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THE HAWK The Journal of the Royal Air Force Staff Colleges.

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.
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Hindenburg. An Illustrated History. Paintings by Ken Marschall.

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...
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By Air With an introduction by the Most Hon. The Marquess of Londonderry, Secretary of state for Air. With 88 Illustrations. SIGNED.

By: BRITTAIN, SIR HARRY:

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.
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Aviation An Historical Survey from its origins to the end of World War II. Science Museum. SIGNED.

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.
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Wings In The West A History of the first Fifty Years of the Royal Aero Club of Western Australia. Signed Collector’s Limited Numbered Edition.

By: GILES, Robert Owen:

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.
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No Longer An Island. Britain & the Wright Brothers 1902-1909.

By: GOLLIN, ALFRED:

Price: £4.00

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...
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Lindbergh, Flight's Enigmatic Hero Foreword by Erik Lindbergh.

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.
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The Romance of Ballooning. The Story of the Early Aeronauts.

By: JOBE, J.(ed):

Price: £20.00

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...
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Dorset Flight. The Complete History.

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.
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Bader’s Last Fight. An In-Depth Investigation of a Great WWll Mystery.

By: SAUNDERS, Andy:

Price: £15.00

Publisher: London. Grub Street. 2007 1st.:

Seller ID: 84767

7.0 x 10.0 inches. In dark green cloth covers with gilt to spine. With illustrated dustwrapper. In near fine condition in very good dustwrapper. (D/W. Not price clipped). A very clean and tight copy. 160pp. With b/w and colour photographs and maps. In 1941 Douglas Bader was shot down, but by who? The author develops his hypothesis that it was a ‘Friendly Fire’ incident and provides evidence to back it up.
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50 Years of Aviation Art

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.
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