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$19.50
xxewf62575

Wilbur & Orville Wright: A Documentary Guide


RENSTROM, ARTHUR G.

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: Library of Congress 1982

KEYWORDS: specials Arthur G Renstrom Orville Wilbur Wright Brothers reference biography aviation aeronautical history flying pilots pioneers flight

$22.50
xxewf62580

Miracle at Kitty Hawk: The Letters of Wilbur & Orville Wright


KELLY, FRED C. (Ed)

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: Da Capo Press 1996

KEYWORDS: specials Fred C Kelly Orville Wilbur Wright Brothers letters correspondence aviation aeronautical history flight flying

$15.00
xxexa62612

Convicts and Commandants of Norfolk Island


1788 - 1855

HAZZARD, MARGARET

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: Margaret Hazzard 1978

KEYWORDS: specials Margaret Hazzard Australia history Norfolk Island penal colonies detention

$24.50
xxexa62614

First Flight


The Wright Brothers and the Invention of the Airplane

HEPPENHEIMER, T.A.

First edition hardcover imperial 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: John Wiley & Sons, Inc. 2003

KEYWORDS: first edition specials T A Heppenheimer aviation Wright brothers biography history planes aviators

$22.50
xxexa62616

A Century of Summer Shows


WATT, J.O.P.

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: Southland A. & P. Association 1966

KEYWORDS: speciasl J O P Watt New Zealand history A & P Show Southland

$15.00
xxexa62619

Southland Provincial History


1930 - 1955

W.D.F.F.

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: n/a

KEYWORDS: specials WDFF New Zealand South Island Southland provincial history

$27.50
xxexa62620

Dunedin Ambulance Division 1892 - 1967


A short history on the occasion of the Seventy-fifth Jubilee of the Dunedin Ambulance Division, St John Ambulance Brigade

ST JOHN AMBULANCE ASSOCIATION

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: St. John Ambulance Association 1967

KEYWORDS: specials St John Ambulance Association New Zealand South Island Otago Dunedin history

$20.00
xxexa62624

Hallucinogens


Cross-Cultural Perspectives

DE RIOS, MARLENE DOBKIN

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: Prism Press 1990

KEYWORDS: specials Marlene Dobkin de Rios hallucinogens mind altering plants history culture anthropology

$17.50
xxexa62626

A Brief History of Flying


From Myth to Space Travel

GIBBS-SMITH, C.H.

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: Her Majesty's Stationery Office 1967

KEYWORDS: specials C H Gibbs-Smith aviation history aircraft planes myth space travel invention

$17.50
xxexa62627

The World's First Aeroplane Flights (1903 - 1908)


And Earlier Attempts to Fly

GIBBS-SMITH, C.H.

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: Her Majesty's Stationery Office 1969

KEYWORDS: specials C H Gibbs-Smith aviation history aircraft planes aeroplanes invention

$17.50
xxexa62628

The Wright Brothers


A brief account of their work (1899 - 1911)

GIBBS-SMITH, C.H.

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: Her Majesty's Stationery Office 1967

KEYWORDS: specials C H Gibbs-Smith aviation history Wright Brothers biography aircraft planes aeroplanes invention

$17.50
xxexa62629

Leonardo da Vinci's Aeronautics


GIBBS-SMITH, C.H.

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: Her Majesty's Stationery Office 1967

KEYWORDS: specials C H Gibbs-Smith aviation history Leonardo da Vinci aeronautics biography aircraft aeroplanes invention

$15.00
xxexa62632

Aircrew


The Story of the Men Who Flew the Bombers

LEWIS, BRUCE

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 2000

KEYWORDS: specials Bruce Lewis autobiography memoir military history aviation Second World War WWII bombers

$22.50
xxexa62636

Studies in Words


LEWIS, C.S.

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: Cambridge University Press 196

KEYWORDS: specials C S Lewis languages English history of thought literature communication context meaning language

$12.50
xxexa62641

Struggle for Take-Off


The British Airways Story

CAMPBELL-SMITH, DUNCAN

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

$90.00
1w22a/31

The Colony of New Zealand: Its History, Vicissitudes and Progress


GISBORNE, WILLIAM

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

$295.00
1w22a/32

A Climber in New Zealand


ROSS, MALCOLM

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

$75.00
1w22a/34

Auckland from the Air


STEWART, FRANK (Photog)

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

$60.00
1w22a/36

Luftwaffe Colours Kampfflieger Volume Two


Bombers of the Luftwaffe July 1940 - December 1941

SMITH, J. RICHARD & CREEK, EDDIE J.

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

$12.50
xxhcaa62518

Sky High Irvin: The Story of a Parachute Pioneer


Foreword by Sir Douglas Bader

HEARN, PETER

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

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