Flying by Pilot (27 results)
Published by Houghton Mifflin Company, Boston
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Hardcover. Condition: Good. 1917, First Edition, Good/no dj, 12mo., 117pp., tan suede cloth hardcover, several exlibrary marks: number & dark-remains on backstrip & traces of paste-downs on endpapers, a few b&w ill's., very slight water-traces bottom edges of endpapers o/w text unmarked, binding tight.
More imagesPublished by Houghton Mifflin Company, Boston 1917
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Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. Beige cloth with brown lettering. The covers and spine are a little soiled. Light mark on the bottom of the spine where a library sticker was removed. Residue from library sticker on the front pastedown. Residue from library pocket on the back endpapers. Strong binding. No mark…ings. 117pp. Nice working copy. Scarce from this publisher.
Flying to Norway, Grounded in Burma: A Hudson Pilot in World War II Edwards DFC, Goronwy 'Gron'
Flying to Norway, Grounded in Burma: A Hudson Pilot in World War II Edwards DFC, Goronwy 'Gron'
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Special Forces Pilot: A Flying Memoir of the Falkland War Hutchings DSC, Richard
Special Forces Pilot: A Flying Memoir of the Falkland War Hutchings DSC, Richard
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Published by Houghton Mifflin Company 1917
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Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Fair. Dust jacket has some soiling, chips and tears and a price sticker on front cover. Dust jacket protected in a mylar cover. Tan cloth covers have some light scuffing and edge wear. Previous owners stamp on ffep. Pages yellowing from age otherwise clean. #G2.
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Condition: New. KlappentextrnrnThis scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have.
Published by John Murray
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Sm8vo, 117pp, 6pp publisher's adverts. Original printed wrappers, worn and marked, lacking spine. G. "The intimate record of a pilot. Vital, vivid, good actual 'stuff,' written with competence.".
Published by John Murray, London 1917
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Three-Quarter Leather. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. This has been nicely rebound with a leather spine with 5 raised bands with gilt lettering, the corners also bound in leather. 117 pages, has mild foxing. Seller Ref: M14997.
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Taschenbuch. Condition: Neu. Neuware - This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment for protecting,…preserving, and promoting the world's literature in affordable, high quality, modern editions that are true to the original work.
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FRANK NEUBERT (1915-2003) deutscher STUKA-Pilot im Zweiten Weltkrieg, Ritterkreuz des Eisernen Kreuz als Oberleutnant (Flying Officer) und Staffelkapitän 2. / Stukageschwader 2 Immelmann / Knight s Cross of the Iron Cross
FRANK NEUBERT (1915-2003) deutscher STUKA-Pilot im Zweiten Weltkrieg, Ritterkreuz des Eisernen Kreuz als Oberleutnant (Flying Officer) und Staffelkapitän 2. / Stukageschwader 2 Immelmann / Knight s Cross of the Iron Cross
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Repro-Porträtfoto (in Uniform mit Ritterkreuz) rückseitig mit aufgezogener eigenhändiger Empfehlung, Unterschrift (Briefschluß) signiert.
Published by Houghton Mifflin, Boston 1917
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Hard Cover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. First US Edition. 117pp. Or cloth boards, lacking jacket. Ver y nice with prev owner name etc on front free endpaper. Experiences of flying during WWI. Size: 12mo.
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Published by Houghton Mifflin Company 1917
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Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. 1917 1st edition hardcover.
More imagesPublished by John Murray., London. 1917
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Stiff Card Covers. Condition: Fair. No Jacket. First Edition. 117pp. sketch. letters home during training and war. Theta was L.F. Hutcheon. Light damage to boards, spine chipped and 'varnished' to strengthen, contents good. Light postage. 350g.
WOLFDIETER HUY (1917-2003) deutscher Offizier im Zweiten Weltkrieg, Hauptmann der Luftwaffe, Ritterkreuz des Eisernen Kreuz als Oberleutnant (Flying Officer) Unit: Staffelkapitän, 7. Staffel, III. Gruppe, Jagdgeschwader 77 "Herz As", Luftwaffe / Knight s Cross of the Iron Cross. Wolf-Dietrich "Wolfdieter" Huy was shot down over Tanyet Harun on October 29th, 1942 by Pilot Officer J.H. Nicholls from No. 601 Squadron, with his Supermarine Spitfire Vc. He survived the crash and spend the rest of the war as POW.
WOLFDIETER HUY (1917-2003) deutscher Offizier im Zweiten Weltkrieg, Hauptmann der Luftwaffe, Ritterkreuz des Eisernen Kreuz als Oberleutnant (Flying Officer) Unit: Staffelkapitän, 7. Staffel, III. Gruppe, Jagdgeschwader 77 "Herz As", Luftwaffe / Knight s Cross of the Iron Cross. Wolf-Dietrich "Wolfdieter" Huy was shot down over Tanyet Harun on October 29th, 1942 by Pilot Officer J.H. Nicholls from No. 601 Squadron, with his Supermarine Spitfire Vc. He survived the crash and spend the rest of the war as POW.
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Repro-Porträtfoto (in Uniform mit Ritterkreuz, mässige Bildqualität), bildseitig eigenhändig signiert.
Published by John Murray, London 1917
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Seller: Austin's Antiquarian Books, Wilmington, VT, U.S.A.Austin's Antiquarian Books
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Wraps. Condition: Very good. First Edition. 16mo; pp; 117, (i), 6, colophon, ads; illustrated with a line drawings; original printed pictorial stiff paper wrappers; spine worn but intact; A pilot's memoir of life in a French observation squadron on the western front. He describes his experience "Compared with some Squadrons, our… work is pleasant." Though the author's experiences may have been "pleasant," they were not to be taken as typical of those of all pilots at the front states the introduction. A nice relic of WWI.
More imagesMy Part of the Sky | A Fighter Pilot's First-hand Experiences, 1939-1945 + (V-1 Flying Bomb Attacks 13th June 1944 Signed Flown Cover)
Beamont, Roland [Wing Commander Roland Prosper "Bee" Beamont, CBE, DSO & Bar, DFC & Bar (10 August 1920 - 19 November 2001) was a British fighter pilot for the Royal Air Force (RAF) and an experimental test pilot during and after the Second World War. He was the first British pilot to exceed Mach 1 in a British aircraft in level flight (P.1A), and the first to fly a British aircraft at Mach 2 (P.1B)]
Published by Published by Patrick Stephens Limited, Denington Estate, Wellingborough, Northamptonshire First Edition . 1989. 1989
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Condition: Near Fine. First edition second impression hard back binding in publisher's original terracotta cloth covered boards, blocked and lettered gilt back. 8vo. 8½'' x 5½''. Printer's code to the copyright page 3 5 7 9 10 8 6 4 2. Contains 208 pp with monochrome archive photographs throughout. Very near Fine condition book…in Fine condition price clipped dust wrapper. Number 417 of 746 souvenir flown cover SIGNED 'Roland Beamont' to the front cover. 13th June 1994 post marked stamp, reverse signed by Group Captain W. S. O. Randle (Royal Air Forces Escaping Society), + 1 other stamp 'Biggin Hill Airport 28th October 1994', two cachet inserts. Dust wrapper supplied in archive acetate film protection. Member of the P.B.F.A. ROYAL AIR FORCE (RAF).
More imagesFlying to the Limit | Reminiscences of Air Combat, Test Flying and the Aircraft Industry (Signed)
Beamont, Roland [Wing Commander Roland Prosper "Bee" Beamont, CBE, DSO & Bar, DFC & Bar (10 August 1920 - 19 November 2001) was a British fighter pilot for the Royal Air Force (RAF) and an experimental test pilot during and after the Second World War. He was the first British pilot to exceed Mach 1 in a British aircraft in level flight (P.1A), and the first to fly a British aircraft at Mach 2 (P.1B)]
Published by Published by Patrick Stephens Limited, Denington Estate, Wellingborough, Northamptonshire First Edition . 1996. 1996
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Condition: Fine. First edition hard back binding in publisher's original blue cloth covered boards, blocked and lettered gilt back. 8vo. 9½'' x 7''. Contains 102 pp with monochrome archive photographs throughout. Fine condition book in Fine condition dust wrapper, not price clipped. White card mounted to the title page SIGNED by… the author 'Roland Beamont', period monochrome photograph of Beamont tipped opposite the title page. Dust wrapper supplied in archive acetate film protection. Member of the P.B.F.A. ROYAL AIR FORCE (RAF).
More imagesFlying Start | A Fighter Pilot's War Years + (Double Signed 50th Anniversary of the First Flight of the Spitfire Flown Cover)
Dundas, Hugh [Sir Hugh Spencer Lisle Dundas, CBE, DSO & Bar, DFC (22 July 1920 - 10 July 1995) was a fighter pilot in the Royal Air Force during the Second World War] Jeffrey Kindersley Quill, OBE, AFC, FRAeS (1 February 1913 - 20 February 1996) was a British test pilot who served on secondment with the Royal Air Force and Royal Naval Volunteer Reserve during the Second World War.
Published by Published by Stanley Paul and Co. Ltd., Century Hutchinson, Brookmount House, 62-65 Chandos Place, Covent Garden, London First Edition . 1988. 1988
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Condition: Fine. First edition hard back binding in publisher's original blue cloth covered boards, blocked and lettered silver back. 8vo. 9½'' x 6¼''. Dundas was called up early in the Second World War, serving with No. 616 Squadron flying Spitfires. He was shot down on 22 August 1940 and wounded during the Battle of Britain. J…effrey Quill transferred full-time to Vickers Supermarine in 1938, whereupon he took complete charge of Spitfire test flying. Contains (ix), 180 pp with monochrome archive photographs throughout. Fine condition book in Fine condition price clipped dust wrapper. + No. 1499 of 2010 '50th Anniversary of the First Flight of the Spitfire' flown cover SIGNED to the front cover by 'Hugh Dundas 616 Sqdn. Spitfire' and 'Jeffrey Quill' - 5th March 1986 post marked stamp, one other stamp to the rear 'Royal Air Force Coningsby 5th March 1986', certification signed by Group Captain W. S. O. Randle - Royal Air Force Museum, one cachet insert. Dust wrapper supplied in archive acetate film protection. Member of the P.B.F.A. ROYAL AIR FORCE (RAF).
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Albumblatt (1 S. quer 4 to, links gedruckte Biographie, rechts sein Foto, vor seinem Flugzeug stehend), unter seinem Foto eigenhändig signiert.
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Albumblatt (1 S. quer 4 to, links gedruckte Biographie, rechts sein Foto, vor seinem Flugzeug stehend), unter seinem Foto eigenhändig signiert.
Published by John Murray, London 1917
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Seller: Parker's Rare Books, Ontario, WI, U.S.A.Parker's Rare Books
Contact seller4-star sellerHardback. Originally published in colored stiff paper wraps, this copy has been rebound on full brown leather, gilt lettering with 5 raised bands on spine and a diagonal strip of blue cloth on the upper front cover. The cloth strip is 1.5" wide with dark blue edges and light blue center with a red line in the center. All edges o…f text block gilt. The original colorful front cover has been bound in. Signed on the ffep by Frank Messervy and inscribed "in memory of Ernest, who was shot down in a fight over the German lines with Richthofen's Circus-1917. RIP." Probably referring to Captain Ernest Dyce Messervy, member of 56th Squadron RFC, killed July 20, 1917. Both Ernest and Frank Messervy were members of the same Eton class prior to World War I. General Sir Frank Walter Messervy (1893-1974) was a British Indian Army Officer who saw action in France and the Middle East during World War I. During World War II, he commanded the Indian 5th Infantry Division in the East African Campaign, and commanded 4th Indian Division during the Battleaxe and Crusader operations as part of the Eighth Army. Transferred to India, Messervy eventually was appointed to command IV Corps in it's drive to Rangoon in Burma. Old bookseller stamp bottom of rear paste-down only mark in book, binding tight. Three small spots of soiling on rear cover, but a rather handsome copy of this title. Book condition VG+. Binding: HB.
HERMANN KÖHL (1888-1938) deutscher Kampfflieger mit Pour le Merite im 1. Weltkrieg, bei Gründung der LuftHansa 1926 deren erster Nachtflugleiter, 1928 erste Atlantiküberquerung von Ost nach West / Ozeanflieger. In New York wurde die Besatzung mit einer großen Konfettiparade gefeiert und Köhl erhielt sowohl die höchste amerikanische Pilotenauszeichnung, das Distinguished Flying Cross, wie auch die Ehrenbürgerschaft von Chicago und St. Louis; JAMES FITZMAURICE (1898-1965) Pilot der irischen Luftwaffe, zuletzt im Rang eines Colonels (Oberst); er gilt als größter Flieger Irlands,[2][3] Weltruhm erlangte er durch eine fliegerische Pionierleistung gemeinsam mit den beiden Deutschen Hermann Köhl und Ehrenfried Günther Freiherr von Hünefeld: Ihnen gelang am 12./13. April 1928 die erste Überquerun
HERMANN KÖHL (1888-1938) deutscher Kampfflieger mit Pour le Merite im 1. Weltkrieg, bei Gründung der LuftHansa 1926 deren erster Nachtflugleiter, 1928 erste Atlantiküberquerung von Ost nach West / Ozeanflieger. In New York wurde die Besatzung mit einer großen Konfettiparade gefeiert und Köhl erhielt sowohl die höchste amerikanische Pilotenauszeichnung, das Distinguished Flying Cross, wie auch die Ehrenbürgerschaft von Chicago und St. Louis; JAMES FITZMAURICE (1898-1965) Pilot der irischen Luftwaffe, zuletzt im Rang eines Colonels (Oberst); er gilt als größter Flieger Irlands,[2][3] Weltruhm erlangte er durch eine fliegerische Pionierleistung gemeinsam mit den beiden Deutschen Hermann Köhl und Ehrenfried Günther Freiherr von Hünefeld: Ihnen gelang am 12./13. April 1928 die erste Überquerun
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UNSER OZEANFLUG Lebenserinnerungen von Hermann Köhl, James C. Fitzmaurice, E.G. Freiherr von Hünefeld. Der erste Ost-Westflug über den Atlantik in der BREMEN, mit 33 Abbildungen. Union Deutsche Verlagsgesellschaft, Berlin 10. erweiterte Auflage (um 1930), 275 SS. gebunden (Hardcover, Hldr. 8°),Buchrücken-Leder mit Abrieb, sonst…gut erhalten - limitierte, nummerierte VORZUGSAUSGABE # 111/200, in Tinte von Hermann Köhl und James Fitzmaurice mit militärischem Rang Hptm./Colonel eigenhändig signiert (Ehrenfried Günther Freiherr von Hünefeld, war bereits am 5. Februar 1929 in Berlin gestorben, seine Sinatur wurde hier daher gedruckt zugefügt. Im Dritten Reich wurde später die Signatur von Fitzmaurice und sogar sein Bild als Kriegsgegner weggelassen.).
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Leather Bound. Condition: New. Language: English. Language: English. Presenting an Exquisite Leather-Bound Edition, expertly crafted with Original Natural Leather that gracefully adorns the spine and corners. The allure continues with Golden Leaf Printing that adds a touch of elegance, while Hand Embossing on the rounded spine l…ends an artistic flair. This masterpiece has been meticulously reprinted in 2024, utilizing the invaluable guidance of the original edition published many years ago in 1917. The contents of this book are presented in classic black and white. Its durability is ensured through a meticulous sewing binding technique, enhancing its longevity. Imprinted on top-tier quality paper. A team of professionals has expertly processed each page, delicately preserving its content without alteration. Due to the vintage nature of these books, every page has been manually restored for legibility. However, in certain instances, occasional blurriness, missing segments, or faint black spots might persist. We sincerely hope for your understanding of the challenges we faced with these books. Recognizing their significance for readers seeking insight into our historical treasure, we've diligently restored and reissued them. Our intention is to offer this valuable resource once again. We eagerly await your feedback, hoping that you'll find it appealing and will generously share your thoughts and recommendations. Lang: - English, Pages: : - 122, Print on Demand. If it is a multi-volume set, then it is only a single volume. We are specialised in Customisation of books, if you wish to opt different color leather binding, you may contact us. This service is chargeable. Product Disclaimer: Kindly be informed that, owing to the inherent nature of leather as a natural material, minor discolorations or textural variations may be perceptible. Explore the FOLIO EDITION (12x19 Inches): Available Upon Request. 122 122.
