Books - "aviation"
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The Courage of the Early Morning
paperback, loosely enclosed notes of NZ aviation author Ian MacKersey (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: McClelland & Stewart 1967
KEYWORDS: specials william arthur bishop canada history biography billy bishop aviation pilots flight
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
New Zealand Aviation Yarns
ex library 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 cost
PUBLISHER: Grantham House 1994
KEYWORDS: specials new zealand aviation roy sinclair simon van der sluijs stories flight pilots
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
Richard Pearse: Pioneer Aviator
Oblong quarto 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 costs.
PUBLISHER: Museum of Transport & Richard Pearse Memorial Commmittee 1983
KEYWORDS: specials aviation aeronautical history aircraft industry aviators pilots Richard Pearse biography C Geoffrey Rodliffe New Zealand
Early Flight 1900-1911: Original Photographs from the Wright Brothers Personal Collection
Oblong quarto softcover (nr fine); 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: Landfall Press 1984
KEYWORDS: specials aviation aeronautical history aircraft pilots Ron Geibert Tucker Malishenko Orville Wright Wilbur Wright photography exhibition
Wright Brothers National Memorial Historic Resource Study January 1997
Quarto 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 costs.
PUBLISHER: US Department of Interior 1997
KEYWORDS: specials aviation aeronautical history aircraft pilots Orville Wright Wilbur Wright national memorial
Aircraft Archive Fighters of World War Two Volume 2
This volume only, quarto 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 costs.
PUBLISHER: Argus Books Ltd 1988
KEYWORDS: specials aviation aeronautical history aircraft World War Two fighters fighter planes
British Aircraft Corporation Lightning
Warpaint Series No.14
Quarto 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 costs.
PUBLISHER: Hall Park Books (1998?)
KEYWORDS: specials aviation aeronautical history aircraft Alan W Hall BAC British Aircraft Corporation warpaint Lightning pictorial reference
The First Fifteen Years; 1981-1996 A Fifteenth Anniversary History of Aviation Trail
A Continuation of the Story begun in The First Ten Years: 1981-1991
Quarto light card stapled wrapper (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: Aviation Trail 1996
KEYWORDS: specials Mary Ann Johnson Orville Wilbur Wright biography aviation history
A Time To Fly
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 cost.
PUBLISHER: Shepheard-Walwyn 1978
KEYWORDS: specials Alan Cobham autobiography aviation history
Words On Wings
softcover super octavo (nr fine); 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: HarperCollins 2004
KEYWORDS: specials Jim Hopkins aviation anthology new zealand history
The Mammoth Book of Fighter Pilots
Eyewitness accounts of air combat from the Red Baron to today's Top Guns
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: Carroll & Graf 2002
KEYWORDS: specials Jon E Lewis aviation history fighter pilots military
The Aeronauts
A History of Ballooning 1783-1903
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: Alan Sutton 1985
KEYWORDS: specials LTC Rolt aviation aerial aeronautical balloons ballooning history Lebaudy airship flight