Royal Australian Air Force 1939-1942
Canberra: Australian War Memorial, 1962. First edition. Small quarto, xiv, 786 pp., numerous maps and plates, a fine copy with the dust-jacket. From the series 'Australia in the War of 1939-1945'. More
New Arrivals
Robey Aircraft Production
Lincoln: Aero Litho Company, 1974. Quarto booklet, 23 pp., illustrated, a very good copy. More
Flight of Eagles; The story of the American Kosciuszko Squadron in the Polish-Russian War 1919-1920
South Dakota: Brevet Press, 1974. First edition. Quarto, original cloth, xiv, 282 pp., profusely illustrated throughout; a fine copy with the dust-jacket. More
Air Navigation.; Based on principles and methods applicable also to sea navigation
London: Angus & Robertson, 1940. Octavo, original cloth, xvi, 374 pp., numerous diagrams throughout. Fore-edge a little stained, endpapers browned, overall a very good copy with the dust-jacket. From the collection of the Aviation Historical Society of Australia, with associated stamps and markings. The author was Chief Naval Instructor, Royal..... More
Flight To-Day
London: Humphrey Milford and Oxford University Press, circa 1940. Octavo, original cloth, 158 pp., plates; rear board a little stained, otherwise a near-fine copy. More
War in the Air.; By arrangement with the B.B.C. and based on the series of fifteen television films 'War in the Air'
London: Evans Brothers, 1956. First edition. Octavo, hardcover, 224 pp., plates; some moderate preliminary foxing, a very good copy with the dust-jacket. More
Aero-Engines. Inspection Before Flight "C" Licence; Aeronautical Engineering Series
London: Sir Isaac Pitman & Sons, 1940. Reprint. Slim octavo, original printed boards; vi, 36 pp. Boards mildly rubbed, yet a very good copy overall. More
Air of Battle; Foreword by Lord Balfour of Inchrye, PC, MC, Sometime Under-Secretary of State for Air
London: William Kimber, 1974. First edition. Octavo, hardcover, 194 pp., plates, a near-fine copy with the dust-jacket. Autobiography of William Mayes Fry, Western Front aviator. Includes good descriptions of other First War aces including Albert Ball, McCudden and others. More
Observer; Memoirs of the R.F.C. 1915-1918
London: William Kimber, 1970. First edition. Octavo, hardcover, 208 pp., a fine copy with the dust-jacket. First hand account of First War aerial combat, by the co-founder of the Imperial War Museum. More
The Eagles Height
Hertfordshire: Air Review Limited, 1961. First edition. Octavo, original cloth, 256 pp., plates, a fine copy with the dust-jacket. A fictional story based upon the life of Paul Hammond of the Royal Flying Corps, during the First World War. More
Wooden Crates and Gallant Pilots
Philadelphia: Dorrance and Company, 1974. First edition. Octavo, original cloth, x, 276 pp., illustrated, a fine copy with the dust-jacket. More
Billy Mitchell. Crusader for Air Power; The Watts Aerospace Library
New York: Franklin Watts, 1964. First American Edition. Octavo, original cloth, xii,180 pp., plates; small localised mark affects the front board, yet a near-fine copy with the dust-jacket. More
A History of Marine Aviation 1911-68; With a foreword by Air Chief Marshal Sir Arthur Longmore G.C.B., D.S.O.
London: Frederick Muller, 1969. First edition. Octavo, hardcover, x, 246 pp., plates, one corner of front board bumped, otherwise a near-fine copy in a worn dust-jacket. More
Squadron Shilling
New York: Doubleday and Company, 1968. First edition. Octavo, original cloth, xx, 336 pp., a fine copy in lightly rubbed dust-jacket. More
Survivor's Story
London: Hutchinson, 1956. First edition. Octavo, original cloth, 182 pp., plates, a very nice copy with the dust-jacket. The autobiography of Sir Gerald Gibbs. More
The Origins of Strategic Bombing; A study of the development of British Air Strategic Thought and Practice up to 1918
London: William Kimber, 1973. First edition. Small quarto, hardcover, 240 pp., plates, a near-fine copy in similar dust-jacket. More
Udet. A Man's Life
London: Macdonald and Company, 1960. First UK edition. Octavo, original cloth, 256 pp., plates, a fine copy with the dust-jacket. More
Hostile Skies; A combat history of the American Air Service in World War I
New York: Syracuse University Press, 1968. First edition. Small quarto, original cloth, xvi, 338 pp., plates and folding map, a fine copy in similar dust-jacket. More
The Story of a North Sea Air Station; Being some account of the early days of the Royal Flying Corps (Naval Wing) and of the part played thereafter by the Air Station at Great Yarmouth and its opponents during the Great War 1914-1918
London: Neville Spearman, 1967. Reprint of the 1928 edition. Octavo, original cloth, xvi, 446 pp., 12 plates and diagrams throughout, folding map in rear sleeve; boards a little bumped at the corners, yet a neat and attractive copy with the dust-jacket. First published in 1928, this remains the best work..... More
The Canvas Falcons; The story of the men and planes of World War I
London: W.H. Allen, 1971. First UK edition. Octavo, hardcover, xiv, 366 pp., plates, a fine copy with the dust-jacket. More
Knights of the Air; Canadian Aces of World War I
Toronto: Macmillan, 1958. Octavo, hardcover, 156 pp., plates, a fine copy with the dust-jacket. More
The Blue Max
New York: E.P. Dutton, 1964. First edition. Octavo, original cloth, 320 pp., plates, one corner of the front board gently bumped, otherwise a fine and bright copy in a beautifully preserved dust-jacket. More
Rise of the Fighter Aircraft 1914-1918
Annapolis: Nautical & Aviation Publishing Company, 1984. Octavo, original cloth, vi, 200 pp., plates, a fine copy with the dust-jacket. More
The Sky on Fire; The First Battle of Britain 1917-1918 and the Birth of the Royal Air Force
New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1966. First American Edition. Octavo, original cloth, xxv, 290 pp., plates, a near-fine copy with the dust-jacket. With an afterword by Marshal of the Royal Air Force Sir John Slessor G.C.B., D.S.O., M.C. More
The Great Air War; The men, the planes, the saga of military aviation 1914-1918
New York: Macmillan, 1968. First edition. Octavo, original cloth, xiv, 558 pp., plates, a fine copy with the dust-jacket. More