Books - "aviation"
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Birdflight as the Basis of Aviation
A Contribution Towards a System of Aviation
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
First Flight
The Untold Story of the Wright Brothers
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
Patrick Y. Alexander 1867 - 1943
Patron and Pioneer of Aeronautics
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
Sir George Cayley
The Inventor of the Aeroplane
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
Bloody April
Slaughter in the skies over Arras, 1917
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
Flying
The Golden Years: A Pictorial Anthology
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
The Smithsonian Book of Flight
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
Kitty Hawk to Concorde
Jane's 100 Significant Aircraft
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
The Air Force Museum
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
Twelve Seconds to the Moon
A Story of the Wright Brothers
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
The First, the Fastest and the Famous
A Cavalcade of Croydon Airport Events and Celebrities
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
Turbulent Years - A Commercial Pilot's Story
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
The Courage of the Early Morning
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
A Real Good War
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
New Zealand Aviation Yarns
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
Air of Battle
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
'Helicopter' Pioneering with Igor Sikorsky based on a Personal Account by William E Hunt
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
Air of Battle
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
Aviation: A Historical Survey from its Origins to the end of World War II (Two)
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
Smithy: The Kingsford-Smith Story
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