Books - "aviation"
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Air Facts and Problems
First edition, octavo, blue cloth boards with gilt lettering to spine, 255pp, VG- (some bruising to board edges & corners, heavy browning to eps, owner's name to fep, bookseller's stamp to front pastedown, moderate foxing, esp to page edges, front gutter loose)
PUBLISHER: John Murray 1927
KEYWORDS: first edition Lord Thomson military aviation history aeroplanes aircraft airships civil aviation transport routes air forces
Air Dates
A chronological survey of the principal events in the fields of military and civil aviation in Great Britain and abroad, beginning in 1783 with balloon ascents in Paris, and ending on 31 December 1956
First edition Hardcover super octavo (VG) in d/w (G) ownership signature of NZ aviation author Ian Mackersey ; 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: William Heinemann Ltd 1957
KEYWORDS: first edition specials L G S Payne aviation histroy chronology military civil aviation events eighteenth nineteenth twentieth century advances
Early Wings Over Africa - Mission Aviation Fellowship : First Operational Pilot in Africa
Super octavo, softcover (VG+): all our specials have minimal description to keep listing them viable. They are at least reading copies, com plete and in reasonable condition, but usually secondhand; frequently they are superior examples. Ordering more than one book will reduce your overall postage costs
PUBLISHER: Steve Stevens 2010
KEYWORDS: steve stevens aviation pilot africa mission aviation fellowship maf
Fly For Your Life: The Story of R. R. Stanford Tuck
FIRST EDITION, octavo, blue heavy boards, gilt lettering to spine, frontispiece, 367pp, illus/photos, VG (light discolouration to board edges, light tanning & foxing to page edges, moderate tanning & light foxing to eps, prev. owner's name in ink to ffep, moderate foxing to prelims & terminals) in d/w, VG (moderate creasing & chipping to edges, light scuffing & chafing with some sl surface loss)
PUBLISHER: Frederick Muller 1956
KEYWORDS: first edition aviation history R R Stanford Tuck autobiography biography aviation raf British armed forces ww2 second 2nd world war two 2
The Flying Training Manual: Pre-flight Briefings and Air Exercises
Student and Private Pilot
Quarto, glossy illus. light card covers, 14pp + 386 pp (irregular pagination starts over each chapter), illus, VG+ (mild rubbing to covers, prev bookseller's adhesive label to inside of front cover, occasional dog-eared page)
PUBLISHER: Aviation Theory Centre 1997
KEYWORDS: aviation aeronautics planes flying course pilot piloting training manual pre-flight briefings air exercises aviation theory centre
Aircraft Maintenance and Repair (Fifth Edition)
Quarto, illus light card covers, white lettering to spine, iv + 572pp, illus, VG (light creasing & curling with some bruising to spine & cover edges, light chafing & soiling to covers & spine, light tanning to page edgeslight cracking to gutter of pgs ii-iii)
PUBLISHER: Glencoe / Macmillan McGraw-Hill 1991
KEYWORDS: aircraft airplanes aeroplanes aviation maintenance repair engines construction aviation
THE HERO- CHARLES A. LINDBERGH AND THE AMERICAN DREAM
First edition 527pp ex libris (pockets and stamps) sl worn d/w, very good (sl bruised corners)
PUBLISHER: Doubleday and Co. New York 1959
KEYWORDS: Lindbergh Bio American Aviation
THE SKY MASTERS
First edition 224pp illust., ex libris (usual cancellation stamps, pockets etc.) very good (faint gum stains to free endpapers), d/w excellent in plastic
PUBLISHER: William Kimber London 1976
KEYWORDS: Aviation Airlines Flying Military
BRACKLES
memoirs of a pioneer of civil aviation
ex libris (usual cancel m'kings, pckt etc), 695pp, b&w photo illus, maps at ep's and throughout, v gd (head and tail spine sl bumped, sl sunnes spine, corners sl rounded, sl cocked, sl rubbed, sl loose spine)
PUBLISHER: brackley norfolk 1952
KEYWORDS: autobiography herbert brackles england aviation travel
THE FLOWER AND THE NETTLE
Diaries and Letters of Anne Morrow Lindbergh 1936-1939
Firts edition 605pp illust., ex libris (usual cancellation stamps, pockets etc.) very good (sl bruised corners, faint gum stains to free endpapers) d/w very good in plastic (light rubbing)
PUBLISHER: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich New York 1976
KEYWORDS: Lindbergh Bio Letters Lit Aviation
GREAT AIRMEN
First edition 270pp ex libris (usual cancellation stamps, pockets etc.) excellent in very good d/w (light rubbing, edgewear)
PUBLISHER: G. Bell and Sons London 1955
KEYWORDS: Aviation Airmen Bio History
Heroines of the Sky
First English edition 221pp ex libris (usual cancellation stamps, pockets etc.) very good (sl bruised corners) d/w rubbed (edgewear, corners and spine head and foot chipped), illust.
PUBLISHER: Frederick Muller Ltd London 1960
KEYWORDS: Aviation Women Bios Earhart Batten
A Thousand Springs
The Biography of a Marriage
Fifth edition 318pp ex libris (usual cancellation stamps, pockets etc.) very good (gum stains to free endpapers, rear flap of d/w cut and attached to ffep) d/w very good in plastic (rubbing, sunned spine), illust.
PUBLISHER: Paul S. Eriksson Inc. New York 1963
KEYWORDS: Chennault Bio China Military Aviation
Boyhood on the Upper Mississippi
a reminiscent letter
First edition 50pp ex libris (usual cancellation stamps, pockets, etc.) very good (illust. boards, rubbed, sl cocked), illust.
PUBLISHER: Minnesota Historical Society St. Paul 1972
KEYWORDS: Lindbergh Bio Mississippi America Aviation
Billy Mitchell
Founder of our Air Force and Prophet without Honor
Third edition 318pp ex libris (usual cancellation stamps, pockets etc.) very good (sl bruised corners) d/w worn (rubbed, minor tears at extremities)
PUBLISHER: E.P. Dutton and Co. New York 1942
KEYWORDS: Mitchell Bio Military Aviation America
Tornado
first edition 216pp ills.(some colour) F in F d/w
PUBLISHER: patrick stephens wellingborough 1986
KEYWORDS: military aviation transport
Warplanes of the Luftwaffe
first edition 254pp ills.(incl.col.) F in F d/w
PUBLISHER: aerospace publishing london 1994
KEYWORDS: military aviation transport
Air Corps
first edition 144pp ills.(incl.col.) VG+ (paper wrappers sl.sunned w.some v.minor stains,spine mod.sunned)
PUBLISHER: sentry books northridge 1970
KEYWORDS: military aviation transport
A History of the United States Air Force 1907-1957
first edition 277pp ills. VG (sl.rubbed and stained w.sl.bumps and minor wear to extrems.,prelims.sl.foxed,edges sl.soiled,sl.cocked) in VG d/w (sl.rubbed andstained w.some sl.sunning,sl.bumps to extrems.w.some internal foxing)
PUBLISHER: d.van nostrand princeton 1957
KEYWORDS: military aviation transport
U>S>Marine Corps Aviation 1912 to the present
first edition 310pp ills. F in NF d/w (sl.sunned)
PUBLISHER: nautical and aviation publ.annapolis 1983
KEYWORDS: military transport aviation