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"Air Pilot" AIRCRAFT - £25.00
Newnes, 1916; 128pp; sl faded spinecloth, o/w vg.Covers basic aeronautics, early WW 1 operations, the Zeppelins, captive balloons etc.  
BN: 30187

'Contact' (Alan Bott)  AN AIRMAN'S OUTINGS -  

£14.00
Blackwood 4h Imp, 1917; 323pp, vg (a "better-than-usual" example).   Classic description of RFC, June to December 1916.  Also another, 4th imp, rather grubby but complete - £11.50
BN: 22150

"Night-Hawk" M.C.  ROVERS OF THE NIGHT SKY -  Cassell 1st, 1919; 204pp; vg.

£20.00
"verbal sketches" of the war in the air, some previously published in journals and newspapers.
BN: 21731

"Vigilant" (Claud W.Sykes).  FRENCH WAR BIRDS -  Greenhill card cover edn, (from Hamilton 1st of the 1930s); 256pp, 10 portrait photos; fine.

£12.00
Stories of the French flying aces; e.g. de la Fregoliere, Navarre, Brocard, Fonck, Guynemer & Garros.
BN: 22155
"Vigilant" (Claud W.Sykes) GERMAN WAR BIRDS - £16.00
Accounts of exploits of German flyers in WW 1. Hamilton 4th printing, 1933 ; vg (one corner sl crushed);  Also - Greenhill reprint, 1994; with new intro by Norman Franks; fine inc d/w - £14.  
BN: 24881
"Wing Adjutant" (Major W.T.Blake) PLANE TALES FROM THE SKIES - £8.00
Cassell reprinted 1st, 1918; 19 x 13cm, 182pp; goiod-vg (fep sl torn, pages sl browned) .Author's second book of "Tales & sketches in words" of the war in the air.  
BN: 21684
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Abbot, Willis J. AIRCRAFT AND SUBMARINES - £30.00
Putnams USA 1st, 1918; 388pp, 102 illus (photos, paintings, diags); vg except spinecloth faded.Over half of the book on aviation (WW 1 and before) inc chapters on balloons, Zeppelin, Santos Dumont & WW 1 in the air.  
BN: 28784  
Apostolo G. & G.Bignozzi WAR BIRDS: MILITARY AIRCRAFT OF THE FIRST WORLD WAR IN COLOUR - £24.00
1st UK, McD & J, 1974; 29 x 25cm, 208pp, f.illus (photos, col side view drgsshowing many marking variations; fine inc d/w.Useful reference to colours & markings as well as type details.  
BN: 24076  
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Bailey, Frank W. & C.Cony  THE FRENCH AIR SERVICE WAR CHRONOLOGY 1914-1918 -  Day-to day claims & losses by French fighter, bomber & 2-seat pilots.  

£19.50
Grub Street 2001; 25 x 18cm, 327pp, over 100 photos; fine inc d/w.  Includes records of individual pilots.
BN: 31013

Balfour, Harold H.  AN AIRMAN MARCHES -  Hutchinson 1st, 1933; 282pp, 21 photos; spinecloth chipped at corners vg int.

£32.00  
Balfour's RFC life and post-war experiences to 1923. Tour in France with 43 Squadron with an interval of instruction at Gosport.  Also - Greenhill card cover edn; vg except f cover creased - £6    
BN: 22156    

Barber H. (Capt,RFC)  THE AEROPLANE SPEAKS -  McBride, Nast 6th Printing 1918 from 1st of 1917; 146pp plus 40pp of drawings & many adverts; near - vg  (spinecloth faded. & chipped at top, vg int)

£30.00  
Popular style text on aircraft features and design; 40pp of attractive Geoffrey Watson drawings showing the early aircraft types from each manufacturer during period up to date of publication, (these drawings make the book attractive and collectable).    
BN: 22157    

Barber H.  AEROBATICS -  McBride, USA 3rd Printing 1927, (from original of Nov 1918;) 27 x 20cm, 78pp + 29 plates; vg

£35.00  
Description, with clear illustrations, of the aerobatic "state of the art" in 1918.    
BN: 27069    
Barker, Ralph THE ROYAL FLYING CORPS IN FRANCE - from Mons to the Somme. £17.50
Constable 1st, 1994; 237pp, 49 photos, maps; nr fine inc d/w.Well-illus spotlight on this period of the war in the air.  
BN: 27075  
Bartlett Sqn Ldr C.P.O. IN THE TEETH OF THE WIND - Memoir of the R.N.A.S. in the first world war. £15.00
Cooper, 1994, revision of the author's "Bomber Pilot" of 1974; fine inc d/w. New intro by the author's son replaces those in "Bomber Pilot".  
BN: 27984  

Bewsher, Paul  GREEN BALLS -  The adventures of a night bomber:  Blackwood 1st, 1919; original)1st, 1919; 309pp; near fine slight suspicion of foxing about to start. (maily page edges) A remarkably good example of this classic work.  Also - Greenhill (hardback) edn, 1986; nr fine inc d/w - £12

£50.00
BN: 22159  
Bickers R.T. VON RICHTHOFEN - THE LEGEND EVALUATED. £15.00
Airlife 1st, 1996; 172pp24 photos; fine inc d/w.A critical appraisal of Manfred von R. and his fighting career.  
BN: 29801  

Biddle, Major Charles J.  THE WAY OF THE EAGLE -  Scribners 1st, 1919; 297pp, 22 photos, 4 diags; vg throughout except corners sl rubbed. Scarce in UK.. 

£50.00
Biddle fought in the Escad. 73from April 1917, , transferred to Lafayette Escadrille & led 13th Aero Squadron & 4th Pursuit Group at war's end.  
BN: 31531  
Bishop, Lt Col William A. (VC DSO MC) WINGED WARFARE £14.50
Bailey Bros & Swinfen edn, 1975; edited by Ulanoff; 281pp, 33 illus (inc 11 3-view drgs of WW 1 aircraft types); fine, nr fine d/w. (Modern reproduction of Bishop's own account. )  
BN: 30435  

Bishop, William Arthur  THE COURAGE OF THE EARLY MORNING -  A son's biography of a famous father (Billy Bishop):  McKay 1st (USA) 1966; 206pp, 14 photos, list of victories; fine, near fine d/w.

£16.00
BN: 22160  

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