Books - "history"
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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
Motorbike Memories: Extracts from On Two Wheels
Quarto, brown boards, pp 1583-1840, illus, VG+ (some light foxing to edges) in d/w VG+ (light fading to spine, v slight bruising to spine extrems)
PUBLISHER: Orbis Publishing / Godfrey Cave Assoc 1984
KEYWORDS: motorbikes motorcycles history racing motorcycling motorcyclists riders Surtees Bert Le Vack Isle of Man Douglas Norton Scott Sunbeam sidecar racing racers tracks bikes
Main Trunk: Portrait of a Railway
A Celebration of 100 Years of North Island Railway History
Imperial octavo, black cloth boards with silver lettering to spine, illus prelims, 152pp, illus, VG+ in d/w, nr fine
PUBLISHER: Grantham House / Ontrack NZ Railways Corp 2008
KEYWORDS: Christine Johnson Ruth Larsen Kevin ramshaw New Zealand North Island main trunk railway train transport history
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
Generally Tramping: A Story of Change within the Tararua Tramping Club 1919-1994
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: Tararua Tramping Club (nd)
KEYWORDS: specials New Zealand sport recreation Tararua Tramping Club history ski-ing climbing cycling kayaking huts tracks
Tararua Tramping Club 1986 No.39
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: Tararua Tramping Club 1986
KEYWORDS: specials New Zealand sport recreation Tararua Tramping Club history ski-ing climbing cycling kayaking huts tracks
Fighting with the Soviets: The Failure of Operation Frantic 1944-1945
First edition, super octavo, black cloth boards with white lettering to spine, xi + 284pp, illus, nr fine, in d/w, nr fine
PUBLISHER: University of Kansas Press 1997
KEYWORDS: first edition Mark J Conversino Second World War Two German-Soviet Russian military history Operation Frantic Ukraine American bombers
Beloved African
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: Gary Allen 2000
KEYWORDS: specials Jill Baker biography John Hammond Nancy Hammond history education educators pedagogy zimbabwe africa
British Transport: An Economic Survey From The Seventeenth Century To The Twentieth
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: Leicester University Press 1969
KEYWORDS: specials first edition H J Dyos D H Aldcroft transport britain history traffic technology maps illustrated reference survey
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
Social Welfare In New Zealand
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 cost.
PUBLISHER: William Heinemann 1913
KEYWORDS: specials Hugh H Lusk welfare sociology politics economics new zealand history