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| Blunck, Richard HUGO JUNKERS - Der Mensch und das Werk. | £8.00 | |
| Limpert-verlag 1942; 304pp, 22 photos; German lang; near vg int, spinecloth split. (a "reading copy").Biography of the designer & industrialist. | ||
| BN: 27563 | ||
| Boyle, Andrew TRENCHARD - Man of Vision: | £16.00 | |
| Collins, 1st 1962; 768pp, 32 photos, 8 maps, good biblio and notes; vg, sl soiled d/w.Massive detailed biography of the "Father of the R.A.F". | ||
| BN: 22254 | ||
| Boyle,Andrew NO PASSING GLORY - the full & authentic biography of Gp Capt Cheshire. | £5.00 | |
| Reprint Society edn, 1957 (from Collins 1st of 1955); 384pp; near fine, vg d/w.Full biography and study of Cheshire's personality - his two careers as bomber leader and as the pioneer of the Cheshire Homes.Also - another with sl damp-marked cloth - £4. | ||
| BN: 21027 | ||
| Brabazon, Lord, of Tara THE BRABAZON STORY - Heinemann 1st, 1956; 227pp, 23 photos; near fine. | £15.00 | |
| autobiography of the holder of British Pilot's Certificate No 1 - he helped to pioneer aerial photography in WW 1; became a leading sportsman and Minister of Transport and Minister of Aircraft Production post-WW 2. | ||
| BN: 23478 | ||
| Braddon, Russell CHESHIRE VC - a story of war and peace. | £9.00 | |
| Evans 1st, 1954; 217pp, 34 photos; vg, good d/w.Biography of famous Bomber Command pilot and leader and his post-war enterprise in the development of the Cheshire Homes. | ||
| BN: 21599 | ||
| Bramson, Alan PURE LUCK - The authorised biography of Sir Thomas Sopwith, 1888-1989. PSL 1st, 1990; 288pp, over 100 photos, appendices; fine inc d/w. | £17.50 | |
| 25476 | ||
| Brandecker, Walter G. EIN LEBEN FUER EINE IDEE - Der raketenpionier Max Valier | £15.00 | |
| "Union 1st, 1961; 222pp; fine, near fine d/w.Biography of rocket pioneer Max Valier, who flew in WW 1, worked with Oberth & von Opel on space & rocket research & was killed in an accident in 1930. " | ||
| BN: 29831 | ||
| Bridgeman,William & Jacqueline Hazard THE LONELY SKY - | £18.00 | |
| Cassell 1st, 1956; 278pp, 15 photos; fine, nr fine d/w.Skyrocket test pilot's story. | ||
| BN: 21911 | ||
| Brittain, Sir Harry WINGS OF SPEED - | £12.00 | |
| Hutchinson 1st, 1934; 288pp, 32 illus; vg int, spinecloth faded & marked.Memoirs, with much on the development of airlines. | ||
| BN: 22056 | ||
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Bruce, the Hon. Mrs Victor THE BLUEBIRD'S FLIGHT - Chapman & Hall 1st, 1931; 292pp, 46 photos, 4 maps; vg int, cloth damp damaged at edges. Scarce account by the famous aviatrix of her round the world journey with the Blackburn Bluebird (flying except for the Pacific and Atlantic oceans). UBN 22102 |
£30.00 | |
| Buckingham, Jamie INTO THE GLORY - | £9.50 | |
| Good Reading Ltd, London, 1975 (from 1974 original); 249pp, 31 photos, maps; fine, vg d/w.Story of the Jungle Aviation & Radio Service, taking Wycliffe bible translators to remote areas in South America & The Philippines, using amphibians & light aircraft. | ||
| BN: 25933 | ||
| Burke, John WINGED LEGEND - the story of Amelia Earhart. | £10.00 | |
| Barker 1st (UK) 1971 (from USA 1st, 1970); 255pp, 15 photos; ex-library but generally vg, torn d/w. | ||
| BN: 26926 | ||
| Byrd, Commander Richard E. SKYWARD - Putnam's USA 1st, 1928; 359pp, 47 photos; foxing to page edges, o/w vg. | £35.00 | |
| Memoirs of polar & trans-atlantic flights. | ||
| BN: 22257 | ||
| Byrd, Ricgard E. LITTLE AMERICA - Putnams USA 1930; 422pp, 70 photos, 4 maps; vg | £38.00 | |
| Aerial exploration in the Antarctic - the flight to the South Pole. | ||
| BN: 30743 | ||
| Byrd, Richard E. ALONE - | £8.00 | |
| Readers Union & Putnam, 1939; 302pp, drgs in text; vg except spine cloth faded & split).Story of Byrd's lonely winter at the advanced base in Antarctica; not really an aviation book but has relationship with his other polar exploration books in which flying figured essentially. | ||
| BN: 26903 |
| Cadogan, Mary WOMEN WITH WINGS - female flyers in fact and fiction. | £17.50 | |
| McMillan 1st, 1992; 24 x 16cm, 280pp, photos, cartoons, sketches, good biblio; fine inc d/w.From ballooning to space girls. | ||
| BN: 28585 | ||
| Carter I.R. SOUTHERN CLOUD - | £14.00 | |
| Angus & Robertson 1st, 1964; 168pp, photos, maps, biblio; vg , chipped d/w.The story of Kingsford Smith's "Southern Cloud", its flights, disappearance and discovery.Also another, ex-lib with stamps etc at front only; vg - £8. | ||
| BN: 22258 | ||
| Chadwick, Roxane AMELIA EARHART - aviation pioneer. | £7.50 | |
| Lerner (USA)("Achievers" series) 1987; 21 x 17cm, 56pp, f.illus; fine.Popular style account. | ||
| BN: 29832 | ||
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Chichester, Francis C. SEAPLANE SOLO - Faber 1st 1933; 314pp, 8 photos, fold-out map; fine int, cloth soiled. |
£16.00 | |
| The original account of F.C.'s flight over the Tasman Sea. | ||
| BN: 26924 |