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$25.00
xx175pol207397

Dowding and Headquarters Fighter Command


FLINT, PETER

Super octavo hardcover (VG+) in d/w (VG+); all our specials have minimal description to keep listing them viable. They are at least reading copies, complete and in reasonable condition, but usually secondhand; frequently they are superior examples. Ordering more than one book may reduce your overall postage costs.

PUBLISHER: Airlife 1996

KEYWORDS: military history battle of Britain aerial warfare combat aviation raf royal air force ww2 second 2nd world war two ii 2

$35.00
xx175pol207398

Automatic Flight Control


PALLETT, E H J

Super octavo hardcover (VG+) in d/w (VG); all our specials have minimal description to keep listing them viable. They are at least reading copies, complete and in reasonable condition, but usually secondhand; frequently they are superior examples. Ordering more than one book may reduce your overall postage costs.

PUBLISHER: Granada Publishing 1979

KEYWORDS: aviation flight automatic

$27.50
xx175pol207399

For Pilots' Eyes Only: Confessions of a Pan Am Veteran


WILSON, NED

Super octavo hardcover (VG+) in d/w (VG+); all our specials have minimal description to keep listing them viable. They are at least reading copies, complete and in reasonable condition, but usually secondhand; frequently they are superior examples. Ordering more than one book may reduce your overall postage costs.

PUBLISHER: Paladwr Press 1993

KEYWORDS: aviation flight pilots Pan Am Ned Wilson autobiography

$24.50
xx175pol207400

Fighter Pilot's Heaven: Flight Testing the Early Jets


LOPEZ, DONALD S & BORMAN, FRANK (Fore)

FIRST EDITION, super octavo hardcover (VG+) in d/w (VG+); all our specials have minimal description to keep listing them viable. They are at least reading copies, complete and in reasonable condition, but usually secondhand; frequently they are superior examples. Ordering more than one book may reduce your overall postage costs.

PUBLISHER: Airlife Publishing 1995

KEYWORDS: first editions military history aviation test pilots early jets

$20.00
xx175pol207401

Amelia Earhart: A Biography


RICH, DORIS L & YEAGER, JEANA (Fore)

FIRST EDITION, super octavo hardcover (VG+) in d/w (VG+); all our specials have minimal description to keep listing them viable. They are at least reading copies, complete and in reasonable condition, but usually secondhand; frequently they are superior examples. Ordering more than one book may reduce your overall postage costs.

PUBLISHER: Airlife Publishing 1989

KEYWORDS: first editions aviators aviation pilots Amelia Earhart history biography biographies memoir

$19.50
xx178pol207773

NATO: Air Power Album


HORSEMAN, MARTIN & CALVERT, DENIS J

Super 8vo hardcover (VG) in d/w (VG); all our specials have minimal description to keep listing them viable. They are at least reading copies, complete and in reasonable condition, but usually secondhand; frequently they are superior examples. Ordering more than one book will reduce your overall postage costs

PUBLISHER: Ian Allan 1980

KEYWORDS: NATO warfare military aviation aircraft plane fighter

$40.00
1y48a/41

The Merlin in Perspective - the Combat Years


HARVEY-BAILEY, ALEC

Octavo, illus light card covers, white lettering to spine & covers, 204pp, folding table to rear, illus/photos, VG+ (light creasing/curling to spine & cover edges, light chafing & soiling to covers, light tanning & foxing to covers)

PUBLISHER: Rolls-Royce Heritage Trust 1995

KEYWORDS: military history aviation aerial combat rolls-royce engines merlin merlins ww2 second 2nd world war two ii 2 fighter planes

$50.00
w14a/27

Alone in the Sky


BATTEN, JEAN & WILLIAMS, L R (Drawings)

SIGNED, INSCRIBED & DATED ON TIPPED IN PLATE, octavo, blue heavy boards, gilt lettering to spine, unpaginated prelims, 190pp, illus/photos, VG+ (light bruising to extrems) in d/w, VG+ (light creasing to edges, light fading to spine, minor tanning)

PUBLISHER: Technical Books / Airlife Publishing 1979

KEYWORDS: New Zealand Zealanders aviation history aviators Jean Batten autobiography autobiographies memoir signed

$175.00
1y33b/15

With the 6th Airborne Division in Normandy


GALE, Lieutenant-General R N

Octavo, blue heavy boards, gilt lettering to spine, frontispiece, xv + 160pp, illus, folding maps, VG (light bruising & moderate fading to board edges/extrems, light tanning & foxing to page edges & eps, occasional soiling & foxing to pages- v sporadic) in d/w, G+ (heavy creasing & v heavy closed tearing to edges with some minor loss, moderate chafing & soiling)

PUBLISHER: Sampson Low, Marston & Co 1948

KEYWORDS: 6th airborne division military history aviation aerial combat warfare Normandy Lieutenant General R N Gale

$20.00
xx185pol207949

The Hardest Victory: RAF Bomber Command in the Second World War


RICHARDS, DENIS

FIRST EDITION, super octavo hardcover (VG+) in d/w (VG); all our specials have minimal description to keep listing them viable. They are at least reading copies, complete and in reasonable condition, but usually secondhand; frequently they are superior examples. Ordering more than one book may reduce your overall postage costs.

PUBLISHER: John Curtis / Hodder & Stoughton 1994

KEYWORDS: military history British armed forces aviation aerial warfare combat raf royal air force bomber command ww2 second 2nd world war two ii 2 first editions

$22.50
xx185pol207972

A Nation of Fliers: German Aviation and the Popular Imagination


FRITZSCHE, PETER

Ex-library, super octavo softcover (VG-); all our specials have minimal description to keep listing them viable. They are at least reading copies, complete and in reasonable condition, but usually secondhand; frequently they are superior examples. Ordering more than one book may reduce your overall postage costs.

PUBLISHER: Harvard University Press 1992

KEYWORDS: German aviation history 20th twentieth century

$45.00
1y88b/4

Airship Navigator: One Man's Part in the British Airship Tragedy 1916-1930


JOHNSTON, E A

Super octavo, grey heavy boards, silver gilt lettering to spine, 205pp, illus/photos, VG+ (sl bruising & discolouration to board edges, sl tanning to page edges, sl foxing to prelims) in d/w, VG+ (light creasing to edges, light fading to spine, sl chafing)

PUBLISHER: Skyline Publishing 1994

KEYWORDS: aviation disasters airships early 20th twentieth century history r101 Ernest L Johnston

$75.00
1y88b/21

Human Being Pilot: Human Factors for Aviation Professionals


ROBSON, DAVID

Quarto, illus heavy boards, white lettering to spine & boards, xvi + 446pp, illus/photos, VG+ (sl bruising & scuffing to spine & board extrems, 2cm closed tear to base of title page, prev. bookseller's label to rear board)

PUBLISHER: Aviation Theory Centre 2017

KEYWORDS: aviation pilots pilot guides human error flight flying theory

$100.00
1y88b/22

Report of the R101 Inquiry


N/A

Ex-library, octavo, blue stiffened boards, black lettering to spine & boards, frontispiece, 129pp, illus, folding charts to rear, VG (usual library markings, light scuffing & tanning to board edges, moderate scuffing to spine with 1cm loss to extrems, moderate tanning to page edges & eps)

PUBLISHER: His Majesty's Stationery Office 1931

KEYWORDS: history historical aviation disasters airships r101 inquiry inquiries reports investigations

$50.00
1y95b/1

An Engineering History of the ZRS-4/5 Fin Design


COOK, JEFFREY

Quarto, blue buckram boards, gilt letteringf to front board, vi + 85pp, illus, VG+ (sl chafing & scuffing to boards, light foxing to page edges & prelims/terminals)

PUBLISHER: Jeffrey Cook 1997

KEYWORDS: history aviation design engineering flight flying zrs-4/5

$90.00
1y95b/2

Airships vs Submarines


VAN TREUREN, RICHARD G

Quarto, illus light card covers, yellow lettering to spine & covers, 434pp, illus/photos, VG+ (light fading to spine, light scuffing to covers/edges, light soiling to page edges)

PUBLISHER: Atlantis Productions 2009

KEYWORDS: military weapons weaponry aviation marine navy naval airships submarines history engineering

$150.00
1y95b/3

R100 in Canada


COUNTRYMAN, BARRY

VINYL RECORD LOOSELY ENCLOSED, quarto, blue heavy boards, gilt lettering to spine & front board, marbled/patterned eps frontispiece, 128pp, illus/photos, VG+ (sl rubbing to extrems, light soiling to boards, light tanning to page edges) in d/w, VG (light to moderate creasing & chipping/closed tearing to edges, light chafing & soiling)

PUBLISHER: The Boston Mills Press 1982

KEYWORDS: airships r-100 r100 aviation history Canada flight engineering design

$45.00
1y95b/4

From Frigates to Flat-Tops: The Story of the Life and Achievement of Rear Admiral William Adger Moffett


ARPEE, EDWARD

LACKS D/W, imperial octavo, blue buckram boards, gilt lettering to spine, gilt illus/rule to spine & front board, illus eps & title page, xx + 276pp, illus/photos, VG+ (light bruising to extrems, sl tanning to spine, light tanning & foxing to page edges & eps, sl foxing to prelims & terminals)

PUBLISHER: Edward Arpee1953

KEYWORDS: military history biography biographies memoir Rear Admiral William Adger Moffett naval aviation US navy

$18.50
xx190pol208343

The DEC Schneider Trophy Race


BALDRY, DENNIS & JERRAM, MIKE

FIRST EDITION, super octavo softcover (VG); all our specials have minimal description to keep listing them viable. They are at least reading copies, complete and in reasonable condition, but usually secondhand; frequently they are superior examples. Ordering more than one book may reduce your overall postage costs.

PUBLISHER: Osprey Publishing 1988

KEYWORDS: first editions aviation flight dec schneider trophy race races

$45.00
2g9a/10

A Passion for Flight: New Zealand Aviation before the Great War Volume Three


The Joe Hammond Story and Military Beginnings 1910-1914

MARTYN, ERROL W

This vol. only. Signed by author. Super 8vo, pp. 208; illus. light card covers; photos, illus.; VG+ (light scuffing & soiling to covers; light bruising to edges & extrems; light tanning & soiling to pg edges; light soiling to prelims & terminals; sticker peeled from front cover).

PUBLISHER: Volplane Press 2013

KEYWORDS: New Zealand military history First World War 1 WW WW1 WWI Air Force Royal Great aviation planes aircraft

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