OVER TO YOU - 10 STORIES OF FLYERS AND FLYING
by DAHL, ROALD
- Used
- very good
- Hardcover
- First
- Condition
- Very Good/Fair
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Skreen, Sligo
Item Price:
$124.34
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About This Item
London: Hamish Hamilton, 1946. 180pp; Slight shelf wear to edges and head and tail of spine; Prelims. a little yellowed; Price-clipped d/w slightly chipped and frayed along edges; Inside flap repaired with tape and part of inside flap text removed with small price-stckers; Else a bright and sound copy; In protective sleeving; Digital photos available on request;. First Edition. Cloth. Very Good/Fair. 12mo.
Synopsis
During the Second World War Roald Dahl served in the RAF and even suffered horrific injuries in an air crash in the Libyan Desert. Drawing on his own experience as a fighter pilot, Dahl crafted these ten spine-tingling stories: of air battles in the sky; of the nightmare of being shot down; the infectious madness of conflict; and the nervy jollity of the Mess and Ops room. Dahl brilliantly conveys the bizarre reality of a wartime pilot's daily existence, where death is a constant companion and life is lived from one heartbeat to the next.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Weathered Stone Books
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- Bookseller Inventory #
- 006787
- Title
- OVER TO YOU - 10 STORIES OF FLYERS AND FLYING
- Author
- DAHL, ROALD
- Format/binding
- Hardcover
- Book condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket condition
- Fair
- Edition
- First Edition
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Hamish Hamilton
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date published
- 1946
- Keywords
- Flying;
- Size
- 12mo
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Weathered Stone Books
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Skreen, Sligo
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About Weathered Stone Books
In operation since 1982 as The Winding Stair Bookshop, Dublin until 2005. Then in USA as Wandering Star Books an online bookseller also conducting appraisals for private collectors and institutions. Now back in Ireland and living in beautiful Sligo with views of the Atlantic and selling online.
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