Melbourne: Oxford University Press, 2014. Quarto, black hardcover, x, 284 pp., illustrated in black and white. Boards a bit rubbed on bottom-edge, otherwise a fine copy in dust-jacket. First edition. A Scarce copy. Australia and the War in the Air examines Australia's role in history's first major air war. It..... More
Sydney: Allen & Unwin, 2010. Octavo, paperback, xx, 404 pp., plates. A near-fine copy. From the collection of the Australian Society of World War One Aero Historians, with associated stamps and markings. Using private letters, diaries and official records, historian Michael Molkentin reveals the story of the airmen and mechanics..... More
Sydney: Allen & Unwin, 2010. Octavo, printed wrappers, xix, 404 pp., eight plates. A fine copy. Using private letters, diaries and official records, historian Michael Molkentin reveals, for the first time over 90 years, the remarkable story of the airmen and mechanics of the Australian Flying Corps. More
Canberra: National Library of Australia, 2012. Small quarto, illustrated wrappers, vii, 212 pp., illustrated. Author's signature on title page, rear cover slightly rubbed, yet an attractive copy. Australian aviators Charles Ulm and Charles Kingsford Smith made the first trans-Pacific flight in 1928 in the Southern Cross, an aircraft constructed largely..... More
