World War 1- softcover

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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  

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 - £16.00
Burrow, London c1918 (British adverts); card covers, 158pp, 10 photos, 6 Geoffrey Watson drgs; 3 advt pages at front replaced by copies, o/w vg. Study of the basic factors affecting applications of aviation at end WW2; much on WW 1, almost entirely from a European viewpoint.  
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  
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  

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  
 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  

Goblintooth Games  HOSTILE AIRCRAFT -  Miniature war-gamong rules.

£8.00
card covers, 28 x 21cm ring-bound, 60pp plus loose charts; fine.  The game attempts to recreate the air combats of the WW 1 period based on the aeroplanes available in 1915 up to October 1920 with data on the aircraft types selected & their performances.
BN: 30528
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  

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