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"Theta"  WAR FLYING -  

 £10.00
Murray 1st, 1917; card covers, 18 x 11cm, 117pp, sketches; good int but very soiled ext. Quite scarce.  The letters of "Theta" to home, written in training & on photo-reconnaissance.

Air Board RIGGING NOTES - SPAD biplane Type S.VII £8.00
Individual aircraft notes; no covers, 21pp inc rigging diags; vg (holes punched for filing)  
BN: 30439

An Instructor  THE COMPLETE LEWIS GUN -  Gale & Polden, 1842, from a 1918 original; card covers, 18 x 12cm, 53pp, diags; vg.

 £7.50
BN: 31383

Baker, David  WILLIAM AVERY "BILLY" BISHOP -  the man and the aircraft he flew.  

£7.50
Outline Press 1990; card covers, 25 x 19cm, 127pp, f.illus (some col); fine.  Illustrated career story with col 3-view drgs of Nieuport Type 17 & Mike Roffe col painting of RE 7.
BN: 30847
Berry W.H. AIRCRAFT IN WAR AND COMMERCE - £18.00
Burrow, London c1918 (British adverts); card covers, 158pp, 10 photos, 6 Geoffrey Watson drgs;  Near-vg (owner's bookplate  inside f. cover), home=made slip-case.   Study of the basic factors affecting applications of aviation at end WW2; much on WW 1, almost entirely from a European viewpoint. Also another with 3 advt pages at front replaced by  copies, o/w vg. £16  
BN: 22158
Boelcke, Oswald HAUPTMANN BOELCKES FELDBERICHTE - £30.00
Perthes, 1916; soft covers, 18 x 12cm, 124pp, 16 photos; gothic German lang; vg. Original German career autobiography.  
BN: 29160
Bowyer,Chaz ALBERT BALL V.C. - £15.00
Crecy soft cover edn, 2001 (from 1st of 1977) with new (1994) preface; Author-signed; fine  Life & RFC career story of the famous "ace".  
BN: 22055

Bromet, Draper & others.  NAVAL EIGHT -  A History of No 8 Squadron RNAS - afterwards 208 Squadron RAF - 1916 - Armistice.

 £11.50
Naval & Military Press/Imp War Museum reprint, c2008, from 1931 original; card covers, 22 x 14cm, 207pp, 26 photos; new.   
BN: 31227

Burge, Major C. Gordon   THE ANNALS OF 100 SQUADRON -  a record of the war activities of the pioneer night bombing squadron in France, March 1917 to Nov 1918.

 £12.50
Naval & Military Press repring, from 1918 original; card covers, 23 x 15cm, 211pp, photos, dat-by-day reports, lists of squadron members; new  
BN: 31225
Clark, Alan ACES HIGH - the war in the air over the western front. £7.50
Weidenfeld & Nicolson card cover version of 1st, 1973; 26 x 18cm, 191pp, pictorial; near fine.  Well-illus general review.  
BN: 20891
Collyer,David FLYING - THE FIRST WORLD WAR IN KENT - £5.00
North Kent Books, 1982; 21 x 15cm landscape, 64pp, pictorial; fine.
BN: 25574

Cooksley, Peter G.  ROYAL FLYING CORPS HANDBOOK -1914-1918 -  Sutton, 2007 card cover edn (from the RFC/RNAS Handbook of 2000); 26 x 19cm, 213pp, f.illus; fine.

 £13.50
BN: 31379

Corbin. T,W.  AIRCRAFT, AIRSHIPS, AEROPLANES ETC -  The How does it work series No VI  

£12.00
Pearson, 1918; 18 x 12cm, 128pp, 21 figs, 12 plates, card covers; only fair (plates sl damaged & spine torn  rather scarce and very "period" item.  
BN: 24066
Costello, W.Brian A NURSERY OF THE AIR FORCE - the story of the Carleton Place great war airmen & the Brown/Richthofen saga. £12.00
Forest Beauty Products (USA) 1979; card covers, 187pp, f.illus; vg (lacks plain fep). Some general history of Canadian involvement in the 1914-18 Air War and brief biographies of some of the Canadian pilots from the region of Carleton Place who fought; the account of the Richthofen incident unsurprisingly backs the claims of Roy Brown for the victory.  
BN: 28558

Cowin, Hugh W.  ALLIED AVIATION OF WORLD WAR 1 -  a pictorial history of allied aviators and aircraft of the great war.   Psprey "Aviation Pioneers" series, 2000; card covers, 25 x 18cm, 96pp, f.illus; nr fine.

 £7.50
BN: 31405

 Dept of Aircraft Production TECHNICAL NOTES -   A set including BE 2C, Bristol F2 B, DH 5, DH 9, Maurice Farman Shorthorn, Nieuport Scout, RE 8, SE 5A, Sopwith Pup & SPAD S VII. (in v clean covers) 

£40.00
Ersten Offizier eines Luftschiffes Z 181 GEGEN BUKAREST - im Zeppelin gegen Bukarest. £20.00
Scherl, Berlin, c1916; card covers, 19 x 13cm, 107pp, German lang (Gothic script); piece cut from title page, o/w near-vg. Story of the raid.  
BN: 30026  

Fitch, Willis S.  WINGS IN THE NIGHT -  Marshall Jones, Boston, 1938); picture card covers302pp, 36 illus (mostly photos); vg.  

£18.00
Story of the day & night bombardment over the Alps, the Piave & the Adriatic Sea, by one of the American volunteers who trained, then served in Italy during WW 1.  
BN: 24892
Hackenberger, Willi DIE ALTEN ADLER - Pionere der deutschen Luftfahrt.  
Lehmanns card-cover edn of 1st, 1960; 185pp, 134 photos; German lang; near fine (owner's plate)("The old eagles - pioneers of German aviation").  
BN: 29809  
 		 £15.00

Illingworth, Capt A.E.  A HISTORY OF 24 SQUADRON -  Naval & Military Press/Imp War Mus. Facsimile reprint, c2008; card covers, 29 x 20cm, 104pp, photos, sketches, map, lists of members, col reprods of 3 famous Saundby paintings; new 

£12.00
BN: 31228
Jahn, Arthur DIE LUFTWAFFE - 1918. £20.00
Braunbeck, 1918; paper covers, 18 x 13cm, 5 col plates, photos & drgs; vg int, col picture covers sl ragged. Useful record of some of the German Air Force activities in WW 1.  
BN: 29820

Ketley B.E.  THE REFERENCE SOURCE GUIDE TO MILITARY AEROPLANES 1914-1918 -Hikoki Pub. 1992; 30 x 21cm, card covers, 301pp; shaded drgs; v near-fine. No 697 of Limited edn.

 £18.00
Information source lists, arranged by alphabetical order of aircraft types; index by country; illustrated notes on camouflage & markings; glossary & biblio.  
BN: 26146

Leighton, Lt R.T.  PILOTS' NOTES FOR THE HANDLING OF WW 1 WARPLANES & THEIR ROTARY ENGINES -  Shuttleworth Collection nd; card covers, 10pp, cockpit diags; nr fine.

 £4.00
Covers Avro biplanes, Sopwith 1 1/2 strutter & Pup.
BN: 23712

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