AIRCRAFT PROFILES

Aircraft Profiles of WWI. [44 Profiles in all, bound alphabetically by manufacturer/aircraft.] FINE CUSTOM-BOUND COLLECTION OF WWI AIRCRAFT PROFILES

Profile Publications, Leatherhead,, [1970s]. 44 parts in 1 vol., 8vo., First Edition, with very numerous photographs and fine coloured illustrations throughout; strongly bound in maroon buckram, gilt back, ALL ORIGINAL WRAPPERS PRESERVED, all fine copies. The Profiles are bound in alphabetical order of manufacturer/aircraft. The collection comprises (series number in brackets) : Albatross DI-DIII (127); Albatross D V (9); O. Aviatik (Berg) D1 (151); B.E.2, 2a & 2b (133); Breguet 14 (157); Bristol Scouts C&D (139); Bristol Fighter (21); Bristol M.1 (193); Curtiss JN-4 (37); de Havilland D.H.2 (91); American D.H.4 (97); de Havilland D.H.4 (26); de Havilland D.H.5 (181); de Havilland D.H.9 (62); de Havilland D.H.10 (145); Fokker Dr.I (55); Fokker D.VII (25); Fokker D.VIII (67); Fokker Monoplanes (38); Gotha GI-GV (115); Hanriot HD1 (109); Junkers Monoplanes (187); Martinsyde Elephant (200); Nieuport I7 (49); Nieuport N.28C-I (79); Pfalz D III (43); Pfalz D XII (199); Phonix Scouts (175); R.E.8 (85); Roland C II (163); S.E.5 (103); S.E.5A (1); Short 184 (74); Siemens Schuckert D III & IV (86); Sopwith Camel F.I (31); Sopwith Dolphin (169); Sopwith Pup (13); Sopwith 7F.I Snipe (50); Sopwith 1&1/2 Strutter (121); Sopwith Triplane (73); Spad XIII C.1 (17); S.V.A. (Ansaldo) Scouts (61); Thomas-Morse Scout (68); Vickers F.B.27 Vimy (5). A SPLENDID COLLECTION SAFELY PRESERVED FOR THE FUTURE.

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Book number: 35809

Catalogue: Aviation0

Keywords: aviation, ww1, wwi, great war, aircraft profiles,

AIRCRAFT PROFILES

Aircraft Profiles [Volume 4]. Nos. 97-132. General Editor: Martin C. Windrow. NEAR FINE COPY

Profile Publications, Leatherhead,, [1966]. 8vo., First Edition, with very numerous coloured drawings and monochrome photographs throughout the text; ivory buckram boards lettered in gilt, brown buckram back lettered in gilt, a near fine copy. VERY SCARCE, ESPECIALLY IN THIS CONDITION.

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Book number: 40129

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Keywords: aviation, ww1, wwi, great war, ww2, wwii, aircraft profiles

AIRCRAFT PROFILES

Aircraft Profiles Nos. 1-262. MAGNIFICENT UNBROKEN RUN OF AIRCRAFT PROFILES

Profile Publications, [Windsor],, [?1964-1974]. 262 vols., 8vo., First Edition, with coloured and monochrome illustrations, and monochrome photographs; pictorial wrappers, wire-stitched as issued, a few covers lightly age-soiled else all very good, clean copies. The run comprises Nos. 1 - 262, encompassing all three cover styles of this well-known and much-collected series from its inception in the mid-1960s. RUNS OF THIS CALIBRE ARE EXTREMELY SCARCE.

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Book number: 45732

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Keywords: aviation, aircraft monographs, aircraft profiles, profile publications, ww1, wwi, great war, ww2, wwii

AIRCREW ASSOCIATION

Intercom 1-10. [The magazine of the Aircrew Association.] BRIGHT, CLEAN COPY

Privately Printed,, [1980]. 10 numbers in 1 vol., 8vo., First Edition, with photographs, illustrations and maps in the text; pictorial wrappers, passe-partout backstrip, a very good, bright, clean copy. SCARCE.

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Book number: 38293

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AIRCREW ASSOCIATION.

[Order of Service of] The Aircrew Association Family Service at the Air Forces Memorial, Runnymede, Surrey. 21 August 1994. NEAR FINE COPY

[Privately Printed],, 1994. 8vo., First Edition; printed wrappers, wire-stitched as issued, a near fine copy.

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Book number: 44468

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Keywords: aviation, ww2, wwii, raf, royal air force, aircrew association

AIRFLOW MAGAZINE

Airflow Magazine Vol. 3. Nos. 1-6 [July-December 1943]. SIX PARTS IN ORIGINAL BRANDED BINDER

RAF Ceylon Welfare, Colombo,, 1943. 6 numbers in one vol., 8vo., First Edition, with very numerous photographs, illustrations, cartoons and advertisements throughout; publisher's branded board binder, grey cloth back lettered in black, ALL ORIGINAL WRAPPERS PRESERVED, boards mildly age-soiled else a very good, bright, clean copy. SCARCE, ESPECIALLY IN THIS CONDITION.

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Book number: 40618

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Keywords: aviation, ww2, wwii, raf, royal air force, ceylon, sri lanka, airflow magazine

AIRFORCE JOURNAL

Official Service Journal of the US Army Air Forces. Facsimiles of Six Months, January - June 1943. Introduction by Captain Bernard W Peterson. NEAR FINE COPY

Chuckwalla Publisheding Scottsdale AZ,, [1992]. Roy. 4to., First Edition, with numerous photographs, illustrations and diagrams throughout; pictorial wrappers, a near fine copy.

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Book number: 40713

Catalogue: Aviation0

Keywords: aviation, ww2, wwii, us air force, airforce journal

ALCOCK Sir John

Our Transatlantic Flight. With an Introduction by Captain John Alcock. BRIGHT, CLEAN LIBRARY COPY IN UNCLIPPED DUSTWRAPPER

Kimber,, [1969]. 8vo., First Edition, with numerous plates; blue cloth, gilt back, blue top, a very good, bright, clean copy in unclipped dustwrapper. Sold from an institution with its neat stamps on front free endpaper and title verso;, and tape scars on free endpapers.

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Book number: 42662

Catalogue: Aviation0

Keywords: aviation, alcock, brown, transatlantic flights, john alcock, sir arthur whitten brown

ALEXANDER James

The Battle of Britain, July to October 1940. Classic, Rare and Unseen Photographs from the Daily Mail [newspaper]. NEAR FINE COPY IN DUSTWRAPPER

Transatlantic, [Croxley Green],, [2010]. Oblong 4to., First Edition, with frontispiece and very numerous fine full-page photoographs throughout, neat inscription on front free endpaper; laminated pictorial boards, a near fine copy in price-clipped dustwrapper.

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Book number: 35754

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ALLARD ET AL.] [D.C.

The Zero Fighter [Manual]. NEAR FINE COPY IN PUBLISHER'S SLIP-CASE

[KK, Tokyo],, [2001]. 4to., First Edition thus, text in Japanese (primarily) and English, with coloured and monochrome photographs and facsimiles, type profiles and liveries, and many hundreds of detailed technical drawings in the text, and superb cut-away illustrations as endpapers; pictorial boards, a near fine copy in publisher's card slip-case with dustwrapper. EXTREMELY SCARCE.

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Book number: 30717

Catalogue: Aviation0

Keywords: military, aviation, ww2,wwii, mitsubishi zero, zeke, allard

ALLEN Roy

Great Airports of the World. [Second Impression.] BRIGHT, CLEAN COPY IN UNCLIPPED DUSTWRAPPER

Ian Allan, [Shepperton],, [1968]. 8vo., Second Impression, with frontispiece, and numerous photographs and plans in the text; black cloth, backstrip lettered in silver, a very good, bright, clean copy in unclipped dustwrapper. First published in 1968. VERY SCARCE.

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Book number: 40592

Catalogue: Aviation0

Keywords: aviation, civil aviation, airports, airlines, roy allen

ALLEN Michael

Pursuit through Darkened Skies. An Ace Night-Fighter Crew in World War II. NEAR FINE COPY IN UNCLIPPED DUSTWRAPPER

Airlife, [Shrewsbury],, [1999]. 8vo., First Edition, with photographs and maps in the text; blue cloth, gilt back, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper.

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Book number: 40126

Catalogue: Aviation0

Keywords: aviation, ww2, wwii, raf, bomber command, fighter command, night fighters, michael allen

ALLEN R.C. Stafford

Theory of Flight for Glider Pilots. NEAR FINE COPY IN UNCLIPPED DUSTWRAPPER

Oliver & Boyd, Edinburgh,, [1962]. 8vo., First Edition, with diagrams in the text; red tweed cloth, backstrip lettered in silver, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper.

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Book number: 23369

Catalogue: Aviation0

Keywords: aviation, gliding, gliders, stafford allen

ALLWARD Maurice

Hurricane Special. NEAR FINE COPY

Ian Allan, [Shepperton],, [1975]. Sm. folio, First Edition, with photographs and illustrations; pictorial laminated boards, a near fine copy.

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Book number: 35600

Catalogue: Aviation0

Keywords: aviation, ww2, wwii, hurricane, hawker hurricane, battle of britain, aircraft monographs, maurice allward

AMBROSE Stephen E.

The Wild Blue. The Men and Boys who Flew the B-24s over Germany. FINE COPY IN DUSTWRAPPER

Simon & Schuster, New York NY,, [2001]. 8vo., First Edition, with 16 plates on 8; white boards, blue cloth back lettered in gilt, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper.

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Book number: 18195

Catalogue: Aviation0

Keywords: aviation, ww2, wwii, us air force, b-24, eighth air force, stephen ambrose