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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
"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 - £12.00
Cassell reprinted 1st, 1918; 19 x 13cm, 182pp; vg with school prize olate dated 1919.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  torn,  vg int. (repairable)   £18.00  
 Balfour's RFC life and post-war experiences to 1923. Tour in France with 43 Squadron with an interval of instruction at Gosport    
BN:  22156    

Baring, Maurice  FLYING CORPS HEADQUARTERS 1914-1918 -  Heinemann 1st (Collected edn) 1930;, ; vg iint, spinecloth torn at top. 

£10.00  
Private secretary to the first RFC commander, Sir David Henderson, then to Trenchard - this, therefore an "inside story".     
BN: 23174    
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.Also Vol 2 "From Bloody April 1917 to Final Victory" - near fine inc d/w - £17.50.  
BN: 27075  
Bartlett C.P.O. BOMBER PILOT 1916-1918 - £16.00
Ian Allan 1st, 1974; 180pp, 76 photos; fine, nr fine d/w.Personal account, in day-to-day diary form, of bombing along the Belgian coast with the RNAS & later with the RAF in France.Intros by Chaz Bowyer & Sir Geoffrey Bromet.  
BN: 24054  
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  
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  
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  
Bodenschatz, Obl. Karl JAGD IN FLANDERNS HIMMEL - aus den sechzehn kampfmonaten des JG Freiherr von Richthofen. £18.00
Knorr & Hirth 1st, 1938; 216pp, 34 plates; German lang (Gothic script); near-fine int, spine faded, & partly torn..The "Bodenschatz war diaries"- ("from the 16 fighting months of the Richthofen squadron") in the original German form (Gothic script).Also - English language translation "Hunting with Richthofen" - Grub St, card covers, 224pp, many photos; fine - £9.  
BN: 29806  

Bordeaux,Henry  GUYNEMER, KNIGHT OF THE AIR -  

£24.00
Chatto 1st (UK), 1918, translated from the French; 20x13cm, 240pp, prefatory letter from Rudyard Kipling, Portrait photo, Chatto book list; vg.  
BN: 21335

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