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Published by Webb Book Pub Co, Saint Paul, 1943
Seller: Crabtree's Collection Old Books, Sebago, ME, U.S.A.
Rockwell Kent (illustrator). 2nd ptg. Broch's escape during the 1940 Nazi invasion of Norway. Bookplate, tanning & smudges ft endpaper. VG.
Published by Webb Book Pub. Co., Saint Paul, 1942
Seller: Russ States, Oil City, PA, U.S.A.
First Edition
Cloth. Condition: Good +. Dust Jacket Condition: Fair. Rockwell Kent (illustrator). First Edition. 1942, 325pp, photo illus. at back, dj shows wear and tears.
Published by Webb Book Pub 1943,APRIL, St. Paul, Minnesota, 1943
Seller: WONDERFUL BOOKS BY MAIL, Durham-CA, CA, U.S.A.
First Edition
HARDCOVER. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Illustrated by KENT, ROCKWELL LINE drawings (illustrator). 1st Edition,3p; Third Printing. VERY GOOD CONDITION IN VERY GOOD UNCLIPT(S3.00) DUST JACKET.VERY NICE BRIGHT DUST JACKET ; INCLUDES GLOSSY MAP & PHOTO SECTION END OF BOOK. Gold titles on dark blue spine box, all on light blue cloth hard covers. DJ HAS DRAMATIC KENT ILUST OF MAN WITH FIST RAISED TOWARD SKY.DJ IS IN VERY NICE CONDITION,VERY CLEAN DJ. NO FOLDS, BRIGHT WITH HINT OF WEAR TO FOOT SPINE STRIP. ; 307+pg pages; NORWAY IS IN THIS BOOK.STARK SKYLINE, QUIET VALLEYS,CALM LAKES.WHOLESOME ATMOSPHERE OF .DURING WWW.
Published by Webb Book Publishing Co., Saint Paul, 1942
Seller: The Antiquarian Shop, Bend, OR, U.S.A.
Book First Edition
Cloth. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Rockwell Kent (illustrator). 1st Edition. First edition, illustrated by Rockwell Kent, 325pp., bound in blue cloth decorated with an anchor in blue, lettering gilt over dark blue, previous owne's name, a near fine copy in good unclipped pictorial dust jacket which has a large red stain to the rear panel.
Published by Webb Book Publishing Company, 1943
Seller: J. Mercurio Books, Maps, & Prints IOBA, Garrison, NY, U.S.A.
Association Member: IOBA
Book First Edition
Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Kent, Rockwell (illustrator). 1st Edition. DJ in archival cover price clipped chips edge ware.
Published by Michael Joseph Ltd, London
Seller: Jacket and Cloth, Chippenham, United Kingdom
Book
Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Fair. KENT, Rockwell (illustrator). 3rd Impression. DESCRIPTION: White DJ with red title plates over crimson red cloth. Illustrated by Rockwell Kent. Includes a handwritten letter from Bernt Lund referring to trips to Sachsenhausen concentration camp where he was imprisoned during the war. Lund also refers to sending this book to the recipients ("Jo and Ray") where he talks about how Einas Gerhardson became Norway's first Prime Minister after the war. He also mentions that he had met his father's friend Theodor Broch, the author several times. Language: English. Book Condition: Good: Light wear to lightly turned corners, edges and spine ends. Sharp clean cloth. Tightly bound with toned intact endpapers and firm hinges. Toned unmarked pages and text block edges. DJ Condition: Fair: Heavy wear and chipping to upper and lower edge, spine ends and corners. Toned covers with spotting to front and rear. Unclipped. Pages 192. Size: 8vo 21cm by 13cm. PROVENANCE: LETTER: Bernt Lund. Air Vice-Marshal Ronald Graham (1896-1967) was a Scottish First World War flying ace of the Royal Naval Air Service rising to the rank of Air Vice Marshal during the Second World War. A medical student at the start First World War began joined the Royal Naval Division 1915 transferring to the Royal Naval Air Service as a Flight sub-Lieutenant in September. In 1916, he served at the Dover Seaplane Base before moving to Dunkirk, to act as flying cover for the North Sea Fleet. He became part of the Saint Pol Seaplane Defence Flight, which formed on 30 June 1917. Graham had his first two victories at this time, destroying a German seaplane on 19 June while piloting a Sopwith Baby, and another while piloting a Sopwith Pup on 12 August 1917. His unit morphed into No. 13 Squadron RNAS and then No. 213 Squadron RAF of which he took command in May 1918. In August 1918 he took command of the newly formed No. 233 Squadron RAF which had a Fighter Defence Flight of Camels at RAF Walmer under the command of Captain W. M. Alexander, another Flight (491) at Dover (Guston Road)and the Seaplane flight (407) Dover, Marine Parade. On the outbreak of the Second World War, Graham was an Air Commodore on the staff at the headquarters of Fighter Command.