Flying by Blake, First Edition (6 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. This first edition is in very good condition. Light rubbing to the spine and an small bookshop sticker on the inside cover and moderate foxing to the edge of the text block only. Otherwise internally very good, free from inscriptions, markings or wear to the pages.

First Edition. First Edition. tall octavo, original olive green cloth. (240)pp. Heath Cranton, Illustrated with photographs. A fine, clean copy. Very slight bit of foxing to edges of text block. Usual off-setting to endpapers due to binding. tall octavo, original olive green cloth.

Second edition, first printing. Near fine in near fine dustjacket.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. private library liquidation very nice maroon with gold letter no dj slight cover scuff, page yellowing/darkening, edge wear,age spots. Shelf wear.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. 1st ed Heath Cranton 1923. Jacket is present but in Fair condition at best, very worn, torn and faded, top quarter of jacket spine missing. Book is near VG with moderate wear, foxing to textblock edges, pages yellowed with sporadic foxing, minor blemishes, binding firm.

No Jacket. First Edition. Hardback A 1923 First Edition copy with signature from the author to the frontispiece This book also includes a small exlibrary pamphlet containing a lecture given by Major WT Blake in January 1923 The book is bound in green cloth with gilt titles to the spine and illustrated with several photographic images Overall in very good condiiton with just minor foxing to the pages pp 238 The pamphlet has the remains of tape down the spine and the front cover is detached with a library label to the title page The rest of the pages are clean pp 40 A firsthand account of the first British attempt to fly around the globe in 1922 The book details an ambitious and illfated journey using multiple aircraft including a DH9 and a Fairy IIIC that was abandoned in the Bay of Bengal due to technical failures illnesses and financial constraints despite the crews perseverance A must for any aviation enthusiastnbsp. book.