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| Davies,Gordon C. WORLD WAR 1 AEROPLANES - |
£12.00 |
| Ward Lock "Super Source" book, 1st 1974; 20 x 14cm landscape, 144pp, photos of all types, brief histories & data; nr fine inc
d/w. One page per type, inc photo & details. |
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| BN: 22075 |
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Davilla, Dr James & Authur M. Soltan
FRENCH AIRCRAFT OF THE FIRST WORLD WAR - |
£55.00 |
| Flying Machines Press 1st, 1997; 31 x 23cm, 618pp, photos, 3-view line drgs, col 3-view drgs, maps, biblio; picture boards; fine.
A magnificent work of reference. |
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| BN: 30802 |
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| 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. |
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| BN: 30021 |
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Dixie, Lt.Com. A.E AIR
NAVIGATION FOR FLIGHT OFFICERS - Gieves 2nd, 1917;
230 pp, 101 figs; vg except rear cloth damp-marked; (previous
owner's signature dated June 1917). |
£20.00 |
| Navigation textbook, with notes on intercepting
hostile aircraft & meteorology. |
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| BN: 22166 |
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| Douglas, M. of the RAF Sholto, Lord, of Kirtleside & Robert Wright. YEARS OF COMBAT - A personal story of the First War in the Air: |
£17.50 |
| Collins 1st, 1963; 384pp, 15 illus, ep maps; nr fine inc d/w.Vol 1 of autobiography, mainly on WW 1. |
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| BN: 22167 |
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| Drew, Lt Col George A. CANADA'S FIGHTING AIRMEN - |
£75.00 |
| 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. |
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| BN: 30436 |
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| 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. |
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| BN: 26398 |
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| Franks, Norman, F.Bailey & R.Duiven THE JASTA PILOTS - detailed listings & histories, August 1916-November 1918. |
£26.00 |
| Grub St 1st, 1996; 26 x 18cm, 364pp, some photos, maps; fine inc d/w. Airfield lists, unit histories with locations, Jasta colours & references to every pilot. |
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| BN: 27979 |
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| Franks, Norman & Hal Giblin UNDER THE GUNS OF THE GERMAN ACES - |
£16.00 |
| Grub St 1st, 1997; 26 x 22cm, 192pp, f.illus; fine inc d/w.The careers of the allied airmen who were brought down by Immelmann, Goering, Voss & Lothar von Richthofen. |
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| BN: 29800 |
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| 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. |
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| BN: 29419 |
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| Franks, Norman; Hal Giblin & N.McCrery. UNDER THE GUNS OF THE RED BARON - Record of Von Richthofen's victories & victims. |
£16.00 |
| Grub St 1st, 1995; 26 x 22cm, 224pp, f.illus (some col plates); fine inc d/w.Potted histories of the combats in which v-R was successful - and the careers of the victims. |
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| BN: 27070 |
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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. |
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| BN: 29798 |
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| 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. |
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| BN: 29931 |
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| 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. |
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| BN: 23700 |
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| 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, nr fine 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). |
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| 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. |
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| BN: 23699 |
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