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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  

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  

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  

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  

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  

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  

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

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  

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