Search Results: Titles starting with P from Adelaide Booksellers

London: Arrow Books. 2013. Octavo Size [approx 15.5 x 22.8cm]. Near Fine condition. An excellent copy. Illustrated with Black and White Photographs. Robust, professional packaging and tracking provided for all parcels. xvi, 602 pages. . 1st thus. Softcover.

Newton Abbot: David & Charles. 1981. Octavo Size [approx 15.5 x 22.8cm]. Very Good condition in Very Good Dustjacket. DJ protected in our purpose-made clear archival plastic sleeve. A nice copy. Illustrated with Black and White Photographs. 240 pages. The author tells the story of POW's from the days of the Hundred Years War to Vietnam. Robust, professional packaging and tracking provided for all parcels. . 1st Edition. Hardback.

Sydney: ABC Books. 1985. Small Quarto Size [approx 17.5cm x 24cm]. Very Good condition. Black & white illustrations and maps. Slight sunning to upper edge. 224 pages. POWs' stories of Japanese imprisonment based on Tim Bowden's award-winning ABC Radio series of the same name. Robust, professional packaging and tracking provided for all parcels. . Softcover.

Oxford: Osprey Publishing. 2018. Small Quarto Size [approx 17.5cm x 24cm]. A Near Fine copy. An excellent copy. Illustrated with Black and White Photographs. Colour illustrations . 80 pages. Robust, professional packaging and tracking provided for all parcels. . 1st Edition. Softcover.

Madrid: Delprado Publishers. 2001. Small Quarto Size [approx 17.5cm x 24cm]. Very Good condition. Illustrated with Black and White Photographs and Colour drawings. Robust, professional packaging and tracking provided for all parcels. 62 pages. Amongst the American built fighters to be operated by the USAAF in Europe, the 56th FG joined the Eighth Air Force in Britain to undertake the escort role for the latter's growing B-17 bomber force in late 1942. Initial encounters with German fighters were not encouraging, as the P-47 was easily outmanoeuvred at low to medium altitudes. However, the arrival of the first P-47Cs in mid-1943 addressed the problem of the aircraft range and as combat tactics evolved performance improved and it was soon able to hold its own against the Luftwaffe fighters. . Reprint. Softcover.

Madrid: Delprado Publishers. 2000. Small Quarto Size [approx 17.5cm x 24cm]. Very Good condition. Illustrated with Black and White Photographs and both B/W & Colour drawings. Robust, professional packaging and tracking provided for all parcels. 64 pages. This first aircraft to be purposely designed as a radar-equipped nightfighter, Northrop's P-61 Black Widow was heavily influenced by the early RAF combat experience with radar-equipped aircraft in 1940-41. . Reprint. Softcover.

London: B.T. Batsford Limited. 1994. Quarto Size [approx 24cm x 30.5cm]. Near Fine copy in Very Good dustjacket. Dustjacket is now protected in our purpose-made clear archival plastic sleeve. A nice copy. Colour and black & white illustrations. Robust, professional packaging and tracking provided for all parcels. 127 pages. . 1st Edition. Hardback.

Sydney: Angus & Robertson. 1997. Octavo Size. Very Good condition. Black & white illustrations by Lorraine Hannay. Robust, professional packaging and tracking provided for all parcels. 65 pages. A delightful picture of Australian country life in the 1930s. . 1st Edition. Trade Paperback.

London: W. Foulsham & Co. 1968. Octavo Size [approx 15.5 x 22.8cm]. Very Good condition in Very Good Dustjacket. DJ protected in our purpose-made plastic sleeve. DJ is slightly rubbed at spine ends with small closed tear to lower front edge. Previous owner's details to front free end paper. Illustrated with Black and White Photographs and a map. 240 pages. The story of the 1942 Allied Arctic Convoy, which was left defenceless and was attacked by the Germans. only 11 of the 35 ships reached their destination in USSR. Churchill called it "one of the most melancholy naval episodes in the whole of the war." Robust, professional packaging and tracking provided for all parcels. . 1st Edition. Hardback.

New York: Basic Books. 1996. Large octavo size [16x24cm approx]. Near Fine copy in Near Fine dustjacket. DJ now protected in our purpose-made clear archival plastic sleeve. An excellent copy. Illustrated with Black and White Photographs. 480 pages. Robust, professional packaging and tracking provided for all parcels. . 1st Edition. Hardback.

London: J. M. Dent & Sons. 1978. Large octavo size [16x24cm approx]. Very Good condition in Very Good Dustjacket. DJ protected in our purpose-made clear archival plastic sleeve. A nice copy. Illustrated with Colour and Black & White Photographs. Robust, professional packaging and tracking provided for all parcels. 253 pages. . 1st Edition. Hardback.

Harmondsworth: Kestrel Books. 1975. Octavo Size. Near Fine copy in Very Good [price-clipped] dustjacket. Dustjacket is now protected in a plastic sleeve. INSCRIBED AND SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR on the front free end paper. 280 pages Leon Garfield [1921-1996] was a prize winning British author, most noted for his historical fiction aimed at children and young adults.. This one is based in the French Revolution - with its climax the September massacre of 1792. . 1st Edition. Hardback.

Secaucus, New Jersey: Chartwell Books Inc.. 1974. Quarto Size [approx 24cm x 30.5cm]. Very Good condition in Very Good Dustjacket. DJ protected in our purpose-made clear archival plastic sleeve. A nice copy. Illustrated with colour reproductions inlcuding a fold-out. Black & white photographs. Introduction by Thomas Messer. Robust, professional packaging and tracking provided for all parcels. 272 pages. . 1st US Edition. Hardback.

Adelaide: Brolga Books. 1969. Octavo Size [approx 15.5 x 22.8cm]. Very Good condition in Very Good Dustjacket. DJ protected in our purpose-made clear archival plastic sleeve. Illustrated with Black and White Photographs. Foreword by Sir Robert Menzies. 190 pages. Robust, professional packaging and tracking provided for all parcels. . 1st Edition. Hardback.

Adelaide: Brolga Books. 1969. Octavo Size [approx 15.5 x 22.8cm]. Very Good condition in Very Good Dustjacket. DJ protected in our purpose-made plastic sleeve. Illustrated with Black and White Photographs. 190 pages. Robust, professional packaging and tracking provided for all parcels. . 1st Edition. Hardback.

Sydney: William Heinemann. 2009. Large octavo size [16x24cm approx]. Very Good condition. Illustrated with Black and White Photographs. Robust, professional packaging and tracking provided for all parcels. 548 pages. . Reprint. Trade Paperback.

Adelaide: Avonmore Books. 2020. Small Quarto Size [approx 17.5cm x 24cm]. MINT - a NEW copy. Illustrated with Black and White Photographs. Colour illustrations & maps. Robust, professional packaging and tracking provided for all parcels. 112 pages. The most accurate WWII aircraft profiles to date of Japanese aircraft in the "South Seas" theatre. . New. 1st Edition. Softcover.

Adelaide: Australian Railway Historical Society (S.A. Division) Inc.. 1994. Octavo Size [approx 15x21cm]. Very Good condition - small sticker stain to front cover. Illustrated with Colour & [mostly] Black and White Photographs. Robust, professional packaging and tracking provided for all parcels. 56 pages. . 1st Edition. Softcover.

Melbourne: The Hawthorn Press. 1945. Octavo Size [approx 15.5 x 22.8cm]. Very Good condition in Good Dustjacket - now protected in our purpose-made plastic sleeve. DJ is chipped at spine ends and corners. Robust, professional packaging and tracking provided for all parcels. 122 pages.. . 1st Edition. Hardback.

New York: Bonanza Books. No DateCirca 1965. Quarto Size [approx 24cm x 30.5cm]. Very Good in Good dustjacket. DJ has some fading to spine and wear to corners and lower edge & is now protected in our purpose-made clear archival plastic sleeve. Illustrated with Black and White Photographs. 182 pages. Steam on the rails, Mexico to Canada, this is a rare collection of photographs from the private archives of historic ' Old West' railroads. Robust, professional packaging and tracking provided for all parcels. . Reprint. Hardback.