Vickers Aircraft since 1908
London: Putnam, 1969. Octavo, dark-blue cloth, spine embossed with gilt lettering, x, 566 pp., frontispiece, profusely illustrated with black-and-white photographs and diagrams throughout, five appendices included. Light mark on cover, light foxing on endpapers and fore-edge of text block, dust-jacket a little worn and torn with slightly faded spine; otherwise a very good copy. First edition. A history of Vickers airships from early monoplanes to the evolution of the Gunbus, including chapters dedicated to Vickers designs from 1914 to 1918, certain Vickers design projects, Canadian Vickers aircraft, Vimy, Vickers Fighters, the Wellington Bomber, the Viscount, the Valiant, the Vanguard and the VC10, among others. Item #4664
Price (AUD): $70.00