Fellowes Air Commodore (31 results)

hardcover. Condition: Good. Contents are tight; Name on ffep.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. 2nd Edition. Hardback in good condition- no jacket. Pages in good clean condition. Blue cloth board cover with black design. Inscription on front endpaper. Slight markings to cover.

Hardcover. Condition: About VG. Dust Jacket Condition: Lacking Dustjacket. 1st Edition. A patriotic wartime look at the Royal Air Force, but full of interesting information and illustration of wartime-era data. Foreword by Air Chief Marshall Sir Charles Portal. 320 pages, illustrations (including portrait,) diagrams, 23 cm. Clean interior with unmarked text. Previous owner's name to the fpde. Clean, cloth boards showing wear to the corner tips and the extremities of the spine. NB - Postal Rates shown by ABE are often incorrect and are vague estimates NOT guaranteed rates. We use Canada Post, the United States Postal Service and Asendia and try to offer very competitive postal charges - based on actual costs, no overcharging. Images are available. Shipped well packed. USA postage is usually $6.90 - $9.00 unless extra heavy/large. Canadian postage varies considerably depending on weight and destination. Postage to anywhere within Canada, can now be a maximum of US$16.00 for weights , including more than one book - up to 5kg total fitting the Flat Rate Box- boxed, insured, trackable and faster than regular parcels. Less will always be charged if rates indicate. NOW available - lower Trans-Canada rates for many major markets, and, new, considerably lower rates for Overseas destinations. Size: 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Book.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. First edition. Good. X library book with expected wear and markings.

Hardcover. Condition: Good Minus. No Jacket. First Printing. G-. Good reading copy. Ex-library with all markings. Text block is clean and tight. Gift inscription on front endpaper. Spine is splitting on one edge. Covers have some fading and spotting. Location: F10.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: 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.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. No dust jacket. Photograph available on request.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. Some wear to covers and spine, mainly edges and corners, corners bumped and worn, top and bottom of spine a little bumped and worn, slight lean to spine, internally in good condition, pages crisp and clear.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Poor. Undated. the jacket is torn and worn. the jacket has been repaired with brown paper. chipped. marked. tightly bound. [P.K.]. Our orders are shipped using tracked courier delivery services.

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: Very Good. Octavo in blue cloth binding. B&W photographs, 2 maps, charts and one anaglyph 3D photograph with 3D view in pocket at back of book. Condition: wear, soiling & rubbing to binding; corners bumped with minor fraying; else a good, tight copy. Pages: xix, 279.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. 1st Edition. Blue cloth, lettered/decorated in dark blue. 1st ed. 320 pp., nearly 300+ illus. Foxed text block edges and endpapers, minor shelf wear with tanning along edges. Color illus. dust jacket chipped at corners and spine extremities, shallow loss along bottom front panel edge, sunned spine panel, now in mylar. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Book.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Red hard cover with gilt lettering on spine and blind stamp illustrations of wings on front cover - light wear/Good. 320 pages including many illustrations. Foreword by Sir Charles Portal. Illustrated end pages. Content Good+. No date. (726g) Photo on request. As Books that Benefit gives the proceeds from the sale of this book to charity correct postage is asked for when more than default price quoted. (WH).

Reprint edition, 8vo, pp. [6], 11-264; pictorial front endpapers, rear map endpapers; original green cloth stamped in gilt on spine; a good, sound, and clean copy. Yakushi F40a: "Account of the first flight over Everest sponsored by Lady Houston in 1933.".

Cloth. Condition: Good Plus. Dust Jacket Condition: None. Reprint. With a foreword by John Buchan and an account of the filming of the flight by Geoffrey Barkas. With 57 illustrations from photographs, diagrams and maps. Navy cloth, red titles to spine. Reprint in same month as first edition. 279 pages. Colour fading to covers with some wear to extremities of spine. Complete with spectacles to view anaglyph between pages 222 and 223. . ("Anaglyph will appear in stereoscopic relief when it is seen through the viewing spectacles contained inside the back cover of this book.") Ownership decorative initial "P" and other ownership details in copperplate on front endpaper.

hardcover. Condition: Good. Hardback. No dust jacket. Photograph available on request.

Hard Cover. Condition: VG. No Jacket. Cheap Edition. 8vo. original blue cloth (a little rubbed & sunned with a few marks to boards, extremities slightly bumped, prev. owner's name to upper pastedown, spotting to leaf edges and endpapers; blub from rear jacket flap loosely enclosed, otherwise lacks dustwrapper); pp. xviii, 280 [last blank], [4 (pubs. advts.)], with 33 illustrations + endpaper maps. [Neate F17: This first flight over the summit of Everest, and film record, was a considerable achievement and a most dangerous undertaking].

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. Reprint. Hard cover, no dust jacket. Very good. Sunfaded on spine. Solid binding. Clean pages. Illustrated. With the glasses red round clear. and blue cardboard. 1932: MARCH Headquarters of flight located at College of Aeronautical Engineering, Chelsea, flan for flight to Mount Everest, sub- mitted by L. V. S. Blacker, considered by Council of Royal Geographical Society. APRIL Letter sent to Secretary of State for India by Council of R.G.S., intimating that in their opinion the plan is likely to produce valuable scientific results. Air Ministry grant facilities at the Royal Aircraft Establishment, RAJ. School of Photography, and Experimental Estab- lishment, Mardesham. Negotiations with Bristol Aeroplane Com- pany for Pegasus engine. Lord Peel and Colonel John Buchan join the Committee of the flight. MAY Official application made to India Office for permission to fly across Nepal. Colonel Etherton communicates with British Envoy in Nepal, a former brother officer. Size: 8vo - over 7 in- 9 in Tall. Book.

Hardback. Condition: good. Dust Jacket Condition: No Dust Jacket. blue coth binding some UV fade on the spine, some dings otherwise good, owner plate, still has 3D glasses in the pocket in the back board.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. 1st Edition. First edition. 8vo. pp. xix, 279; port. frontis. of Lady Houston, 64 photo. illusts. including "An Anaglyph from Vertical Photographs Taken Over Everest. Made to Appear in Stereoscopic Relief" (with accompanying 3-D spectacles in pocket at rear), 3 double-page photo. panoramas, maps inc. 2 folding, one folding table; very good in the navy cloth, lettered in red, in original d.-w., which is worn with some loss to head of spine with, loosely inserted, a letter from expedition member L. V. S. Blacker relating to the production in 1950 of a map of the Everest region, and an original The Times press photograph reproducing an image from the expedition ("Approaching Mt. Everest Houston-Everest expedition"). The first, and successful, flight over Everest using two Westland P.V. 3 aircraft. The superb images were later to provide information for the successful southern approach to and ascent of Everest in 1953. This copy contains a letter from expedition member L. V. Stewart Blacker to Ian Mumford, then at the Cartographic Department of the RGS, who at this time was working with Michael Ward to produce a map of the southern approaches to Mount Everest, based on photographs taken on Blacker's flight over Everest. Signed by Author(s).

2nd printing orig. cloth Nice Copy octavo xix + 279pp., frontis., b/w pls., fldg. maps, appends., index, Account of the With a foreword by John Buchan, C.H., M.P. and an account of the filming by Geoffrey Barkas. With 3D glasses in rear pocket. Nice tight copy in blue cloth, a little lighter at spine.

Decorated Blue Cloth. Condition: Very Good for Age. No Jacket. Many Photos (illustrator). First Edition. RAF & some of their opponents in WWII, 320 pp clean unmarked text, sound binding, Not exlib. Size: Crown. WWII RAF.

Condition: Near fine. First Edition, Third Impression. 279 pp. Octavo. In original blue cloth. Blindstamped image of a plane on the front board, red lettering on the spine. Spine somewhat sunned. Blue top edge; edges trimmed. Illustrated with 57 plates (including frontispiece portrait) from photographs, diagrams and a folding map. Viewer for looking at the three dimensional photographs in rear pocket. Neate F17. Account of the remarkable and dangerous first flight over Everest on which they made a valuable film record,with an account of the filming of the flight by Geoffrey Barkas.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. First Over Everest. The Houston-Mount Everest Expedition 1933 by Air Commodore P. F. M. FELLOWES. Publisher: John Lane The Bodley Head Ltd, 1934, First Edition, 5th impresssion. Very good hardback, no jacket. Comes with original 3D spectacles (for viewing anaglyph plate p222) in rear pocket. Cloth boards are faded, rubbed, marked, and bumped. Small tear to cloth at top of spine. Signature in pencil, inside front board. Binding firm, pages very good with a little foxing. 279 pages with photos and illustrations. Fold out maps and diagrams, tissue overlays to p32, and p58 all in very good condition. The first Mount Everest flight expedition was undertaken by Sir Douglas Douglas-Hamilton and David McIntyre in April 1933. They took off on an open cabin flight at 8:25 am on 3 April from Lalbalu Airfield and returned at 11:30 marking it as the first successful flight over Everest. The first expedition could not obtain clear photographs because of dust. They made another attempt on April 19, 1933, the pictures of which assisted Edmund Hillary and Tenzing Norgay to the top of Mount Everest.

Condition: Very Good. First edition in publisher's white paper printed stapled tabloid 13" x 9". New short stories and articles by: H. E. Bates - Book Review 'The Bathysphere'; Anthony Blunt 'Russian Art'; Air Commodore P. F. M. Fellowes 'The Monster of the Air'; A. S. J. Tessimond 'Two Poems'; Sir Evelyn Wrench 'In Rhineland - A New Outlook'; Graham Greene 'England Made Me' by William Plomer. In Very Good condition. Member of the P.B.F.A. BATES, H. E. (1906-1974).

Hard Cover. Condition: VG. No Jacket. First Edition. 8vo. original blindstamped blue cloth (rubbed & sunned with a few marks to boards, extremities a little nicked, prev. owner's name to upper pastedown; lacks dustwrapper); pp. xx [last blank], 280 [last blank], with 62 illustrations, maps & diagrams & 3-D glasses in rear pocket. Heavy item (1.3 kg), additional postage may be required for international delivery. A very good copy. [Neate F17: This first flight over the summit of Everest, and film record, was a considerable achievement and a most dangerous undertaking].

Leinenband. Condition: Gut. 279 S., Gr.8°, Ln., Rücken gebleicht.

Third printing. ( There were three printings in December 1933. ) 8vo. ( 240mm. ) Pp. xix,279. Top edge with a blue wash. Plates [57] illustrations from photographs, diagrams and maps ( some folding ) . Complete with the 3D glasses, in the lower pastedown pocket, for viewing the Anaglyph on page 222. A very clean copy. Blue cloth backed boards with the aeroplane illustration in blind on the upper cover, spine lettered in red. The dust jacket with chips and open tears. Neate F17.

Octavo. Original tan coloured cloth with gold medallion on the front panel. Photographic endpapers. Spine and boards a bit soiled. Frontispiece. 39 black and white illustrations. A very nice clean copy with the front panel and the flap of the dust wrapper preserved. Neate F17. Account of the remarkable and dangerous first flight over Everest on which they made a valuable film record. The book has a wonderful presentation inscription from the author to Roy Chapman Andrews as follows: To Roy "A real man" from Peregrine Dec 9th 34. A fantastic association copy from one explorer and pioneer to another. This book and a number of other items were purchased many years ago from Andrews son, George and I am just getting around to cataloging part of the collection now!

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. HARDBACK IN THE ORIGINAL CLOTH BINDING WITH THE ORIGINAL DUST JACKET WITH PUBLISHERS PRICE OF 12s. 6d INTACT, HALF TITLE PRESENT, NUMEROUS FULL PAGE PHOTOGRAPHIC PLATES PLUS FOLDING MAPS, INCLUDES THE ORIGINAL 3D GLASSES TO REAR POCKET. BOOK MEASURES APPROX 9.5 x 6 INCHES WITH 19 + 279 PAGES. SOME WEAR & SMALL AMOUNT OF RESTORATION TO JACKET AT TOP OF SPINE, VERY MINOR EDGE WEAR & CREASES TO JACKET, SLIGHT FADING TO CLOTH AT TIPS OF SPINE, CHIRSTMAS INSCRIPTION DATED 1933 TO FRONT ENDPAPER. OVERALL A VERY NICE COPY WITH MINIMAL LOSS TO JACKET & CLEAN INTERNALLY. PLEASE NOTE THAT THE JACKET HAS A CLEAR REMOVABLE COVERING THAT DOES SHOW SOME REFLECTIONS IN IMAGES. EXTRA POSTAGE COSTS MAY APPLY TO OVERSEAS ORDERS. ALL BOOKS POSTED IN STURDY BOOK BOX.