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Gibson, Mary WARNEFORD, V.C. - £14.50
Fleet Air Arm Museum 1st, 1979; 128pp, illus.; near fine inc d/w (2 alternative versions of dust-wrapper with different pictures)  Biography of Flight Sub-Lt R.A.J.Warneford VC R.N.A.S. & story of his destruction of Zeppelin LZ37.  
BN: 25336

Gill,Capt N.J. THE FLYER'S GUIDE -  an elementary handbook for aviators. Rees 1st, 1916; 102pp, diags, adverts for RFC clothing; sl marked  (underlining, mostly pencil) o/w vg.  General textbook covering tuition, aircraft construction, engines, ignition etc; must have been a "starter book" for would-be RFC pilots.  UBN 21860      

£24.00
Goodall, Michael H. THE WIGHT AIRCRAFT -History of the Aviation Dept. of Samuel White, 1913-1919.  £20.00
Gentry Books 1st, 1973; 25 x 20cm, 194pp, f.illus (photos, line & structural drgs); fine inc d/w.  Well produced history, now becoming scarce. Also another, vg, good d/w - £16  
 BN: 26391

Grahame-White, Claude & Harry Harper  AIR POWER; NAVAL, MILITARY, COMMERCIAL -  Chapman & Hall 1st 1917; 262pp, 20 photos (inc some of G-W aircraft types); f endpaper removed, & sl foxing, o/w vg.

£20.00
Covers history of flight, air war, aircraft design, and makes predictions re post-war air travel, air law & commercial flying.  
BN:20951

 

 

Grinnell-Milne,Duncan  WIND IN THE WIRES -  Av Book Club edn of Hurst & Blackett 1st, 1930's; 288pp, portrait photo, 6 sketches by author; vg.

£20.00
The author served in 16 Sqdn (BE2cs), spent 3 years in captivity, then retrained on SE 5s to be CO of 56 Sqdn. Getting scarce.
BN: 22168
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Hadingham, Evan THE FIGHTING TRIPLANES - £24.00
H.Hamilton 1st, 1968; 28 x 21cm, 240pp, f.illus (photos & figs); fine, worn d/w.  Well-illustrated survey of the WW 1 triplanes of Britain, France, Germany, Italy & the USA.  
BN: 24869  
Hale, Richard W. (Ed'r) LETTERS OF WARWICK GREENE, 1915-1928 - £20.00
Houghton Mifflin (USA) 1st, 1931; 310pp, 13 photos; vg (corners bumped).Greene served in the "Aviation Service" from Sept 1917 until the end of WW 1 (described in a 76-page chapter).  
BN: 28785  
Hall,Lt Bert & John J.Niles ONE MAN'S WAR - the story of the Lafayette Escadrille. £30.00
Hamilton 2nd printing of 1st, 1929; 352pp, 23 illus (photos & Bridgman drgs inc some colour); preface by E.W.Springs; vg, front of original dustwrapper tipped-in at front; rear of wrapper stuck to rear endpaper.  Hall's career in the French Air Service, following adventures with the Turks & Bulgarians; the book includes his "mission to Russia" of 1917 and other adventures - with Mata Hari!.  
BN: 21648  
 Hare, Paul R.  AEROPLANES OF THE ROYAL AIRCRAFT FACTORY -  Crowood 1st, 1999; 29 x 23cm, 144pp, f.illus; fine inc d/w.   £22.00
 Well-illustrated company history in the attractive Crowood style.   
BN:  30024  
Harris, John Norman KNIGHTS OF THE AIR - Canadian Aces of WW 1. £8.00
Macmillan, Toronto, 1958 ("Great Stories of Canada" series); 160pp, drawings by Wheeler (inc aircraft types); vg int, sl worn cloth.  
BN: 27762  
 Hart, Percival Gray  HISTORY  0F THE 135th AERO SQUADRON - from July 25th to November 11, 1918.  £18.00
 Battery Press reprint (1990) of 1939 USA original; 180pp, 32 photos, poems, victory claims; fine.  
 BN: 30612  
Hartney,Lt Col Harold (USAF) WINGS OVER FRANCE - £16.00
Bailey & Swinfen, 1974; edited by Ulanoff, 360pp, 29 illus; fine inc d/w.Revision of author's "Up and At'Em" of 1940. Includes lists of U.S wartime aircraft, stations, 1st Pursuit Group victories etc.  
BN: 22169  
Hearn, Peter FLYING REBEL - the story of Louis Strange. £14.00
HMSO 1st, 1994; 25 x 16cm, 183pp, 34 photos; fine inc d/w. Flying career; one of the first group of pilots to fly to France to begin the air war, Strange finished WW 1 as wing commander; (see "Recollections of an airman"); he had another adventurous war in WW 2. Also another, vg, torn d/w - £10.  
BN: 27335  
Heydemarck, Oblt. DOPPELDECKER "C 666" - £20.00
Scherl, Berlin, c1918; 19 x 13cm, 112pp; German lang (Gothic script); picture cover, pages browned, title page crayon-marked; o/w vg. Early German version of "Double Decker C 666" (unillustrated, Gothic script with pleasant engraved front-cover picture). A "period" original.  
BN: 29155  
Heydemarck,Haupt FLYING SECTION 17 - £18.00
Hamilton 1st, 178pp, sketches in text; vg int (cloth sl damp-marked) Sequel to "Double-Decker C 666".  
BN: 21291  
Hodges, Goderic MEMOIRS OF AN OLD BALLOONATIC - £18.00
Kimber 1st, 1972; 175pp, 17 photos, diag; near fine inc d/w. WW 1 observation balloons - some excellent illustrations.  
BN: 21458  

 

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