UK,8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edn.NMINT/NMINT. Wrapped+ protected from day of issue/purchase,so no owner inscrptn and no price-clip to dw/dj.Bright, crisp,clean,matt, with colour tinted contemporary photographs to front panel,white+grey letters, similar letters to spine/backstrip, rear panel with 5 montage'd contemporary b/w autobiographical photographs of subject and his dog, amongst others; with negligible shelf-wear to edges and corners - no nicks,tears or splits present.Top+fore-edges bright and clean without blemish; contents bright,tight, clean,solid and sound - no dog-ear reading creases to any pages' corners - unread,apart from my own collation. Publisher's bright,crisp,clean,sharp-cornered with exception of top,rear tip with tiniest dink,original plain black cloth boards with bright,crisp,blocked gilt letters to spine/backstrip and immaculate plain white endpapers. UK,8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edn,viii-xipp+4-227pp [paginated] includes a foreword by Jaroslav Beranek (Military History Institute,Prague),acknowledgements,Pts I-IV comprising 3,4,4 and 3 chapters respectively,16pp contemporay b/w autobiographical photographs in 1 block,between pp116/17,notes,a bibliography and an index; plus [unpaginated] half-title+title pages,contents list/table,and individual Pts separator pages.During WW2 more than 3,500 Czechoslovak airmen served in the RAF.More than 500 were killed.They formed the core of future Czechoslovak squadrons serving in the RAF as well as the Czechoslovak Brigade.Czech airmen ...

hardcover. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book. ISBN 1844155900 9781844155903 [US]