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| Affleck, Arthur H. THE WANDERING YEARS - | £14.00 | |
| Longmans 1st, 1964; 211pp, 29 photos, ep maps; fine, vg d/w.Mainly a personal account of the early development of commercial aviation in Australia and the Flying Doctor Service. | ||
| BN: 24893 | ||
| Amundsen, Roald & Lincoln Ellsworth THE FIRST FLIGHT ACROSS THE POLAR SEA - Hutchinson, London, c1927; 274pp + fold-out flight plan; 32 photos; vg (2pps are good photocopies); vg (almost no foxing). | £40.00 | |
| Describes the flight in 1926 in the airship "Norge" | ||
| BN: 30618 | ||
| Arnold, Gen H.H. (Chief of USAF, 1938-46) GLOBAL MISSION - | £18.00 | |
| Hutchinson 1st UK, 1951 (from 1949 original); 276pp, 34 photos; near fine.autobiography inc the WW 2 period. The author learned to fly with the Wright Brothers in 1911, served, reluctantly, in staff jobs in WW 1 & became c-in-c of the USAF in WW 2.Also - TAB Books edn, 1989 (now 626pp; fine, vg d/w - £16; Also - Arno Books reprint, 1972; vg+ inc d/w - £16. | ||
| BN: 23416 |
| Bach,Richard A GIFT OF WINGS - Heinemann 1st (UK) 1975; 337pp, many excellent drgs in text by Eckland; nr fine (owner's inscription), vg d/w; rather scarce | £17.50 | |
| BN: 20873 | ||
| Baidukov, George OVER THE NORTH POLE - the "narrative" of the Russian non-stop flight from Moscow to the USA. | £20.00 | |
| Harrap 1st (UK) 1938; 110pp, 18 photos, map; nr fine, sl torn d/w.Good, well-illustrated account of the supposed polar-route pioneer flight by ANT-25 (which Morrison has claimed was faked - see Morrison's "Short Cut to Fame"). | ||
| BN: 25873 | ||
| Baldwin, A.W A FLYING START - | £12.00 | |
| Peter Davies, 1967; 218pp; vg inc d/w (damp marks at bottom corner, not affecting text). Biography of Etonian, son of a Prime Minister, in the RAF ranks. | ||
| BN: 22251 | ||
| Batten, Jean ALONE IN THE SKY - | £16.00 | |
| Airlife 1st 1979; 190pp, photos, drgs in text; fine inc d/w; .Up-dating & lengthening of the text of "My Life", with nice added drgs by L.R.Williams. Also - card cover rev'd edn, 1979; 190pp, 21 photosnice drgs in text; fine - £7. | ||
| BN: 23429 | ||
| Batten, Jean MY LIFE - | £16.00 | |
| Av. Book Club edition, 1938 of Harrap 1st of 1938; 304pp, 31 photos; vg.Jean Batten's autobiography. | ||
| BN: 23428 | ||
| Beamish, Richard J. THE BOY'S STORY OF LINDBERGH, THE LONE EAGLE - Winston (USA) 1st, 1928; 320pp, 32 photos, maps, diags; vg (cover picture sl rubbed but intact, title page sl foxed) | £18.00 | |
| Rather scarce book describing Lindbergh's Atlantic flight. | ||
| BN: 29474 | ||
| Beamont, Roland TESTING YEARS - | £16.00 | |
| BCA version of Ian Allan 1st, 1980; 30 x 23cm, 160pp, f.illus; fine, nr fine d/w.Fully illus description of many of the types the author flew & tested inc much on the Lightning and TSR-2. | ||
| BN: 25210 | ||
| Beinhorn, Elly EIN MAEDCHEN FLIEGT UM DIE WELT - | £18.00 | |
| Reimar Hobbing 1st, 1932; 148pp plus photo section of 42pp; vg except cloth has no titling & small piece cut from title page.German language story of E.B.'s world flight of 1931 (later translated as "Flying Girl"). | ||
| BN: 30029 | ||
| Bennett, Benjamin DOWN AFRICA'S SKYWAYS - Hutchinson, 1932; 288pp, 24 photos; vg. | £45.00 | |
| Scarce account of some of the pioneers of flying across Africa inc van Ryneveld, Cobham, Murdoch, the Dutchess of Bedford, Glen Kidston & Mollison. | ||
| BN: 25872 | ||
| Berg, A. Scott LINDBERGH - | £19.50 | |
| Macmillan UK, 1998 (from Putnam USA 1st of 1998); 628pp, 82 photos; fine inc d/w.Biography.. | ||
| BN: 29319 | ||
| Bergius C.C. SOEHNE DES IKARUS - die abemteuerlichsten fliegergeschichten der welt. | £8.00 | |
| Bertelsmann, 1979; 19 x 13cm, 320pp; fine inc d/w.German lang. anthology of flying stories, including accounts by famous pilots. | ||
| BN: 29861 | ||
| Bertram, Hans FLUG IN DIE HOELLE - Bericht von der "Bertram-Atlantis-Expedition". | £25.00 | |
| Drei Masken 1933 25 x 18cm, 204pp plus fold-out map, 177 photos; German Gothic; vg.Original German account of "Flight to Hell" (53 days of travel by Junkers seaplane from the Rhein to the Timor Sea and back).Also Kaiser 1951 edn (8vo, 232pp, 20 photos; nr fine inc d/w - £12. | ||
| BN: 29810 | ||
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Birabongse, Prince BLUE WINGS TO BANGKOK - Foulis 1st, 1952; 184pp, 16 photos; nr fine. |
£19.50 | |
| The story of the famous racing driver's private flight to Bangkok in a Miles Gemini in 1952. | ||
| BN: 26408 |