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FLYING LEGENDS - A PHOTOGRAPHIC STUDY OF THE GREAT PISTON COMBAT AIRCRAFT OF WWII
Written by Tony Holmes. Illustrated by John M. Dibbs.
Stock no. 1323630
Published by The Plane Picture Co. Publishing. 1st 1996. Fine condition in a slightly better than very good dustwrapper.

Large oblong format. Blue cloth. Colour photographs throughout by Dibbs. ISBN: 0952958805. Dustwrapper is browned to spine.

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BRITISH AIRWAYS AN AIRLINE AND ITS AIRCRAFT VOLUME 1: 1919-1939 THE IMPERIAL YEARS
Written by R.E.G. Davies.
Stock no. 2140197
Published by Paladwr Press. 1st USA 2005. Slightly better than very good condition in a slightly better than very good dustwrapper.

Oblong format. Blue cloth, gilt title to spine. Maps to endpapers. Colour illustrations & b/w photos. ISBN: 1888962240.

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JAGDSTAFFEL 356
Written by M.E. Kahnert.
Stock no. 1823934
Published by John Hamilton Ltd.. Very good condition in a almost very good dustwrapper.

Although the author has obviously given this Jagdstaffel a fictitious number and changed the names of the pilots composing it, the incidents related in this book have a genuine ring and will be recognised as facts by anyone who has had experience of flying on the western front. Orange cloth boards, black title to spine. B/w photos. Corners bumped, top & tail of spine slightly discoloured. Text block and page browning. Some foxing to contents. Price-cut pictorial dustwrapper is edge-worn and torn with slight loss, rear panel is grubby.

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SOPWITH - THE MAN AND HIS AIRCRAFT
Written by Bruce Robertson. Illustrated by J.D. Carrick; Peter G. Cooksley; W.F. Hepworth.
Stock no. 2139936
Published by Air Review Ltd.. 1st 1970. Very good condition in a almost very good dustwrapper.

Large format. Blue cloth. B/w photos. Colour frontis. Aircraft diagrams. ISBN: 0900435151. Some browning to covers. Browning to endpapers and outer page edges. Wrapper is edge-creased with tears and chips; a little loss; some scuffing.

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SCORPIONS STING: THE STORY OF No. 84 SQUADRON ROYAL AIR FORCE 1917-1992
Written by Don Neate.
Stock no. 2139935
Published by Air-Britain (historians) Ltd.. 1st 1994. Very good condition.

Large format. Glazed pictorial boards. B/w photos. ISBN: 085130222X. Spine is bumped and faded. Corners are bumped, with wear. Scuffing and bumping to edges, especially bottom edge of rear cover. Some browning and grubby marks to outer page edges.

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HANDLEY PAGE BOMBERS OF THE FIRST WORLD WAR
Written by Chaz Bowyer.
Stock no. 2139893
Published by Aston Publications. 1st 1992. Very good condition in a very good dustwrapper.

Large format. Blue cloth boards, gilt title to spine. B/w photos. ISBN: 1946627681. Page edge browning. Wrapper is a bit browned with some fading to spine.

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THE CUXHAVEN RAID
Written by R.D. Layman.
Stock no. 2139867
Published by Conway Maritime Press. 1st 1985. Very good condition in a very good dustwrapper.

The world's first carrier air strike. B/w photos. ISBN: 0851773273. Some browning and marks to outer page edges. Wrapper is edge-creased with a faded spine.

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LEISURE AIRLINES OF EUROPE
Written by Klaus Vomhof.
Stock no. 2139839
Published by Scoval Publishing Ltd. 1st 2001. Slightly better than very good condition in a slightly better than very good dustwrapper.

An illustrated history of the Airlines that did so much to reduce costs of travel for millions of east and west Europeans. Large format. Matt pictorial boards. Colour photos. ISBN: 1902236092.

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THE FLYING BOOK 1917
Written by W.L. Wade.
Stock no. 1823834
Published by Longmans, Green & Co.; The Aviation World Publishing Company. 1917. Very good condition.

Brown boards, colour pictorial onlay to front. B/w photos and illustrations. 18 pages + 291 pages plus 8 pages of adverts. Rebound with new boards, original front cover onlaid to front board (small patch of surface paper loss). New endpapers with original pastedowns on inside boards. A few foxspots present. Plate facing page 103 replaced with a loosely inserted photocopy. Rear board a little grubby.

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SPITFIRE VS BF 109 BATTLE OF BRITAIN
Written by Tony Holmes.
Stock no. 1823827
Published by Osprey Publishing. 2013. Fine condition.

An account of machines of war pitted against each other, and the combatants who operated them. Pictorial cardwraps. B/w & colour photos. ISBN: 9781846031908. 8th impression. A very nice, clean copy.

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THE SPEED SEEKERS
Written by Thomas G. Foxworth.
Stock no. 1823816
Published by Foulis; Haynes Publishing Group. 1st thus 1989. Slightly better than very good condition in a nearly fine dustwrapper.

A book about aeroplanes and speed. Includes tables of aircraft and engine performance data complimenting scrupulously researched text. Large oblong format. B/w photos. 561 pages. Revised edition. ISBN: 0854297669. Text block a little grubby else contents fine. Pictorial dustwrapper is lightly scuffed.

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CONVAIR ADVANCED DESIGNS
Written by Robert E. Bradley.
Stock no. 1823815
Published by Speciality Press. 1st 2010. Fine condition in a slightly better than very good dustwrapper.

Secret Projects from San Diego 1923-1962. Consolidated Vultee, which later became Convair, built some of the world's best flying boats in the 1930s, and the world's best bombers during World War II. Large format. Glazed pictorial boards. B/w photos, illustrations & drawings. ISBN: 9781580071338. A nice, clean copy. Pictorial dustwrapper is lightly faded to spine and slightly grubby to rear.

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