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Davies, Gordon C.  WORLD WAR 1 AEROPLANES -  Ward Lock "Super Source" book, 1st 1974; 20 x 14cm landscape, 144pp, photos of all types, brief histories & data; vg inc d/w.  £11.50
One page per type, inc photo & details.  
BN: 22075  
Davis, Mick AIRCO - The Aircraft Manufacturing Company. £17.50
Crowood Aviation Series 1st, 2001; 29 x 23cm, 192pp, f.illus; manufacturers & serial-number lists; fine inc d/w.From the attractive Crowood series, about the Company established by George Holt Thomas in 1911; it covers the aircraft types produced - chiefly Farman & De Havilland.  
BN: 30021  

Degelow,Major Carl  GERMANY'S LAST KNIGHT OF THE AIR -  the memoirs of Major Carl Degelow (translated & edited by P.Kilduff)  Kimber 1st, 1979; 218pp, 80 illus, maps, combat log, biblio, glossary; vg inc d/w (d/w stuck to boards).

£12.00
Biography of the last WW 1 recipient of the "Pour le Merite".  
BN: 21315  
Douglas, M. of the RAF Sholto, Lord, of Kirtleside & Robert Wright. YEARS OF COMBAT - A personal story of the First War in the Air: £18.00
Collins 1st, 1963; 384pp, 15 illus, ep maps; nr fine inc d/w.Vol 1 of autobiography, mainly on WW 1. Also - another, fine without d/w - £16  
BN: 22167  
Drew, Lt Col George A. CANADA'S FIGHTING AIRMEN - £65.00
Maclean, Toronto, 1930; 305pp, 28 illus; vg int, covers sl faded & loose; scarce. Accounts of some of the more famous Canadian WW 1 airmen inc Bishop, Collishaw, Barker, Maclaren, McLeod, Rogers, McElroy, Claxton, McCall & McKeever.  
BN: 30436  
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Farre, Lt Henry  SKY FIGHTERS OF FRANCE -   Aerial Warfare 1914-1918.   Houghton Mifflin USA 1919; 28 x 21cm, 143pp, 17 mounted plates (illus (inc col frontis) from paintings by the author); bookplate of W.L McLean Jr; vg. 

£120.00
"Englished" by Catherine Rush; the author flew with the French First Bombardment Group and was also an official artist. Nicely produced and scarce.  
BN: 31523  
Fitzsimons, Bernard (Ed'r) WARPLANES & AIR BATTLES OF WORLD WAR 1 - £6.00
Phoebus, 1973, from Purnell's History of the 1st WW; 30 x 23cm, 160pp, f.illus (photos, col drawings); vg inc d/w. Good general introduction to the subject.  
BN: 26398  

Franks, Norman & Frank Bailey  OVER THE FRONT -  Grub St 1st, 1992; 25 x 18cm, 230pp, many photos, sketch maps; nr fine inc d/w. 

£25.00
"A complete record of the fighter aces & units of the U.S. & French Air Services, 1914-1918" (biographical & career notes with some general details of air force organisation).  
BN: 26866  
Franks, Norman, R.Guest & G.Alegi ABOVE THE WAR FRONTS - £20.00
Grub St 1st, 1997; 25 x 18cm, 218pp, 100 photos; fine inc d/w. complete record of the British 2-seater bomber pilot & observer aces, the British 2-seater fighter observer aces and the Belgian, Italian, Austro-Hungarian & Russian fighter aces 1914-1918.  
BN: 29419  

Franks, Norman & Frank Bailey  THE STORKS -  the story of France's elite fighter Groupe de Combat 12 (Les Cigognes) in WW 1.  Grub St, 26 x 18cm, 160pp, many photos, drgs; data re personnel; nr fine inc d/w.

£16.00
BN: 31392  

Franks, Norman, Frank Bailey & Rick Duiven  CASUALTIES OF THE GERMAN AIR SERVICE, 1914-1920 -as complete a list as possible, arranged alphabetically and chronologically.   Grub St, 1999; 26 x 18cm, 384pp, unillus; fine inc d/w.

£18.00
Also with one corner sl bumped, £14  
BN: 31390  

Franks, Norman  SHARKS AMONG MINNOWS -  Germany's first fighter pilots and the Eindecker period, July 1915 to Sept 1916.    Grub St 1st, 2001; 182pp, photos, maps, biblio; fine inc d/w. 

£16.00
The beginning of air fighting in Europe in WW 1, some of the "aces" of the time & the technical advance represented by the Fokker monoplane & the synchronised gun.  
BN: 29798  
Fuchs, Otto WIR FLIEGER - kriegserinnerungen eines unbekanntem. £20.00
Koehler, 1933; 250pp, German lang (Gothic script); details of other books at rear; vg int, cloth sl rubbed.  WW 1 account by a German pilot from 1917, in popular style.  
BN: 29931  
Funderburk, Thomas R. THE EARLY BIRDS OF WAR - The daring pilots and fighter planes of WW 1. £10.00
Barker 1st, 1968; 24 x 19cm, 154pp, f.illus (photos & line drgs); fine, sl torn d/w.Good picture of WW 1 in the air.Also another, fine int, worn cloth & no d/w - £4.50.  
BN: 23700  
Funderburk,Thomas R. THE FIGHTERS - the men & machines of the first air war. £15.00
Grosset & Dunlap, 1965; 28 x 22cm, 197pp, photos & line drgs, biblio; fine, vg d/w.A good introduction to the subject.  Also UK edn (Barker, 1966); fine, damaged d/w - £12 (different colour cloth & colour drgs on eps).  
BN: 24865  
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Gibbons, Floyd THE RED KNIGHT OF GERMANY - Baron von Richthofen, Germany's Great War Airman. £18.00
Cassel 11th, 1936 from 1930 1st; 408pp, frontis photo, list of victories; near fine (an unusually clean example).Also another, 4th imp, rather worn - £12. Also 1st, 1927; near-vg except fep missing - £30  
BN: 23699  

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