Books - "aviation"
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Automatic Flight Control
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
For Pilots' Eyes Only: Confessions of a Pan Am Veteran
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
Fighter Pilot's Heaven: Flight Testing the Early Jets
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
Amelia Earhart: A Biography
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
NATO: Air Power Album
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
The Merlin in Perspective - the Combat Years
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
Alone in the Sky
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, light foxing to page edges) 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
With the 6th Airborne Division in Normandy
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
The Hardest Victory: RAF Bomber Command in the Second World War
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
A Nation of Fliers: German Aviation and the Popular Imagination
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
Airship Navigator: One Man's Part in the British Airship Tragedy 1916-1930
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
An Engineering History of the ZRS-4/5 Fin Design
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
Airships vs Submarines
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
R100 in Canada
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
From Frigates to Flat-Tops: The Story of the Life and Achievement of Rear Admiral William Adger Moffett
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
The DEC Schneider Trophy Race
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
A Passion for Flight: New Zealand Aviation before the Great War Volume Three
The Joe Hammond Story and Military Beginnings 1910-1914
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
Views on Air Defence
Ex-library, super octavo, blue buckram boards, black lettering & rule to spine & front board, unpaginated prelims + 100pp, illus, VG (usual library markings, moderate rubbing/scuffing & bruising to extrems, light chafing & soiling to boards, light tanning & foxing/sioling to page edges & eps)
PUBLISHER: Gale & Polden N/D (c.1938)
KEYWORDS: military history raf royal air force British armed forces aerial defence defense aviation warfare
The Third Route
Super octavo, red buckram boards, gilt lettering to spine & front board, to ppage edges stained blue, deckled page fore-edges & base, frontispiece, xv + 279pp, illus/photos, VG+ (light bruising to extrems, sl staining/discolouration to rear board edges, light tanning & foxing to page edges, light rubbing & tanning to front eps, light foxing to rear eps, occasional light cracking to gutters)
PUBLISHER: Doubleday, Doran & Company 1929
KEYWORDS: aviation history aircraft aeroplanes flight
Winged Mars: Volume I: The German Air Weapon - 1870-1914 / The Air Weapon 1914-1916 - Volume II of Winged Mars (2 Vol Set)
2 VOL SET, super octavo, vol 1- blue buckram boards with red lettering to spine & front board, vol 2- black buckram boards with gilt lettering to spine & front board, vol 1- unpaginated prelims + 338pp, vol 2- unpaginated prelims + 503pp, illus/maps, VG (light bruising to spines & extrems, light to moderate soiling to spines & boards, moderate tanning & light foxing to page edges, light tanning & foxing to eps) in d/w, VG-/G+ (heavy/v heavy creasing & chipping/tearing to edges, moderate chafing to spines, light to moderate soiling, prev. bookseller's sm label to front flap of vol 2)
PUBLISHER: Military Service Publishing Company 1942-47
KEYWORDS: military history aviation aircraft German luftwaffe fighter planes