THE ART OF FLYING by Captain Norman Macmillan MC, AFC

Hartford: Edwin Valentine Mitchell. Cloth. Good/No Jacket. No date, presumed circa 1928. Perhaps the first American edition, although printed in Great Britain. Beige cloth. No jacket. 175 pp. With black and white photo plates throughout. A thorough look at flying airplanes, considering seaplane flying, types of aircraft, aircraft design details, the use of senses, the art of test flying, etc. With photos of single engine seaplanes, monoplanes, biplanes, triplanes, flying boats, etc. Norman Macmillan was a pilot during World War I, serving in the British Armed Forces and considered an ace by having nine confirmed victories. GOOD condition. Area of dark scuffing/staining/soiling to the front cover, with some dark scuffs to the rear cover. Minor soiling, fading, scuffing and edgewear. Interior solid. Very minor scattered foxing, with a faint dampstain affecting the fore edge of a few pages. One sentence underlined in pencil in the text.

Hartford, Connecticut: Edwin Valentine Mitchell, [1929]. Second Edition, Revised and Enlarged. HB. Tan cloth, black lettering on front cover and spine, 12mo, 175 pp. Illustrated with photographs and drawings. Foreword by Air Vice-Marshall Sir Sefton Brancker. No marks in book, binding tight. Finger smudges on rear blank endpaper. Two small puncture holes on rear cover. In colorful illustrated dust jacket that shows minor chipping top of spine. Book condition VG in VG DJ.

Duckworth, London, 1928. 8vo, 159pp, black and white illustrations. A very good hardback copy in good dust jacket with damp stain to rear. Edges foxed. Previous owner's name. .

Hartford, Connecticut: Edwin Valentine Mitchell, 1929. Hardcover. Near Fine/Near Fine. First American edition (from British sheets). Small octavo. Illustrated. Contemporary ownership signature, a few tiny, light spots of foxing on the spine, and creases and small tears on a few pages of the text, thus very good in slightly soiled, but bright and just about fine dustwrapper. Scarce in jacket.

Duckworth 1929. An historically significant Jean Batten ASSOCIATION COPY: dated, signed and inscribed by the AUTHOR in 1931 to VICTOR DOREE, a fellow pioneer WW1 Royal Air Corps pilot, who in 1932 bought JEAN BATTEN her famous 'Gipsy Moth' aeroplane. Thus, it is likely that this copy of this book was a deciding factor in determining that Jean Batten would fly a Gipsy Moth. From the library of Ian Mackersey, Batten's biographer. DESCRIPTION: Scarce in d/w. Small octavo, light blue cloth boards with dark blue lettering to front board & spine, 175pp, illus, VG (slight rubbing to spine extrems & board corners, light tanning to eps & page edges, 1cm tear with loss to lower corner half-title page,) in d/w, VG- (top 3cm portion of spine missing, bruising & nicks to lower spine extrem, creasing & nicks to rear upper edge & front lower edge, 1cm untidy tear to rear lower edge & to upper front/flap fold, some soiling)