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Robertson, Bruce SOPWITH - THE MAN AND HIS AIRCRAFT - £25.00
Air Review 1st, (Harleyford) 1970; 29 x 23cm, 244pp, f.illus; nr fine, chipped d/w. Contains 3-view line drgs of 29 types, photos of these & others and much detailed history. Other copies also available inc (1st, fine, nr fine d/w with authors@ plate - £30  
BN: 21768  
Robertson, Bruce (Ed'r) & others. AIR ACES OF THE 1914-1918 WAR - £26.00
Harleyford 2nd (rev'd) imp, 1959; 29 x 23cm, 211pp, f.illus; near fine, vg d/w.  Short biographies of many of the "aces" & aircraft photos. Cheaper copies sometimes in stock. Please enquire.  
BN: 23665  
Robinson, Dr Douglas H. THE ZEPPELIN IN COMBAT - a history of the German Naval Airship Division, 1912-1918. £30.00
Foulis 2nd edn, 1966,(from 1962 1st); 417pp, 50 plates, 26 diags & charts; fine, faded & chipped d/w. Highly recommended history.  
BN: 22007  

Rochford, Sqdn Ldr Leonard H.  I CHOSE THE SKY -  Kimber 1st, 1977; 224pp, 72 photos; nr fine inc d/w.

£16.00
"Titch" Rochford flew Pups & Camels with No 3 RNAS Squadron; many other squadron members mentioned; all who served from Feb'17 to Nov'18 listed. A well-written description of WW 1 air fighting.  
BN: 24953  
"Roger Vee" (Vivian Voss) "FLYING MINNOWS" - £20.00
A & A.P. 2nd edn,1977 (with new preface by Voss) from J.Hamilton 1st of 1935; 320pp + appendices; 14 photos; fine, sl stained d/w; picture from front of original d/w stuck to fep; written dedication by Norman Franks to Chaz Bowyer. Memoirs of a World War 1 fighter pilot, from training in Canada to the Front Line, 1917-18  
BN: 22152  
Rosher, Harold IN THE ROYAL NAVAL AIR SERVICE - £28.00
Chatto 1st, 1916; 17 x 12cm, 149pp, 22 photos; vg (nr fine int).Letters sent by the author to his family, August 1914 to Feb 1916.Also - the scarce soft-back edn 1917, inc 3 extra letters & picture f cover; signed by A.H.Curtiss (RFC); lacking 1 plate & with ragged spine - £16.  
BN: 22721  

Roustam-Bek, Lt Col. B  AERIAL RUSSIA -  The Romance of the giant aeroplane:  John Lane, 1916; 20 x 13cms, 154pp, 20 photos; a few pages ragged at edge, o/w vg throughout.

£70.00
Description of Russian developments from 1909 to early WW 1 period. ; photos of Sikorsky and other types; scarce.   
BN: 22199  

Royal Flying Corps  TECHNICAL NOTES -  1916 original khaki col.cloth; 20 x 13cm, 42pp; rigging diags at rear; good-vg (binding weak, cloth soiled).

£50.00
Covers 11 engine types & 13 aircraft types (with fold-out rigging diags for all the aircraft types).  
BN: 22220  
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Sanger, Ray  NIEUPORT AIRCRAFT OF WORLD WAR ONE -  Crowood, 2002; 29 x 23cm, 192pp, f. illus; nr fine inc d/w £20.00  
A leading pioneer aviator, Nieuport founded his aircraft company in 1910; this marque history covers his products from the beginning and through WW 1 with details & many photos of all types. And many of their exploits.    
BN: 31395    
Schroeder,Hans AN AIRMAN REMEMBERS - £28.00
Hamilton 1st, nd (1930s); 320pp, 30 photos; vg int, spinecloth faded & rear cloth sl marked. Memoirs of a Russian Front observer of Flying Section 58, flying Aviatiks, 1916-17, and later as intelligence officer; Translated from German by Sykes. Also - Av. B.C. edn, nr fine, torn d/w - £17.50.  
BN: 22200

Scott, Gp Capt A.J.L.  SIXTY SQUADRON R.A.F. - 1916-1919 -  Greenhill reprint, 1990; 145pp, 21 illus, 2 maps plus added notes by Sqdn LdrD.W.Warne on the Squadron's post-WW 1 history. nr fine inc d/w.

£16.00
Modern reprint of one of the now-scarce original WW 1 squadron histories.  Also - card-cover edn, fine - £12; Also - Naval & Mil Press reprint, card covers, fine - £11.50
BN: 24818
Seely, Rt Hon. J.E.B. FEAR, AND BE SLAIN - Adventures by Land, Sea and Air. £16.00
H & S, 1931 reprinted 1st; 306pp; vg ext, sl foxing & few pps loose.. Personal memoirs including flights on staff duty, during and after WW 1.  
BN: 25344
Shores, Christopher, Norman Franks & Russell Guest ABOVE THE TRENCHES - The Fighter Aces & Units of the British Empire Air Forces, 1915-1920. £38.00
Grub St 1st, 1990; 25 x 19cm, 397pp, many photos, map; fine, vg d/w; signed dedication to Chaz Bowyer by all 3 authors & a few ink annotations (corrections?) by C.B. Details individual careers, combat records & eventual fates of those having scored five or more victories; also a brief view of the war in the air and individual squadron histories.Also - another, nr fine, without plate - £28. ALSO - the SUPPLEMENT vol, 1996; 62pp, 65 photos; nr fine - £12.  
BN: 26138
Smithers,A.J. WONDER ACES OF THE AIR - the flying heroes of the great war. £9
Gordon & Cremonesi 1st, 1980; 212pp, 13 photos, drgs; fine, vg d/w. An anthology of potted biographies with tinted photos.  
BN: 24877
Springs,Elliott White (Ed'r) WAR BIRDS - DIARY OF AN UNKNOWN AVIATOR - £30.00
Doran USA "large edn" 1926; 277pp, illus by Clayton Knight (plates inc 5 col, endpaper drgs & other drgs in text); vg (nr fine int, spinecloth sl rubbed) .Diary of J.M.Grider, edited & arranged by Springs after author's death. Also cheaper copies of various editions John Hamilton UK (1926)- £24 and Temple Press "Classics" £7.50.  
BN: 22202

 

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