condition/No Dust Jacket. Signed by Author. XIII, 330pp., preface by author, abbreviations, appendix and on the rear paste down is a pocket and in that pocket is a errata sheet, index and map of Australia and its environs. Within the text there are contemporary black and white photographs. Tan coloured boards with gilt writing on the spine. Very minor scuffing to the book corners and to the extreme edges of the head and heel of spine. Marks to the cloth on the front panel on the lower half of the cover. Browning to the paper edges and on the bottom paper edge there is a stain which does not impinge upon the internal pages. Some handling marks internally. The errata script is missing from the pocket on the rear pace down. Extracts from the author's diary covering the years 1939 -- 48 and the war waged in the Pacific region. This book is one of a limited edition of 3000, being signed and numbered, this book No. 209.…
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- Title Adversity in Success
- Author J. E. Hewitt
- Binding Hardcover
- Edition First Edition
- Pages 330
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Langate Publishing, South Yarra
- Date 1980
- Illustrated Yes
- ISBN 9780959462203 / 0959462201
- Library of Congress Catalog Number 2003467988
- Dewey Decimal Code B
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Langate, South Yarra, 1980. First Edition. Hardcover (Original Cloth). Good/Fair. Signed by Author. 800 g; "Adversity in Success. Extracts from Air Vice Marshal Hewitt's Diaries 1939-1948." 330pp., 32 pages of black and white photographs. Pocket fixed onto rear paste down includes erratum to index and map. Limited edition of 3000 copies, this signed and numbered by author no 622. Hewitt commanded an operational group in the South West Pacific during WWII. Based on the contents of letters the author wrote to and received from his wife and on daily entries in his diaries, this book provides an authentic description of the operations of the war time RAAF. This copy also benefits from an inscription by Air Vice Marshal Hewitt on the dedication page, where he gifts this book to his housekeeper "a lady and as excellent a housekeeper as I could wish to have in my old age of 80+" the dustwrapper has no damage aside from the clear plastic that a previous owner carelessly stuck to…
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Langate, South Yarra, 1980. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good Condition/Very Good. Illustrator: Photographic. Signed by Author. 800 g; 330pp., 32 pages of black and white photographs. Pocket fixed onto rear paste down includes erratum to index and map. Limited edition of 3000 copies, this signed and numbered by author no 2805. Hewitt commanded an operational group in the South West Pacific during WWII. Based on the contents of letters the author wrote to and received from his wife and on daily entries in his diaries, this book provides an authentic description of the operations of the war time RAAF. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Please refer to accompanying picture (s). Illustrator: Photographic. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilo. Category: History; Papua and New Guinea; Military; New Guinea; Signed by Author. ISBN: 0959462201. ISBN/EAN: 9780959462203. Inventory No: 0223894. . 9780959462203
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by Hewitt, Air Vice Marshal J.E., C.B.E., R.A.A.F. (ret.)
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Extracts from Air Vice Marshal Hewitt's Diaries 1939-1948. (South Yarra, Victoria: Langate Publishing: 1980) First Edition. ISBN 0 9594622 0 1. Cloth (that is, hard covers) pp. xiv, 330. Illustrated. Map in pocket at rear. Hewitt was in command of an operational group in the South-West Pacific Area during the Second World War. No. 2029 of the edition of 3000 copies, numbered and signed by the Author. First Edition. Fine copy in like dust-jacket.
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Langate, South Yarra, 1980. First Edition. Hardcover (Original Cloth). Good/Good. Signed by Author. Adversity in Success. Extracts from Air Vice Marshal Hewitt's Diaries 1939-1948." 800 g; 330pp., 32 pages of black and white photographs. Pocket fixed onto rear paste down includes erratum to index and map. Limited edition of 3000 copies, this signed and numbered by author no 2814. Hewitt commanded an operational group in the South West Pacific during WWII. Based on the contents of letters the author wrote to and received from his wife and on daily entries in his diaries, this book provides an authentic description of the operations of the war time RAAF. This copy also benefits from an inscription by Air Vice Marshal Hewitt on the dedication page, to the recipient, along with the death notice from the local paper of the air Marshal in November 1985 literally a month after signing this book.. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. The author has signed the…
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