Sutton Coldfield: Francis J. Field Ltd., 1955. Octavo, publisher's blue boards with Qantas logo; [vi], 196 pp., frontispiece, illustrated throughout. A few small spots affect the cloth, otherwise a very nice copy, internally excellent. First edition with corrigenda. Foreword by the Honourable A. G. Townley, Minister for Air and Civil..... More
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Oxford: The T.E. Lawrence Society, 1999-2022. Set of 15 octavo stapled bound newsletters, illustrated throughout photographs, drawings in black and white and in colour. Newsletters present in this set are as follows: 52, 55, 106, 109, 110, 111, 112, 114, 119, 120, 121, 122, 123, 124. These newsletters provide an..... More
Melbourne: War Memorial, 1933. Large oblong folio, comprising 52 tipped colour plates, with facing letterpress descriptions. A most attractive copy. A beautifully presented album of works by Australian artists of the First World War. It includes all theatres of the conflict, including the Light Horse in Palestine and Damascus, through..... More
New Jersey: Princeton University Press, 1992-1994. Five volumes, large octavo, an excellent fresh set with the dust-jackets. The Hyde Edition, being 'the most complete scholarly edition of Johnson's letters ever to appear'; and a fine example of recent North Amreican typography and book design. More
London: Jonathan Cape, 1939. Octavo, original green cloth, a very good copy. Autobiography spanning the early years of aviation and the heady days of the twenties. More
Melbourne: Government printer, 1926. Quarto, [xviii], 294 pages. Original cloth, now worn, internally rather good. Each of the fallen and veterans is listed, with a photographic portrait plate, biographical summary, and commendations. The final leaf lists the Victoria Cross, D.S.O. recipients, and so forth. More
Sydney: W.C. Penfold and the Australasian News Co., 1915. Octavo, title with list of contents verso, then paginated 9-97; with a total of 20 plates (one frontispiece and one single sided plate, and 18 double sided photo plates). The book is compositionally complex, as the first eight pages are actually..... More
London: Cassell, 1958. Octavo, hardcover, 136 pages, illustrated. Near fine copy with the dust-jacket. First edition. An eminently readable account of flying by an experimental test pilot from the twenties onwards. More
Brisbane: W.R. Smith & Paterson, 1958. Octavo, decorated green cloth, numerous photo plates, a very good copy with dust-jacket. One of the better Australian autobiographical pioneering narratives of the post-war era. The author, Bernard O'Reilly, was amongst the search party who located the Stinson airliner, which crashed deep in the..... More
London: Hodder & Stoughton, 1910. Handsome quarto in green cloth with embossed gilt medallion to the front board, xii, 326 pp.; frontispiece, four photogravure plates and 112 tipped plates (for a total of 116). Bindings stained, hinges strengthened, preliminaries thumbed, internally very good. A classic work in the genre of..... More
Sydney: 1930. Bookplate measuring 176 x 114 cm, fine and uncirculated, 1930. Amy Johnson was a pioneer English aviator, revered as the first woman to fly solo from England to Australia in the year 1930. This bookplate depicts her route across the globe and her de Havilland Gypsy Moth, affectionately..... More
London: Hodder & Stoughton, 1964. Large octavo, original green cloth, 352 pages, plates. Head of the spine and extremities of the boards a little frayed, overall a very good copy in worn dust-jacket. First edition, signed by the author. More
London: Cassell, 1968. Octavo, blue cloth, 178 pp., six double-sided plates. Some foxing affects the page edges and preliminaries, old ownership inscription to front endpaper, dust-jacket is price-clipped. Yet very good condition overall. First edition. In the France of 1917 a scout aeroplane - the fighter plane of the First..... More
Melbourne: Cassell Australia, 1963. Octavo, hardcover, v, 366 pp., six double-sided plates. First edition. A rich personal chronicle of flying during the years 1916 to 1951, written by one of Australian's pioneer aviators, Sir Gordon Taylor. More
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Chilbolton, Hampshire: The Cart House, 2018. Two volume quarto set, red cloth with gilt spine lettering, 1,318 pp. in total, profusely illustrated. Some fading in localised area of cloth, bumped at corners, otherwise a near-fine copy. Scarce. Publication limited to 500 copies. This bibliography of the literature of diving and..... More
Canberra: Australian War Memorial, 1962. Tall octavo, two-toned leather bound (not original binding and endpapers), xiv, 786 pp., numerous maps and plates. A near-fine copy. The binding of this publication was made by JARO (Johor Area Rehabilitation Organisation) in Johor Malaysia by disabled workers. From the series 'Australia in the..... More
London: John Murray, 1936. Octavo, dark blue cloth, xxxiv, 302 pp., frontispiece, 26 plates in black and white and colour. Bottom corners bumped, hinge split but firm, some spotting throughout, some pencil marks, otherwise a good copy. Reprinted. Foreword by by Apsley Cherry-Garrard. An account of naturalist, physician, ornithologist, and..... More
London: Charles H. Kelly, circa 1918/1919. Octavo, illustrated beige cloth, 140 pp., frontispiece, seven plates, in-text illustrations in black and white. Cloth thumbed and foxed, soft corners, hinge split but firm, some foxing throughout, inscription on front free-endpaper leaf 'V. Hadden Woodruff 41st/', otherwise a good copy. A foreword by..... More
Melbourne: Osboldstone & Co., undated. Octavo, illustrated paperboards, 182 pp., frontispiece. Tear at spine heads, insects bites along back cover edges, cover thumbed, leaves browned which is typical of the paper used at this period, otherwise a good copy. Signed and inscribed by the author in black ink 'Signed for..... More
Tunbridge Wells: Air Britain (Historians) Limited, 1989. Quarto, illustrated hardcover, 326 pp., illustrated with diagrams and photographs in black and white. A fine copy. An account of the convairliners starting with the 340 model to model 640. More
Miami: World Transport press, 1998. Quarto, blue glossy hardcover, 144 pp., profusely illustrated with photographs in colour. Bumped corners, otherwise a near-fine copy with dust-jacket. An account of the McDonnell Douglas aircraft from DC-9 series 10 to series 50 with a few chapters on the apparent similarity to both the..... More
Tonbridge, Kent: Air Britain (Historians) Limited, 1994. Quarto, illustrated hardcover, 212 pp., illustrated with diagrams and photographs in black and white and in colour. Bumped at corners, otherwise a near-fine copy. A history of the BAC One-Eleven aircraft. More
Marlborough: The Crowood Press, 1999. Quarto, black hardcover, 192 pp., frontispiece, illustrated throughout with photograph and diagrams in both black and white and colour. As new. With dust-jacket. First edition. An account of the origins of the BAC One-Eleven by the Hunting Percival Aircraft company in the mid-1950s to the..... More
Hemel Hempstead: Model Aeronautical Press, 1966. Quarto, dark blue hardcover with bold spine lettering, 132 pp., profusely illustrated with photographs and diagrams in both black and white and colour. Bumped at corners, two localised tape marks on each free endpaper leaf, otherwise a very good copy in a worn dust-jacket..... More
