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Sky Spy - From Six Miles High to Hitler's Bunker
by Holmes, Ray
- Used
- Hardcover
- Signed
- first
- Condition
- See description
- ISBN 10
- 1853100544
- ISBN 13
- 9781853100543
- Seller
-
Leicester, United Kingdom
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About This Item
1989. First Edition. Hard Cover. Dust Jacket. Signed by Author. (Shrewsbury, England: Airlife Publishing Ltd. 1989). First UK Edition. SIGNED & INSCRIBED BY THE AUTHOR (A BATTLE OF BRITAIN HERO TO A WW2 HERO. Publisher's black boards with gilt lettering to the spine. A VG copy (a couple of corners bumped and cockling to a group of pages in the middle of the book possibly caused by water damage). The VG+ dustwrapper is priced £15.95 to the inside flap with the spine slightly faded to a lighter hue. Inscribed by the Author to the front free end-paper: "To Eric & Inge --- both of whom/ I've known all their 'legal/ lives' in the Liverpool/ Courts ---/ With my warmest wishes/ Ray Holmes". The Recipient, Eric Goldrein was a WW2 hero who captured 60 German soldiers while wounded during the Normandy landings. He later became a Liverpool barrister. Ray Holmes was an RAF Battle of Britain hero who was a journalist covering the Liverpool courts post-war which is how they met. A superb ASSOCIATION COPY between two notable WW2 heroes. With the book-plate of Eric Geoffrey Goldrein to the front paste-down. ISBN: 1 85310 054 4. Possibly unique. Photograph/scans available upon request.
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- Bookseller
- James M Pickard, ABA, ILAB, PBFA.
(GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 355490723424
- Title
- Sky Spy - From Six Miles High to Hitler's Bunker
- Author
- Holmes, Ray
- Format/Binding
- Hard Cover
- Book Condition
- Used
- Jacket Condition
- Dust Jacket
- Edition
- First Edition
- Binding
- Hardcover
- ISBN 10
- 1853100544
- ISBN 13
- 9781853100543
- Publisher
- Airlife Publishing Ltd
- Place of Publication
- Shrewsbury
- Date Published
- 1989
Terms of Sale
James M Pickard, ABA, ILAB, PBFA.
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About the Seller
James M Pickard, ABA, ILAB, PBFA.
Biblio member since 2006
Leicester
About James M Pickard, ABA, ILAB, PBFA.
James M Pickard (Rare Books) is proud to be a full member of the Antiquarian Booksellers Association (ABA), the International League of Antiquarian Booksellers (ILAB) and The Provincial Booksellers Fairs Association (PBFA).
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- Association Copy
- An association copy is a copy of a book which has been signed and inscribed by the author for a personal friend, colleague, or...
- Dustwrapper
- Also known as book jacket, dust cover, or dust wrapper, a dust jacket is a protective and decorative cover for a book that is...
- Spine
- The outer portion of a book which covers the actual binding. The spine usually faces outward when a book is placed on a shelf....
- First Edition
- In book collecting, the first edition is the earliest published form of a book. A book may have more than one first edition in...
- Inscribed
- When a book is described as being inscribed, it indicates that a short note written by the author or a previous owner has been...
- Paste-down
- The paste-down is the portion of the endpaper that is glued to the inner boards of a hardback book. The paste-down forms an...
- VG
- Very Good condition can describe a used book that does show some small signs of wear - but no tears - on either binding or...
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- Gilt
- The decorative application of gold or gold coloring to a portion of a book on the spine, edges of the text block, or an inlay in...
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