Botley Oxford: Osprey 2007. Quarto glossy card covers. Colour illustrations b&w photos. Ink owner name at front else fine. . First printing. Softcover. Osprey Paperback
Botley Oxford: Osprey 2007. Second printing. Quarto glossy card covers. Colour illustrations b&w photos. Ink owner name at front else fine. . Softcover. Osprey Paperback
Botley Oxford: Osprey 2007. Quarto glossy card covers. Colour illustrations b&w photos. Ink owner name at front else fine. First printing. Softcover. Osprey Paperback
Botley Oxford: Osprey 2008. Second printing. Quarto glossy card covers. Colour illustrations b&w photos. Ink owner name at front else fine. . Softcover. Osprey Paperback
New York: Eastern Air Lines 1948. Quarto. pp 24. stapled in card covers. Printed in blue and black. Illustrated with photos. Laid in is an 8 page octavo stapled booklet headed "April 4 1949. Comments on Air Subsidy and Competition". Facsimile signatures of Eddie Rickenbacker President. Ex library with sticker to upper inner corner of front cover and blind stamp to first leaf of each booklet; no other library marks. Staples rusty leaving marks; VG otherwise. The company made $2346871 or 98 cents a share for 1948. Note: lighter parcel any default postage rate may be reduced. Softcover. Eastern Air Lines Paperback
Toronto: Village Book Store Press. 1973. Blue boards. 10 248 2 pp. Yellowing to page edges else fine in fine jacket no owner names. A novel about a Canadian heavy bomber squadron based in Yorkshire part of the RCAF's Six Bomber Group of R.A.F. Bomber Command set in March 1945. Second novel of the noted modernist Canadian poet who was there. Whiteman A26a2. Edition of 1000 copies. First Edition. Hardcover. Octavo. Village Book Store Press.
Boston: Little Brown 1942. Octavo blue cloth. Vertical crease to front free endpaper yellowing to page edges VG otherwise no owner names. Price-clipped jacket has short tears rubbing slight spine sunning good. "Probably the first novel to deal with air power in action in the Second World War." - from the jacket of the UK edition. Australian author's first novel published at age 23. First US edition. Hardcover. Little, Brown
Ottawa: Author 2003. Quarto card covers. Photos. Reproductions of old typescript newsletters. Ink annotations in top margin of title page and just a few scattered through text; three inch slit to front cover neatly repaired on black side; nice otherwise. Softcover. Very Good. Author Paperback
England: R.A.F. 1941. Number 1 Nov. 1 1941 to number 11 March 21 1942. The first 11 issues. Quarto stapled in pale blue paper covers 36 pages per issue. Illustrations. No. 1 has tan damp stains to upper margins throughout and down the fore margin of the rear cover; no. 3 has a light tan damp stain to upper outer corner of front cover and first few leaves; no. 5 has nibbling to upper outer corners of front cover and early leaves; no. 6 has nibbling and light tan stain to upper inner corner of front cover and early leaves; no. 7 has only very small holes to front cover light tan stain to upper outer corners; no. 8 has a small chip to upper inner corner of front cover; no. b10 has tan damp stains to upper and fore margins of text with pronounced tan stain to outer front cover and small holes to upper outer corner; the issues are otherwise VG clean and tight no owner names. Note: 1.5 kg parcel extra shipping will be required. . Softcover. (R.A.F.) Paperback
London: John Murray 1980. Blue boards. pp viii 310 plates. Fine in fine jacket. Henshaw raced his Percival Mew Gull G-AEXF winning the King's Cup in 1938. He then flew it sold to Cape Town and back to England in 1939 estabishing several solo records that still stand. This is the story of his aviation adventures. First printing. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. Octavo. John Murray
Toronto: CANAV Books 1984. Bllue boards. 480 pp numerous photos illustrations and maps in text appendices and indices at rear. Bit of wear at spine ends else a fine copy no owner names. Dust jacket has small tears and chips at spine ends crease to lower inner corner of rear panel VG otherwise. 2.5 kg parcel. First printing. Hardcover. Quarto. CANAV Books
London: Collins 1963. Octavo blue cloth endpaper maps. pp 384 plates. Fine copy no owner names. Dust jacket has some wear at head of spine and a one inch creased tear on front panel VG otherwise. British military aviation during World War I. . First edition. Hardcover. Collins
Kirkland WA: Battery Corporal Willis S. Cole Military Museum 1998. Blue boards gilt pictorial endpapers. pp 4 viii 288 4. Photos and illustrations in text. Fine copy. Dust jacket has short tears to front and rear panel VG otherwise. #93 of an edition of 2000 signed by Carol L. Cole. Story of the 9 Nov. 1944 crash in Northern France of the American B-17G bomber and how the author discovered the grave of the four man crew 47 years later. Note: 1.5 kg parcel extra shipping may be required. Signed by Author. First edition. Hardcover. Fine/Very Good. Quarto. Battery Corporal Willis S. Cole Military Museum
London: Collins 1965. Blue boards. Bit of yellowing to page edges small ink name on front free endpaper else fine. Price-clipped dust jacket has a chip across head of spine with loss of small part of "T" VG bright example otherwise. WWII aviation novel about the men of American Transport Command who flew supplies over the Himalayas from Assam to China. . First UK edition. Hardcover. Collins
London: Hamish Hamilton 1968. Volume 2 only of 9. Octavo dark blue cloth. pp xx 508 13 folding colour maps 3 folding charts. Indexed. Very nearly fine jacketless copy no owner names. Facimile reprint of the original 1928 edition. Note: 1.5 kg parcel extra shipping may be required. First of this edition. Hardcover. Fine. Hamish Hamilton
New York: Viking 1930. Second printing same month as first. Blue cloth stamped in silver pp xvi 389 3 plates and maps one folding; drawings in text. Spine and margins of covers sunned; tidy ink name on front free endpaper; yellowing to page edges; VG clean tight and unworn otherwise. The dust jacket is poor - lacking the bottom two inches and half an inch at head; corner chips to panels; narrow chips along inner margin of front panel; internally repaired with rice paper; still the front panel looks not too bad. Translated from the journals and diaries found on White Island in the summer of 1930. Includes 12 photos taken by the party which were successfully developed after surviving the ice for 33 years. The three men attempted a polar conquest in the baloon The Eagle in 1897 but the party was lost. 1.5 kg parcel. Hardcover. Tall octavo. Viking
Aldershot England: Gale & Polden 1927. Blue cloth printed in black. pp xii 147. A fine copy. With ink signature inside front cover of "Colonel P.E. Leclerc MM ED". Brigadier Pierre Edouard Leclerc CBE MM ED 1893-1982 served in WWI with the engineers and the infantry winning the Military Medal for bravery and a battlefield commission. Between the wars he rose to command Le Regiment de Joliette and eventurally an entire Militia Brigade. As one of a very few francophones who had completed the Militia Staff Course he was selected as brigadier of what was intended to be an all-Quebec brigade. He was a popular divisional commander but had to be sent home in 1941 for health reasons. He later was promoted to Major General and command of the 7th Canadian Division becoming the first francophone general to command a division in the Canadian Army. First edition. Hardcover. Octavo. Gale & Polden
New York: The Macmillan Company 1942. Air-Age Education Series. 4 fold-out maps. 868 pp. Light foxing on the endpapers. Red cloth. Corners lightly bumped. VG. The Macmillan Company hardcover
New York: Harcourt Brace 1950. Grey cloth. Spine is lightly age-darkened and with a 1/8 inch tear at head; endpapers and page edges lightly yellowed; else fine. Price-clipped dust jacket has shallow chips to bit darkened spine with a small hole near centre of spin e; skinned spot to rear flap; VG otherwise. A World War II aviation novel no doubt autobiographical. The hero a Jew is a tail gunner in a B-24 over Italy. The author was an aerial gunner in the 15th Air Force and won the Air Medal four times. "The first war novel to picture air combat from the enlisted men's point of view."- jacket flap. Of further interest is the fact that Falstein accused novelist Joseph Heller of plagiarizing parts of this book in writing CATCH-22. First printing. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. Octavo. Harcourt, Brace
New York: Putnam's 1930. Third printing December 1930 first was Nov. 1930. Tall octavo hardcover blue cloth endpaper photos. xvi 422 pp. Photos and maps inserted including two folding maps at rear. Xmas 1930 ink gift inscription to blank recto of frontispiece po rtrait quite minor rubbing to blue top page edges else a fine and bright copy. Price-clipped dust jacket has large chip tears to head of spine with loss of some lettering smaller chips to foot of spine rubbing to flap folds; yellowing to white portion of slightly sunned spine; in all just good but still presentable in appearance. Note: 1.5 kg parcel extra shipping will be required. . Hardcover. Putnam's
Stittsville Ontario: Canada's Wings 1981. Second edition first was in 1979. Blue cloth pictorial endpapers. xiv 490 pp. Numerous photos on glossy paper inserted but included in the pagination. Ink inscription to front free endpaper minute rubbing to spine tips corner crease to one leaf else fine in fine jacket. Author's account as his years with the RCAF in World War II and his tour with 214 Squadron in Bomber Command. Note: 1.5 kg parcel extra postage may be required. Hardcover. Very Good/Fine. Octavo. Canada's Wings
No place Ottawa: Author 1963. Oblong quarto 27.5 x 34.5 cm red cloth. 2 blank 104 2 blank pp. Line drawings throughout. Printed signatures cover the front pastedown and there is an inserted tissue overlay with the corresponding names rendered in type. Rear free endpaper used as the index the rear pastedown is printed and there is a tissue overlay with the printed signatures of winners of the Trans-Canada Trophy. Vertical creases to the tissue sheet at front small name label to the blank first leaf else fine. The dust jacket has small chips and tears to edges; three inch split to front flap fold; generally VG otherwise. "This book portrays the common and better known types of aircraft flown by Canadian military pilot during more than 50 years of war and peace." Text in English and French. Note: 1.5 kg parcel extra postage may be required. Hardcover. Author
London: Faber 1934. Black cloth. xvi 352 pp. Library discard with call numers to lower spine book plate and small ink marks to endpapers slight evidence of removed pouch at rear; 1/4 inch tear to head of spine; else a VG clean tight and unworn jacketless copy. Groves was formerly Director of Flying Operations at the Air Ministry and British Air Representative at the Peace Conference following WWI. He issues a warning to Britain to keep her air defenses up. First Edition. Hardcover. Octavo. Faber
New York: Knopf 1943. Variant first issue binding. Octavo pp viii 173. Blue cloth front cover decorated in blind spine in gilt red topstain. Light rubbing to spine tips; small light spot to top; endpapers tanned with inner margins browned from binding materials; ink inscription to front free endpaper; near fine o/w. Price-clipped jacket has rubbed chips to tips to spine affecting part of two letters; spine lightly age-darkened lightly rubbed to folds; small chips to outer corners; rubbing to flap folds; rear panel tanned with small chip to top edge; blank corner torn from rear flap; good but still respectable example. The first of the "Flying Officer X" books commissioned by the British government. 21 pieces about the RAF plus a glossary of RAF slang. The book was previously published in a shorter version in 1942 in the UK as THE GREATEST PEOPLE IN THE WORLD thus the US edition is the fuller text. First US edition. Hardcover. Knopf
Winnipeg: Historical & Scientific Society of Manitoba 1959. Oversize paperback Very good. 70pp. Biography of Hugh J. MacDonald. Contributors include Roy Brown The Origin and Growth of Western Canadian Aviation William Douglas Winnipeg Parks Leonard F. Earl The Hudson Bay Railway George P. MacLeod Sir Hugh John MacDonald A.M. Pratt Early Manitoba Rural Newspapers. Locale: . Series: Manitoba Historical Society Series III 14. Manitoba Aviation Newspapers Railways. Historical & Scientific Society of Manitoba Paperback
Calgary: Canada's Aviation Hall of Fame 1974 1st edition. Oblong 4to paper covers Very good. 92pp. Plastic comb binding. Portraits. Illustrations by Irma Coucill. Transportation Aviation History--Canada Canada's Aviation Hall of Fame Hall of Fame. Canada's Aviation Hall of Fame Paperback
London: Octopus 0-7064-0879-9 1978. 4to Very good in very good dust jacket. 253pp. Illustrated endpapers frontispiece black and white and color photographs black and white and color illustrations diagrams index. Contributors include Basil Arkell Vertical Flight Cliff Barnett Sporting Aviation Hugh Field General Aviation Kenneth W. Gatland Beyond Planet Earth Bill Gunston War in the Air Clive Hart From Myth to Reality Mike Hirst Air Navigation Andrew Hofton From Principles to Practice John Stroud Airports John Stroud Mature Growth John Stroud The Pioneers John Stroud The Turbine Era. Transportation Airports Ballooning Bomber Aircraft Civil Aviation Fighter Aircraft Gliders Kites Military Aviation Rocketry and Space Travel. Octopus Hardcover
Swindon: Centre for Air Power Studies 2013. Unread in fine condition. INcludes - father of the royal air force birth of british military aviation pre-war developements developement of air power in world war 1 formation of the toyal air force the independent force the royal ait forve post world war 1. First Edition. Paperback. Fine. Centre for Air Power Studies Paperback
London: Air Ministry A collection of 9 pilot's notes issued between 1944 and 1955. Books are in varying conditions from very good to poor. Each has updates pasted in and have the p/o name written on the front - flt.lt Freeborn who was a pilot during the second world war and after. One booklet contains a document signed by Major F.J Britton stating that he waves any responsibility the RAF might have if he is injured while being transported by flt. lt Freeborn in the Shackleton M.R. MK 1. A really fabulous collection of working documents. Pleae contact for further details and images. Unknown. Paperback. Good. Air Ministry Paperback
Aviation Supplies & Academics Inc. Used - Good. Shows some signs of wear and may have some markings on the inside. Aviation Supplies & Academics, Inc unknown
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