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LOT 4070
2nd April 2025
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LOT 4070
SIGNED BOOKS. – Christopher SHORES and Clive WILLIAMS. Aces High, a Tribute to the Most Notable Fighter Pilots of the British and Commonwealth Forces in WWII. London: Grub Street, 1994. First edition, signed by 21 ‘Flying Aces’, 8vo (247 x 171mm.) Photographic illustrations. (Mild toning.) Original blue cloth, dust-jacket. Note: all original signatures signed to a mounted bookplate on the front-free endpaper. – And a further fourteen volumes related to WWII flying aces, all signed multiples times on ‘Vector Fine Arts’ mounted plates (including Ian Carter’s ‘Fighter Command 1939-45’, 2002, and Richard C. Smith’s ‘Al Deere’, 2003, and John Golley’s ‘John ‘Cat’s Eyes’ Cunningham’, 2000, and Jack Rae’s ‘Kiwi Spitfire Ace’, 2001, and Oliver Clutton-Brock’s ‘Footprints on the Sands of Time’, 2003, and Peter Brown’s ‘Honour Restored’, 2005, and Richard C. Smith’s ‘Second to None’, 2004, and Brian Kingcome’s ‘A Willingness to Die’, 1999, and Peter Townsend’s ‘Duel of Eagles’, 1991, and Christopher Shore’s ‘Aces High, vol. 2’, 1999, and Len Deighton’s ‘Battle of Britain’, 1980). Provenance: from the estate of the late David Sadler (15).
Estimate: £100 – £150
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