Aviation

London: Regency House Publishing Ltd, 1993. 183pp inc many b&w and colour photos plus index - The history of the RAF, its ups and downs, in war and in peace, are surveyed by the author. Book is immaculate except for prior owner's name inked to FEP and flaps from DJ attached to FPDP. <B>Provenance</b> this book comes from the library of the late Ian de Hamel, who died in 2003, and who during WWII was a Flight Lt flying Sunderland aircraft with Coastal Command during 1944-45. It was purchased at Fellows and Sons Auction, Birmingham (UK) in Dec 2005.. Revised and Updated. Laminated. Fine -/No Jacket. 9.5 x 12". more information

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Gloucestershire, UK: Sutton Publishing Ltd in Association with the Public Record Office. Two volumes - Vol I: 1903-1939, 183pp and Vol II: 1939-1945, 182pp. Both volumes are indexed and include hundreds of B&W photos. Both are captioned photo albums and include many photos never before published from the earliest days of manned flight through to the end of WWII. DJs (price-clipped and in protective sleeves) and books are immaculate. <B>Provenance</b> this book comes from the library of the late Ian de Hamel, who died in 2003, and who during WWII was a Flight Lt flying Sunderland aircraft with Coastal Command during 1944-45. It was purchased at Fellows and Sons Auction, Birmingham (UK) in Dec 2005.. Reprint. Laminated. Fine/Fine -. 8 x 10.5". more information

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London: Hamlyn Publishing Group, 1979. 255pp inc index and hundreds of b&w and some colour photos - This edition was produced especially for the UK booksellers, W H Smith. Ellis surveys the history of military aviation and combat aircraft, from the late Victorian era through to supersonic aircraft of today. The author places special emphasis on the machines of WWII. <BR> <B>Provenance</b> this book comes from the library of the late Ian de Hamel, who died in 2003, and who during WWII was a Flight Lt flying Sunderland aircraft with Coastal Command during 1944-45. It was purchased at Fellows and Sons Auction, Birmingham (UK) in Dec 2005. Book and DJ (not price-clipped and in protective sleeve) are immaculate. <B>A large and heavy volume which may require additional shipping cost.</B>. First Thus. Cloth. Fine/Fine -. 9 x 12". more information

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London: Frederick Warne, 1976. 254pp inc index, 245 illustrations including b&w photos and silhouettes - No. 11 in Warne's "The Observer's Book" series. Colour illustration of the Panavia MRCA (multi-role combat aircraft) on cover. Some 137 aircraft are described with 245 illustrations and text in this, the 25th edition of this classic. <P>Covers (blue cloth faded on spine and front with blue-stamped titles to front and spine) are slightly soiled. Text block is clean and tight except for a couple of dog-eared pages. DJ (not price-clipped) is nicked, soiled and creased with edgewear esp to the top.. Revised. Cloth. Very Good +/Very Good -. Illus. by Punnett, Dennis (silhouettes). 3.75 x 5.75". more information

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London: Frederick Warne, 1986. 288pp inc index, b&w photos and silhouettes - No N1 in Warne's "The Observer's Book" series with colour photo of Embraer EMB-312 Tucanos on cover. Paperback cover is slightly wrinkled. It and about the first 15 pages of the text block are mottled from dampness, otherwise immaculate except for inked inscription inside front cover.. Revised. Decorative Paper. Fine -/No Jacket. Illus. by Punnett, Dennis (silhouettes). 4 x 6.25". more information

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London: Frederick Warne, 1960. 288pp inc index, b&w photos and silhouettes - No. 11 in Warne's "The Observer's Book" series. Colour photo of SAAB-32B Lansen on cover. About 150 aircraft are described with 272 illustrations and text. Cover (blue cloth faded on spine and front with blue-stamped titles to front and spine) is slightly soiled. Text block is immaculate except for inked inscription to FEP. DJ (front and spine only) is nicked, creased taped at hinge with spine, and has closed tear at flap hinge is tipped in.. Revised. Cloth. Very Good/Fair. 3.75 x 5.75". more information

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London: Blandford Press, 1988. 208pp inc index and and loads of b&w photos - The short history of amphibious warfare. <BR> <B>Provenance</b> this book comes from the library of the late Ian de Hamel, who died in 2003. De Hamel who during WWII was a Flight Lt flying Sunderland with Coastal Command during 1944-45. It was purchased at Fellows and Sons Auction, Birmingham (UK) in Dec 2005. Covers (pictorial card Stapled Wraps)and textblock are immaculate.. First Edition. Pictorial Card. Fine -/No Jacket. 7 x 10". more information

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London: Duckworth, 1929. 213pp inc b&w frontis portrait of the author and 8 other b &w plates - The author was a member of No. 45 Squadron on the Western front flying Sopwith 1 1/2 Strutters. He served throughout much of WWI, and was credited with eleven victories. <BR>Later, he was on Major W.T. Blake's round-the-world flight on May 24, 1922 departing from Croydon, England. Macmillan was the pilot with Blake handling co-pilot and navigator responsibilities. Macmillan suffered a hard landing at Marseilles, France and Blake decided to replace their plane with another DH-9 shuttled to them from England. Blake, Macmillan and Malins continued on through Europe, but the trip was beset by many further problems which caused them to scuttle the round-the-world flight attempt on August 25, 1922, according to the wingnet dot org website. <BR> <B>Provenance</b> this book comes from the library of the late Ian de Hamel, who died in 2003. De Hamel who during WWII was a Flight Lt flying Sunderland with Coastal Command during 1944-45. It was purchased at Fellows and Sons Auction, Birmingham (UK) in Dec 2005. The book was a gift from de Hamel's RAF colleague and friend, "Rodney... for Christmas 1988(?)" and includes in the inscription, the comment, "There must be some - at a distance - memories of your father among these pages... I could never confidently cope with being in the clouds, & without any shells of course!" <BR> Covers (blue cloth with gilt titles to sunned spine) are spotted, soiled and edgeworn. Book is clean and tight, except for inscription, some tanning of pages and soiling of page edges.. First Edition - 2nd Impression. Cloth. Very Good/No Jacket. 5.5 x 8.5". more information

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USA: Aero Publishers Inc, 1965. Unpaginated (52pp) inc more than 65 b&w illustrations - The history of "one of the truly remarkable Jet Fighters to come out of World War II". <BR> <B>Provenance</b> this book comes from the library of the late Ian de Hamel, who died in 2003. De Hamel who during WWII was a Flight Lt flying Sunderland with Coastal Command during 1944-45. It was purchased at Fellows and Sons Auction, Birmingham (UK) in Dec 2005. Covers (pictorial card Stapled Wraps) and textblock are immaculate except for crease to upper foredge corner.. First Edition. Pictorial Card. Very Good +/No Jacket. 7.5 x 10.5". more information

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London: Blandford Press, 1986. 478pp inc index and hundreds of b&w photos, charts, tables and other illustrations - O'Leary surveys the history of of military aviation and combat aircraft, in World War II. <BR> <B>Provenance</b> this book comes from the library of the late Ian de Hamel, who died in 2003, and who during WWII was a Flight Lt flying Sunderland aircraft with Coastal Command during 1944-45. It was purchased at Fellows and Sons Auction, Birmingham (UK) in Dec 2005. Book and DJ (price-clipped and in protective sleeve) are immaculate, except for light edgewear to the DJ. <B>A large and heavy volume which will require additional shipping cost.</B>. First Edition. Cloth. Fine/Fine -. 9 x 11". more information

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Dallas, Tx.: Morgan Aviation Books, 1965. 52pp inc 78 b&w photos - A volume in the publisher's "Famous Aircraft" series. The history of the seaplane, from before WWI through to the end of WWII. <BR> <B>Provenance</b> this book comes from the library of the late Ian de Hamel, who died in 2003. De Hamel who during WWII was a Flight Lt flying Sunderland with Coastal Command during 1944-45. It was purchased at Fellows and Sons Auction, Birmingham (UK) in Dec 2005. Covers (pictorial card Stapled Wraps) are tanned and edgeworn. Textblock is immaculate.. First Edition - 2nd Impression. Pictorial Card. Very Good +/No Jacket. 8.5 x 11". more information

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London: Hamish Hamilton. 220pp inc 6 b&w photographs - The lives of six leading aviators of the early part of the 20th century: A.V.Roe, Alcock and Brown, Charles Kingsford-Smith, Charles Lindberg, Antoine de Saint-Exupery, and Neville Duke. <BR> <B>Provenance</b> this book comes from the library of the late Ian de Hamel, who died in 2003, and who during WWII was a Flight Lt flying Sunderland aircraft with Coastal Command during 1944-45. It was purchased at Fellows and Sons Auction, Birmingham (UK) in Dec 2005. Covers (blue buckram with silver gilt titles to spine. Textblock is missing title page and FEP. Otherwise clean and tight. . Buckram. Good/No Jacket. more information

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USA: The Wrather Corporation, 1983. 32pp and loads of colour photos - The souvenir guide to the Flying Boat exhibition in Long Beach, Calif. Tells the story of Hughes and how the boat came to be. <BR> <B>Provenance</b> this book comes from the library of the late Ian de Hamel, who died in 2003. De Hamel who during WWII was a Flight Lt flying Sunderland with Coastal Command during 1944-45. It was purchased at Fellows and Sons Auction, Birmingham (UK) in Dec 2005. Covers (pictorial card Stapled Wraps) are very slightly soiled to the rear board. Textblock is immaculate.. First Edition. Pictorial Card. Fine -/No Jacket. 7 x 10". more information

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London: Harper & Brothers, 1946. x, 552pp - "This book is the fruit of curiosity. I wrote [it] to satisfy my own curiosity, and I hope that in passing along the results of my studies I may share with others some of the pleasure and profit of my work," says the author in his preface. From the profound to the inconsequential, the things we all wonder about, from the child's continuous wondering how things work, why things happen as they do, who was the first to do whatever, to the adult's more or less idle curiosity about the things that are almost so familiar as to never provoke curiosity such as "What does 'spitting image' mean?", Stimpson provides both the questions and the answers. A wonderful book in very good condition. <P>Covers (gray cloth with red Harpers' logo to front board and gilt titles to red bands on spine) are a bit soiled and edgeworn with bumped corners. Textblock has wetmark to bottom fore-corner, otherwise clean and tight.. First Edition. Cloth. Very Good/No Jacket. more information

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New York: Crescent Books, 1987. Unpaginated, rather this volume is columnar numbered with a total of 2514 columns of text inc encyclopaedic index, and a squadron of colour and b&w illustrations and photos - An encyclopaedic treatment of flight. From the very earliest failed attempts at flight to the Wright Brothers' first successful venture and thence to the Concorde and space flight. And all in the space of less than a century. <BR> Articles were written by Maurice Allward, Bill Gunston, Kenneth Munson, John D. R. Rawlings, H. G. Andersson, Gunnar Atterholm, Arthur Blake, Peter M. Bowers, Stanley Brogden, R. Brunnerfup, J. B. Cynk, Walter Dollfus, Bart Van Der Klaauw, Jean Liron, Harry mcDougall, David Mondey, Vaclav Nemecek, Vico Rosaspina, Ellchiro Sekigawa, Pierre Sparaco, Dario Vecino, and Mano Ziegler. Illustrators include: John W. Wood, John W. Wood, Norman Dinnage, Brian Hiley, William Hobson, Tony Mitcherll, Jack Pelling and Ake Gustavsson. <BR> Includes more than 200 colour technical drawings and more than 150 b&w drawings. Covers (blue cloth with white hot air balloon motif to front cover and white titles to spine) are slightly edgeworn. DJ (in protective sleeve and not price-clipped but there is no price stated) is slightly soiled and edgeworn. Textblock is immaculate. <B>A large and heavy volume which will require additional shipping cost. </b>. Reprint. Cloth. Fine/Fine -. Illus. by John W. Wood, Norman Dinnage, Brian Hiley, William Hobson, Tony Mitcherll, Jack Pelling, Ake Gustavsson. 11 x 12". more information

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London: Frederick Warne, 1978. 192pp inc index, 245 illustrations including 80 b&w and 8 colour photos - No. 48 in Warne's "The Observer's Book" series. Colour illustration of NASA's then proposed 14,000-tonne space station with Shuttle craft making a delivery. Documents the 63 manned spaceflights which had by then been made by the US and former USSR. <P>Covers (blue cloth with blue-stamped titles to front and spine) are minimally edgeworn. Text block and DJ (not price-clipped) are immaculate.. Reprint. Cloth. Very Good +/Very Good -. 3.75 x 5.75". more information

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London: New Burlington Books, 1980. 256pp inc index and many b&w and colour illustrations - The just under a century-long history of the airliner from the biplanes of the Wright Brothers through to the now-retired Concorde. <BR> <B>Provenance</b> this book comes from the library of the late Ian de Hamel, who died in 2003. De Hamel who during WWII was a Flight Lt flying Sunderland with Coastal Command during 1944-45. It was purchased at Fellows and Sons Auction, Birmingham (UK) in Dec 2005. DJ (not price-clipped and in protective sleeve) and textblock, except for light edgewear and rubbing to DJ.. First Edition. Cloth. Fine -/Fine -. 9 x 12". more information

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London: Reader's Digest Association, 1993. 544pp inc index and many b&w and colour illustrations - A photographic guide to antiques and collectibles, their types and pricing. Although the information generally is spot on, you must take into consideration the suggested prices are 14 years out of date. <P> Complete chapters included: Furniture, Pottery, Porcelain, Glassware, Silver, Gold, Jewellery, Clocks, Watches, Instruments, Carpets, Textiles, Costume, Fine Art, Prints, Toys, and Dolls. Book is immaculate. <B>A large and heavy volume which may require additional shipping cost.. First Edition. Laminated. Fine/No Jacket. Illus. by Various. 8.5 x 11.5". more information

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