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$35.00
xx175pol207398

Automatic Flight Control


PALLETT, E H J

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

$27.50
xx175pol207399

For Pilots' Eyes Only: Confessions of a Pan Am Veteran


WILSON, NED

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

$24.50
xx175pol207400

Fighter Pilot's Heaven: Flight Testing the Early Jets


LOPEZ, DONALD S & BORMAN, FRANK (Fore)

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

$20.00
xx175pol207401

Amelia Earhart: A Biography


RICH, DORIS L & YEAGER, JEANA (Fore)

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

$19.50
xx178pol207773

NATO: Air Power Album


HORSEMAN, MARTIN & CALVERT, DENIS J

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

$40.00
1y48a/41

The Merlin in Perspective - the Combat Years


HARVEY-BAILEY, ALEC

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

$50.00
w14a/27

Alone in the Sky


BATTEN, JEAN & WILLIAMS, L R (Drawings)

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

$175.00
1y33b/15

With the 6th Airborne Division in Normandy


GALE, Lieutenant-General R N

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

$20.00
xx185pol207949

The Hardest Victory: RAF Bomber Command in the Second World War


RICHARDS, DENIS

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

$22.50
xx185pol207972

A Nation of Fliers: German Aviation and the Popular Imagination


FRITZSCHE, PETER

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

$45.00
1y88b/4

Airship Navigator: One Man's Part in the British Airship Tragedy 1916-1930


JOHNSTON, E A

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

$50.00
1y95b/1

An Engineering History of the ZRS-4/5 Fin Design


COOK, JEFFREY

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

$90.00
1y95b/2

Airships vs Submarines


VAN TREUREN, RICHARD G

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

$150.00
1y95b/3

R100 in Canada


COUNTRYMAN, BARRY

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

$45.00
1y95b/4

From Frigates to Flat-Tops: The Story of the Life and Achievement of Rear Admiral William Adger Moffett


ARPEE, EDWARD

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

$18.50
xx190pol208343

The DEC Schneider Trophy Race


BALDRY, DENNIS & JERRAM, MIKE

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

$45.00
2g9a/10

A Passion for Flight: New Zealand Aviation before the Great War Volume Three


The Joe Hammond Story and Military Beginnings 1910-1914

MARTYN, ERROL W

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

$60.00
ak1/20a/10

Views on Air Defence


GOLOVINE, Lieut.-General N N

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

$65.00
ak1/20a/13

The Third Route


SASSOON, The Right Honourable Sir PHILIP & WILDER, THORNTON (Intro)

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

$200.00
ak1/20a/26

Winged Mars: Volume I: The German Air Weapon - 1870-1914 / The Air Weapon 1914-1916 - Volume II of Winged Mars (2 Vol Set)


CUNEO, JOHN R

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

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