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Hindenburg: an illustrated history
Edition: First printing
Toronto: Viking Studio / Madison Press / Penguin Books Canada, 1994. Black boards. pp 230. Illustrated in colour and b&w, folding colour diagram. Ink owner name, else fine in fine jacket. 3 kg parcel.
Condition: Binding: Hardcover
Book ID: 48287More details Price: USD $34.95 -
HISTORY OF THE ROYAL CANADIAN AIR FORCE
Toronto: Royce Publications, 1984. Blue boards. pp 128. Many photos, a few in colour, index. Fine in very nearly fine jacket. 1.5 kg parcel
Condition: Binding: Hardcover
Book ID: 48418More details Price: USD $18.95 -
Ice Crash
Edition: First edition
London: Souvenir Press, 1979. Blue boards, endpaper maps. pp 326 + plates. Index. Fine in fine jacket. Story of Umberto Nobile's attempt to cross the North Pole in the airship Italia in 1928 and its crash north of Spitzbergen.
Condition: Binding: Hardcover
Book ID: 51687More details Price: USD $19.95 -
In for a Penny, in for a Pound: The Adventures & Misadventures of a Wireless Operator in Bomber Command
Toronto: Anchor Canada, 2004. Maroon boards. (xxii), 274 pp + plates. Index. Text paper lightly toned, else fine. Memoirs of a Canadian wireless operator during WWII who flew with 218 and 148 Squadron. Night operations over Germany and North Africa in a Wellington bomber, among other missions and adventures.
Condition: Binding: Softcover
Book ID: 51452More details Price: USD $12.95 -
JANE'S FIGHTING AIRCRAFT OF WORLD WAR I. Foreword by John W.R. Taylor
London: Studio / Random House Group, 2011. Folio, colour pictorial glossy boards. pp 329. Many photos, technical details. Facsimile reprint, with new Foreword, of the 1919 original. Ink owner name at front, else fine. Dust jacket has small creased tears, VG. Note: 2.5 kg parcel, extra postage will be required.
Condition: Binding: Hardcover
Book ID: 44013More details Price: USD $35.00 -
LITTLE AMERICA. Aerial Exploration in the Antarctic. The Flight to the South Pole. With 74 Illustrations and Maps.
New York: Putnam's. Third printing, December, 1930 (first was Nov., 1930). Tall octavo, hardcover, blue cloth, endpaper photos. xvi, 422 pp. Photos and maps inserted, including two folding maps at rear. Xmas, 1930, ink gift inscription to blank recto of frontispiece po rtrait, quite minor rubbing to blue top page edges, else a fine and bright copy. Price-clipped dust jacket has large chip, tears, to head of spine with loss of some lettering, smaller chips to foot of spine, rubbing to flap folds; yellowing to white portion of slightly sunned spine; in all, just good, but still presentable in appearance. Note: 1.5 kg parcel, extra shipping will be required.
Condition: Binding: Hardcover
Book ID: 18564More details Price: USD $25.00 -
Men of the Red Beret: airborn forces 1940-1990
Edition: First printing
London: Hutchinson, 1990. Brown boards. pp 430 + plates. Index. Slight yellowing to page edges, else fine. Jacket has a bit of wear at head of spine, else fine. 1.5 kg parcel
Condition: Binding: Hardcover
Book ID: 48397More details Price: USD $14.95 -
MY HEART IS AFRICA: a flying adventure
Edition: First printing
Toronto: Thomas Allen, 2006. Card covers with flaps. Colour photos. Fine copy. Inscribed by the author to a noted Canadian literary couple. Two years' service with the Flying Doctors Service, flying from Newfoundland and back and around Afica in a single engine Cessna 180.
Condition: Binding: Softcover
Book ID: 53121More details Price: USD $14.95 -
NIEUPORT ACES OF WORLD WAR I
Botley, Oxford: Osprey, (2007). Second printing. Glossy card covers. pp 100; colour and b&w illustrations, index. Ink owner name, else fine.
Condition: Binding: Softcover
Book ID: 48702More details Price: USD $14.95 -
Of Men and Planes. Volume I: World War I. Volume II: Fighters (World War II). Volume III: The R.C.A.F. (3 volume set)
Edition: First Edition
Ottawa: Love Printing Service, 1968. Three volumes, card covers. Volume I is tall octavo, II and III are quarto. 49, 70, and 155 line drawings of military aircraft in action by Claude Rousseau, Peter Fong and Errol J. Douglas. Near fine set. Note: 2 kg parcel, extra postage will be required.
Condition: Book: Very Good, Binding: Softcover
Book ID: 44868More details Price: USD $50.00 -
ON TARGET: a novel
Edition: First Edition
Toronto: Village Book Store Press, 1973. Blue boards. [10], 248, [2] pp. Yellowing to page edges, else fine in fine jacket, no owner names. A novel about a Canadian heavy bomber squadron based in Yorkshire, part of the RCAF's Six Bomber Group of R.A.F., Bomber Command, set in March, 1945. Second novel of the noted modernist Canadian poet, who was there. Whiteman A26a2. Edition of 1000 copies.
Condition: Binding: Hardcover
Book ID: 41281More details Price: USD $24.95 -
PFALZ SCOUT ACES OF WORLD WAR I. Part 2
Edition: First printing
Botley, Oxford: Osprey, 2006. Quarto, glossy card covers. Colour illustrations, b&w photos. Ink owner name at front, else fine.
Condition: Binding: Softcover
Book ID: 43953More details Price: USD $15.00 -
PICTORIAL HISTORY OF THE GERMAN ARMY AIR SERVICE 1914-1918
Edition: First US issue
Chicago: Henry Regnery, 1973. Red cloth. pp 176. Many photos. Ink owner names at front, else fine in fine jacket.
Condition: Binding: Hardcover
Book ID: 48208More details Price: USD $19.95 -
POEMS ON VARIOUS SUBJECTS
Edition: First Edition
Condition: Binding: Hardcover
Book ID: 48944More details Price: USD $450.00 -
ROYAL CANADIAN AIR FORCE PERSONNEL ON RADAR IN CANADA DURING WORLD WAR II
Ottawa: Author, 2003. Quarto, card covers. Photos. Reproductions of old typescript newsletters. Ink annotations in top margin of title page and just a few scattered through text; three inch slit to front cover neatly repaired on black side; nice otherwise.
Condition: Book: Very Good, Binding: Softcover
Book ID: 40374More details Price: USD $30.00 -
SCHNEIDER TROPHY AIRCRAFT 1913-191
Edition: First printing
Condition: Binding: Hardcover
Book ID: 50434More details Price: USD $29.95 -
SE 5/5A ACES OF WORLD WAR I
Edition: First printing
Botley, Oxford: Osprey, 2007. Quarto, glossy card covers. Colour illustrations, b&w photos. Ink owner name at front, else fine.
Condition: Binding: Softcover
Book ID: 43956More details Price: USD $15.00 -
SIGNED WITH THEIR HONOUR
Edition: First US edition
Boston: Little, Brown, 1942. Octavo, blue cloth. Vertical crease to front free endpaper, yellowing to page edges, VG otherwise, no owner names. Price-clipped jacket has short tears, rubbing, slight spine sunning, good. "Probably the first novel to deal with air power in action in the Second World War." - from the jacket of the UK edition. Australian author's first novel, published at age 23.
Condition: Binding: Hardcover
Book ID: 36534More details Price: USD $19.95 -
SILVER WINGS
Edition: First Edition
Boston: Bruce Humphries, 1946. Maroon cloth lettered in silver. pp 48 + frontispiece portrait and 2 other plates . Small bruise to upper outer corners of covers, else fine. Dust jacket has nicks to head of spine and upper inner corner of front panel, VG+ otherwise. Patriotic World War II verse by a mother dedicated to her son Lt. Dan Mangan, A.C. who was killed in action Note: lighter parcel, any default postage rate may be reduced.
Condition: Binding: Hardcover
Book ID: 43994More details Price: USD $20.00 -
SIXTY YEARS. The RCAF and CF Air Command 1924-1984
Edition: First printing.
Toronto: CANAV Books, 1984. Bllue boards. 480 pp, numerous photos, illustrations, and maps in text, appendices and indices at rear. Bit of wear at spine ends, else a fine copy, no owner names. Dust jacket has small tears and chips at spine ends, crease to lower inner corner of rear panel, VG otherwise. 2.5 kg parcel.
Condition: Binding: Hardcover.
Book ID: 39195More details Price: USD $24.95