Parham, H.J. / Belfield, E.M.G. / Alanbrooke (Foreword).

Unarmed into Battle. The Story of the Air Observation Post.

First Edition. Winchester, Warren & Son for the Air O.P. Officiers’ Association, 1956. 21 x 14 cm. xiii, 168 pages. With B&W Illustrations, Photographs and maps, some folding. Original blue cloth with armorial gilt decoration on front board and gilt title on spine. In original red and white dust jacket. Very good condition. Minor shelf wear, rubbing and bumping, binding, edges and end papers dust dulled. Minor edge wear to dust jacket. Small blue card tipped in to front free end paper: ‘To the Master Gunner, who also had faith, with [?] Thanks from ‘Ambrose’ 30 November 1956’. Internally bright and clean. Dust jacket now in archival jacket.

Parham, Jack.

Bird Flights for Bird Lovers.

First Edition. Leicester, Drysdale Press / Harborough Publishing, Not dated [1944]. 21 x 15 cm. 59 pages plus one page advertisement. Illustrated with photos and sketches. White cloth hard cover with gilt title on front board. Blind line decorations. Original front part of dust jacket tipped in at the back of the book. No dust jacket. Very good condition. Minor shelf wear, rubbing and bumping. A little dust dulling throughout. Ex Libris of Alan Francis Brooke on front paste down. Gift letter by the author to Field Marshal Alanbrooke tipped in on title page. Internally a clean copy.

Payne, Michael.

Messerschmitt Bf 109 in the West 1937-1940: From the Spanish Civil War to the Battle of Britain.

London, Greenhill Books, 1998. 19cm x 25.5cm. 72 pages. Original softcover. Excellent condition. From the series Luftwaffe At War.