LORAINE, WINIFRED

Hardcover imperial 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 costs

PUBLISHER: Collins Publishers 1938

KEYWORDS: specials Winifred Loraine biography Robert Loraine aviation history

BERG, A. SCOTT

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 costs

PUBLISHER: Pan Books 1999

KEYWORDS: specials scott berg history charles lindbergh aviation biography

MACKERSEY, IAN

Octavo softcover (VG+) illus; 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: Warner Books 1999

KEYWORDS: specials ian mackersey jean battern aviation planes new zealand biography

WRIGHT, BISHOP MILTON

Quarto, black cloth boards with gilt lettering to spine & front board, frontispiece, xv + 852pp, illus, VG+ (v slight bowing to front board) in VG+ d/w (light creasing to lower edges)

PUBLISHER: Wright State University 1999

KEYWORDS: Bishop Milton Wright diary diaries journals autobiography Wilbur Orville Wright aviation history

ELLIOTT, DARYL MELVIN

Quarto, maroon cloth boards with gilt lettering to spine & front board, viii + 408pp, VG (heavily annotated in red ink by 'editor'?)

PUBLISHER: Authorised facsimile thesis reprint of the 1992 UMI PhD Dissertation 1999

KEYWORDS: Daryl Melvin Eilliott Bishop Milton Wright biography American aviation history religion Christianity

FREDETTE, RAYMOND H.

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 costs

PUBLISHER: Harvest Books 1976

KEYWORDS: specials Raymond H Fredette military history World War I Great War battle of Britain aviation

WORTLEY, ROTHESAY STUART

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 costs

PUBLISHER: Alan Sutton Publishing Limited 1982

KEYWORDS: specials Rothesay Stuart Wortley aviation history RAF

JONES, FLIGHT-LIEUT. IRA

hardback octavo, lacks d/w, first edition rebound with new e.p's, loosely enclosed notes of NZ aviation author Ian Mackersey

PUBLISHER: Ivor Nicholson & Watson, Ltd. 1934

KEYWORDS: specials aviation ian mackersey ira jones major mick mannock air war fighter britain biography

HART, PETER

hardback octavo with d/w (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 costs

PUBLISHER: Weidenfeld & Nicolson 2007

KEYWORDS: specials peter hart aviation flight pilots history ww1 soldiers

BICKERS, RICHARD TOWNSHEND

first edtion hardback octavo with d/w, some tears 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: Naval Institute Press 1996

KEYWORDS: specials richard townshend bickers von richthofen ww1 war pilots aviation germany

SAWARD, DUDLEY

ex library, fep coming loose, tanned pages, hardback octavo with plastic wrapped 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: Buchan & Enright Pubs., 1984

KEYWORDS: specials biography dudley saward arthur harris aviation ww2 britain

MORROW, JOHN H.

(with annotated loose paper slips of Ian Mackersey, NZ aviation author), imperial octavo, grey heavy card boards with gilt lettering to green cloth spinexx + 458pp, illus, VG- (heavy dampstaining to spine & through to eps) in d/w, VG- (heavy dampstaining to spine internally & externally). The dampstaining is the only fault.

PUBLISHER: Smithsonian Institute (1993??)

KEYWORDS: John H Morrow military aviation history aeroplanes fighter planes pilots World War I WWI technological air power France Germany England Italy Russia USA aviators

MACMILLAN, CAPTAIN NORMAN & BATTEN, JEAN

An historically significant Jean Batten ASSOCIATION COPY: dated, signed and inscribed by the AUTHOR in 1931 to VICTOR DOREE, a fellow pioneer WW1 Royal Air Corps pilot, who in 1932 bought JEAN BATTEN her famous 'Gipsy Moth' aeroplane. Thus, it is likely that this copy of this book was a deciding factor in determining that Jean Batten would fly a Gipsy Moth. From the library of Ian Mackersey, Batten's biographer. DESCRIPTION: Scarce in d/w. Small octavo, light blue cloth boards with dark blue lettering to front board & spine, 175pp, illus, VG (slight rubbing to spine extrems & board corners, light tanning to eps & page edges, 1cm tear with loss to lower corner half-title page,) in d/w, VG- (top 3cm portion of spine missing, bruising & nicks to lower spine extrem, creasing & nicks to rear upper edge & front lower edge, 1cm untidy tear to rear lower edge & to upper front/flap fold, some soiling)

PUBLISHER: Duckworth 1929

KEYWORDS: Captain Norman Macmillan Air Vice-Marshall Sir Sefton Brancker Victor Doree signed Association Copy aviation history aircraft flying pilot Jean Batten

MOHLER, STANLEY R. & JOHNSON, BOBBY H.

Warmly inscribed to NZ Aviation Author Ian Mackersey and signed by author, small quarto, illus white light card covers, vii + 127pp, illus, VG+ (v slight tanning & rubbing to covers)

PUBLISHER: Smithsonian Institution Press 1971

KEYWORDS: signed Stanley R Mohler Bobby H Johnson Wiley Post Winnie Mae aviation history pilot pioneer pressured flight aeronautical science

ELLIOTT, BRIAN A.

Imperial octavo, black boards with gilt lettering to spine, 253pp, illus, fine, in d/w, fine

PUBLISHER: Tempus Publishing 2000

KEYWORDS: Brian A Elliott Louis Bleriot aviation history aeronautics pilot pioneer flying biography

JAKAB, PETER L. & YOUNG, RICK (Eds)

Inscribed, dated & usigned by Editor Peter Jakab, first edition, super octavo, creamy green cloth boards with orange lettering to spine, xii + 316pp, illus, fine, in d/w, fine

PUBLISHER: Smithsonian Institute 2000

KEYWORDS: signed first edition Peter L Jakab Rick Young Wilbur Orville Wright aviation history pioneers articles speeches interviews letters aircraft flights aeronautics

LEAR, WILLIAM P.

Warmly inscribed, dated & Signed by author to NZ aviation author Ian Mackersey, super octavo, blue boards with gilt lettering to spine, 475pp, illus, nr fine, in d/w, nr fine

PUBLISHER: Addax Publishing 2000

KEYWORDS: signed William P Lear Jr Anthony W Levier aviation history biography pioneer pilot Lockheed air racing aerobatics Learjet LearFan test pilot

SMITH, ADRIAN

First edition, octavo, grey boards with silver lettering to spine, frontispiece, ii + 211pp, VG (v slight soiling to page fore-edges) in d/w, nr fine

PUBLISHER: Palgrave 2001

KEYWORDS: first edition Adrian Smith Mick Mannock biography aviation history fighter pilot World War One WWI

SWEETMAN, JOHN ET AL.

hardcover imperial octavo (NF) 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: Time Warner Books 2003

KEYWORDS: specials John Sweetman David Coward Gary Johnstone military history World War Two Second World War aviation Dambusters 617 squadron

BOTT, ALAN

hardcover 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 costs

PUBLISHER: Doubleday, Page & Co 1918

KEYWORDS: specials Captain Alan Bott memoirs flying ace Contact british flying officer aviation history autobiography