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Bowyer,Chaz  SOPWITH CAMEL - KING OF COMBAT -  Glasney Press,  1978; 28 x 22cm, 192pp; near fine, vg d/w.  £16.00  
Includes list of presentation Camels, Serial Nos, pilots' reports, rigging diags etc; super picture d/w; appendices re squadrons, aces, individual aircraft histories etc.    
BN: 21345    
Bowyer, Chaz (Ed'r) ROYAL FLYING CORPS COMMUNIQUES - 1917-1918 - £16.00
Grub St 1st, 1998; 258pp, 42 photos: fine inc d/w.Useful completion of the published records, following the earlier works edited by Cole on the RFC and early RAF periods.  
BN: 29153  
Bradshaw, S.O FLYING MEMORIES - £28.00
Hamilton 1st, c1936; 25x19cm, 48 full-page drawings; near fine int, cloth vg.. A collection of S.O.Bradshaw's superb drawings with descriptive text, over half of which illustrate WW-1 scenes.  
BN: 21568  

Bridgman, Leonard  THE CLOUDS REMEMBER -  Gale & Polden 1st, 25 x 18cm, 128pp, col frontis of F.2a Flying Boat, 36 full-page drgs with commentary by Oliver Stewart; near fine (except a selotape mark inside f. cover), vg d/w

£45.00
Bridgman's fine pre-war aviation art.  
BN: 26865  

Briscoe, Walter A. & H.R.Stannard  CAPTAIN BALL VC OF THE ROYAL FLYING CORPS -  the career of Flight-Commander Ball VC DSO.   Jenkins 1st, c1918; 320pp, 15 photos;  vg int, 1 corner  sl bumped.

£24.00
BN: 23691  
Bruce, J.M WAR PLANES OF THE FIRST WORLD WAR - FIGHTERS - £7.50
Separate vol 3; fine inc d/w -   .Brief type histories with photos & 3-view line drgs of most basic types. Also Vol 1fine, sl torn d/w - £10  
BN: 22089  
Buckler,Julius MALAULA! - der Schlachtruf meiner Staffel (The warcry of my unit) £15.00
Steiniger, 1942 (Revised from 1939 1st); 210pp, 10 photos; spine split - .WW 1 German lang. story of German pilot from roofing apprentice to Pour le Merite officer.  
BN: 22162  
Buist,H.Massac (Aero. ed'r of the "Morning Post") AIRCRAFT IN THE GERMAN WAR - £17.50
Methuen 1st, 1914; 17 x 11cm, 128pp, diags; vg.Very early picture of WW 1 flying from the German side.  
BN: 20985  
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Campbell,Christopher ACES AND AIRCRAFT OF WORLD WAR 1 - £9.50
Blandford 1st, 1981; 30 x 24cm, 144pp, f.illus; fine, nr fine d/w.Photos & col drgs of aircraft, uniforms etc of the aces featured.  
BN: 20890  

Chamier, J.A  THE BIRTH OF THE ROYAL AIR FORCE -  The early history and experiences of the flying services.  Pitman 1st 1943; 25x16cm, 199pp, 23 illus, 9 maps; vg int, one corner badly bumped..

£16.00
Essentially a short history of WW 1 in the air with attractive Roy Cross drawings.  
BN: 22104  

Chorlton, Martyn  PLANE TO PLANE -  The Story of Frederick Sage & Co Ltd, Walton, Peterborough, 1911-1936. Old Forge Pub 1st, 2004; 30 x 21cm, 108pp, f.illus; nr fine inc d/w.

£14.00
Sage started as joiners & shopfitters in London, moved to Peterborough in 1911, started making Short 184 seaplanes; a design department started in late 1915 produced the Sage 2 in 1916 and Sage Types 3 & 4A followed; BE 2c and Avro 504K aircrafy were also built before the end of WW 1 and the Sage types remained only prototypes. The book covers the uses & individual histories of the aircraft produced and the use of the factory from 1936 for Aeronca production; also illustrates the factory buildings, many remaining from Sage days till the present.  
BN: 30379  

Cobby, A.H  HIGH ADVENTURE -  Kookaburra, 1981; 29 x 22cms, f.illus, 108pp; nr fine inc d/w. 

£17.50
1981 re-issue of autobiography, fist published 1942, now in semi-pictorial form, with many photos from the Cobby family photo albums.  
BN: 22164  
Cole, C. (Ed'r) ROYAL AIR FORCE COMMUNIQUES 1918 - £11.50
Donovan edn, 1990 (from Kimber 1st of 1968); fine inc d/w.  
BN: 24373  
Cole, Christopher ROYAL FLYING CORPS 1915-1916 - £11.50
Donovan 2nd, 1990; fine inc d/w -  
BN: 23695  
Coppens, Major the Chevalier Willy, de Houthulst DAYS ON THE WING - £35.00
Hamilton 1st c1932;  trans from French; 291pp, illus by Bridgman; vg+ (an exceptionally clean example). Adventures of famous Belgian ace. Also - Av.B.C. version, vg with minor faults - £18  
BN: 22165  
Cunningham G.H. MAC'S MEMOIRS - the flying life of Squadron-Leader McGregor. £35.00
Reed (New Zealand) 1st, 1937; 160pp, 16 photos;  vg , Rather scarce account of the WW 1 No 85 Squadron RFC & RAF; then pioneer flying in New Zealand & the Macrobertson Trophy race in which he flew a Miles Hawk, both pilots occupying the open cockpits without overcoats or flying suits to get within c of a weight requirements. (Despite driving the engine at maximum speed all the way they arrived and were 4th in the handicap class.)  
BN: 28769  

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