They Flew Through Sand : The Notes and Sketches of an RAF Officer in the Western Desert by Houghton George W - 1942

Jarrolds Publishers Limited, 1111. Hardcover. Acceptable. Second Impression. 120 pages. No dust jacket. Brown cloth with a black and white illustrated frontis and illustrated plates throughout. Moderate tanning to pages with pencil inscriptions to front endpaper and slight foxing and dog-eared pages throughout. Moderate tanning to text block edges and both hinges are cracked with exposed netting. Binding is loose. Boards have visible dents and rubbing with moderate bumping to corners. Fair crushing to spine ends and visible ink marks and rubbing to spine. The book is forward leaning.

Jarrolds Publishers Limited, 1111. Hardcover. Good. No edition remarks. 120 pages. No dust jacket. Brown cloth. Contains black and white illustrated plates. Clean pages with mild tanning and moderate foxing throughout. Tightly bound with faint thumb-marking throughout. Pencil inscription to front endpaper. Boards have light edgewear with corner crushing and notable marking to boards. Notable sunning to spine. Notable foxing to front board. Mild warping to front board.

Cairo: R. Schindler [1942], 2nd edition. (Trade paperback) Very good in very good dust jacket. 281; v. Map endpapers, illustrations, 4 plates. One of the plates has been bound-in upside down, the dust jacket has some edgewear including a 1-inch chip from the bottom of the spine. Locale: North Africa. (World War 2, World War 2).

R. Schindler. First Edition. Hardcover. Good/No Jacket. The boards are shelf rubbed, edge worn and marked, with the corners knocked, but they remain strong and sturdy. Internally, there is a previous owner's signature on the front end page and an inscription opposite the publication page, but there are no other markings or inscriptions, and the pages within are neat, crisp and complete. The binding is secure. JK. Our orders are shipped using tracked courier delivery services.

London: Jarrolds,, 1942. Hardcover Hardcover. Very Good. Light wear otherwise very good indeed in a slightly worn, edge nicked and repaired, near very good dust jacket with adhesive tape reinforcement to edges.