bush cotton (14 resultados)

Hard Cover. Condición: Very Good. Estado de la sobrecubierta: Very Good. First Hardcover Edition. viii, 357pp, index, bw ills, map. Or green cloth in jacket. Light edge wear to jacket, light foxing to edges. Hurricanes Over Burma is two books. In the first Cotton gives his account of the air war over Burma. Cotton was one of the first group of pilot trainees to leave Australia in WWII. He spent 2 years and 9 months in the Burma-India theatre flying Hurricanes and eventually commanding No 17 Squadron RAF. The second book is the memoirs of his friend Wing Commander Bunny Stone- a personal account of his 3 years with the RAF in the Far East. They are based around 33 drawings which he started in India after the first Burma campaign. He completed the drawings in 1944 when events were still fresh in his mind. The text was added in the 1970s. Size: 8vo.

Hardcover. Condición: Near Fine. Estado de la sobrecubierta: Near Fine. 1st Edition. Including the Memoirs of Wing Commander "Bunny" Stone, DFC, OAM. Previous owner's label inside cnr front cover. Frontispiece: photograph of author. B&W photographs, illustrations and maps throughout. 24 cm x 16 cm. 357 pp.

Softcover. Condición: Very Good. Estado de la sobrecubierta: No Dust Jacket. First Edition. General wear to card covers. 312 pages. No internal inscriptions, torn or missing pages. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilogram. Category: Military & Warfare; Myanmar; 1940s; Biography & Autobiography. ISBN: 0731608887. ISBN/EAN: 9780731608881. Pictures of this item not already displayed here available upon request. Inventory No: 53385.

Hardcover. Condición: Very Good. Estado de la sobrecubierta: Very Good. 1st Edition. "Bush" Cotton first saw action flying Hurricanes in 194 with Number 43 Squadron, then based in Scotland, but he quickly earned promotion to take over a Hurricane flight on another famous fighter squadron, Number 17, shortly destined to see out the war in Burma. The book is in very nice condition EXCEPT for shelf rubbing at top and bottom and the beginning of tanning at the top.

Hardcover with dust jacket. DJ and book are both in VG condition 548 pp.

8vo. viii+358pp. Original boards in dustwrapper. Maps, numerous black and white illustrations; previous owner's name, a near fine copy. . First edition.

1st edition pictorial wrappers Nice Copy lge. octavo 312pp., b/w plates, text ills., maps, appends., Neat ownership inscription o/w nice copy. Scarce original edition.

Or.Col.Ill.wrapps. 312pp. Many b/w ills. Very good copy. 1st ed. Scarce. Inscribed by the author and with a typewritten letter inserted with his signature. The very scarce first edition!

"Sales/posting to the USA suspended". Card covers. large octavo, 312pp, b&w photos. A little wear on card edges/corners, previous owner's name top of title page; a good copy. Squadron Leader Monty "Bush" Cotton was in the first group of pilot trainees to leave Australia in WWII. Includes details of training in Australia and advanced training in Canada. Covers flying Hurricanes with 43 Squadron in England in 1941. The second part of the book covers his almost 3 years experiences flying Hurricanes in Burma and India, and eventual command of 17 Squadron. Lots of photos.

1st edition dust jacket Nice Copy octavo viii + 357pp., b/w plates, maps, appends., index, The story of an Australian Fighter Pilot in the RAF. Includes the memoirs of Wingco. "Bunny" Stone. Neat ownership inscription o/w nice copy.

1st edition pictorial wrappers Nice Copy lge. octavo 312pp., b/w plates, text ills., maps, appends., Signed by "Bush" Cotton on title-page. Scarce original edition.

1st edition dust jacket Very Nice Copy octavo viii + 357pp., b/w plates, maps, appends., index, The story of an Australian Fighter Pilot in the RAF. Includes the memoirs of Wingco. "Bunny" Stone.

Hardcover. Condición: Good.

Bathurst: Crawford House Publishing, (1995). Roy. 8vo. Orig. illust. cloth. Dustjacket. (x, 358pp.). With numerous illusts, and maps. Fine.