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By: ( JOURNAL )
Price: £10.00
Publisher: (1952):
Seller ID: 55222
Tall 8vo. Soft blue paper covers with coat of arms in silver on front cover. Small tear in spine . Short note written in ink on front cover. Else very good Many photo. ills.; 84 pp./ adverts. 23 pp. View more info
By: ARCHBOLD, RICK:
Price: £18.00
Publisher: Weidenfeld and Nicolson. 1994 1st edition.:
Seller ID: 71780
Size 12.0 x 11.25 inches. In black cloth covers with silver to spine and front. With illustrated dustwrapper. Pictorial endpapers. In near fine condition with very good dustwrapper (dw; Not price clipped). A very clean and tight copy. 229pp. With b/w photographs, diagrams and maps. Colour illustrations, some double page. Chronicles the complete story of the great dirigibles from the pioneering efforts of Count Ferdinand von Zeppelin to the brief career of the Hindenburg`s little known sister ship, the Graf Zepplin II. The Hindenburg was truly a flying luxury liner, and her spectacular destruct... View more info
Price: £40.00
Publisher: London, Hutchinson & Co., 1933 (1st.ed.):
Seller ID: 79354
Hardback, approx 9 x 5.5 inches. Black cloth with gilt lettering to spine. In very good condition. Some minor rubbing and handling to cloth. Author’s dedicatory inscription to front endpaper “To Archie Weigall, and Prince of Chairmen, - and just as good a friend - with the Author’s very real regards. Dec. ‘33.” Some darkening to half-title page, mild foxing to pages throughout. Else a very good copy. Illustrated with 88 b&W photo plates. 294pp. Progress in the realm of aviation. View more info
By: GIBBS-SMITH, Charles Harvard:
Price: £50.00
Publisher: London, HMSO, 1970 1st:
Seller ID: 82821
Hardback, approx 10 x 6 inches. Black cloth with gilt lettering to blue spine label, gilt ‘Stork’ silhouette to front. In illustrated dustwrapper. In very good near fine condition with near fine dustwrapper (DW some minor rubbing to ends of spine, in protective sleeve, not price clipped.) Authors dedicatory inscription to endpaper “Robert Cooke, with kindest regards from the author, Charles Gibbs-Smith, 1971.” Else a very clean and tight copy. 316pp. Illustrated with 22 full page B&W plates profusely illustrated with photos and drawings, with folding tables. View more info
Price: £20.00
Publisher: Australia, Royal Aero Club of Western Australia, n.d. ca1970 Ltd. Numbered Edition 190/400.:
Seller ID: 81486
Hardback, approx 8.5 x 6 inches. Blue cloth with gilt lettering to spine. In illustrated dustwrapper. In very good near fine condition with near fine dustwrapper. Authors inscription and signature to endpaper “With compliments from the committee, Colin (Gosling?) R.O. Giles.” Else a very clean and tight copy. 284pp. Illustrated with B&W photo plates. View more info
By: GOLLIN, ALFRED:
Price: £5.00
Publisher: London: Heinemann.. 1984 1st edition.:
Seller ID: 62114
Tall 8vo. In grey cloth covers with gilt to spine. With illustrated dustwrapper. In very good condition with very good dustwrapper (dw; slightly rubbed along top edge. Price clipped). A clean and tight copy. 478pp. This massive work of research presents new information and a new analysis of the way in which the British people reacted to the first appearance of machines that could fly successfully in the air. Fear of an air attack of the British Isles occupied the minds of contemporaries from the beginning of the twentieth century. This account is based upon official British documents preserved... View more info
By: HARDESTY, Von:
Price: £10.00
Publisher: Harcourt / Tehabi Books, 2002:
Seller ID: 82680
Hardback, approx 10 x 10 inches. Cream cloth with silver lettering to spine. In glossy illustrated dustwrapper. In very good near fine condition. (DW near fine, some minor shelfwear, slight rubbing to edges.) Cloth clean, no penned inscriptions. Else a very clean and tight copy. 229pp. With many B&W photographs and colour illustrations. View more info
By: JOBE, J.(ed):
Price: £41.00
Publisher: Viking Press. 1971 1st edition.:
Seller ID: 71778
Size 10.25 x 12.25 inches. In light orange cloth covers with gilt to spine and front. Gilt vignette of ballooon to front. With illustrated dustwrapper. In near fine condition with very good dustwrapper (dw; spine slightly faded. Slightly rubbed and creased along edges. Handling marks. Not price clipped). Inscription to front endpaper blacked out.. Else a very clean and tight copy. 205pp. With b/w photographs and illustrations, maps inc one fold out and colour pictures tipped in. Collection of accounts and stories about the early years of ballooning, many with contemporary illustrations, includ... View more info
By: LEGG, RODNEY:
Price: £24.00
Publisher: Dorset Publishing Company. 2001 1st edition.:
Seller ID: 68452
Size 8.5 x 12.0 inches. In black cloth covers with gilt to spine and front. With illustrated dustwrapper. In near fine condition with very good dustwrapper (dw; slightly creased along top edge. Not price clipped). A very clean and tight copy. 144pp. With b/w photographs and colour illustrations. The history of flight in Dorset with alphabetical references and photographs. People, places and events. View more info
By: WOOTTON, Frank;
Price: £25.00
Publisher: David & Charles 1992 1st edition:
Seller ID: 76090
Large, oblong, 11.5 x 13 inches. Hardback in blue cloth covers withgilt to spine. In original glossy illustrated dust wrapper. In very good near fine condition with very good dustwrapper (DW faded at spine and along bottom edge.) Else an excellent copy. Full of full-page colour plates. Stunning collection of aircraft paintings by popular aviation artist. View more info