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MOSQUITO CLASSIC AIRCRAFT No. 7: THEIR HISTORY AND HOW TO MODEL THEM
Written by Michael J.F. Bowyer; Bryan Philpott.
Stock no. 1829788
Published by Patrick Stephens. 1st 1980. Very good condition in a very good dustwrapper.

The aircraft's entire history and development and a wealth of material for modellers, including hints on super-detailing and converting the many plastic kits available. Black cloth boards, gilt title to spine. B/w photos and diagrams. 120 pages. ISBN: 0850594324. Boards a little scuffed. Light page-edge browning. Else contents clean. Pictorial dustwrapper is a little grubby and creased.

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MOSQUITO CLASSIC AIRCRAFT No. 7: THEIR HISTORY AND HOW TO MODEL THEM
Written by Michael J.F. Bowyer; Bryan Philpott.
Stock no. 1829705
Published by Patrick Stephens. 1st 1980. Nearly fine condition in a slightly better than very good dustwrapper.

The aircraft's entire history and development and a wealth of material for modellers, including hints on super-detailing and converting the many plastic kits available. Black cloth boards, gilt title to spine. B/w photos and diagrams. 120 pages. ISBN: 0850594324. Price-cut pictorial dustwrapper is lightly creased at bottom edge else a lovely copy!

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PERILOUS PARADISE: PHOTO STORY OF NEW GUINEA AND ITS EMERGING PEOPLE
Written by Eric Were.
Stock no. 1829032
Published by Pacific Press Publishing Association. 1st 1968. Very good condition.

From its steamy, mosquito-infested swamps to its high fertile valleys and mist-enshrouded peaks, New Guinea presents 300,000 square miles of highly diversified terrain with 2,000,000 needy but fascinating tribal people. This land is a perilous paradise with minimum of comfort and maximum of challenge. Especially featured in this book are a group of missionaries who are doing humanitarian work, often under difficult circumstances. Matt pictorial boards. B/w photos, a few colour photos. Not paginated. Spine lightly faded, corners of boards lightly worn. Bookplate to half-title page and a few grubby marks to same. Text block lightly browned. Contents clean.

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MOSQUITO FIGHTER SQUADRONS IN FOCUS
Written by Philip Birtles.
Stock no. 1828918
Published by Red Kite. 1st 2005. Slightly better than very good condition.

A photographic album of the fighter and fighter/bomber squadrons that operated the De Havilland Mosquito. Large format. Pictorial cardwraps. B/w photos. Colour illustrations. 96 pages. ISBN: 0954620135. Text block slightly browned. Contents clean.

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TERROR IN THE STARBOARD SEAT
Written by Dave McIntosh; David L. Bashow.
Stock no. 1825993
Published by Stoddart Publishing Co Ltd.. 2nd 1998. Nearly fine condition in a nearly fine dustwrapper.

Second edition. 41 trips aboard a Mosquito: a true story of 418 Squadron. Informative, scene-setting foreword by David L. Bashow. Blue cloth boards, gilt title to spine. B/w photos. ISBN: 0773730893. A lovely copy.

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GHOST BOMBERS: THE MOONLIGHT WAR OF NSG 9
Written by Nick Beale. Illustrated by Tom Tullis.
Stock no. 1825853
Published by Classic Publications. 1st 2001. Nearly fine condition in a nearly fine dustwrapper.

Luftwaffe Night Attack Operations from Anzio to the Alps. Large format. B/w photos. ISBN: 1903223156. Pictorial dustwrapper is lightly scuffed to rear panel.

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PATHFINDER FORCE A HISTORY OF 8 GROUP
Written by Gordon Musgrove.
Stock no. 1825694
Published by Macdonald and Jane's. 1st 1976. Very good condition in a very good dustwrapper.

B/w photos. ISBN: 0354010174. Lightt browning to endpapers, browning and foxing to text block. Contents otherwise clean. Pictorial dustwrapper is price-cut , scuffed to rear panel with a small closed tear (no loss) to lower rear edge.

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FLYING LEGENDS - A PHOTOGRAPHIC STUDY OF THE GREAT PISTON COMBAT AIRCRAFT OF WWII
Written by Tony Holmes. Illustrated by John M. Dibbs.
Stock no. 1323630
Published by The Plane Picture Co. Publishing. 1st 1996. Fine condition in a slightly better than very good dustwrapper.

Large oblong format. Blue cloth. Colour photographs throughout by Dibbs. ISBN: 0952958805. Dustwrapper is browned to spine.

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SCORPIONS STING: THE STORY OF No. 84 SQUADRON ROYAL AIR FORCE 1917-1992
Written by Don Neate.
Stock no. 2139935
Published by Air-Britain (historians) Ltd.. 1st 1994. Very good condition.

Large format. Glazed pictorial boards. B/w photos. ISBN: 085130222X. Spine is bumped and faded. Corners are bumped, with wear. Scuffing and bumping to edges, especially bottom edge of rear cover. Some browning and grubby marks to outer page edges.

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SPIRITS IN THE SKY: CLASSIC AIRCRAFT OF WORLD WAR II
Written by Martin Bowman.
Stock no. 2134548
Published by Greenwich Editions. 1995. Slightly better than very good condition in a very good dustwrapper.

Large format. Glazed pictorial boards. Colour photos and illustrations. A few knocks along cover edges. Contents are excellent! Wrapper has a few marks and some edge-creasing.

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JANE'S POCKET GUIDE FIGHTERS OF WORLD WAR II
Written by Tony Holmes.
Stock no. 2126850
Published by Harper Collins. 1st 1999. Nearly fine condition.

Small oblong format. Glazed pictorial boards. B/w photos. ISBN: 0004722213.

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SPIRITS IN THE SKY: CLASSIC AIRCRAFT OF WORLD WAR II
Written by Martin Bowman.
Stock no. 1610457
Published by Salamander Books Ltd. 1st 1992. Slightly better than very good condition in a slightly better than very good dustwrapper.

Large format. Grey cloth boards, gilt title to spine. Colour photos and illustrations. ISBN: 0861015789. Board corners rubbed.

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