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| Hagenbach, Arnold PILOT TEX - The adventures of a Californian transport pilot. | £15.00 | |
| Hamilton 1st, l930s; trans by Sykes; 253pp; 14 photos; vg. (cloth sl marked) Author's story of flying training & mail flying Alaso - unillustrated version, vg - £8. | ||
| BN: 24572 | ||
| Halliburton,Richard THE FLYING CARPET - | £14.00 | |
| Bles 1st, 1933; ; 352pp, 76 photos; near-vg int, spine faded & sl torn at top (f.cover loose). Flights to Africa and The Philippines.Also another, 1950 reprint, 16 photos; vg, ragged d/w - £10. | ||
| BN: 21866 | ||
| Harley, Jane F. MANTLE OF SAFETY - the Flying Doctor service. | £12.00 | |
| Hale 1st, 1963; 189pp, 14 photos, map; nr fine, vg d/w.Widely experienced traveller's account of the early days of the Service and its life-saving value. | ||
| BN: 30484 | ||
| Harvie E.F. GEORGE BOLT - Pioneer Aviator. | £25.00 | |
| Reed (New Zealand), 1974; 29 x 23cms, 176pp, f.illus; fine, vg d/w.Story of the pioneer of experimental aeronautics before WW 1, chief pilot to the Walsh brothers, trainer of NZ pilots during WW 1, pioneering airmail & charter flying; he was eventually chief engineer of TEAL (precursor of Air New Zealand). | ||
| BN: 28345 | ||
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Hawker, H.G & K. Mackenzie Grieve OUR ATLANTIC ATTEMPT - Methuen 1st, 1919; 128pp 14 photos, figs in text; vg (sl foxing, spinecloth sl spotted. |
£30.00 | |
| The attempted trans-Atlantic flight in 1919 by Sopwith "Atlantic". | ||
| BN: 21549 | ||
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Hawker, Muriel H.G.HAWKER, AIRMAN - his life and work. Hutchinson 1st, 1922; 319pp, 24 photos; good (5 plates replaced by photo-copies, one corner sl bumped. A quite usable example of a scarce book. |
£20.00 | |
| Hawker's life story, with much on the trans-atlantic flight and of course Sopwith. | ||
| BN: 27093 | ||
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Heinkel. Ernst STUERMISCHES LEBEN - Mundus Verlag 1st, 1953; 561pp, 113 photos; near fine. |
£30.00 | |
| German language original of Heinkel's story. | ||
| BN: 30037 | ||
| Heinkel,Ernst HE 1000 - | £24.00 | |
| Hutchinson 1st UK, 1956 (trans from "Sturmisches Leben" c1955); 287pp, f.illus; vg. Well illustrated autobiography of Ernst Heinkel to 1950. | ||
| BN: 23167 | ||
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Henshaw, Alex THE FLIGHT OF THE MEW GULL - Murray 1st, 1980; 310pp, 33 photos, 3 maps, ep photos; fine, near fine d/w, AUTHOR SIGNED. |
£55.00 | |
| Henshaw's pre-WW 2 flying career, especially with G-AEXF (1938 King's Cup winner & the almost incredible flight to the Cape & back). | ||
| BN: 25150 | ||
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Henshaw, Alex SIGH FOR A MERLIN - testing the Spitfire. Murray 1st, 1979; 210pp, 60 photos; fine inc d/w except Owen Thetford's bookplate inside f. cover and a super Spitfire photo attached to title page. |
£25.00 | |
| The author's career as chief test pilot at Castle Bromwich, flying thousands of Spitfires - a classic of test-flying description. Also card-cover Arrow Books edn, 1990; vg, Author-signed - £25. Also - Air Data edn, 1996 (with extra material); fine inc d/w - £18. | ||
| BN: 24108 | ||
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Herrmann, Dorothy ANNE MORROW LINDBERGH - a gift for life. |
£18.00 | |
| Houghton Mifflin 1993; 382pp, 31 photos, extensive notes & biblio; fine inc d/w. | ||
| BN: 30824 | ||
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Hotson, Fred W. THE BREMEN - Canav Books, Canada 1988; 224pp, photos, maps, 3-view line drgs of the aircraft; biblio; fine inc d/w; author-signed dedication. |
£24.00 | |
| Story of the first East-West flight across the North Atlantic & its landing on a remote Canadian island in the Gulf of St Lawrence, by modified Junkers W 33. | ||
| BN: 28594 |
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Johns W.E.(Ed'r) THRILLING FLIGHTS - Hamilton 1st c1935 (nd); vg int, spinecloth faded; unillustrated. |
£60.00 |
| A variety of stories by famous pilots & writers, including Strange, Barnard, Barker, Insall, Pauline Gower & William Courtenay (many of WW 1) repeated from features in Popular Flying including one by Johns himself. | |
| BN: 24077 | |
| Johnstone, A.v-M. Sandy DIARY OF AN AVIATOR - an autobiography. Airlife 1st, 1993; 168pp, 23 photos; fine inc d/w. | £16.00 |
| Story of the author's career, from Commercial pilot in 1939, command of a Spitfire squadron in 1940, to post-war appointments in Malaya, Borneo and with NATO. | |
| BN: 26930 |