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$85.00
1w22a/7

Air of Battle


FRY, WING COMMANDER WILLIAM M.

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

$100.00
1w22a/10

Motorbike Memories: Extracts from On Two Wheels


n/a

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

$33.50
1w22a/14

Main Trunk: Portrait of a Railway


A Celebration of 100 Years of North Island Railway History

JOHNSON, CHRISTINE & LARSEN, RUTH & RAMSHAW, KEVIN

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

$30.00
1w22a/18

Aviation: A Historical Survey from its Origins to the end of World War II (Two)


GIBBS-SMITH, CHARLES HARVARD

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

$40.00
1w22a/19

Smithy: The Kingsford-Smith Story


MCNALLY, WARD

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

$245.00
1w22a/40

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

MCFARLAND, MARVIN W. (Ed)

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

$38.50
xxbhc62447

Wings across the World: An Illustrated History of British Airways


PENROSE, HARALD

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

$13.50
xxbhc62450

Richard Pearse: Pioneer Aviator


RODLIFFE, C. GEOFFREY

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

$18.50
xxbhc62451

Early Flight 1900-1911: Original Photographs from the Wright Brothers Personal Collection


GEIBERT, RON & MALISHENKO, TUCKER (Eds)

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

$35.00
xxbhc62452

Wright Brothers National Memorial Historic Resource Study January 1997


CHAPMAN, WILLIAM R. & HANSON, JILL K.

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

$22.50
xxbhc62454

Aircraft Archive Fighters of World War Two Volume 2


n/a

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

$35.00
xxbhc62455

British Aircraft Corporation Lightning


Warpaint Series No.14

HALL, ALAN W.

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

$12.50
xxbhc62459

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

JOHNSON, MARY ANN

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

$40.00
xxbhc62462

Generally Tramping: A Story of Change within the Tararua Tramping Club 1919-1994


BURRELL, RAY (Ed)

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

$12.50
xxbhc62463

Tararua Tramping Club 1986 No.39


CHAMBERLAIN, GRAEME ET AL (Eds)

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

$45.00
1w10a/1

Fighting with the Soviets: The Failure of Operation Frantic 1944-1945


CONVERSINO, MARK J.

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

$14.50
xxbkb62467

Beloved African


BAKER, JILL

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

$37.50
xxbkb62468

British Transport: An Economic Survey From The Seventeenth Century To The Twentieth


DYOS, H. J & ALDCROFT, D. H.

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

$30.00
xxbkb62472

A Time To Fly


COBHAM, ALAN

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

$37.50
xxhai62478

Social Welfare In New Zealand


LUSK, HUGH H.

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

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