Search Results: Aviation from Lawrence Jones

Cambridge: Patrick Stephens, 1979. 232pp, index, bw ills, glossary, pictorial endpapers. Or cloth in jacket. Price clipped, slight fading to spine.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good. 8vo.

London: Gale & Polden, 1930. HEAVY. lxiv, 774pp, index, num bw ills (inc some folding), map, num adverts. Or blue cloth titled in gilt. Some white spotting to front, toning/foxing to page edges, one of folding plates with tear, 1 plate detached but present. Second year of issue. . First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good. 8vo.

Sydney: Newsouth Publishing, 2013. x, 309pp, index, bibliography, notes, bw ills. Or red boards in jacket. Near new. In August 1940 a Hudson bomber carrying three cabinet ministers crashes into a ridge near Canberra. The nation loses its key war leaders- and Robert Menzies' closest supporters- Geoffrey Smart, Sir Henry Gullert and James Fairbairn. The author recreates one of the most tense moments in Australian history.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good. 8vo.

Harrisburg, PA: The Military Service Publishing Company., 1952. 574pp, index, bw ills. Or blue cloth lacking jacket. Prev owner name on front free endpaper, spine faded. . Sixth Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/No Jacket. 8vo.

New York: Barse & Co., 1914. 252pp, bw frontis. Or red cloth, no jacket. Even toning to endpapers, slight fading to spine. Boy's story of military aviation in WW!.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/No Jacket. Illus. by Wrenn, Thomas N.. 8vo.

Canberra: Australian War Memorial, 1962. HEAVY. xvii, 731pp, index, appendices, tables, maps, bw ills. Or blue cloth in jacket. Prev owner anme at top of front free endpaper. Light rubbing to jacket, 1cm tear at top front of jacket. A very nice copy. The part played by Australians in increasing numbers in the first four years of WWII in Europe and the Middle EAst. In 1939 there was one Australian squadron in England and some 400 Australians in the RAF. At the end of 1943 there were 15000 Australian airmen serving in the war against Germany and Italy including 18 Australian squadrons.. Second Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good. 4to.

London: Salamander, 1996. 144pp, index, num bw & col ills. Or glossy pictorial boards in jacket. Light edge wear to jacket, prev owner name on front free endpaper in red, moderate foxing to endpapers/prelims. Surveys the history of aircraft nose art from WWI to the 1991 Gulf War.. Reprint. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good. 4to.

New York: McGraw Hill, 1955. viii, 392pp, index, num bw ills/diagrams. Cloth boards, no jacket. Front free endpaper removed, tape stains to endpapers, brief gift note opposite title page and 6 linequote written on title page. Includes propeller, jet and turbojet aircraft.. Revised Edition. Hard Cover. Good/No Jacket. 4to.

Weston Creek, ACT: Aerospace Publications, 1995. 163pp, num bw & col ills. Green cloth in jacket. Very light edge wear to jacket. Includes Douglas DC-3, Fokker F27, Boeing 707, Avro Lancastrian, DHA Drover, the short Empire flying boat, Bristol freighter, Boeing 767, DH.86, Lockheed L-188 Electra, Airbus 300, DH Dove, DH.84 Dragon, Douglas DC-2, Shorts flying boats, DHC Beaver and others.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good. 4to.

Weston Creek, ACT: Aerospace Publications, 1996. 178pp, num bw & col ills. Green cloth in jacket. Very light edge wear to jacket. Includes Airspeed Ambassador, Avro Anson, Consolidated Catalina, Lockheed Hudson, Noorduyn Norseman, Boeing 737, Vickers Viscount, Convair 240/340/440, Douglas DC-4, DH.114 Heron, Fokker F28 Fellowship, Douglas DC-6, Lockheed Constellation, McDonnell Douglas DC-9, Boeing 747, Airbus A320, BAe 146 and Boeing 727.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good. 4to.

New York: Osprey Publishing, 2008. 96pp, index, bibliography, appendices, bw & col ills. Cover slightly yellowed, light edge wear to cover. . Thrid Printing Thus. Soft Cover. Very Good. 4to.

Canberra: Air Power Development Centre, 2009. xviii, 265pp, index, bibliography, appendices, bw ills. Or pictorial card. Light edge wear to cover. SIGNED by author on title page. Combat support is the Air Force idion for all of the support it needs to run an operational air base. This book traces the history of Air Force combat support from its origins in WWI through to the modern era.. Signed by Author. First Edition. Soft Cover. Very Good. 4to.

Fyshwick: Aerospace Publications, 2002. 194pp, full list of Ansett aircraft 1936-2002, num bw & col ills. Pictorial card. Light edge wear to covers.. First Paperback. Soft Cover. Very Good. 4to.

Armidale: Alan Treloar, 1993. HEAVY. xviii, 377pp, index, appendices, bw ills, maps, endpaper maps. Green cloth in jacket. Light edge wear to jacket. SIGNED and inscribed to a LT Col by Alan Treloar on acknowledgements page. John Linton Treloar sailed in a ship of the First Convoy and kept a diary from that time until March 1917 with several interruptions due to illness. He served at Gallipoli and evacuated in September 1915 due to life threatening illness. In early 1916 he was appointed an original officer of 1 Squadron AFC and served in Egypt and France. . Signed by Author. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good. 4to.

Cranbrook, WA: Veritas Publishing, 1995. xiv, 315pp, index, notes/references, bw ills. Or brown cloth in jacket. Some foxing to page edges otherwise excellent. Revised and updated edition of the author's Destruction of Dresden (1963). In the book he condemns the aerial attack on an undefended city with no military installations, no proper air raid shelters and housing many thousands of refugees and wounded, which left between 50000 & 100000 dead. . Revised & Updated Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good. 8vo.

Adelaide: Rigby, 1979. 159pp, bw ills. Or boards in jackets. Short tear at top left of front jacket panel. Jerry Pentland served in WWI with the Royal Flying Corps after service with the Light Horse at Gallipoli becoming one of Australia's first Aces. Afetr the war he joined the newly formed RAAF, then flew as a private charter pilot on the goldfields of New Guinea. In WWII he served as an instructor, then with his New Guinea experience invaluable, commanded No. 1 Communications Flight, organising airstrips for emergency landings and rescue missions, followed by work on New Guinea's first radar grid. He stayed in New Guinea after the war, becoming a trader and later establishing a pioneering coffee plantation.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good. 8vo.

London: Grub Street, 2006. 221pp, index, bibliography, map, appendices, bw ills. Blue cloth in jacket. Tiny spot to forreedge. Full biography of this outstanding Australian fighter pilot whose fighting career spanned from 1916 to 1918 flying Nieuport Scouts, Triplanes and Camels with the RNAS and RAF.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Fine. 8vo.

Canberra: Australian War Memorial, 1968. xiii, 533pp, index, appendices, num bw ills, maps. Or blue cloth in jacket. Jacket with light edge wear and a couple of very short tears, light foxing. Light foxing to edges, tear to half title page. Australia's air war against Japan in the latter stages of WWII.. Second Printing. Hard Cover. Near Very Good/Very Good. 4to.

London: Oxford at the Clarendon Press., 1920. xi, 312pp, index, appendices, maps/tables/diagrams. Green cloth, no jacket. Some surface silverfishing to cloth, tear to window on movable 'solar control model' inside front cover, bookseller label on front free endpaper along with prev owner name.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Near Very Good/No Jacket. 8vo.

London: Grub Street, 2006. 221pp, index, bibliography, appendices, bw ills, map, tables. Light blue cloth in jacket. As new. Biography of Major Roderic Dallas, Australia's greatest air ace of all time with at least 48 victories to his name. His fighting career spanned 1916-1918, flying Nieuport Scouts, triplanes and Camels.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Fine. 8vo.