Books - "aviation"
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No 43 'Fighting Cocks' Squadron
Softcover imperial octavo (VG), first edition; 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.
KEYWORDS: military aviation aviation elite units andy saunders specials
Air Law; For Private Pilots and Commercial Pilots
an Aviation Theory Centre Training Manual 5
this volume only, quarto, illus light card covers, spiral bound, paginated by chapters, illus, VG+ (v light wear)
KEYWORDS: aviation pilot air law pilots private commercial w. john c wagtendonk walter wagtendonk new zealand aviation theory centre training manual
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)
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
KEYWORDS: first edition specials L G S Payne aviation histroy chronology military civil aviation events eighteenth nineteenth twentieth century advances
These are Facts: The Autobiography of Air Marshal Sir Richard Williams KBE, CB, DSO
Imperial octavo hardcover (nr fine) 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.
KEYWORDS: specials Sir Richard Williams autobiography air marshall aviator aviation history World War One WWI pilot Australian Air Force RAAF Civil Aviation
Basic Aeronautical Knowledge (BAK)
Large quarto, illus light card covers, xxii + 414pp, illus, nr fine (slight fading to covers)
KEYWORDS: David Robson aeronautics aviation theory student pilot training education flying flight aviator aircraft VFR BAK GFPT Civil Aviation Authority
To Command The Sky: The Battle For Air Superiority Over Germany, 1942-1944
First edition. 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 costs.
KEYWORDS: Aviation airforce military Stephen L McFarland and Wesley Phillips Newton Smithsonian History of Aviation Series first edition
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)
KEYWORDS: Lindbergh Bio American Aviation
EDDIE RICKENBACKER
First edition 309pp ex libris (pockets and stamps) tatty d/w, very good (bruised corners, sl shaky spine), illust.
KEYWORDS: Rickenbacker Bio Aviation American WW11
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
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)
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)
KEYWORDS: Lindbergh Bio Letters Lit Aviation
ONE DAY AT KITTY HAWK
The untold story of the Wright Brothers
First edition 305pp illust., ex libris (usual cancellation stamps, pockets etc.) very good (faint gum stains to free endpapers) d/w very good in plastic (sunned spined)
KEYWORDS: Wright Brothers Bio Aviation
TEDDER
First edition 320pp ex libris (usual cancellation stamps, pockets etc.) good (sl bruised corners, lightly bumped spine head, faint discolouration to free endpapers, minor internal separation just appearing at hinges) in good d/w (rubbing and creasing, corners sl chipped, sunned spine w. chipped head)
KEYWORDS: Owen Tedder Bio Aviation Military Air Force WWII
GREAT AIRMEN
First edition 270pp ex libris (usual cancellation stamps, pockets etc.) excellent in very good d/w (light rubbing, edgewear)
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.
KEYWORDS: Aviation Women Bios Earhart Batten
Once upon a Thermal
First edition 152pp ex libris (usual cancellation stamps, pockets etc.) very good (lower corners sl bruised, gum stains to free endpapers) d/w excellent in plastic
KEYWORDS: Wolters Bio Gliders Aviation Sports
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.
KEYWORDS: Chennault Bio China Military Aviation
THE FIRST WAR IN THE AIR
First edition 192pp illust., ex libris (usual cancellation stamps, pockets etc.) cloth library rebind, good (sunned spine, internal separation at front hinge)
KEYWORDS: WWI 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.
KEYWORDS: Lindbergh Bio Mississippi America Aviation