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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
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  AIRCRAFT IN THE GREAT WAR -  a record & study    Fisher Unwin 1st, 1915; 346pp, frontis photo; vg (v slight foxing to pge edges) o/w vg+;

£40.00
One of the scarcer Grahame-White books.
BN: 20986

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.(sl soiled cloth) Also another vg except with one plate photo-copied £12

£18.00
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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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!. Also - Popular edition, 1934 384pp, same illus; vg int, cloth sl soiled - £24  
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. £14.00
Macmillan, Toronto, 1958 ("Great Stories of Canada" series); 160pp, drawings by Wheeler (inc aircraft types); vg, sl worn d/w.  
BN: 27762  

Hart. Peter  SOMME SUCCESS -  The Royal Flying Corps and the Battle of the Somme, 1916.    Leo Cooper, 2001; 25 x 17cm, 224pp, f.illus; fine inc dw.

£15.00
BN: 31571  

Hart, Peter  ACES FALLING -  War above the trenches, 1918.  Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 2007; 386pp, 32 photos, 3 maps; as new (New price was £25)

£16.00
The evolution of the war, the rapid developments in air fighting, the stress on pilots - adding up to the "tragic story of 1918"  
BN: 31546  
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. £16.00
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  

Hellwig, Adrian   AUSTRALIAN HAWK OVER THE WESTERN FRONT -  A biography of Major R S Dallas  Grub St 2006; 221pp, 16 plates of photos, sketches in text, maps etc; fine inc d/w 

£14.00
WW 1 history of Australia's highest-scoring fighter pilot.
BN: 31401
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  DOUBLE-DECKER C.666 -  J. Hamilton 1st, 1931; 207pp, 16 plates, line drgs in text; vg (fine int)

£20.00
The first of the author's WW 1 memoirs, trans from German by Claude Sykes; 1915 story of "Section 17".  
BN: 22171  
Heydemarck,Haupt FLYING SECTION 17 - £18.00
Hamilton 1st, 178pp, sketches in text; vg int (cloth  damp-marked) Sequel to "Double-Decker C 666".  
BN: 21291  

Heydemarck,Haupt   WAR FLYING IN MACEDONIA -  Hamilton 1st, 1936; 196pp, 36 illus inc fold-out map & sketches; vg

£24.00
The third of the author's memoirs, covering service from end-1916 with Section 30, attached to the 1st Bulgarian Army in Serbia & Greece.  
BN: 25338  
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  

Howcroft, Jimmie  THE SONGS OF A BROKEN AIRMAN -  H & S nd (c1922?); 42pp, photo; cloth sl faded & soiled, o/w vg.

£16.00
Poems written after paralysis from a broken spine terminated career as RFC observer in 1916; vg.  
BN: 21965  

 

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