Auction Catalogue

29 June 2006

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Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Grand Connaught Rooms  61 - 65 Great Queen St  London  WC2B 5DA

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№ 1301

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29 June 2006

Hammer Price:
£430

A rare surviving copy of a limited edition War Relief Fund publication, containing essays entitled The Battle of Britain, by Sir Arthur Bryant, and The Few, by Edward Shanks, ‘Reprinted from the Daily Sketch of September 25, 27 and 28, 1944’, with ‘All Proceeds to the Daily Sketch War Relief Fund to Benefit All the Fighting Services’, No. 40 of a limited edition of 300, 32pp., the title pages signed by both Bryant and Shanks, and a mass of Battle of Britain and other R.A.F. pilots and personalities (approximately 100), among them legendary names such as Aitken, Bader, Brothers, Casson, Deere, Dowding, Drake, Dundas, Embry, Foxley-Norris, Gleave, Kent, Kingaby, etc., contained in outer protective paper cover inscribed to the original owner ‘Guy Edmiston’, contents good and most unusual £400-500