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McKee,Alexander THE FRIENDLESS SKY - the story of air combat in WW 1. £16.00
Souvenir Press 1st, 1962; 256pp, 26 photos, nice aircraft line drgs on endpapers; fine, vg d/w. Well-written book based on previous literature.  
BN: 21870  
McMinnies Flt Cdr W.G. PRACTICAL FLYING - complete course of flying instruction. £24.00
Temple Press 1st, 1918; 19 X 13cm, 237pp, many diags, map, advts; vg..Good period "picture" of WW1 instruction practice.  
BN: 22183  
Middleton, Edgar C. AIRFARE OF TODAY AND OF THE FUTURE - £15.00
Constable 1917; 192pp, 8 photos, 5 diags; vg except fep removed.  Contemporary review of the war in the air - a fairly elementary account but with some good photos of aircraft at the Whitehead (Richmond) aircraft factory.  
BN: 23602  
Middleton,Edgar C. GLORIOUS EXPLOITS OF THE AIR - £15.00
Simpkin "Cheap re-issue", 1918, from 1917 1st; 19 x 12cm, 187pp; cloth sl worn, few pages sl marked. Brief description of the air war; attitudes, fighting the airships, submarine patrols, French & German Services and "some curious adventures".  
BN: 23235  
Middleton,Edgar C. THE WAY OF THE AIR - £18.00
Heinemann 1st, 1917; 20 x 14cm, 184pp; vg; scarce. Popular-style description of the air war.  
BN: 21991  

Money R.R.  FLYING AND SOLDIERING -  

£24.00
Nicholson & Watson 1st, 1936; 32Opp, 7 photos; vg  Author flew with 12 Sqdn in WW 1 & was taken prisoner; later served in Fleet Air Arm.  
BN: 23736
Moore , Major W.G EARLY BIRD - £20.00
Putnam 1st, 1963; 146pp, 33 illus; fine, vg d/w.   Memoirs of a WW1 naval Airman - Isle of Grain, East Africa, deck landing experiences.  
BN: 22186  
Morris, Alan FIRST OF THE MANY - The story of Independent Force, RAF. £16.00
Jarrolds 1st, 1968; 188pp, 17 illus, biblio, ep maps; near fine inc d/w.  Story of the WW 1 fore-runner of all the later strategic air forces & its adventures.  
BN: 22187  
Morris,Capt Joseph THE GERMAN AIR RAIDS ON GREAT BRITAIN, 1914-1918 - £12.50
- Naval & Military Press card-cover edn, 1993; fine -  
BN: 22188  
Mowthorpe, Ces BATTLEBAGS - British Airships of the first world war. £18.00  
Wren's Park 1st, 1998; 27 x 20cm, 194pp, f.illus (photos, plans, map; fine inc d/w.  Illustrated history, by classes and individual airships.  
BN: 27978  
Munson, Kenneth THE POCKET ENCYCLOPEDIA OF BOMBERS AT WAR - £7.50
Blandford, 1977, combining previous books on WW 1 & WW 2 bombers; fine inc d/w.  
BN: 26873  
Munson, Kenneth AIRCRAFT OF WORLD WAR 1 - £7.50
Ian Allan 1st, 1967; 19 x 13cm, 175pp, f.illus; fine inc d/w.  Brief type histories, with one photo per basic type plus main technical details. Also - "Pocket Encyclopedia of World Aircraft - Bombers at War" (combining "1914-18" with Bombers 1939-45"; fine, vg d/w - £7.50  
BN: 20996  
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Norris, Geoffrey THE ROYAL FLYING CORPS, A HISTORY - £15.00
Muller 1st, 1965; 256pp, 18 photos; fine. One of the better brief histories of the development of the RFC and its aircraft.  
BN: 24081  
 Nowarra H.J & K.S.Brown  VON RICHTHOFEN AND THE "FLYING CIRCUS" - Harleyford/Aero Pub 3rd (Enlarged) Imp (1964) of 1st, 1958 ; (USA printed); 28 x 23cm, 208pp, f.illus (photos, maps); fine, near fine  d/w.  £36.00
 Career history, with details inc 3-view drgs of aircraft types used; map of last flight indicating routes
of the aircraft concerned.  Also another, 1st, vg, v ragged d/w - £24
 
BN: 25868  

Nowarra H.J.  50 JAHRE DEUTSCHE LUFTWAFFE -  Band 1 - 1910-1915.  

£14.00
Author-published, 1961; 212pp, mostly pictorial; mostly vg but fep removed & title page torn at base;  Pictorial record of German aviation 1910-1915; many photos, data tables; captions in German & English.  Also Vol 2 (1915-'18) (pub by Intyprint Italy & Aero Books USA) 230pp; captions in German, English & Italian; near fine, vg d/w - £25
BN: 29805

Nowarra, Heinz, Robertson, Cooksley & others  MARINE AIRCRAFT OF THE 1914-1918 WAR -  

£70.00
Harleyford, 1966; 29 x 22cm, 210pp, photos, fold-out line drgs; fine inc d/w!  Contains photos & 3-view 1/72 scale line drgs of 56 types, photos (only) of many others & comprehensive data tables. (With the rec. & bomber book, the scarcest of the series)
BN: 21453
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Oughton, Fred'k THE ACES - £15.00
Spearman 1st, 1961; 390pp, 68 illus (mostly photos), appendices, good biblio; vg, good d/w. Good collection of WW 1 flying stories.  
BN: 23703  

 

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