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Published by Nelson Doubleday Inc, 1980
Seller: LIBRARY FRIENDS OF PAYSON INC, Payson, AZ, U.S.A.
Book
Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. Book Club Edition. Very good condition green hardcover with gilt letters on spine. Good condition dust jacket has minor edge wear. 364 pages.
Published by Garden City, Doubleday, 1980. 364 pp., illus. Fine copy of book club ed. in dust jacket., 1980
Seller: Solomon's Mine Books, Howard, PA, U.S.A.
Book
Hardcover. Condition: Good. 1980 Book Club/Specially Illustrated Edition. Wear and tear to DJ. Pages are tanned, but unmarked.
Hardcover. Condition: Acceptable. dust jacket has wear and tear; white-out over writing on some pages Satisfaction 100% guaranteed.
Condition: Good. Hardcover Good Sold by the charity Langdon Foundation: Supporting men & Women with disabilities.
Published by Nelson Doubleday Inc. January 1980, 1980
Seller: Pelican Bay Books, Anacortes, WA, U.S.A.
Hardcover. Condition: Good. Book Club.
Published by Nelson Doubleday, Garden City, 1977
Seller: M & M Books, ATHENS, GA, U.S.A.
Book
Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Book Club Edition.
Published by London: Leo Cooper, 1987
Seller: Richard Roberts Bookseller., KILMARNOCK, United Kingdom
Revised Edition. pp. xvi, 325. Black & white plates and maps. A fine copy in fine unclipped wrapper.
Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Fair. Book club edition. Jacket in Fair condition with tears. No markings on text. Historic Oklahoma Bookstore on Route 66. Packages shipped daily, Mon-Fri.
First edition, first printing. Fine in near fine, lightly edgeworn dust jacket with a lightly sunned spine, in mylar cover.
Published by Cassell, 1977
Seller: Cambridge Rare Books, Cambridge, GLOUC, United Kingdom
HARDCOVER. Condition: GOOD. 1977. Cassell. Hardcover. ACCEPTABLE DJ; Acceptable, edgewear. 9x6.
Published by Cassell, London, 1977
ISBN 10: 030429778XISBN 13: 9780304297788
Seller: Adelaide Booksellers, Clarence Gardens, SA, Australia
Book First Edition
Hardback. 1st Edition. Octavo Size [approx 15.5 x 22.8cm]. Very Good condition in Very Good Dustjacket. DJ protected in our purpose-made plastic sleeve. Light wear to dustjacket edges and corners. Previous owner's details to front free end paper. Illustrated with Black and White Photographs. Maps to endpapers. 340 pages. This is Commander Charles Lamb's story, as a pilot of the inelegant 'Stringbags' - Fleet Air Arm's 'Swordfish'. Robust, professional packaging and tracking provided for all parcels.
Published by Nelson Doubleday, New York NY, [1980], 1980
Seller: Island Books, Thakeham, West Sussex, United Kingdom
8vo., with illustrations and maps in the text; green cloth, gilt back, a very good, bright, clean copy in unclipped dustwrapper. First published in the UK as 'War in a Stringbag' in 1977. Well-written account by a pilot who served in virtually every theatre in which the Fleet Air Arm was involved. Vivid coverage of Taranto. Enser, p.88; Law, 9782.
Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Very Nice Clean Copy! Book Club. No marks or writings, pages bright and clean, binding tight and sound. Light wear to spine ends and corners. Dust jacket in VG+ condition and placed in archival plastic sleeve. Carefully packaged and shipped in box. L.
Published by Leo Cooper, 1987
ISBN 10: 0850524415ISBN 13: 9780850524413
Seller: The Military History Bookshop, Folkestone, United Kingdom
Book
(Subject: Aviation - General) The author was a Fleet Air Arm Pilot flying the famous Swordfish torpedo bomber in WWII. He took part in Norwegian and Dunkirk Campaigns, the attack on Taranto, operated from a secret base in Albania and later from Malta. Captured and imprisoned by the Vichy French, he was eventually released and later served in the British Pacific Fleet. (Published: 1987) (Publisher: Leo Cooper) (ISBN: 0850524415) (Pagination: 340pp, 28 ills, 1 map, index) (Condition: near fine in like dw) UL-XXXXXX.
Published by BCA Book Club, 1977
Seller: Paul Meekins Military & History Books, Stratford upon Avon, United Kingdom
Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Fair. Hardback; corners of boards dented; foxing to edge of yellowed pages, otherwise good; yellowed and creased dustjacket has been covered in clear adhesive film. ; The author's wartime service as a Swordfish pilot in the Fleet Air Arm during the Second World War. Includes his experiences at Dunkirk, Taranto, Greece, and Malta. Illustrations & maps. ; 340 pages.
Published by Doubleday, 1980
Seller: Sage Rare & Collectible Books, IOBA, Livonia, MI, U.S.A.
Association Member: IOBA
Hardcover. Condition: Very Good+. Dust Jacket Condition: Good+. Early Book Club Edition. ; Green cover has wear to corners and spine caps but clean, bright, and in very good+ condition. Boards and spine are straight. Binding is tight. Pages are clean and near pristine. Dust jacket has a small chip at the bottom of the spine panel and wear to extremities but clean, bright, and in good+ condition. DJ protected by a brand new, clear, acid-free mylar cover. We add mylar covers to all books with DJs to preserve the DJs and add luster to magnify their beauty. (If pictured, shown without the mylar cover for an accurate representation of dust jacket. ); 8.5 X 5.9 X 1.3 inches.
Published by Arrow London, 1978
Seller: A Book for all Reasons, PBFA & ibooknet, Lowestoft, United Kingdom
Association Member: PBFA
1st in imprint, paperback, 344pp, 16pp half tone photo ills., dec. chapter vignettes, maps in text, [vii] ads., wraparound pictorial cover-art (unattrib.), the experiences of a Swordfish pilot during WW2, a survivor of the sinking of HMS Courageous, the attack on Taranto from HMS Illustrious, support for the Greeks from a mountain airfield behind enemy lines in Albania, flying in support of the campaign in North Africa out of Hal Fal airfield in Malta, capture and internment by the Vichy French in North Africa until their capitulation after Operation Torch and appointment as Lt. Cdr. (Flying) in HMS Implacable, lightg vertical creasing to spine, a little rubbed and faintly creased at extrems., edges a little tanned, ISBN:0099182505 good plus,
Published by Cassell., London., 1977
Seller: EmJay Books, Bradford., United Kingdom
Book First Edition
Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. First Edition. v, 340pp, photos, list of men of 815 Squadron. Light war, unclipped wrapper. 650g.
Published by Bantam, London, 1980
ISBN 10: 0553136542ISBN 13: 9780553136548
Seller: Black Stump Books And Collectables, Skipton, VIC, Australia
Book
Paperback. Condition: Very Good. 1st of This Edition. 370 pages. Black/white illustrations. An ageing, but firm, clean book. Scan available.
Published by Cassell, United Kingdom, 1977
ISBN 10: 030429778XISBN 13: 9780304297788
Seller: M. C. Wilson, Perth, WA, Australia
Book First Edition
Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. First edition, first impression 1977 near fine hardback, foxing to page edges, in a very good dust wrapper, corners and edges lightly rubbed, cover edges browned inside and outside cover. No inscription. Price clipped. 340 pages with index. Endpaper Maps. Map. Illustrations. Bibliography.
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Published by Nelson Doubleday, New York, 1980
Seller: Rare Aviation Books, Millers Point, NSW, Australia
Octavo, green hardcover, viii, 364 pp., illustrated. Boards slightly rubbed at spine ends and extremities, dust jacket a little worn and chipped, otherwise a very good copy. A firsthand account by Commander Charles lamb of the Stringbags' most daring missions - minelaying and U-boat hunting over German waters.
Published by Cassell, London, 1977
Seller: Rare Aviation Books, Millers Point, NSW, Australia
First Edition
Octavo, black hardcover with spine lettering, illustrated endpapers, [vi], 340 pp., eight double sided plates. A good copy in dust jacket. First edition. A firsthand account by Commander Charles lamb of the Stringbags' most daring missions - minelaying and U-boat hunting over German waters.
Published by Cassell London 1977, 1977
Seller: Andrew Barnes Books / Military Melbourne, Melbourne, VIC, Australia
First Edition
1st edition dust jacket Nice Copy octavo 364pp., text ills., maps, nominal roll, index, Memoirs of a Swordfish Pilot in WWII. Small chipped to top of title-page o/w a nice copy of first edition.
Published by Cassell London 1977, 1977
Seller: Andrew Barnes Books / Military Melbourne, Melbourne, VIC, Australia
First Edition
1st edition dust jacket Nice Copy octavo 364pp., text ills., maps, nominal roll, Memoirs of a Swordfish Pilot in WWII. Nice copy of first edition.
Published by Cassell London 1977, 1977
Seller: Andrew Barnes Books / Military Melbourne, Melbourne, VIC, Australia
First Edition
1st edition dust jacket Nice Copy octavo 364pp., text ills., maps, nominal roll, index, Memoirs of a Swordfish Pilot in WWII. Nice copy of first edition.
Published by Leo Cooper London 1987, 1987
Seller: Andrew Barnes Books / Military Melbourne, Melbourne, VIC, Australia
First Edition
revised edition dust jacket As New octavo 325pp., b/w plates, text ills., maps, nominal roll, Memoirs of a Swordfish Pilot in WWII. Nice copy of first revised edition.
Published by Leo Cooper London 1987, 1987
Seller: Andrew Barnes Books / Military Melbourne, Melbourne, VIC, Australia
First Edition
revised edition dust jacket Nice Copy octavo 325pp., b/w plates, text ills., maps, nominal roll, Memoirs of a Swordfish Pilot in WWII. Nice copy of first revised edition.
Published by Cassell London 1977, 1977
Seller: Andrew Barnes Books / Military Melbourne, Melbourne, VIC, Australia
First Edition
1st edition dust jacket Fine octavo 364pp., text ills., maps, nominal roll, Memoirs of a Swordfish Pilot in WWII. Nice copy of first edition.
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