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Sydney, Pyrmont: Aviation Historical Society of Australia (NSW) Inc., 2019. Paperback trade, very good condition, stapled pamphlet, black & white & colour text-photos & drawings, flight plans, light crease rear cover & bottom edge, bottom corner front cover tip little creased, minor edgewear. 54 pp. This booklet by Anthony Coleiro is in celebration of the flight of a Vickers… Read more about this item

Sydney, Pyrmont: Aviation Historical Society of Australia (NSW) Inc., 2018. Paperback trade, very good condition, stapled pamphlet, black & white & colour text-photos & drawings, light crease rear cover. 35 pp. This booklet by Tom Lockley is about the flight of the Vickers Vimy from Britain to Australia by Australians Ross and Keith Smith, Jim Bennett and Wally Shiers,… Read more about this item

Sydney: Allen & Unwin, 1991. Hardback thick octavo, dustjacket, very good condition (in very good dustjacket), black & white text-photos, map, minor edgewear jacket, inner hinge little split (no loose pages). Heavy (1.3 Kg), and extra postage may be requested to destinations outside Australia. 533 pp. This book is a comprehensive account of the RAAF in the years leading… Read more about this item

Sydney: New Holland, 2008. New ed.. Paperback trade, very good condition, few black & white text-photos, top spine little chipped, otherwise minor edgewear. 252 pp. Nelson Eustis tells the story of how seven aircrews fought for the Australian Government prize of 10,000 Pounds for the first flight between Australia and England in 1919. New edition (originally published by Rigby,… Read more about this item

Sydney: Allen & Unwin, 2006. Paperback octavo, very good condition, black & white photos, minor edgewear. 298 pp. Kristen Alexander has written an intimate biography of Clive Caldwell, based on unrivalled access to personal papers and official records. He was a natural and brilliant pilot, a great shot and a born leader, but also a non-conformist who faced a… Read more about this item

Chichester, West Sussex: Capstone / Wiley, 2007. 3rd ed.. Paperback trade, very good condition, thick card covers (with flaps), minor edgewear. 172 pp. Third edition. Des Dearlove reveals the secrets of Richard Branson's remarkable success, and also draws out the universal lessons and strategies that can be applied to any business or career. Originally published, 1999.

Melbourne: Trans-Australia Airlines (TAA) / Printed by Wilke & Co. Ltd, 1966. Paperback tall trade (170 x 270 mm), very good condition, fold-out stapled pamphlet, maps, colour line drawings, minimal edgewear. 10 pp. An easy to read pamphlet about the Australian airline which began in 1946, and ceased operations in 1994. Includes Australia from A to Z, a selection… Read more about this item

Melbourne: Trans-Australia Airlines (TAA), 1980. 1st ed.. Paperback tall trade, pamphlet, very good condition, maps, few colour line drawings, colour photos, black & white drawings, minimal edgewear. 8 pp. (Estimated date, 1965-66.) An easy to read pamphlet about the Australian airline which began in 1946, and ceased operations in 1994. Includes Australia from A to Z, a selection of… Read more about this item

Melbourne & Adelaide: Trans-Australia Airlines (TAA) / Printed by The Griffin Press / Dominion Press, 1968. Paperback tall trade (170 x 270 mm), very good condition, fold-out stapled pamphlet, pocket last page with brochure, maps, colour line drawings, staples little rusted, tiny mark front cover top edge, minimal edgewear. 12 pp. An easy to read pamphlet about the… Read more about this item

Sydney: NewSouth / University of New South Wales Press, 2017. Paperback octavo, very good condition, black & white photos spread, minor edgewear, small sticker top corner front free flyleaf. 320 pp. Mathew Radcliffe documents the 50,000 plus Australian servicemen and their families rotated through the Penang region of Malaysia (Butterworth air base) for two-year tours of duty, from 1955… Read more about this item

Wingham, NSW: Gypsy Publications, 1995. Reprint ed.. Paperback large wide octavo, very good condition, colour & black & white photos, black & white illustration inside rear cover, front endpaper map, fold-out map, bottom corner tip front cover little scuffed, top corner front cover creased, minor edgewear, rubber stamp. 270 pp. Dr Len Dawson writes about his life as a… Read more about this item

New York: Simon & Schuster, 2009. Paperback trade, very good condition, black & white photos centre spread, maps, minor edgewear. 320 pp. Amelia Earhart: The Mystery Solved, by Elgin and Marie Long (Simon & Schuster, 2009). The authors have used long-lost radio messages, and spent 25 years researching her disappearance of the aviator over the Pacific Ocean during her… Read more about this item

Tuscaloosa, AL: University of Alabama Press, 2010. 1st ed.. Hardback octavo, dustjacket, very good plus condition (in very good plus dustjacket), black & white text-photos & drawings, minimal edgewear jacket, top corners few pages little creased. 291 pp. Robert Slayton tells the story of General William Henry Tunner. The author gives original insights into this legendary U.S. Air Force… Read more about this item

Sydney / London: Methuen of Australia / Frederick Warne, 1979. Hardback very small, no jacket as issued, very good condition, pictorial cover, black & white text-photos & drawings, minor marking front endpapers, minor edgewear, owner's sticker. 214 pp. Timothy and Elizabeth Hall provide a listing and pictorial description of civil aircraft in Australia and New Zealand. Contains detailed descriptions… Read more about this item

Sydney: Angus & Robertson, 1956. Memorial ed.. Hardback octavo, no jacket (missing), good plus condition, black & white photos (including frontispiece portrait), endpaper maps, last plate LOOSE at rear, minor edgewear, autograph. 244 pp. Biography of John Flynn, the missionary founder of the Royal Flying Doctor Service. Memorial edition to mark the opening of the Flynn Church in Alice… Read more about this item

Melbourne: Museum Victoria, 2010. Paperback large wide octavo, very good condition, black & white & sepia (brown-tinted) photos, minor edgewear. 170 pp. Biography of John Robertson Duigan who built and successfully flew the first aeroplane made in Australia. He used photos, journal articles and an unreliable textbook as his guides. The full story of his flying career and his… Read more about this item

Sydney: HarperCollins, 2012. 1st ed.. Paperback thick octavo, very good plus condition, black & white photos, minor edgewear. 473 pp. Grantlee Kieza has written a long-deserved full-blooded biography of the famous Australian aviator Bert Hinkler. The boy from Bundaberg was a pioneer during the golden age of aviation - the 1920s and 1930s. He lived a life of… Read more about this item

London: Penguin Books, 2006. Facsimile, reissue ed.. Paperback, very good plus condition, black & white photos centre spread, drawings, minimal edgewear. 174 pp. This classic book by R. A. Saville-Sneath provides a definitive catalogue of the aeroplanes, enemy and friendly, seen over British skies during the Second World War (WW2). The author set out to produce a handy classification… Read more about this item

Sydney: Watermark Press, 2000. Paperback wide octavo, very good condition, black & white text-photos, minor edgewear. 196 pp. Biography of the colourful engineer who joined Qantas in 1936, and therefore grew up with early Australian aviation.

Hertfordshire: Greenhill Books, 1986. Hardback octavo, dustjacket, very good condition (in very good dustjacket), minor edgewear jacket (minimal foxing), edges & pages lightly toned, light foxing endpapers, owner's written name front pastedown. 287 pp. This book by Paul Bewsher, originally published in 1919, delightfully describes his time flying as observer in the huge Handley-Page night bombers with the RNAS… Read more about this item