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2006Q-1844153924Pen and Sword Aviation 2006-11-27. Hardcover. New. In shrink wrap. Looks like an interesting title! Pen and Sword Aviation hardcover
8vo., First Edition, with 8 plates and full-page map in the text, some mild offsetting from fold-ins to free endpapers; black cloth, gilt back, a very good, bright, clean copy in unclipped dustwrapper, the latter rubbed at head and tail of backstrip. A key work in the history of the war in the air in Burma, providing a first-hand illustrated account of service with 5 Squadron RAF in the Imphal Valley from 1944 onwards. Graham & Cole U45, V59, V58 respectively.
3 vols., 8vo., First Edition, with 8 plates and a full-page map in the text, first and third volumes with light offsetting from fold-ins to free endpapers; tops lightly age-soiled else a very good, firm set in unclipped dustwrapper, the wrappers lightly frayed at heads and tails of backstrips, and wrapper of third volume creased at joints. Moxon's celebrated 'Monsoon' trilogy is a key work in the history of the war in the air in Burma. It tells the story of a young Hurricane pilot during and after the war. The first volume is autobiographical, and provides a first-hand illustrated account of service with 5 Squadron RAF in the Imphal Valley from 1944 onwards. The second and third volumes, through based on the author's experiences, are closer to fiction; the second giving an action-packed account of the war to the Japanese surrender, the third dealing with the reintegration of the survivors into peacetime civilian life. The complete trilogy is scarce, especially in the dustwrappers. Graham & Cole U45, V59, V58 respectively.
1996285050PN. New. 1996. Soft Cover. Date is original print. This is a reprint edition . PN paperback
1993266436PN. New. 1993. Soft Cover. Date is original print. This is a reprint edition . PN paperback
1996293123PN. New. 1996. Soft Cover. Date is original print. This is a reprint edition . PN paperback
8vo., neat signature on front paste-down; blue cloth, backstrip lettered in black, a very good, clean copy in unclipped dustwrapper, the latter rubbed at edges.
176p. + Plus photographs. Inked ownership of Michael Raush, Da Nang, Vietnam, United States Naval Medical Corp. 1969-1970, American Naval Hospital. 8vo. Original full cloth binding. Original dust jacket, slightly soiled and worn. WWII 2
Features: 'Twas Ever So Good - The Famous 418 "City of Edmonton" Intruder Squadron of the RCAF; Stinson Reliant goes to Russia; Intergranular Corrosion - Part 3 of 6; In the Twyford Zone - Aircraft Washrooms; Hurry Up and Wait - tales from Jack Schofield. Nice copy. Magazine
8vo., First Edition, with photographs in the text; pictorial wrappers, wire-stitched as issued, covers lightly age-soiled else a very good, bright, clean copy. SCARCE.
1993268918PN. New. 1993. Soft Cover. Date is original print. This is a reprint edition . PN paperback
1996285625PN. New. 1996. Soft Cover. Date is original print. This is a reprint edition . PN paperback
1996285622PN. New. 1996. Soft Cover. Date is original print. This is a reprint edition . PN paperback
1996285624PN. New. 1996. Soft Cover. Date is original print. This is a reprint edition . PN paperback
1996285623PN. New. 1996. Soft Cover. Date is original print. This is a reprint edition . PN paperback
Signed [Carl] and inscribed to a local military museum by author upon front free endpaper. 306, [14] pages. Index of Stories. General Index. Chronology. List of Abbreviations. Printed upon glossy stock. Profusely illustrated with colour and black and white photos. Author "took five years to research and produce this book. As most RCN photo negatives and files had been systematically destroyed, the majority of the 550 book stories evolved from interviews and correspondence with nearly 300 Bansheeites and the photos were borrowed from many personal collections." - dust jacket. Small library stamps and bit of writing atop front endpapers otherwise clean, bright and unmarked with light wear. Binding tight. Dust jacket now preserved in glossy new archival-grade Brodart. A quality copy of this excellent Banshee reference. Cooke [3e] p.108 Book
20001322672PN. New. 2000. Soft Cover. Date is original print. This is a reprint edition . PN paperback
1996286457PN. New. 1996. Soft Cover. Date is original print. This is a reprint edition . PN paperback
1996288445PN. New. 1996. Soft Cover. Date is original print. This is a reprint edition . PN paperback
1996288346PN. New. 1996. Soft Cover. Date is original print. This is a reprint edition . PN paperback
46 pages. Features: 6 page article (with colour photos) on the 441 Tactical Fighter Squadron; Athabaska Airways and La Ronge Aviation Merge to form Transwest Air; Final Mission - Lt. Robert Hampton Gray's last act. Clean, bright copy. Book
42 pages. Features: Interesting Packard-Diesel photo ad inside front cover explains how their engine gains revs when going over mountain tops; Thompson Valve ad commemorates the "Southern Cross", piloted by Wing Commander Charles Kingford-Smith, which completed the first successful east-west Atlantic crossing in a heavier-than-air craft in 1930; New Features of Engines Exhibited at the National Aircraft Show; Wind Tunnel Tests and Performance Calculations on the Medvedeff Monobiplane; The Month's Best from the Foreign Press - The Development of Deck Flying (to/from aircraft carriers) with photo of Squadron Commander Dunning's first successful landing on the H.M.S. Furious, and three photos of the fatal second attempt; Airplane Motor Radio Shielding; Aircraft Servicing Solutions; Compensating the Compass - Periodic Inspection and Servicing; many more nostalgic ads. Unmarked with average wear. A sound vintage copy. Book
3117007Fine with no dust jacket. Envelope. Patriotic 1st class envelope. Marine aviator Captain Joe Foss has SIGNED and self-addressed the envelope. Fine with distinctive pictorial eagle with stars and stripes and printed statement - "We Won't Give Up Till They Give In!" Joe Foss nicknamed "Killer Joe Foss" was one of the most colorful Medal of Honor winners of the War. His 23 kills over the contested skies of Guadalcanel in 1942 served to lift the spirits of his comrades in this critically important campaign. . unknown
12112'H.M.S. Tauranga at Sea' undated but presumably on HMS Tauranga's maiden voyage to Australia 1890. 13pp. 12mo. On three bifoliums and a last single leaf. On aged and worn paper. A semi-literate but spirited epistle. Little is to be discovered concerning the identity of the writer. Addressed to 'My Darling Son' and signed 'good bye be good ever yours and yours alone William Kay' but with a few hints that the letter may not in fact be from a father to his son. Kay begins by stating that he is going to fulfil his promise and write 'a long letter'. Of the journey he writes: 'its not particularly rough but its the speed we are going that makes her roll we are now steaming past Deal at the rate of 19.8. so you can judge the rate we are going . we are ripping as the sailors call it. She's a very good sea boat so far. Shes alright down below but on deck oh my she simply washes down fore and half so we stay down below as much as we can. We had it rough last night off lands end but she behaved very well you would laugh if you were here we were standing on the forecastle last night watching her capers and a big fat wave came and washed us out of it she doesnt attempt to jump over them but she simply plunges right through it You ought to of seen us we was like a lot of drownded rats and then their was a yell how do you like Her.' He reports that 'we have a lot of young Blue Jacket sailor Boys on board we are going to take them out to Australia and I pittied them last night they were all sick and one of our little drumer sic Boys was that bad we had to take him to the Doctor in fact we thought he was going to roll up but he's alright now of course it doesnt effect us old seadogs'. He reports that the ship is going to Grimsby and Hull and then Torquay. He declares 'I shant kiss anybody else Annie Glenister ask me for one when I was at home but I wouldnt giver her one she said it was to bad of me she said if it was Lou Blane you wouldnt say no Not I. why should I you had better answer that one day when I was in No. 9 Union terrace the two annies got me down in the dressmaking shop and both of them kissed me what cheek but didnt I pay them out for it I got annie J. Down and capsized all her dressmaking gear all over her'. Docketed 'Very last letter. From on board ship.' HMS Tauranga was an Pearl-class Royal Navy cruiser built by J. & G. Thomson Glasgow and originally named HMS Phoenix. She was launched on 28 October 1889 and was renamed Tauranga as part of the Auxiliary Squadron of the Australia Station on 2 April 1890 arriving in Sydney with the squadron on 5 September 1891. She saw service during the Samoan civil war in 1899 and spent between 1901 and 1903 in reserve at Sydney before being assigned to the New Zealand division of the Australia Station. She left the Australia Station on 14 December 1904 and was sold for scrap in July 1906. 'H.M.S. Tauranga at Sea' [undated, but presumably on HMS Tauranga's maiden voyage to Australia, 1890]. unknown
1999052601NP: 39th FighterSquadron Association 1999. First Edition . Trade Paperback. Very Good/No Dust Jacket. Signed. A Very Good copy of this tall-format photo-illustrated plastic-ring-bound paperback. Signed by members Nicholas J. Fallier and Roy Seher. <br/> <br/> 39th FighterSquadron Association paperback
