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Struggle for Take-Off
The British Airways Story
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: Coronet Books 1986
KEYWORDS: specials Duncan Campbell-Smith aviation history British Airways aircraft airlines
The Colony of New Zealand: Its History, Vicissitudes and Progress
First edition, octavo, black buckram boards with gilt lettering to spine, brown coated eps, large folding map, xii + 360pp, VG (heavy dampstaining patch to two-thirds of rear board, small nick to upper spine, light rubbing to board corners, bookseller's label to front pastedown, 2cm closed tear to one corner of folding map, some light tanning, lacks the two internal illustrations)
PUBLISHER: A Petherick & Co 1888
KEYWORDS: first edition New Zealand history geology agriculture industry Maori language colonisation Treaty
A Climber in New Zealand
Super octavo, fine green buckram boards with gilt lettering to spine & front board & blind rule to front board, frontispiece with tissue guard, xvii + 316pp, illus, VG (moderate bruising & fraying to spine extrems, heavy ding/crease to front board lower corner, light bruising & rubbing to other board corners, rubbing to rear board, board edges & spine sides, owner's name & date in ink to fep, moderate foxing throughout & to page edges (but not to photographs))
PUBLISHER: Edward Arnold 1914
KEYWORDS: Malcolm Ross autobiography New Zealand mountains mountaineering climbing geography history Mount Cook Aorangi
Auckland from the Air
Obong quarto, brown illus light card stapled wrappers with black lettering to front cover, gilt black & red illus to front cover, unpaginated but aprox 22pp, illus, VG- (damage to spine around staples, 3cm closed tear to upper spine extrem, creasing to cover corners, esp front lower corner, v light soiling & occasional stain spots)
PUBLISHER: The Sun Newspapers Ltd 1930
KEYWORDS: New Zealand Auckland pictorial aerial photographic history
Luftwaffe Colours Kampfflieger Volume Two
Bombers of the Luftwaffe July 1940 - December 1941
This volume only, large quarto, illus light card covers with yelllow & white lettering to black spine, printed eps, pp 97-192, illus, fine
PUBLISHER: Chevron / Ian Allan Publishing 2004
KEYWORDS: J Richard Smith Eddie J Creek aviation history bomber aircraft aeroplanes Luftwaffe colours camouflage
Sky High Irvin: The Story of a Parachute Pioneer
Foreword by Sir Douglas Bader
First edition, ex library, octavo 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 cost.
PUBLISHER: Robert Hale 1983
KEYWORDS: specials first edition Peter Hearn Douglas Bader Leslie Leroy Irvin parachuting aviation history aeronautical biography skydiving
The Life and Times of Sir Charles Kingsford Smith: An Illustrated Chronology
Quarto, black cloth boards with gilt lettering to spine, frontispiece, viii + 305pp, illus, nr fine, in d/w, nr fine
PUBLISHER: 1996
KEYWORDS: Edward P Wixted Charles Kingsford Smith pictorial biography aviation aeronautical history pilot airman Australian pioneering aviator
Au Temps de Clement Ader
TEXT IN FRENCH, super octavo 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 cost.
PUBLISHER: Teknea 1994
KEYWORDS: specials TEXT IN FRENCH Clement Ader General Pierre Lissarague aviation aeronautical history aeroplanes aircraft Rene Hirsch Paul Simonet Philippe Poisson-Quinton
The Published Writings of Wilbur and Orville Wright
First edition hardcover 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: Smithsonian Institution Press 2000
KEYWORDS: first edition specials Peter L Jakab Rick Young aviation history Wright brothers articles essays aircraft aeronautics aeonautical engineering
Wings Over France
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: Bailey Brothers & Swinfen Ltd 1974
KEYWORDS: specials Harold E Hartney Stanley M Ulanoff aviation history autobiography memoir Great War World War I
Dear Animated Bust
Letter to Lady Juliet Duff France 1915 - 1918
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: Michael Russell (Publishing) Ltd 1981
KEYWORDS: first edition specials Maurice Baring military history letters Great War World War I Western Front
Hunters and Gatherers
Volume 2: Property, Power and Ideology
Softcover super octavo (VG+) THIS VOLUME ONLY ; 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: Berg 1997
KEYWORDS: specials Tim Ingold David Riches James Woodburn social anthropology history hunters gatherers society societies values
Called Up
A National Service Scrapbook
Ex-library 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: Ian Allan Ltd 1980
KEYWORDS: specials George Forty military history British National Service pictorial
White Collars and Gumboots
A History of the Ministry of Agriculture and Fisheries 1892 - 1992
Softcover imperial 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: The Dunmore Press Limited 1992
KEYWORDS: specials Tony Nightingale New Zealand nonfiction history Ministryof Agriculture and Fisheries government politics
Courage and Air Warfare
The Allied Aircrew Experience in the Second World War
Softcover imperial 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: Frank Cass & Co. Ltd 1995
KEYWORDS: specials Mark K Wells military history aviation World War II Combined Bomber offensive psychology social anthropology aerial warfare
McIndoe's Army
The Story of the Guinea Pig Club and its Indomitable Members
Hardcover super octavo (NF) in 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 cost.
PUBLISHER: Grub Street 2001
KEYWORDS: specials Edward Bishop biography memoir Guinea Pig Cub burn victims aviation history Allied Airmen Second World War
Africa and the Victorians
The Official Mind of Imperialism
Ex library, 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: Macmillan & Co Ltd
KEYWORDS: first edition specials Ronald Robinson John Gallagher Alice Denny history Africa imperialism Victorian England expansion politics social commentary
The Biography of His Holiness Pope Pius XI
Ex-library Hardcover super 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 cost.
PUBLISHER: Albert E. Marriott Limited 1930
KEYWORDS: specials W Townsend L Townsend religion religious history biography Pope Pius XI
Brownsea Islander
hardback super octavo with 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: Poole Historical Trust 1978
KEYWORDS: specials poole history brownsea island travel jack battrick gail lawson
El Palau - De La Musica Catalana
hardback square quarto with 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: Triangle Postals 2003
KEYWORDS: specials catala josep carandell ricard pla pere vivas barcelona palau history buildings architecture sculpture art music concert hall spanish language