Blacker Stewart (63 results)

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Paperback or Softback. Condition: New. The Winding Up of Companies in Ireland. Book.

Condition: New.

Condition: As New. Unread book in perfect condition.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. Hardback with Dust Jacket, (xii + 206pp), A Fine Copy.

Soft cover. Condition: Poor. No Jacket. Wear to covers and spine, mainly edges and corners, edges and corners a little creased and worn, top and bottom of spine chipped and worn, bottom 1 cm of spine missing, top 8 cm of back cover ripped and missing, also top 1/3 of page 173 - 176 , internally in good condition, pages crisp and clear but yellowing.…

Hardcover. Condition: Fair. No Jacket. Missing dust jacket; Readable copy. Pages may have considerable notes/highlighting. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.

PAP. Condition: New. New Book. Shipped from UK. Established seller since 2000.

PAP. Condition: New. New Book. Shipped from UK. Established seller since 2000.

HRD. Condition: New. New Book. Shipped from UK. Established seller since 2000.

Condition: Very Good. 9 pages. An authentic standalone article, extracted from a larger volume. Not a reprint or reproduction, but an original work in its own right. Preserved in a modern card cover, prepared for practicality - an unassuming but serviceable presentation that favours function over finery. Size: 14 x 22.5 cms. Category: Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine; Cosmo Books : 29 years on ABE, 47 years taking care of customers. A bookseller you can rely on. Softcover (Booklet - Unbound Pages).…

Blue Cloth. Condition: GOOD (Contents VERY GOOD). No Jacket. This is the first edition. Browned pages and fore'edges. Yellow coloured free endpages. Sunned outer cover binding spine and cover with damp stain marks and brown marks on it - grubby.This book will be POSTED AT OUR STANDARD RATES FULLY INSURED (UK) ONLY . Please email for further details. OFFERED FOR SALE BY A FULL-TIME STOCKHOLDING CAREER BOOKSELLER WHO TELLS YOU WHO THEY ARE AND WHAT THEIR TELEPHONE AND ADDRESS CONTACT DETAILS ARE! POSTED AT OUR STANDARD RATES FULLY INSURED! (UK ONLY). FEEL FREE TO E-MAIL FOR PHOTOGRAPHS AND FURTHER DETAILS. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾". Black & White Photos Throughout. (illustrator). Not Signed or Inscribed.…

Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Dust Jacket. this copy is tight and the interior is clean of marks, previous owners bookplate on the back of the front cover, quite a few newspaper clipping in the interior about the climb.

Condition: Very Good.

HRD. Condition: New. New Book. Shipped from UK. Established seller since 2000.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Robert M. McBride & Company January 1934 Binding: Hardcover NO DJ.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Dust Jacket. First Edition. 264 pp. Original black cloth covers w/ gilt title on spine. Binding lightly rubbed; spine ends bumped. Illust. from b/w photos. Contents nice.

Condition: New.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. First Edition. First Edition, First Printing. Published by National Travel Club, 1934. Octavo. Hardcover. Book is very good with toning to the pages throughout, and the previous owners name and address on the rear pastedown. No dust jacket. 100% positive feedback. 30 day money back guarantee. NEXT DAY SHIPPING! Excellent customer service. Please email with any questions. All books packed carefully and ship with free delivery confirmation/tracking. All books come with free bookmarks. Ships from Sag Harbor, New York.…

Condition: As New. Unread book in perfect condition.

Condition: Fair. Acceptable condition. No Dust Jacket (aeronautics, mount everest) A readable, intact copy that may have noticeable tears and wear to the spine. All pages of text are present, but they may include extensive notes and highlighting or be heavily stained. Includes reading copy only books.…

Ganzleinen, 8°, 299 S., 1.-5. Auflage, mit einem Vorwort von John Buchan, einem Bericht über die Verfilmung des Fluges von Geoffrey Barkas, sowie 46 Flugbildern und 6 Karten, Plänen und Tabellen Rücken etwas ausgeblichen, sonst guter Zustand.

EX-LIBRARY, Super octavo hardcover (G+), scruffy: spine shakey, segments lost, cracked, viewing glasses in pocket at rear): all our specials have minimal description to keep listing them viable. They are at least reading copies, complete and in reasonable condition, but usually secondhand; frequently they are superior examples. Ordering more than one book may reduce your overall postage costs. …

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. First American Edition, First Thus. Stated First American Edition. Text/Bright, clean As New. Gilt embossed black linen boards/VG; Strong & sound w/light rubs to corner tips & upper/lower spine, and fading to spine. DJ/None. PO label to front cover verso, and name & date to fEP. Photographs of the two participating Westland aircraft to endpapers. Frontispiece: Photo taken 100 feet above Everest. Chronology of the Everest Flight precedes text. Aircraft used were the original PV-6 prototype, registered G-ACBR (and also known as the Houston-Wallace) along with the Westland PV-3 G-ACAZ. Both airplanes were modified to inclued heating and oxygen equipment, fully enclosing the rear cockpits and using highly supercharged Bristol Pegasus IS.3 engines. Text, supported by photos, in 10 chapters: I, The Challenge of Everest!; II, Strategy & Preliminary Tactics; III, Final Tactics & Objectives; IV, The Flight to Indian; V, Flights Across India; VI, Nepal, Land of Mystery & Contrasts; VII, The Flying House-Party at Purnea; VIII, The Great Adventure; IX, The Flight Over Kangchenjunga; and, X, The Second Assault of Mout Everest. 3 appendices follow: I, Oxygen, Special Masks & Clothing; II, Duties of the Observers; and, III, The "Bristol" Pegasus S.3 Engine. Fine copy less dust jacket. …

Hardback. Condition: Mint. Dust Jacket Condition: Mint. Revised Edition. THE ADVENTURES AND INVENTIONS OF STEWART BLACKER Soldier, Aviator, Weapons Inventor. Barnaby Blacker. Pen & Sword, Barnsley. 2006 First edition. ISBN 1844154319 206pp Illustrated Hardback. Described as an 'Autobiography' this fantastic story is edited from Lt Col Blacker's diaries and journals by his grandson. His son Brian Blacker says in his foreword " my father, Stewart Blacker, was far from being an ordinary man. It would not be quite true to call him an eccentric, but when he passed his Staff College examinations, his examiners were obliged to say 'we are unable to classify this officer'. His almost pathological hatred of officialdom and what he called the 'abominable no-men of Whitehall', was only matched by his admiration for the martial races of the North-West of the Indian sub continent. Stewart Blacker was a remarkable figure. His inventions were used with significant effect both in WW1 and WW2. Most notable of these was the synchronised machine gun, attached to fighter planes that could fire through the propeller. He also designed the PIAT anti tank weapon which was used with dramatic effect during WW2, from Normandy until the end of the war. The book argues that with less obstruction from officialdom, the PIAT could have been ready at the start of the war to stop Blitzkreig in its tracks. As an aviation pioneer, flying (and crashing) planes soon after the Wright Brothers, he found himself in charge his Majesty's Air Force at the outset of WW1. Later after having seen the awful slaughter occurring in the trenches and feeling guilty he had chosen the easy option, he joined up with his old regiment and fought at Neuve Chapelle until he was injured in 1917. During the interwar years he continued to fly and develop weapons and was the first man to fly over the top of Everest. Ref A4 5. Signed by Brian Blacker.…

Cloth. Condition: Near Very Good. No Jacket. Foreword by John Buchan and an account of the filming of the flight by Geoffrey Barkas. With Illustrations from Photographs, Diagrams and Maps. Thrilling account of the Everest Flight by the members of the expedition. Frontis illus. is a photo of Lady Houston. Fold-Out Chart & Map. Blue cloth cover with blind embossed vignette of a Biplane flying over Mountains on front. Red lettering to spine. 279 Pages, 900g. Spine and much of front cover faded. Hinges sound. No inscriptions. Pages in very good clean condition. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.…

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Fair. Book tells the whole story of The Houston Mount Everest flight over the worlds highest mountain. and it describes the inception of the idea to fly over everest . One of the features of the book is the series of magnificent photographs. Large 8vo,Pp, xviii, 279 , [5] .Original blue cloth covered boards some slight shelf wear.Dust jacket fair some pieces missing from bottom and top of cover. inside good. Previous owners inscription front free.…

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. This copy is in fine, unmarked condition bound in blue cloth covered boards with bright gilt titling to the spine, which is sunned and gilt arms of Malvern College to the upper board. There is also a blind illustration embossed into the upper board dated April 1933. This copy is bright, tight, white and square. There is a prize book plate from Malvern College to the front paste down dated 1934. A dustwrapper is not present. A pail of cardboard spectacles is mounted in an envelope tipped into the rear endpaper. This is to view the Anaglyph photo between pages 222 & 223. International postal rates are calculated on a book weighing 1 Kilo, in cases where the book weighs more than 1 Kilo increased postal rates will be quoted, where the book weighs less then postage will be reduced accordingly. The first flight over Mount Everest was undertaken in April 1933 by two Westland aircraft. They were piloted by Douglas Douglas-Hamilton (then known as Lord Clydesdale) and David McIntyre, with Stewart Blacker and Sidney Bonnett in the observer seats. The expedition was financed by Lucy, Lady Houston. Prior to the First World War (1914-18), aircraft were limited to altitudes below about 10,000 feet. Technical advances in military aviation during that war, such as the invention of turbocharged and supercharged aircraft engines, allowed aircraft to reach higher altitudes. In 1918, Alexander Kellas (a British mountaineering physiologist) suggested that aircraft would soon be able to fly over Mount Everest, the highest mountain on Earth at 8,848 metres (29,029 ft), which would be useful for reconnaissance of potential climbing routes. At that time, the mountain had never been climbed. In 1919, Jean Casale made the first flight to exceed the altitude of Everest, but only for a short period, and actually flying over the mountain would be far more challenging. The main limitation of high altitude flight at this time was keeping the crews alive in the low pressure and cold temperature air. No progress on the idea was made during the 1920s, but in the early 1930s Lord Clydesdale became interested in the concept as an aviation first. Clydesdale was the youngest squadron leader in the Royal Air Force (he commanded 602 Squadron), and the son of Alfred Douglas-Hamilton, 13th Duke of Hamilton. No attempt could be made without substantial funding, so in September 1932 Clydesdale visited Lucy, Lady Houston at Kinrara (her estate in Scotland) to ask her to fund the expedition. The highly nationalistic Lady Houston was excited by the idea that Clydesdale put forward, feeling that flying over Everest would strengthen British rule in India (Houston was an outspoken opponent of the Indian independence movement) and impressed that Clydesdale had worn his kilt for dinner. She agreed to fund the expedition and became involved in its planning. Ref S 6.…

Ca. 22,5 x 15,5 cm. 299 (5) Seiten, mit 46 Flugbilder auf Tafeln, 6 Karten, Plänen und Tabellen. Türkisfarbener Original-Leinenband mit Kopffarbschnitt. Erste deutsche Ausgabe. Aus dem Englischen übertragen von Peter Wit. Schönes Exemplar.

Hardcover. Condition: Very good. Dust Jacket Condition: very good. first edition as stated. 7 x 10 in. 264 pp. Gray cloth boards with gilt medallion. Photo endpapers. Lavish B&W photo plates. Condition is VERY GOOD ; covers very clean but front board has some foxing/toning at edges. Spine mildly toned. Corners and spine ends bumped, minimal shelf wear. Binding tight. Armorial bookplate on front pastedown. Text clean and unmarked. DJ is VERY GOOD ; very clean, toning to edges and spine, large chips at front upper corner and spine head. Not clipped ($3.50) In a new Mylar wrapper. Expl. RGR.…