Aviation from lobstabooks

London BBC 1979 VG/VG First edition. (No significant damage to book or dj). Clean blue boards with gilt titling. All pages are present, and the binding is tight and solid. 240 pp including photographs. A detailed assessment of the social history of air travel starting in the 1920s. Many delightful images

Aero Publishers Glendale USA 1942 VG (original pictorial green cloth, sealed, minimal wear) Octavo 906pp illustrated with photographs and diagrams. Second printing. Amazing record of pre-World War II flying

Patrick Stephens Cambridge 1979 VG/VG (dj is a little scuffed) Octavo 265pp illustrated. Detailed history

Collins London undated c 1941 VG (original light blue and brown cloth binding, slightly 'soft' and a little marked, internally tight, bright and clean) 12mo unpaginated c 96pp illustrated throughout. A mixture of historic and up to date military and naval air power

Rand Research Study California 1991 Fine/fine (no faults with book or dj, as new) Octavo 219pp illustrated. Examines six major air campaigns: Midway, The Solomon Islands, Korea, Vietnam, El Dorado Canyon (Libya) and Desert Storm

John Adams Wargrave 1977 VG (printed green boards, gilt, no titles on spine) Large format, small folio. 42pp plus colour blanks with which to make aeroplanes. More than a toy...

Airlife Shrewsbury 1992 Fine/near fine (fine copy in near fine unclipped dj with minimal shelf wear to top edge, small pencil numerals front free endpaper) large octavo 156pp. Development and combat career of the North American P-51 Mustang. B/w photographs throughout.

Cassell London 1975 Vg/Vg (transparent protective wrapper to dj, ex library copy with usual library markings else no significant fault) octavo 402pp. With 56pp of b/w photographs and 3 maps.

HarperCollins London 2001 Vg/Vg (clean undamaged unclipped dj,clean black cloth with bright silver titles on spine, a very good sound clean copy with no marks or inscriptions, hint of faint yellowing outside page edges and very slightly shelf-cocked) octavo 215pp. First edition first printing. Account by a serving officer in the US Air Force's elite Special Operations Group of… Read more about this item

Hodder and Stoughton London 1985 Fine/fine (no faults with book or dj, as new) Substantial octavo 841pp illustrated. Definitive history

Island Books 2002 Fine/fine (no faults with book or dj, as new) Large octavo 256pp Profusely illustrated. The truly outstanding aircraft designs of the period...particularly The Supermarine Spitfire, the Avro Lancaster, Messerschmitt 109, P-51 Mustang and the B-17 Flying Fortress.

Airlife Shrewsbury 1996 Fine/fine (no faults with book or dj, as new) Octavo 224pp illustrated. Comprehensive work

Evans London 1954 VG/VG FIRST EDITION (dj has slight isolated edgewear. Neat gift inscription on front endpaper) Octavo. 215pp illustrated. The story of Group-Captain Leonard Cheshire VC DSO DFC

London: Grubstreet, 1999 VG Softcover. No significant faults with the book. Octavo 207pp with B&W photographs. A personal account of one of "the few" in the Battle of Britain and the air war.

Pilot Press London 1940 VG (original blue cloth with gilt eagle on front board, minimal wear) Large format, quarto. Fourth edtn revised. 64pp illustrated throughout. A nice piece of upbeat propaganda at the point during the war when the RAF was probably at its lowest

C Arthur Pearson Ltd London 1939 G (no dj, blue cloth worn around edges and spine, few small stains back board, internally small neat signature front free endpaper else contents clean and bright throughout) 12mo 208pp. First edition. A guide to the history and development of all types of aircraft, facts and figures, records, societies, clubs, gliding, airships and… Read more about this item