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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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THE VIVID AIR
Written by Alex Revell.
Stock no. 1823832
Published by William Kimber. 1st 1978. Very good condition in a very good dustwrapper.

Gerald and Michael Constable Maxwell. Fighter Pilots in both World Wars. Blue boards, gilt title to spine. B/w photos. ISBN: 0718303857. Contents browned. Slight musty odour. Blue pictorial dustwrapper is lightly browned, faded to spine with a few grubby marks.

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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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IN CLOUDS OF GLORY: AMERICAN AIRMEN WHO FLEW WITH THE BRITISH DURING THE GREAT WAR
Written by James J. Hudson.
Stock no. 1823825
Published by The University Of Arkansas Press. 1st 1990. Very good condition.

A study of American air aces who flew only with the Royal Flying Corps, Royal Naval Air Service, and the Royal Air Force during World War I. Blue pictorial cardwraps. B/w photos and folding map. Lengthy appendix of name, rank, date of service, as well as casualties. ISBN: 1557281246. Corners lightly rubbed. Old price label inside front cover. Text block lightly browned. Appendix of service has been ticked in pencil against many names and also annotations to same.

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COMBAT REPORT
Written by Bill Lambert.
Stock no. 1823822
Published by William Kimber. 1st 1973. Very good condition.

The typical experiences of RAF pilots in France in 1918, serving with No.24 Squadron. Blue cloth boards, silver title to spine. B/w photos. ISBN: 071830442X. Spine heavily faded, front board slightly bowed. Text block lightly browned, contents clean.

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WHEN THE COMICS WENT TO WAR
Written by Adam Riches.
Stock no. 1323017
Published by Mainstream Publishing Company (Edinburgh) Ltd.. 1st 2009. Very good condition in a very good dustwrapper.

A colourful authoritative history of the British war comic-book genre from the 1860s to the mid-1980s. Large format. Colour & b/w illustrations. ISBN: 9781845965549. Nasty (but small) dent to top edge of front cover. Old pencil price to front free-endpaper has been partially erased. Contents otherwise fine. Dustwrapper is just a little edge rubbed.

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THE GREAT WAR IN THE AIR
Written by John H. Morrow.
Stock no. 2139823
Published by Airlife. 1st 1993. Very good condition in a very good dustwrapper.

Military Aviation from 1909 to 1921. B/w photos. ISBN: 1853104450. Spine is faded. Some browning to wrapper spine.

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NIGHT RAIDERS OF THE AIR
Written by A.R. Kingsford.
Stock no. 2139821
Published by Greenhill Books. Circa 1988. Very good condition.

Being the experiences of a night flying pilot, who raided Hunland on many dark nights during the War. Pictorial cardwraps. B/w photos. ISBN: 185367009X. Spine is faded.

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NUMBER ONE IN WAR AND PEACE: THE HISTORY OF No. 1 SQUADRON 1912-2000
Written by Norman Franks; Mike O'Connor.
Stock no. 2139820
Published by Grub Street. 1st 2000. Slightly better than very good condition in a very good dustwrapper.

Red boards, gilt title to spine. B/w photos. ISBN: 1902304551. Wrapper is faded to spine.

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MCCUDDEN V.C.
Written by Christopher Cole.
Stock no. 2139818
Published by William Kimber. 1st 1967. Very good condition in a almost very good dustwrapper.

Grey boards with gilt title to spine. B/w photos. ISBN: 0718304608. Browning to endpapers and outer page edges. Wrapper is price-cut with a faded spine.

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SIXTY SQUADRON R.A.F.: A HISTORY OF THE SQUADRON 1916 - 1919
Written by A.J.L. Scott; Hugh Cecil.
Stock no. 2139817
Published by Greenhill Books. 1st thus 1990. Slightly better than very good condition in a very good dustwrapper.

Vintage Aviation Library. Green cloth covered boards with gilt title to spine. B/w photos. New edition, with additional material by D.W. Warne. ISBN: 1853670499. Page browning. Wrapper is a bit edge-creased and faded to spine.

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BRIEF GLORY: THE LIFE OF ARTHUR RHYS DAVIDS
Written by Alex Revell.
Stock no. 2139812
Published by William Kimber & Co. Limited. 1st 1984. Very good condition in a very good dustwrapper.

Blue boards with gilt title to spine. B/w photos. Arthur Rhys Davids was shot down and killed in October 1917. He was just 20 years old. ISBN: 0718305280. Uneven fading to spine. Page browning. Wrapper is lightly creased with some browning to spine.

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