Search Results: Aviation from Ainsworth Books

London: Blackie & Son. Very Good+ in Good+ dust jacket. 1933. First Edition. Hardcover. Dust jacket creased and heavily chipped head & tail of spine, with short tears, shelf soil on back panel of DJ ; A bright, solid book, DJ in protective Mylar sleeve, unclipped. Blue cloth covered boards show light wear only, hinges intact, 8 half tone plates and diagrams. ; Enterprise Library; Small 8vo 7½" - 8" tall; 224 pages; Monk and Winter examine man's efforts using various forms of flight to go higher and higher in vehicles ranging from balloons to aircraft to early rockets. .

Toronto: Canav Books. Very Good+ in Very Good+ dust jacket. 1991. First Edition. Hardcover. 0921022050 . Signed by Author; Very light shelf wear on DJ and boards. Gift inscription to previous owner on title page, next to author's inscription to previous owner. ; A bright, solid book, dustjacket in Mylar, unclipped. ; Color Illustrations; 0.75 x 11 x 8.5 Inches; 191 pages .

Washington, DC: Department of the Air Force. Very Good+. 1955. 1st Thus. Post Binding. leatherette covers show light shelf wear. ; A tight solid book. ; Oblong 16mo 6" - 7" tall; 172 pages .

London UK: Ian Allan. Very Good+ in Very Good dust jacket. 1967. First Edition. Hardcover. DJ and boards show very light shelf wear. Previous owner has made notations inside front board, dealer's stamp inside front board, price-clipped. ; A bright, solid book. Dust jacket in Mylar jacket protector. B&W photos throughout. ; Small 8vo 7½" - 8" tall; 175 pages; "The war of 1914-18 was a remarkable and important epoch for many widely different reasons. Not least of these was that it represented the first widespread use of the aeroplane -- which many people thought would be of little military value -- as a major weapon of war. Such thinking was quickly disproved, and the aeroplanes described in this volume illustrate how the military aeroplane developed from the unarmed observation machines of 1914 to the highly effective specialized types that were in service by November 1918." .

Abbotsford, BC: A. MacNutt. Very Good. 2000. Third Printing. Paperback. 0968762700 . Card covers show light shelf wear, top fore corner bumped. Short tear top back edge of spine ; A bright, solid book. B&W photos. ; Trade PB; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 244 pages; Al Macnutt lived to fly - from his years in the Royal Canadian Air Force during WWII or as a bush pilot in the Arctic, flying a water bomber while fighting forest fires or taking assignments to fly around the world. He tells his stories here. .

Vancouver, BC: Britnav Services. Fine in Good+ dust jacket. 1977. First Edition. Hardcover. Long tear across front panel of DJ with crease, some scuffing and short tears stabilized in clear mylar cover ; A bright solid, book ; This is the first report on Amelia Earhart to include a diversionary flight over the Truk and Kwajalein Atolls in the Caroline and Marshall Islands. .

Toronto: Canav Books. Very Good+ in Very Good+ dust jacket. 1985. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. 0969070330 . DJ and boards show very light shelf wear, price-clipped.; A bright, solid book. Dust jacket in Mylar jacket protector. B&W and colour photographs; 9.0 X 6.0 X 1.0 inches; 160 pages .

New York: Arco Pub. Co. Very Good+. 1970. Softcover. 0668021179 . Card covers show some light shelf wear. ; A bright, solid book ; Arco-Aircam aviation series, no. 12; B&W and Colour Illustrations; 9.70 X 7.10 X 0.30 inches; Unpaginated pages .

Westerham, Kent, England: Froglets Publications Ltd. Good+. 1990. Reprint. Softcover. 1872337058 . Card covers show light shelf wear, all fore corners show corner curl, one creased. ; A tight solid book. ; B&W and Colour Illustrations, Maps; 10.2 X 8.1 X 0.4 inches; 160 pages; "Details the men, the women, the machines and the indomitable spirit of all those drawn into conflict from 1916 to 1945 - and beyond, told through the story of RAF Biggin Hill, the most famous fighter station in the world. The author's royalties are to be donated to the RAF Benevolent Fund." .

New York: Ballantine Books. Very Good+ in Very Good dust jacket. 2014. First Edition; Third Printing. Hardcover. 034553803X . Light edgewear; A bright, solid book, dustjacket in Mylar, unclipped.; Large 8vo 9" - 10" tall; 428 pages .

New York: Little, Brown and Company. Near Fine in Near Fine dust jacket. 2021. First Edition. Hardcover. 0316296619 . DJ and boards show very light shelf wear, one dog-eared page.; A bright, solid book, dustjacket in Mylar, unclipped.; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 240 pages; " the bombing of Tokyo on the deadliest night of the war was the brainchild of General Curtis LeMay, whose brutal pragmatism and scorched-earth tactics in Japan cost thousands of civilian lives, but may have spared even more by averting a planned US invasion. In The Bomber Mafia, Gladwell asks, “Was it worth it?” Things might have gone differently had LeMay’s predecessor, General Haywood Hansell, remained in charge. Hansell believed in precision bombing, but when he and Curtis LeMay squared off for a leadership handover in the jungles of Guam, LeMay emerged victorious, leading to the darkest night of World War II. " .

London: Bounty Books. Very Good+ in Very Good+ dust jacket. 2007. Reprint. Hardcover. 0753715317 . DJ and boards show very light shelf wear.; A bright, solid book dustjacket in Mylar, unclipped.; 8.3 X 5.7 X 1.5 inches; 447 pages; Brief biographies of some of Britain's most renowned military aviators. In this, the 15th book in the series appear such names as Peter Townsend and Dame Jean Conan Doyle (daughter of Arthur Conan Doyle) .

Toronto: McClelland & Stewart. Very Good+ in Very Good dust jacket. 1981. First Edition. Hardcover. 0771040482 . DJ and boards show light shelf wear with light chipping. ; A bright, solid book. Dust jacket in Mylar jacket protector. ; 210 pages; Doug Harvey was a nineteen year old from Toronto who joined the RCAF during WWII, and in 1942 found himself a pilot in the elite Canadian No. 6 Bomber Group. .

Toronto, ON: CANAV Books. Very Good in Very Good dust jacket. 1986. First Edition. Hardcover. 0969070373 . Signed by Author; Top fore corner lightly bumped, light edgewear to dustjacket. ; Signed by the author on the front free end paper. DJ in Mylar, unclipped. A bright solid, book ; 1.17 x 11.28 x 8.82 Inche; 372 pages; The Canadair F-86 Sabre made history by taking control of the skies over Korea and drubbing the MiG-15. Details the daily operations of the Royal Canadian Air Force squadrons of the No. 1 Air Division that flew the Sabre in Europe and Asia. .

Toronto: McGraw-Hill Ryerson. Very Good+ in Good+ dust jacket. 1978. First Edition. Hardcover. 0070827044 . Dustjacket shows some shelf wear with short tears, chipping and creasing. ; A tight solid book. Dust jacket in Mylar jacket protector. Bookplate on front pastedown stating that this is a review copy sent out to reviewers by the publisher. ; B&W Photographs; 4to 11" - 13" tall; 304 pages; The book honours the recipients of the McKee trophy, aka the Trans-Canada Trophy. They are the ones who made great strides in aviation in Canada, bush pilots like"Weldy" Phipps and "Wop" May, test pilot Jan Zurakowski of Avro Arrow fame, Grant McConachie who started Canadian Pacific Airlines among many others. The award was first presented in 1927 to commemorate the first trans-Canada seaplane flight made by Dalzell McKee and Earl Godfrey. .

Toronto: University of Toronto Press. Very Good+ in Very Good+ dust jacket. 1986. First Edition. Hardcover. 0802025846 . DJ and boards show light shelf wear. Gift inscription on front pastedown. ; A bright, solid book. Dust jacket in Mylar jacket protector. Illustrated by map endpapers B&W photographs and fold-out maps ; 9.9 X 6.9 X 2.4 inches; 797 pages .

Madeira Park, BC: Caitlin Press Inc.. Very Good+. 2006. First Edition. Softcover. 1894759214 . Card covers show very light shelf wear, previous owner's name on inner card cover. Some underlining ; A bright, solid book with glossy pictorial card covers. B&W photographs. ; B&W Photographs; 8.4 X 5.9 X 0.7 inches; 176 pages; "Mount Slesse, a jagged 2,500-metre peak near Chilliwack BC known locally as "The Fang," lived up to its evil reputation on December 9, 1956, when Trans Canada Airlines Flight 810 slammed into it, killing all 62 aboard. For five months nobody knew what happened. Flight 810 had just disappeared into the night. Adding to the sensation was the fact that the flight carried five professional football players fresh from the CFL All Star game in Vancouver and a mystery man by the name of Kwan Song who was rumoured to be carrying a sizeable fortune in cash. Finally on May 10, 1957, a diminutive female mountaineer named Elfrida Pigou discovered the… Read More

London: Grub Street Publishing. Near Fine in Near Fine dust jacket. 2007. First Edition. Hardcover. 1904943845 . Boards and DJ show very light shelf wear. ; A bright, solid book, dustjacket in Mylar, unclipped.; 9.2 X 6.3 X 1.0 inches; 174 pages; "Squadron Leader McGlashan reflects honestly on his enthralling and diverse RAF career, one that began with the rag and tube of Hawker biplanes in 1939 and closed in the jet era of the late 1950s. Shot down over the beaches of Dunkirk in heated aerial combat, we follow the footsteps of the nineteen year old along the debris-littered sands and beyond. From the protection of vulnerable convoys to the pioneering days of night-fighting and airborne radar, McGlashan is in the midst of the action. Flying in support of the ill-fated landing at Dieppe and on clandestine night operations before D-Day, he takes an active role in some of the RAF’s most significant operations of World War Two. Interspersed throughout are tales of camaraderie… Read More

New York: John Wiley & Sons. Very Good- with no dust jacket. 1931. First Edition. Hardcover. Water stains top fore corners, previous owner's name on front pastedown, some soil of endpapers ; A tight solid book, text unmarked; B&W Illustrations; 263 pages .

South Yorkshire, England: Pen and Sword Books Ltd.. Near Fine in Near Fine dust jacket. 2015. First Edition. Hardcover. 1783462124 . A near-fine volume in a near-fine DJ, dustjacket in Mylar, unclipped. ; Despatches From The Front; 9.3 X 6.3 X 1.1 inches; 248 pages; :Dispatches in this volume include Air Operations in Burma and Bay of Bengal 1 January to 22 May 1942 by General Wavell, the despatch on air operations in South-East Asia November 1943 to May 1944, by Air Chief Marshal Sir R.E.C. Peirse, the dispatch on air operations in South-East Asia from June 1944 to May 1945, by Air Chief Marshal Sir Keith Park, and the dispatch on air operations in South East Asia between May 1945 and September 1945, by Air Chief Marshal Sir Keith Park. This unique collection of original documents will prove to be an invaluable resource for historians, students and all those interested in what was one of the most significant periods in British military history." .