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$24.50
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Birdflight as the Basis of Aviation


A Contribution Towards a System of Aviation

LILIENTHAL, OTTO

Softcover super octavo (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 cost

PUBLISHER: Markwoski International Publishers 2000

KEYWORDS: specials Otto Lilienthal aviation history aircraft design engineering

$22.50
xxewd62285

First Flight


The Untold Story of the Wright Brothers

WALSH, JOHN EVANGELIST

Hardcover super octavo (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 cost

PUBLISHER: George Allen & Unwin Ltd 1976

KEYWORDS: specials John Evangelist Walsh aviation history biography Wright brothers aircraft flying planes

$19.50
xxewd62309

Patrick Y. Alexander 1867 - 1943


Patron and Pioneer of Aeronautics

CULLINGHAM, GORDON

Softcover super octavo (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 cost

PUBLISHER: Cross Manufacturing Co. Ltd 1984

KEYWORDS: specials Gordon Cullingham biography Patrick Young Alexander aviation aeronautics aeronautical engineering ballooning meteorology

$27.50
xxewd62322

Sir George Cayley


The Inventor of the Aeroplane

PRITCHARD, J. LAURENCE

First edition Hardcover super octavo (VG+) lacks d/w ; 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 cost

PUBLISHER: Max Parrish and Co. Ltd 1961

KEYWORDS: first edition specials J Laurence Pritchard biography Sir George Cayley aviation history inventor aeoplane aircraft

$16.50
xxewd62323

Bloody April


Slaughter in the skies over Arras, 1917

HART, PETER

Softcover octavo (NF) ; 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 cost

PUBLISHER: Cassell Military Paperbacks 2006

KEYWORDS: specials Peter Hart military history aviation aircraft World War I Great War Arras Bloody April aerial warfare

$19.50
xxewe62351

Flying


The Golden Years: A Pictorial Anthology

PRIOR, RUPERT (ED.)

Hardcover small folio (VG+) lacks d/w ; 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 cost

PUBLISHER: Tiger Books International PLC 1994

KEYWORDS: specials Rupert Prior aviation histoire pictorial anthology chronology

$25.00
xxewe62352

The Smithsonian Book of Flight


BOYNE, WALTER J.

Hardcover quarto (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 cost

PUBLISHER: Bantam Books 1988

KEYWORDS: specials Walter J Boyne aviation history aircraft planes

$14.50
xxewe62353

Kitty Hawk to Concorde


Jane's 100 Significant Aircraft

KING, H.F. & TAYLOR, JOHN W.R.

Hardcover quarto (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 cost

PUBLISHER: Jane's All the World's Aircraft Publishing Company Limited 1970

KEYWORDS: specials H F King John W R Taylor aviation history aircraft aeronautical engineering

$22.50
xxewe62354

The Air Force Museum


APPLE, NICK P. & GURNEY, GENE

Seventh revised edition softcover quarto (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 cost

PUBLISHER: Nick P. Apple and Gene Gurney 1999

KEYWORDS: specials Nick P Apple Gene Gurney aviation United States Air Force history museum aircraft planes pilots

$22.50
xxewe62355

Twelve Seconds to the Moon


A Story of the Wright Brothers

YOUNG, ROSAMOND & FITZGERALD, CATHARINE

Hardcover quarto (VG+) lacks d/w ; 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 cost

PUBLISHER: United States Air Force Museum Foundation, Inc. 1983

KEYWORDS: specials Rosamond Young Catharine Fitzgerald aviation history American aircraft Wright brothers pilots

$17.50
xxewe62356

The First, the Fastest and the Famous


A Cavalcade of Croydon Airport Events and Celebrities

CLUETT, DOUGLAS (ED.)

Softcover oblong super octavo (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 cost

PUBLISHER: Sutton Libraries and Arts Services 1985

KEYWORDS: specials Douglas Cluett aviation English history Croydon Airport

$14.00
xxewe62372

Turbulent Years - A Commercial Pilot's Story


WAUGH, BRIAN

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 will reduce your overall postage cost

PUBLISHER: Hazard Press 1991

KEYWORDS: specials aviation pilots brian waugh autobiography new zealand history

$15.00
xxewe62373

The Courage of the Early Morning


BISHOP, WILLIAM ARTHUR

paperback, loosely enclosed notes of NZ aviation author Ian MacKersey (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 cost

PUBLISHER: McClelland & Stewart 1967

KEYWORDS: specials william arthur bishop canada history biography billy bishop aviation pilots flight

$10.00
xxewd62303

A Real Good War


HALPAERT, SAM

Softcover octavo (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 cost

PUBLISHER: Cassell Military Paperbacks 2002

KEYWORDS: specials Sam Halpert literature military autobiographical novel aviation fiction Nazi Germany World War II setting

$10.00
xxewe62405

New Zealand Aviation Yarns


SINCLAIR, ROY

ex library paperback (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 cost

PUBLISHER: Grantham House 1994

KEYWORDS: specials new zealand aviation roy sinclair simon van der sluijs stories flight pilots

$65.00
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Air of Battle


FRY, WING COMMANDER WILLIAM

Ex library, super octavo, blue boards with gilt lettering to spine, 194pp, illus, VG- (some staining to front board, 5cm closed tear to lower spine, small ding to upper spine & front board corner, label-removal damage & sellotape-residue stains to feps, child's scribble & drawings in ink to half-title verso & title pages, moderate browning to page edges) in d/w, VG- (bruising & soiling to spine extrems & edges, some tanning, sellotape residue staining)

PUBLISHER: William Kimber & Co 1974

KEYWORDS: Wing Commander William Fry First World War One WWI autobiography memoir air battle aviation history airmen Royal Flying Corps

$90.00
1w22a/6

'Helicopter' Pioneering with Igor Sikorsky based on a Personal Account by William E Hunt


HUNT, WILLIAM E.

Association copy with warm signed & dated inscription by author to NZ Aviation Author Ian Mackersey, imperial octavo, black cloth boards with gilt lettering to spine, 229pp, illus, nr fine, in d/w, VG+ (small stain to rear)

PUBLISHER: Airlife Publishing 1998

KEYWORDS: William E Hunt Igor Sikorsky helicopters aviation aeronautical history biography air transport engineering design

$85.00
1w22a/7

Air of Battle


FRY, WING COMMANDER WILLIAM M.

First edition, super octavo, blue boards with gilt lettering to spine, 194pp, illus, VG+ (owner's name stamp to front pastedown, v slight tannning to eps) in d/w, VG (heavy tanning to flaps, 2cm untidy tears to upper spine sides repaired neatly with tape, v slight bruising to edges, fading to fore-edges, creasing to rear upper edge)

PUBLISHER: William Kimber 1974

KEYWORDS: first edition Wing Commander William M Fry First World War One WWI aviation history fighter pilots flying flight Royal Flying Corps

$30.00
1w22a/18

Aviation: A Historical Survey from its Origins to the end of World War II (Two)


GIBBS-SMITH, CHARLES HARVARD

Ex aviation library, super octavo, black buckram boards with gilt lettering in blue decorative panel to spine & gilt bird motif to front board, illus eps, frontispiece, xiv + 316pp, illus + several fold-out tables of take-offs & )flights, VG+ (bookseller's label to front paste-down, library label to fep, two stain spots to front board

PUBLISHER: Her Majesty's Stationery Office 1970

KEYWORDS: Charles Harvard Gibbs-Smith aviation aeronautics history aircraft aeroplanes

$40.00
1w22a/19

Smithy: The Kingsford-Smith Story


MCNALLY, WARD

Ex library, lacks fep, association copy, ownership signature of Ian Mackersey, aviation biography of Kingsford-Smith, & his pencil notations to index & throughout & lengthy pencil note to rear ep. Octavo, blue boards with silver lettering to spine, 190pp, illus, VG- (sellotape residue stains to boards & eps, lacks fep, light tanning to eps, some foxing & tanning) in d/w, (price clipped, some tanning, moderate tape residue stains to edges)

PUBLISHER: Robert Hale 1966

KEYWORDS: Ward McNally Charles Kingsford-Smith biography aviation aeronautics history flying pilot

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