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Macmillan and Co., Limited, 9999. Hardcover. Acceptable. Former library book; Missing dust jacket; Readable copy. Pages may have considerable notes/highlighting. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.Dust jacket quality is not guaranteed.

Macmillan And Co, 1951. Hardcover. Acceptable. 1951. Reprinted. 202 pages. No dust jacket. Red cloth with gilt titles to spine. Includes photographic plates. Pages have slight foxing, tanning and minor thumbing. Boards have some moderate edge wear, with slight bumping to corners and minor bumping to spine ends. Heavy water staining to front and rear. Book has a moderate forward lean. Gilt is bright.

Macmillan and Co., Limited, 9999-01-01. First Edition. hardcover. Used - Good. 0x0x0. light wear. edgewear. Very readable copy.

London: MacMillan & Co. Ltd., 1950. Octavo, brown cloth (hardcover), gilt letters, xi + 202 pp. Very Good, with bookplate and light speckling to edges; in a Very Good, mylar protected dust jacket with light edgewear. From dust jacket: This is the life of a young man who shone at everything he undertook, and who was killed on active service when he was twenty-three. Richard Hillary was educated at Shrewsbury and Trinity College, Oxford. He was a prominent member of certain set at Oxford, best described in his own words as exemplifying alert philistinism. Witty, self-centred and self-assured, these young men were caught up in the war, and chose the Royal Air Force in which to serve. In The Last Enemy, he recounted the part he and his friends played in the Battle of Britain, and his conversion from aloof superiority to a strong sense of unity with his fellow-men. That book is undeniably one of the classics of the war. Over 135,000 copies have been sold in England alone, and it has been… Read More

London: Macmillan and Co. Ltd, 1950. Very Good. Richard Hope Hillary (20 April 1919 � 8 January 1943) was a Battle of Britain pilot who died during World War II. He is best known for his book The Last Enemy, based upon his experiences during the Battle of Britain. Maroon boards with writing to spine. Bumping to corners and cup stain to front cover. Some fading.Tight binding and clean pages. AB64

London: Macmillan & Co, 1950 Copy in brown cloth on boards in unclipped D/J. Slight rubbing to head/foot of spine. Jacket spine lightly sunned. Jacket torn across centre of upper cover and several portions missint at head/foot of spine and along upper edge of lower cover. Light offsetting to front and rear end papers. Clean text and b/w plates.

London: Macmillan. Good. 1950. Hard Cover. 5.5" By 8" Tall Life of Battle of Britain Ace. Brown cloth with gilt lettering on spine. Cover slightly soiled. Previous owner's name on ffep. 202 pages clean and tight. .

Macmillan. nice copy; dust jacket with a few small chips . Very Good. Hardcover. 2nd printing. 1951.

Macmillan & Co. Ltd, 1950. First Edition. Hardcover. Good/Poor. The dust jacket is a little shelf rubbed, small tears and edge worn. A large piece of the top panel is missing and there are other tears and creases. Now protected in cellophane. The condition of the book is given in terms of the book's age. GK. Our orders are shipped using tracked courier delivery services.

Macmillan, 1950. Hardcover. Good/Poor. The jacket is torn and marked.Some tanning.Tightly bound.[R.N]. Our orders are shipped using tracked courier delivery services.

London: Macmillan & Co. Limited. Very Good/No DJ. 1950. First Edition. Hard Cover. 8vo Brown cloth with gold titles to spine. Slight shelf wear to spine ends, book edges and corners. Aging to cover front. Previous owner's inscription to FFEP (recipe entitled Hurricane, 7 lines). Remains of dust jacket inclosed in book (inner front flap with synopsis/overview of Richard Hillary). Inscription to FFFEP overleaf by Richard Hillary's instructor to someone called david dated 14/09/1969 (whole page). Black and white photographic plates. 202 pages clean and tightly bound. .

Macmillan, 1950. First Edition. hardcover. Acceptable/No dust jacket. 0x0x0. No dust jacket. Fading to spine and part of boards. Slight lean to spine from storage. Pages clean.

London: Macmillan, 1950. First Edition. . Cloth. Very Good/No Jacket. 202pp. 9 Plates. Size: 8vo

MacMillan and Co Limited, 1951T. hardcover. Very Good. in x in x in. MacMillan and Co 1951 reprint. Pages clean and bright, binding firm, minor shelf wear to dust jacket, including chips.

Macmillan, 1950. Hardback. good/scrappy/losses. with scrappy DW, book tanned but good

London: MacMillan & Co. Ltd., 1951. First Edition, Reprinted . Cloth Bound Boards. Very Good/Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. 1951 First Edition, Reprinted. Burgundy cloth covered boards with gilt titles to the spine. Blue dust jacket with white titles. Book condition very good, corners and edges rubbed, top edge of spine faded where dust jacket is chipped, a few spots to end-papers, offsetting from a book mark to half-title else contents clean. Dust jacket condition good, top edge of spine chipped with loss, small chip to lower edge of spine, corners chipped and torn, spine slightly faded, not price clipped. Biography of Richard Hillary, Battle of Britain Ace. With frontispiece portrait of Hillary from the portrait by Eric Kennington and photographic illustrations throughout.

London: Macmillan, 1950 This is the life of a young man who shone at eveything he undertook - who wrote the Battle of Britain classic, The Last Enemy, and who was killed on active service when he was twenty three. xi, 202pp with black and white plates.

London: Macmillan and Co., 1950. First Edition. Un volume di XI-202 pagine, tela editoriale con titolo al dorso (MANCA la sovracoperta – No Dust Jacket). Dimensioni:14x20 cm. Qualche traccia del tempo alla legatura, per il resto ottime condizioni. Ritratto di Richard Hillary in b/n in antiporta, 7 illustrazioni in b/n fuori testo. In lingua inglese.

London : Macmillan, 1951. Reprint. Hardcover. Fine cloth copy in a very good, slightly edge-nicked and dust-dulled dust-wrapper, now mylar-sleeved. Some water damage internally. Remains particularly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and strong. Physical description; xi, 201 p., [8] leaves of plates : ports. ; 21 cm. Subjects; Air pilots, Military Great Britain ; Biography. World War, 1939-1945 ; Biography. Hillary, Richard. Great Britain. Royal Air Force ; Biography.

London: Macmillan. Bound in dark red cloth, with bright gilt lettering to spine, this hardcover First Edition is Vg in slightly chipped wrapper. Inscription onn FFEP by Richard Hillary's mother. X1/201pp with 9 chapters and 9 photographs. Wrapper unclipped, but chipped at spine, otherwise VG . Very Good. Hardcover. First Edition. 1950.