Books - "aviation"
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On Great White Wings
The Wright Brothers and the Race for Flight
Hardcover square imperial 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 cost
PUBLISHER: Hyperion 2001
KEYWORDS: specials Fred E C Culick Spencer Dunmore aviation Wright brothers history aircraft flight planes
Birdflight as the Basis of Aviation
A Contribution Towards a System of Aviation
Softcover super 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 cost
PUBLISHER: Markwoski International Publishers 2000
KEYWORDS: specials Otto Lilienthal aviation history aircraft design engineering
First Flight
The Untold Story of the Wright Brothers
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 cost
PUBLISHER: George Allen & Unwin Ltd 1976
KEYWORDS: specials John Evangelist Walsh aviation history biography Wright brothers aircraft flying planes
Patrick Y. Alexander 1867 - 1943
Patron and Pioneer of Aeronautics
Softcover super 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 cost
PUBLISHER: Cross Manufacturing Co. Ltd 1984
KEYWORDS: specials Gordon Cullingham biography Patrick Young Alexander aviation aeronautics aeronautical engineering ballooning meteorology
Bloody April
Slaughter in the skies over Arras, 1917
Softcover octavo (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 cost
PUBLISHER: Cassell Military Paperbacks 2006
KEYWORDS: specials Peter Hart military history aviation aircraft World War I Great War Arras Bloody April aerial warfare
Flying
The Golden Years: A Pictorial Anthology
Hardcover small folio (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 cost
PUBLISHER: Tiger Books International PLC 1994
KEYWORDS: specials Rupert Prior aviation histoire pictorial anthology chronology
The Smithsonian Book of Flight
Hardcover quarto (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 cost
PUBLISHER: Bantam Books 1988
KEYWORDS: specials Walter J Boyne aviation history aircraft planes
Kitty Hawk to Concorde
Jane's 100 Significant Aircraft
Hardcover quarto (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 cost
PUBLISHER: Jane's All the World's Aircraft Publishing Company Limited 1970
KEYWORDS: specials H F King John W R Taylor aviation history aircraft aeronautical engineering
The Air Force Museum
Seventh revised edition softcover quarto (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 cost
PUBLISHER: Nick P. Apple and Gene Gurney 1999
KEYWORDS: specials Nick P Apple Gene Gurney aviation United States Air Force history museum aircraft planes pilots
Twelve Seconds to the Moon
A Story of the Wright Brothers
Hardcover quarto (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 cost
PUBLISHER: United States Air Force Museum Foundation, Inc. 1983
KEYWORDS: specials Rosamond Young Catharine Fitzgerald aviation history American aircraft Wright brothers pilots
The First, the Fastest and the Famous
A Cavalcade of Croydon Airport Events and Celebrities
Softcover oblong super 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 cost
PUBLISHER: Sutton Libraries and Arts Services 1985
KEYWORDS: specials Douglas Cluett aviation English history Croydon Airport
Turbulent Years - A Commercial Pilot's Story
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 will reduce your overall postage cost
PUBLISHER: Hazard Press 1991
KEYWORDS: specials aviation pilots brian waugh autobiography new zealand history
A Real Good War
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 cost
PUBLISHER: Cassell Military Paperbacks 2002
KEYWORDS: specials Sam Halpert literature military autobiographical novel aviation fiction Nazi Germany World War II setting
Air of Battle
Ex library, super octavo, blue boards with gilt lettering to spine, 194pp, illus, VG- (some staining to front board, 5cm closed tear to lower spine, small ding to upper spine & front board corner, label-removal damage & sellotape-residue stains to feps, child's scribble & drawings in ink to half-title verso & title pages, moderate browning to page edges) in d/w, VG- (bruising & soiling to spine extrems & edges, some tanning, sellotape residue staining)
PUBLISHER: William Kimber & Co 1974
KEYWORDS: Wing Commander William Fry First World War One WWI autobiography memoir air battle aviation history airmen Royal Flying Corps
'Helicopter' Pioneering with Igor Sikorsky based on a Personal Account by William E Hunt
Association copy with warm signed & dated inscription by author to NZ Aviation Author Ian Mackersey, imperial octavo, black cloth boards with gilt lettering to spine, 229pp, illus, nr fine, in d/w, VG+ (small stain to rear)
PUBLISHER: Airlife Publishing 1998
KEYWORDS: William E Hunt Igor Sikorsky helicopters aviation aeronautical history biography air transport engineering design
Air of Battle
First edition, super octavo, blue boards with gilt lettering to spine, 194pp, illus, VG+ (owner's name stamp to front pastedown, v slight tannning to eps) in d/w, VG (heavy tanning to flaps, 2cm untidy tears to upper spine sides repaired neatly with tape, v slight bruising to edges, fading to fore-edges, creasing to rear upper edge)
PUBLISHER: William Kimber 1974
KEYWORDS: first edition Wing Commander William M Fry First World War One WWI aviation history fighter pilots flying flight Royal Flying Corps
Aviation: A Historical Survey from its Origins to the end of World War II (Two)
Ex aviation library, super octavo, black buckram boards with gilt lettering in blue decorative panel to spine & gilt bird motif to front board, illus eps, frontispiece, xiv + 316pp, illus + several fold-out tables of take-offs & )flights, VG+ (bookseller's label to front paste-down, library label to fep, two stain spots to front board
PUBLISHER: Her Majesty's Stationery Office 1970
KEYWORDS: Charles Harvard Gibbs-Smith aviation aeronautics history aircraft aeroplanes
Smithy: The Kingsford-Smith Story
Ex library, lacks fep, association copy, ownership signature of Ian Mackersey, aviation biography of Kingsford-Smith, & his pencil notations to index & throughout & lengthy pencil note to rear ep. Octavo, blue boards with silver lettering to spine, 190pp, illus, VG- (sellotape residue stains to boards & eps, lacks fep, light tanning to eps, some foxing & tanning) in d/w, (price clipped, some tanning, moderate tape residue stains to edges)
PUBLISHER: Robert Hale 1966
KEYWORDS: Ward McNally Charles Kingsford-Smith biography aviation aeronautics history flying pilot
The Papers of Wilbur and Orville Wright including the Chanute-Wright Letters & Other Papers of Octave Chanute
Volume One 1899-1905; Volume Two 1906-1948
Two-volume set, super octavo, turquoise cloth boards with silver lettering & silver aviation motifs to spine & front boards, frontispiece, lv + 673pp + 2pp adverts (vol 1), xxvii + 677-1278pp + 2pp adverts (vol 2), illus, VG+ (v. slight soiling to boards)
PUBLISHER: Arno Press Reprint 1972
KEYWORDS: Marvin W McFarland Wilbur Wright Orville Wright Octave Chanute letters correspondence aviation history
Wings across the World: An Illustrated History of British Airways
First edition, quarto 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: Cassell 1980
KEYWORDS: specials first edition Harald Penrose British Airways aviation aeronautical pictorial history aircraft industry