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Peter Davies, 1953. Hardcover. Acceptable. 1953. First Edition. 205 pages. No dust jacket. Blue cloth. Minor tanning to pages with heavier foxing and tanning to pastedowns and endpapers. Pen and pencil inscriptions to front pastedown and endpaper with visible tanning to text block edges. Boards have major rubbing and visible sunning. O rings to front and visible bumping to corners. Fair crushing to spine ends and distinctive sunning to spine.

London: Peter Davies, (1953). Octavo, blue cloth (hardcover), [206] pp. Near-Fine, with neat bookplate; in a Very Good, mylar protected dust jacket with light edgewear that includes chipping. From dust jacket: Here, artistically shaped in the form of fiction, is an exciting and essentially realistic account of night-fighting and intruder operations over England and the Mediterranean in the war years. The machines are the Beaufighters and Mosquitoes which, with radar, did so much to give Britain supremacy in the air; the men are the RAF crews without whose skill and devotion even such machines would have been of small avail. In Tumult in the Clouds, Andrew Cunningham recaptures brilliantly the friendships and team-spirit that existed among aircrews and made possible their remarkable exploits, and acknowledges for every member of an aircrew the debt he owes to a good pilot -- and for every man his debt to the woman he loves. WE share with him thrill and ecstasy of flight, the heat of action, the… Read More

Beacon Books Odhams Press, 1957. paperback / softback. vg. WW2 story vg 1st Beacon Books Odhams Press 1957 edition paperback book In stock shipped from our UK warehouse

London: Peter Davies, 1953 Blue cloth titled in white on spine. Tidy cover, tight, very light foxing in endpapers and faintly in edges. Dust jacket is unclipped, rubbed at corners and spine ends, protected in a fitted clear film sleeve. Size: 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall

London: Beacon Books; Odhams, 1957. Soft cover. Good. Exciting WW2 aerial combat novel based on the author's experiences as a navigator. Some creasing and rubbing to covers. Contents clean and binding sound. Good.

London: Davies, 1953. reprint. Very Good. small octavo. orig. cloth 206pp., Novelised account of Night Fighters over England & the Mediterranean. Cloth rather dull but a VG reading copy