London: Grub Street, (2004), First Edition. octavo, black boards in pictorial dust jacket. (224)pp. Grub Street, With 16 pages of illustrations. As August drew to a close in 1916, the German Air Service was reeling almost helplessly towards inevitable defeat on the Somme. The Artillery and Feldflieger Abteilungen, the Kampfstaffeln..... More
(Oxford, UK): Osprey Publishing, (2007), First Edition. octavo, pictorial wrappers. 96pp. Osprey Publishing, The Royal Aircraft Factory SE5/5a was, along with the Sopwith Camel, the major British fighting scout in WWI. Almost 100 SE 5/5a aces, among them Albert Ball, James McCudden, Hank Burden, are profiled in this volume. In..... More
London: Grub Street, (2001), First Edition. octavo, blue boards in pictorial dust jacket. x, 182pp. Grub Street, Illustrated with photographs. Often called the "Fokker Scourge", this is the story of such German aces as Boelcke, Immelmann, Wintgens, Parschau, Mulzer and others who became the first heroes to the German public..... More
(Oxford): Osprey, (2003), First Edition. quarto, pictorial heavy paper wrappers. 96pp. Osprey, Extensively illustrated with photographs and full color profiles. Responsible for destroying 1294 enemy aircraft between June 1917 and November 1918, the Camel was the most successful fighting scout employed by either side in terms of the sheer number..... More
(Oxford): Osprey, (2005), First Edition. quarto, printed heavy paper wrappers. 96pp. Osprey, Osprey Aircraft of the Aces No. 67. The Sopwith Pup was the forerunner of the hugely successful Sopwith Camel, which duly became the most successful fighter of World War 1. The first proper British fighting scout, the first..... More
(Oxford): Osprey, (2004), First Edition. octavo, printed heavy paper wrappers. 96pp. Osprey, Osprey Aircraft of the Aces No. 62. The inspiration behind the iconic Fokker Dr I, Sopwith's Triplane was built as a replacement for the company's hugely successful, and much loved, Pup. Thanks to its massive wing area, the..... More
London: William Kimber, (1974), First Edition. octavo, blue boards in dust jacket. 194 pp. William Kimber, Illustrated with photographs and map. William Fry was a fighter pilot on the Western Front from 1915 to 1918. His vivid memoirs cover the Battle of the Somme and Paschendaele, painting a portrait of..... More
(Barnsley): Pen & Sword, (2009), First Edition. octavo, black boards in pictorial dust jacket. xii, (164)pp. Pen & Sword, Our vision of aviation in the First World War is dominated by images of gallant fighter pilots duelling with each other high over the Western Front. But it was the threat..... More
Dayton, OH: Wright State University Press, (1992), First Edition. octavo, blue cloth in pictorial dust jacket. (xii), 209pp., (iii), pp. Wright State University Press, Edited by David K. Vaughan. Gates served as a ferry pilot at Orly before being assigned to the 185th Aero Squadron and then a short period..... More
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1918, First Edition. octavo, blue cloth. (xxvi), 330pp. Charles Scribner's Sons, Edited, with an introduction by Grace Ellery Channing. Prefatory note by John Jay Chapman. With a frontispiece portrait and photographic plates. Edmond Genet was born in Ossining, New York. He joined the Foreign Legion..... More
Garden City: Sun Dial Press, 1927, Sun Dial Press edition. octavo, red cloth stamped in black, in pictorial dust jacket. 383 pp. Sun Dial Press, Top edge stained red as issued. Drawings by Clayton Knight. The first complete account of Richthofen's war flying record containing translated copies of letters, official..... More
(Yeovilton): Friends of the Fleet Air Arm Museum, 1979, First Edition. octavo, white boards in pictorial dust jacket. 128pp. Friends of the Fleet Air Arm Museum, Illustrated with photographs. The story of Rex Warneford who brought down the first German Zeppelin in aerial combat. A very fine copy, jacket not..... More
[Richmond VA]: John W. Stuart Gilchrist. Privately Printed, 1968, First Edition. octavo, red printed wrappers. (vi), 146pp. John W. Stuart Gilchrist. Privately Printed, History of the squadron with rosters of officers who served during the active period at the Front and a roster of officers who joined the squadron after..... More
(Dover, NH): Alan Sutton, (1993), First American Edition. octavo, pictorial wrappers, in original slipcase, with VHS tape as issued. (xiv), 141pp. Alan Sutton, Using documentary evidence, archive movie film, eye-witness accounts, interviews with those who were there and a wealth of photographs from England and Australia, the authors have compiled..... More
London: Taurus Academic Studies, (2009), First Edition. octavo, black boards in pictorial dust jacket. xvi, 288pp. Taurus Academic Studies, Air power has come to be seen as a country’s first line of defense; in the First World War views were vastly different. Aircraft were a novelty not always welcomed by..... More
Victoria, B.C. Printed by Charles F. Banfield, Printer to the King's Most Excellent Majesty, 1941, First Edition. octavo, green decorated cloth. 131pp. Printed by Charles F. Banfield, Printer to the King's Most Excellent Majesty, Graves served in Canadian Signal Corps until his transfer to the RFC in 1917. He was..... More
Victoria, B.C. Printed by Charles F. Banfield, Printer to the King's Most Excellent Majesty, 1941, First Edition. octavo, green decorated cloth. 131pp. Printed by Charles F. Banfield, Printer to the King's Most Excellent Majesty, Graves served in Canadian Signal Corps until his transfer to the RFC in 1917. He was..... More
(Ottawa: Canadian Government Publishing Centre, 1987), First Edition. large octavo, printed heavy paper wrappers. (xlviii), 366pp. Canadian Government Publishing Centre, Illustrated with photographs and maps. The diaries of John Bernard Brophy and Harold Price. Brophy was trained in England and was sent to France in May 1916 with No. 21..... More
London: Aviation Book Club, no date, Aviation Book Club edition. octavo, red cloth in dust jacket. 288pp. Aviation Book Club, Grinnell-Milne joined the RFC in 1915 and flew for No. 16 Squadron, was captured and spent three years in a German prison. He escaped and returned to the front as..... More
West Roxbury, MA: World War I Aero Publishers, (1964), First Edition. octavo, wrappers. 24pp. World War I Aero Publishers, Volume 1, No. 1 in the World War I Aero Publishers aviation series."This small paper cover pamphlet is a short history of the Pfalz aircraft company which produced a great number..... More
London: Faber and Faber Limited, (1934), First Edition. octavo, black cloth. (xvi), 352pp. Faber and Faber Limited, Preface by Maj.-Gen. Sir Ernest Swinton. The author's views on air defense, the reorientation of a defense system, and re-allocation of the defense budget of Great Britain after World War I. Includes "Bloody..... More
(Grand Rapids, MI: The Dean-Hicks Company, 1919), First Edition. quarto, pictorial blue cloth. 136pp. The Dean-Hicks Company, The school, authorized in 1918, provided for the training of aerial observers and the training of units of line troops in liaison between ground and air, was located on the outskirts of Chatillon-sur-Seine..... More
(Oxford): Osprey, (2008), First Edition. quarto, heavy printed paper wrappers. 96pp. Osprey, Osprey Aircraft of the Aces No. 66. Tethered balloons reached their zenith as a means of providing a stationary observation platform above the battlefield during World War I. It took a special breed of daredevil to take on..... More
(Oxford): Osprey, (2007), First Edition. quarto, heavy printed paper wrappers. 96pp. Osprey, Osprey Aircraft of the Aces 79. The history of the best Allied fighter-destroyer of World War I and the pilots who flew it. Numerous ace teams earned the 'Biff' grudging respect from its German opponents, as the crews..... More
(Oxford): Osprey, (2011) and (2012), First Edition. quarto, printed heavy paper wrappers. 96pp., each part. Osprey, Illustrated with photographs and with full color plates. Covers all of the naval fighter pilots to achieve ace status during World War I, author and artist Jon Guttman examines the elite members of the..... More