Lot 353
The Royal Air Force.
Two three-volume hardback 8vo sets, comprising the Pictorial History of the R. A. F. 1918 - 1969, by J. W. R. Taylor & P. J. R. Moyes, very good copies in dust jackets; and Royal Air Force 1939 - 1945, by D. Richards & H. St. G. Saunders, all good First Eds, 1953/4, but no dust jackets. Together with British Aviation Widening Horizons 1930-1934 & British Aviation Ominous Skies 1935-1939, both by H. Penrose; Raiders approach
The Fighting Tradition of Royal Air Force Station Hornchurch and Sutton's Farm, by Sq. Leader H. T. Sutton (no d.j.), and a worn copy of Air Publication 125, Revised 1936 - A Short History of the Royal Air Force. The lot also includes four excellent hardbacks in their dust jackets in the Putnam aviation series: British Naval Aircraft since 1912; British Aviation - The Adventuring Years; United States Navy Aircraft since 1911; and a book club edition of The British Bomber since 1914. (14)