Flying Against Elements by Peter Clegg (3 results)

Various (illustrator). Reminiscences of Aberdeen Airways. Colour laminated card covers with slight 1cm abrasion marks to top of spne otherwise as new. 96 pages with numerous b/w period photos and diagrams. Author signed to introduction page. Owners small sticker to inside front cover, being Andrew Ruthvens radio officer. Stapled binding as new. Includes a pencil sketch of male possibly Vallance. A lovely book.

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. Staplebound softcover with glossy pictorial wraps, yellow text. Corners barely bumped, exterior unmarred, staple binding neat and tight. No rusting. No date on title page, copyright page states on "First published 1987". 96 pages. Clean, bright, glossy; black and white photographs featured throughout text. Bookplate for aviation historian R.E.G. Davies' collection placed at top left of front attached endpaper. Letter tucked into book from "Peter" (Clegg, the author) to "Ron" (R.E.G. Davies), handwritten and signed. This volume comes from the Aviation collection of Prof. Chris Sterling. Sterling spent his lifetime teaching, writing, and collecting books on civil and military aviation. We are proud to house his Aviation collection, part of the extensive library which is his legacy. Please email with questions or to request photos. Note: If there is a photo beside this listing, it is a STOCK photo that ABE put there (for reasons that we cannot understand or control) and might not match this actual book. Signed by Author(s).

Soft cover. Condition: Near Fine. Reminiscences of Aberdeen Airways, of Dyce Airport and its early flying activities, and of their legendary founder, Eric Leslie Gandar Dower. This booklet, about the aviation pioneer who first bought flying to Aberdeen - flying in all its aspects from the construction of an Airport, setting up a flying school and starting his own airline - is the second work in a series about Scotland's great arial pioneers.Well illustrated with photos, maps and diagrams With an introduction by Peter Clegg. Signed by Peter Clegg. Excellent condition. Signed by Author(s).