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1955Best.-Nr. 22328Produced for Private Circulation Flight Refuelling Limited Tarrant Rushton 1955. 8vo. First Edition with full-page photograph and numerous diagrams in the text and large folding map; original blue cloth upper board lettered in gilt a near fine copy. WITH A LONG T.L.s FROM SIR ALAN COBHAM ON FLIGHT REFUELLING LTD STATIONERY TO V H RABY DEPUTY UNDER-SECRETARY OF STATE IN THE AIR MINISTRY. Cobham's detailed letter concludes 'The Report may be regarded as a supplement to Mr. Latimer-Needham's book 'Refuelling in Flight' which appeared in 1950. Together these two publications cover the whole history of research and development leading up to the adoption of flight refuelling on the V-class bombers'. With the separately printed Explanatory Note mounted on front free endpaper verso. Produced for Private Circulation, Flight Refuelling Limited, Tarrant Rushton, hardcover
1946Best.-Nr. 20956Air Ministry 1946. 8vo. Third Edition with diagrams in the text; original printed wrappers wire-stitched as issued covers very lightly dust-soiled else a very good bright clean copy. Publication Code: AP 2095. With Amendment List mounted on rear wrapper and several printed pasted at relevant positions in text. VERY SCARCE IN THIS CONDITION. Air Ministry, unknown
Best.-Nr. SONG1859786332Informa Law from Routledge 1999-12-01. 1. hardcover. Used: Good. 6.14x1.38x9.21. Buy with confidence. Excellent Customer Service & Return policy. Informa Law from Routledge hardcover
Best.-Nr. SONG184797211XThe Crowood Press UK 2010-10-27. First Edition. hardcover. Used: Good. 8.60x0.50x11.00. Buy with confidence. Excellent Customer Service & Return policy. The Crowood Press UK hardcover
Best.-Nr. SONG1861268300Brand: Crowood Press 2009-12-15. First Edition. hardcover. Used: Good. 9.00x0.75x11.50. Buy with confidence. Excellent Customer Service & Return policy. Brand: Crowood Press hardcover
Best.-Nr. SONG0813810868Brand: Iowa State University Press 0000-00-00. 1. hardcover. Used: Good. 5.50x1.00x8.50. Buy with confidence. Excellent Customer Service & Return policy. Brand: Iowa State University Press hardcover
1997Best.-Nr. 17763Sutton Stroud 1997-98. 2 vols. 8vo. First Edition with very numerous photographs many full-page throughout; original black cloth gilt backs a near fine set in unclipped dustwrapper. Superb assembly of photographs collected from German official and personal archives. The majority appear here for the first time. Sutton, [Stroud, hardcover
2006Best.-Nr. 16461Grub Street 2006. 8vo. Second Impression with 84 plates on 16 and full-page map in the text; black cloth gilt back a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper. SIGNED BY DUKE ON SMALL BOOKPLATE MOUNTED ON TITLE. First published in 1995. Grub Street, hardcover
1938Best.-Nr. 11467New York: Harcourt Brace. Very Good in Very Good- dust jacket. First Edition. Hardcover. DJ with light chipping along edges and with one tiny hole. Tanning to endpapers and edges; The story of the journey across the Atlantic from Africa to Brazil undertaken by the Lindberghs in December 1933. Stated first edition; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 275 pages . 1938. Harcourt Brace hardcover
1951Best.-Nr. 15620Evans Brothers 1951. 8vo. First Edition with portrait frontispiece and 17 plates on 12; handsomely bound in full navy crushed morocco sides with gilt frame border back with raised bands ruled in gilt second and third compartments lettered and ruled in gilt all other compartments tooled in gilt with propeller motif hand-made endpapers a most attractive copy ideal as a gift or for presentation. The moving story of RAF Bomber Command's most famous squadron and Operation CHASTISE arguably the most famous air exploit of WWII. This book formed the basis of Michael Anderson's classic feature film 1954 of the same name starring Michael Redgrave Richard Todd and Nigel Stock. The stirring 'Dam Busters March' written by Eric Coates as the theme to the movie was almost immediately adopted as an official march of the Royal Air Force. Enser p.64; Mulholland & Jordan B121 Evans Brothers, hardcover
1929Best.-Nr. 11172New York: D. Appleton & Company. Very Good. First Edition. Hardcover. Spine slightly cocked; A polar expedition gone wrong; B&W Photographs; 8vo; 208 pages . 1929. D. Appleton & Company hardcover
1996Best.-Nr. 14389Privately Printed Sussex 1996. 4to. First Edition with numerous photographs throughout; original pictorial wrappers a very good clean copy. Includes operations diary and list of personnel. [Privately Printed], Sussex, unknown
1942Best.-Nr. 13375Gollancz 1942. 8vo. Second Impression with a portrait frontispiece and 14 plates small neat signature on front free endpaper; original cloth backstrip lettered in blue a very good clean copy in unclipped dustwrapper the latter lightly age-soiled with small label scar on front panel and small nick at backstrip. Second impression before publication. Scarce especially in the dustwrapper. Enser p. 157 recording the first edition. Gollancz, hardcover
2014Best.-Nr. 12539After the Battle 2014. Oblong 4to. Revised Edition with very numerous photographs maps and diagrams in the text and pictorial endpapers; laminated boards a fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper. Revised version of the original edition of 2001. The first and immensely detailed photographic treatment from the German viewpoint. After the Battle, hardcover
2003Best.-Nr. 12769Grub Street 2003. 2 vols. 8vo. First Edition with many hundreds of photographs in the text and pictorial endpapers; cloth gilt backs a fine set in unclipped dustwrapper. The set comprises Vol. I: Formation to the end of 1940; Vol. II: 1941 to date. Already uncommon as a set in this condition. Grub Street, hardcover
1996Best.-Nr. 12115After the Battle Magazine 1996. 8vo. First Edition thus text in red blue and black; brown cloth upper board lettered in gilt gilt a fine copy. EDITION LIMITED TO 2500 NUMBERED COPIES THIS COPY NO. 152 WITH PRINTED CERTIFICATE OF AUTHENTICITY AND LIMITATION MOUNTED ON FRONT FREE ENDPAPER. Robert Roland Stanford Tuck needs no introduction here; as one of the of the leading fighter aces of the Battle of Britain he achieved 29 confirmed victories. This high quality facsimile covers the period October 1935 initial training in Avro Tutors to 1954 as Chief Test Pilot on the EEC Canberra. [After the Battle Magazine], hardcover
1997Best.-Nr. 11267Air-Britain Historians Tunbridge Wells 1997. Sm. folio First Edition with very numerous photographs in the text; original laminated pictorial boards a fine copy. The standard reference giving exhaustive detail on all units extensive glossary of terms and index of place-names. EXTREMELY SCARCE. [Air-Britain (Historians), Tunbridge Wells, hardcover
1943Best.-Nr. 11323Dorset Wings for Victory Campaign Committee Dorchester 1943. 8vo. First and Sole Edition with numerous photographs in the text small signature on front wrapper; original photographic wrappers wire-stitched as issued covers very lightly age-soiled and with one short teat at margin of front wrapper else a very good clean copy. In 1942 the National Savings Committees for Dorset united in a drive to replace by war savings the cruiser 'Dorsetshire'; £3000000 was raised in just over six months. Subsequently the Dorset Wings for Victory campaign set out to achieve a similar success for the RAF. Creasey was nominated co-Hon. Publicity Secretary from his address at 'Cattistock' Fernlea Avenue Ferndown Wimborne Dorset together with T.F.E. Jakeman of Weymouth. The pamphlet is sub-titled 'Vivid true Stories of epic Flights by the RAF'. A fragile item and a rare survival. Dorset Wings for Victory Campaign Committee, [Dorchester, unknown
1955Best.-Nr. 9651Robert Hale 1955-57-58. 3 vols. 8vo. First Edition with 8 plates and a full-page map in the text first and third volumes with light offsetting from fold-ins to free endpapers; tops lightly age-soiled else a very good firm set in unclipped dustwrapper the wrappers lightly frayed at heads and tails of backstrips and wrapper of third volume creased at joints. Moxon's celebrated 'Monsoon' trilogy is a key work in the history of the war in the air in Burma. It tells the story of a young Hurricane pilot during and after the war. The first volume is autobiographical and provides a first-hand illustrated account of service with 5 Squadron RAF in the Imphal Valley from 1944 onwards. The second and third volumes through based on the author's experiences are closer to fiction; the second giving an action-packed account of the war to the Japanese surrender the third dealing with the reintegration of the survivors into peacetime civilian life. The complete trilogy is scarce especially in the dustwrappers. Graham & Cole U45 V59 V58 respectively. Robert Hale, unknown
1951Best.-Nr. 8236Evans 1951. 8vo. Second Impression with portrait frontispiece and 17 plates on 12 rear free endpaper very lightly spotted; navy cloth gilt back small fade mark at extreme head of backstrip else a very good bright clean copy in price-clipped dustwrapper the latter with minor loss just affecting title at head of backstrip frayed at tail of backstrip and mildly browned at rear panel. Published in the same year as the first impression. The moving story of RAF Bomber Command's most famous squadron and arguably the most famous air exploit of WWII. The stirring 'Dam Busters March' written by Eric Coates as the theme to the movie was almost immediately adopted as the official march of the Royal Air Force. Increasingly difficult to find in this condition. Enser p.64; Mulholland & Jordan B121 recording the first edition. Evans, hardcover
1933Best.-Nr. 8303John Hamilton n.d. 1933. 8vo. First English Edition with a frontispiece 27 plates and a folding map neat contemporary signature on front free endpaper some mild spotting mainly marginal but rather heavier on title throughout; cloth gilt back a very good tight copy. With 3pp publisher's advertisements at end. Very scarce.Classic account of German pilot's flying experiences in WWI.Scarce. John Hamilton, hardcover
1928Best.-Nr. 3068Buenos Aires: El Bibliofilo. Very Good-. Flexible cloth. Some rubbing to extremities and with some foxing to endpapers. Minor occasional foxing; In Spanish. Profusely illustrated with photographures and with beautiful fold-out map in color at rear; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 291 pages . 1928. El Bibliofilo hardcover
1946Best.-Nr. 236021946. German aeronautical research on swept-back airscrew blade design 1946 documenting the Allied technical intelligence program that captured translated and rapidly disseminated advanced German aviation research immediately following the Second World War. Prepared from work conducted at the British Ministry of Aircraft Production M.A.P. Völkenrode and originating in research begun under the renowned aerodynamicist Albert Betz at Göttingen the report examines swept-back propeller blade tips operating at extremely high rotational speeds as German engineers sought solutions to compressibility effects encountered as aircraft approached the speed of sound. R. Seiferth's Investigation on an Airscrew with Swept Back Blade Tips at High Tip Speed a draft translation dated April 1 1946 issued by the Joint Intelligence Objectives Agency as CGD 500 on 22 June 1946. Reports and Translations. 10 × 8 inches. Six leaves stapled. The title page identifies the work as a translation prepared at M.A.P. Völkenrode while the printed JIOA wrapper states "This Interrogation Report contains Information from a German Scientist exploited by United States." The report summarizes experimental investigations into swept-back airscrew geometry at high tip speeds discussing aerodynamic efficiency compressibility effects and comparative testing. The front wrapper bears the manuscript notation "500 Seiferth" and the ownership stamp of the California Institute of Technology Aeronautics Library preserving the provenance of this copy within one of America's leading postwar centers of aeronautical research. Light handling wear; original staples intact; library stamp and manuscript notation to front wrapper. Overall good condition. Although focused on propeller aerodynamics rather than the turbojet itself the report examines many of the same high-speed airflow problems that confronted the emerging jet age including shock-wave formation compressibility aerodynamic efficiency and transonic flight. It presents experimental investigations into swept-back airscrew geometry at high tip speeds and comparative testing within the broader body of German aerodynamic research that proved invaluable to Allied aircraft designers developing the first generation of practical jet aircraft turboprop engines and high-speed military aviation after 1945. By the end of the war Germany possessed the world's most advanced operational jet aircraft including the Messerschmitt Me 262 fighter and Arado Ar 234 jet bomber while German scientists were conducting extensive research into swept wings high-speed aerodynamics and propulsion concepts that were years ahead of most Allied programs. Recognizing the extraordinary military and scientific value of this work Allied technical intelligence teams immediately secured German laboratories interrogated leading engineers and translated thousands of reports before the information could be lost. Issued by the Joint Intelligence Objectives Agency as CGD 500 on 22 June 1946 Seiferth's report formed part of that remarkable series of intelligence publications that transferred German wartime aeronautical knowledge into American and British research establishments accelerating the development of the first generation of postwar jet-powered aircraft. unknown
Best.-Nr. 80804Two brochures and two letters from The Crawford Motor and Airplane Manufactory an early Seal Beach California designer and builder of high-powered motors hydro-airplanes airplanes hydroplanes and propellers for pleasure and commercial purposes. The letters handwritten and signed by founder William Crawford in 1928 concern the potential order of a small airplane by Raymond Garrett of Key Drug Co. in Ponca City Oklahoma. One of the brochures is a four-page pamphlet 6" x 9" about the Crawford Monoplane Model A-1. The second piece measures 11" x 17" and is printed on both sides. It includes an article by Crawford titled "Simple Aerodynamics and the Aeroplane" a price list of propellers and a schematic for wing designs. Crawford traces its roots back to 1912 when Harvey Crawford William's brother placed an entry in the Third International Air Meeting at Dominguez Hills. A year later the brothers established the Crawford Flying School at Sunset Field near Los Angeles. Four years after that the company expanded its interest to designing aircraft and became known as the Crawford Airplane and Motor Manufactory which designed several powered aircraft including the Crawford Monoplane Model A-1 released in 1928. They manufactured the parts and consumers assembled the airplane. According to Aeorpedia.com 600 kit planes were sold to interested builders. In later years the brothers designed a series of powered gliders. Crawford continued to offer a flight school and the local airfield called Crawford Field and later Seal Beach Airport operated until the 1940s. It is now part of the Naval Weapons Station Seal Beach and residential housing. The brochures and letters are a little toned with folds for mailing; otherwise very good. Scarce. unknown
1988Best.-Nr. G0866770003I5N00Aviation Book Co 1988. Paperback. Acceptable. Readable copy. Pages may have considerable notes/highlighting. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More Spend Less.Dust jacket quality is not guaranteed. Aviation Book Co paperback
