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St Martin's, 1989, Uncorrected Proof. printed wrappers. St Martin's, Spine and back cover creased from reading, else very fine. More
St Martin's, 1989, Uncorrected Proof. printed wrappers. St Martin's, Spine and back cover creased from reading, else very fine. More
London: Isbister and Company Limited, 1900, First Edition. octavo, maroon cloth. (x); 11-280pp. Isbister and Company Limited, With four photographic illustrations. Spine, front and back inner hinges water stained. Neat name on title page. More
(Waco, TX): Armstrong Browning Library, (1989), First Edition. oblong 8vo, wrappers. 54pp. Armstrong Browning Library, A most interesting exhibition guide; extensively illustrated. Printed by W. Thomas Taylor. More
Redding, CA: North Valley Diver Publications, (1991), First Edition. oblong quarto, pictorial boards. xiv, 232pp. North Valley Diver Publications, Extensively illustrated with photographs (many in full color), line drawing, side views and maps. Corners very slightly pumped, otherwise a very fine, clean copy, pretty much as new. More
(London): Allen Lane, (2010), First Edition. octavo, pictorial wrappers. 255 pp. Allen Lane, Looking back at seventy years of Puffin paperbacks, Phil Baines charts the development of Puffin and the role of illustrators and designers in creating and defining the identity of the Puffin list from the very first picture..... More
(London): Outline Press, (1990), First Edition. quarto, pictorial heavy paper wrappers. 128pp. Outline Press, Extensively illustrated in black and white and in color. Near fine. More
(London): Outline Press, (1990), First Edition. quarto, pictorial heavy paper wrappers. 128pp. Outline Press, Extensively illustrated in black and white and in color. very slight scuffing to wrappers, otherwise fine. More
(London): Outline Press, (1990), First Edition. quarto, pictorial heavy paper wrappers. 128pp. Outline Press, Extensively illustrated in black and white and in color. Very fine copy. More
London: William Kimber, (1965), First Edition. octavo, orange boards in pictorial dust jacket. 207pp. William Kimber, Numerous illustrations of airplanes and R.A.F. squadron personnel. The story of this amazing pilot who was killed during the bitter fighting over Greece in April of 1941. Minor foxing to top edge of text..... More
New York: Harper & Brothers, (1954), First Edition. octavo, blue boards and black cloth in dust jacket. (xx), 214 pp. Harper & Brothers, Speculation on space flight and aeronautics at the start of the Space era. Illustrated. Foreword by Lt. Gen. James H. Doolittle. Bernt Balchen was a Norwegian pioneer..... More
New York: Warner Books, (2006), First Edition. octavo, boards in dust jacket. Warner Books, Very fine, clean copy. More
New York: Grosset & Dunlap, First Edition. (1928) blue cloth in dust jacket. Illustrated with photographs from the screen production. Starring Fay Wray and Gary Cooper. Brief ink inscription on front endpaper. Near fine with minor scuffing to jacket. More
College Station, TX: Texas A&M University Press, (2007), First Edition. octavo, black boards in pictorial dust jacket. (xvi), 208pp. Texas A&M University Press, The biography of Kindley, one of the lesser known American pilots of WWI, with the history of the early years of aviation, the Great War, and the..... More
(Prague): MBI Publications, (2003), First Edition. quarto, pictorial heavy paper wrappers. 72pp. MBI Publications, Fine history extensively illustrated with photographs and side views in full color. With many line drawings and three view drawings. Large folding plate of line drawings laid in. In very fine, clean condition. More
New Castle, DE: Oak Knoll Press, 1990, First Edition. octavo, wrappers. 212pp. Oak Knoll Press, Originally published in Italian as La Bibliografia, Storia di una Tradizione in 1984, this work explains the circumstances and objectives behind the evolution of bibliographies. Balsamo suggests that when one looks at a bibliography as..... More
(Stroud: Spellmount, 2012), First Edition. octavo, pictorial heavy paper wrappers. 160pp. Spellmount, Illustrated with photographs. Captain Stephen Wynn Vickers joined the Cheshire Regiment in August 1914, but after being badly wounded, he remustered to the RFC (Royal Flying Corps). While other young pilots were killed or injured almost as soon..... More
(Stroud): Spellmount, (2011), First Edition. quarto, grey boards in pictorial dust jacket. 160pp. Spellmount, Illustrated in full color and in black and white. Lord Cardigan’s cavalry charge on 25 October 1854 at the battle of Balaclava "into the valley of death" is surely one of the most famous actions in..... More
London: Printing Historical Society, 1976, octavo, green cloth. (102)pp. Printing Historical Society, Reprinted from the 1813 and 1816 editions with an introduction and notes by Michael Twyman. From the introduction, "The value of Bankes's treatise today is as an historical record of attitudes to the process in England in the..... More
(New York): HarperPerennial, (1990), First Paperback Edition, fifteenth printing. octavo, printed card wrappers. HarperPerennial, Very fine copy. More
Arglen, PA: Schiffer, (1995), First Edition. quarto, black cloth in pictorial dust jacket. (208)pp. Schiffer, Extensively illustrated with photographs, many in color. As new, jacket not clipped. More
New York: Robert M. McBride & Company, 1927, Fourth Printing. octavo, green cloth. (xiv), 15-78pp. Robert M. McBride & Company, Foreword by Maj. W. G. Kilner. A standard textbook on ground work and the theory of flight. Part I is headed "Elementary Flying" and Part II explains the more advanced..... More
(Oxford: Osprey Publishing, 2010), First Edition. quarto, pictorial heavy paper wrappers. 64pp. Osprey Publishing, In 1914 the Naval Wing of the Royal Flying Corps was subsumed into the Royal Naval Air Service (RNAS). With the bulk of the Royal Flying Corps engaged in France, the aircraft and seaplane pilots of..... More
Portsmouth Marine Society, (1986), First Edition. large octavo, brown cloth in dust jacket. xii, 84 pp. Portsmouth Marine Society, A chronology of events based on newspaper accounts, editorials, news notes and letters to the editor from January 8, 1897 to November 12, 1897. As new. More
(Gloucestershire, England): Chalford, (1996), First Edition. octavo, pictorial heavy paper wrappers. (128)pp. Chalford, One in The Archive Photographs Series. A pioneering British maritime aviation company founded in 1913, in Southampton had an illustrious 50 year history. When Reginald Mitchell joined the company in 1917, it resulted in a lineage of..... More
(Stroud): Tempus, (2006), First Edition. quarto, pictorial heavy paper wrappers. 192pp. Tempus , Extensively illustrated. The story of this county in England leading up to and throughout the First World War. Airmen from this county served in the Royal Flying Corps, Royal Air Force and the Royal Naval Air Service..... More