Aviation Books at Dial a Book Sydney

The Immortalists - Charles Lindbergh Dr. Alexis Carrel and their daring quest to live forever.
Friedman, David M.
Book Number: 68071
ISBN: 9781906217488
Publisher: JR Books, London 2008
8vo. Hardcover in d/w. Index. Illustrated with photo's. Very good, owner's signature on fep. / Good faded d/w. Part Frankenstein, part The Professor and the Madman, and all true, The Immortalists is the remarkable story of how two men of prodigious achievement and equally large character flaws challenged nature''s oldest rule, with consequences—personal, professional, and political—that neither man anticipated.
Price: $12.00

FROM THE DAWN OF AVIATION The Qantas Story 1920 - 1995
STACKHOUSE, John
Book Number: 67868
ISBN: 1875359230
Publisher: Sydney. Focus Publishing. 1995.
4to. cloth hardcover in slipcase. 224pp. colour & b/w illus. Fine. /Near Fine slipcase.
Price: $22.00

Bush Pilot
Norman, Bob
Book Number: 67839
ISBN: 095973340x
Publisher: Norman Enterprises, Cairns, 1976.
8vo. hardcover. 294pp. b/w illus. Very good, some foxing on page edges. / Very good d/w.
Price: $20.00

The Search For Amelia Earhart
Goerner, Fred
Book Number: 67776
ISBN:
Publisher: Double Day, New York, 1966.
8vo. hardcover. 326pp. index, b/w plates. Very good, light rubbing to bottom cover corners. / Good d/w with tear on front panel(repaired)
Price: $25.00

Kookaburra. The most compelling story in Australia's aviation history
Davis, Pedr (story) and Smith, Dick (research)
Book Number: 67751
ISBN: 0701813571
Publisher: Lansdowne Press Sydney 1st edition 1980
4to hardcover, 130pp. illus. very good, slight wave to front of page edges. / Very good d/w curled on top edge. Smith became obsessed with finding the location of the downed Kookaburra. This book is the result of his research into the circumstances surrounding the forced landing of the Kookaburra, the tragic deaths of its pilots and the subsequent relocation and recovery 49 years later of the skeletal remains of the plane.
Price: $18.00

John Joseph Montgomery 1858-1911: Father of Basic Flying.
Spearman, Arthur Dunning
Book Number: 67573
ISBN:
Publisher: University of Santa Clara, Ca. 1967.
Large 8vo. hardcover. 241pp. index, b/w illus. Near Fine. / Very good+ d/w.
Price: $55.00

Locklear : The Man Who Walked on Wings
Ronnie, Art
Book Number: 67572
ISBN: 0498010732
Publisher: Barnes and Company, South Brunswick and New York, 1973
Large 8vo. hardcover. 333pp. index, b/w illus. Very good=, light foxing to endpapers. / Very good, lightly foxed d/w a little creased and rubbed on top edge.
Price: $55.00

The Romance of Ballooning: The Story of the Early Aeronauts
Lausanne, Edita, New York 1971.
Book Number: 67415
ISBN: 0670603988
Publisher: The Viking Press, New York 1971.
4to. hardcover. 197pp. Colour & b/w illus. Very good. / Good d/w worn on edges.
Price: $25.00

High Corridors, Qantas 1954-1970
Gunn, John
Book Number: 67348
ISBN: 0702221287
Publisher: St. Lucia, Qld. University of Queensland Press 1988
8vo hardcover 438pp index, b/w illus. very good. / very good d/w.
Price: $35.00

Luck is No Accident - Flying in War and Peace 1946 - 1986
King, Col
Book Number: 29310
ISBN: 1876439203
Publisher: Loftus Australia: Publishing Services, 2001.
Large 8vo hardcover, Laminated Pictorial Boards. 265pp index, b/w illus. fine. Signed & inscribed by author "Best of Luck, Col King 17/01/02"
Price: $20.00

Halfway To Heaven Skywriting. Gliding. Stunting.
Hoinville, Fred
Book Number: 66471
ISBN:
Publisher: Angus & Robertson, Sydney 1960.
8vo. hardcover. 239pp. b/w illus. Good, tape marks on endpapers. / Good d/w with some small tears.
Price: $20.00

Progress in Flying Machines.
Chanute, Octave.
Book Number: 66473
ISBN: 0916494004
Publisher: Lorenz and Herwig, Publishers, USA, 1976.
8vo. hardcover. 308pp. index, b/w illus. Very good, slight wave to top of page edges. light foxing to outer page edges. / Good d/w, chipped on corners, with a faded spine.
Price: $16.00

Aviation, An Historical Survey from its Origins to the End of the Second World War
Gibbs-Smith, Charles H.
Book Number: 66344
ISBN: 0112900135
Publisher: Her Majesty's Stationery Office, London, 1970.
8vo. hardcover. 316pp. index, b/w illus., folding charts. Very good, some foxing to the outer edge of text block. / Very good d/w.
Price: $25.00

Alive : Sixteen Men, Seventy-Two Days, and Insurmountable Odds--The Classic Adventure of Survival in the Andes
Read, Piers Paul
Book Number: 66314
ISBN: 0060778660
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers, 2005
8vo. softcover. 398pp. b/w illus. Very Good.
Price: $15.00

The Air Racers: Aviation''s Golden Era 1909-1936.
Gwynn-Jones, Terry.
Book Number: 65957
ISBN: 0701815191
Publisher: Sydney: Lansdowne Press, 1983.
4to. hardcover. 224pp. index, colour illus. Very good, page edge wavy. / Very good d/w.
Price: $18.00

The Men Who Changed the World
Cooksley, Peter G.
Book Number: 65653
ISBN: 0750928417
Publisher: Sutton Publishing, UK. 2003.
Small 4to. hardcover. 179pp. index., b/w illus. Very good+. / Very good+ d/w.
Price: $12.00

The Man Who Saved Smithy : Fighter Pilot, Pioneer Aviator, Hero : The Life of Sir Gordon Taylor MC, GC
Searle, Rick
Book Number: 65028
ISBN: 9781760113407
Publisher: Allen & Unwin, Australia, 2015.
8vo. softcover. 384pp. indexb/w illus. Very good.
Price: $12.00

Jane's Historical Aircraft 1902 to 1916
Drogheda, Countess of and Grey, C. G.
Book Number: 64518
ISBN: 0385013140
Publisher: Doubleday, Garden City, N.Y., 1973.
Oblong 4to. hardcover. 92pp. index, b/w illus. Very good+. / Very good sunned d/w.
Price: $25.00

The defeat of distance, Qantas 1919-1939
Gunn, John
Book Number: 57819
ISBN:
Publisher: St. Lucia, Qld. University of Queensland Press 1985
Large 8vo hardcover 400pp index, b/w illus. very good. / Very good d/w
Price: $12.00

Killer Caldwell : Australia's Greatest Fighter Pilot
Watson, Jeffrey
Book Number: 59388
ISBN: 0733619290
Publisher: Hodder, Sydney, 2005
8vo. softcover. 282pp. index, b/w illus. Very good, cover creased.
Price: $8.00

Famous Air Routes of the World
Champion, Harold - Maps by Rosalind Bicknell
Book Number: 51998
ISBN:
Publisher: Shakespeare Head - Globe Books 1956
8vo. Hardcover in d/w, with minor shelf wear. 143pp. minor foxing, mostly on the pages facing plates. 23 b&w illustrations and maps. Contents includes, Across the Atlantic, the toughest route of all, London to Europe, the earliest routes, Pushing Back The Commonwealth Air Frontiers, one the East, Pushing Back The Commonwealth Air Frontiers, two Africa, Opening up Darkest Africa, The Spanish Main, The Lands of the Southern Cross, Newest Route of All, Over The North Pole, The Route of the Flying Doctors, The United States of America, Canada, Now and Tomorrow, How Pilots are Helped on Their Way, Some Terms Used in Air Travel.
Price: $45.00

Elementary Gliding - A Manual approved by the British Gliding Association for Pupil Glider Pilots
Paul H. Blanchard
Book Number: 6003
ISBN:
Publisher: British Gliding Association 2nd editon 1958.
blue wraps 45 Illustrations, 71pp. Informaiton about the British Gliding Association. Po name on title page. Elementary principles, Manoeuvres, appendix.
Price: $15.00

The Airman and the Air - The Story of the Air and the Explanation of How Lower Animals - The Birds, Insects etc. Fly
Fielding, A. B.
Book Number: 30802
ISBN:
Publisher: Pitman 1937
blue cloth 8vo. with gilt title to spine and front board, no d/w. Illustrated with intext line drawings. Very good solid copy with foxed endpages but untoned copy. Po signature on ffl. Contents include What is Air?, Agitated Air, Clouds, Rain, and Fog, Animals and the Air, Insects and the Air, Man''s Efforts to Fly, The Design of the Aeroplane Explained, Aeroplane Engines, The Wings, Airships, Kites, Parachutes.
Price: $65.00

Navigation Training Guide
Willis, john
Book Number: 37717
ISBN:
Publisher: DH Training Systems 1980 1st edition
4to. softcover. 118pp. very good.
Price: $25.00

Paragliding: The Complete Guide
Whittall, Noel
Book Number: 48113
ISBN: 1856880494
Publisher: Springfield books 1995
Large 8vo. softcover. 200pp. index, colour ilus. Very good, corners bumped.
Price: $14.00

The Old Bus.
Kingsford-Smith, Sir Charles.
Book Number: 61230
ISBN:
Publisher: Herald Press, Melbourne. 1932.
8vo. blue cloth hardcover. 224pp. endpaper maps. b/w illus. Good+, foxing throughout, heaviest at beginning and end of book. Owner's inscription on verso of frontis.
Price: $220.00

Sopwith Scout 7309
Taylor, Sir Gordon
Book Number: 61158
ISBN:
Publisher: Cassell London Proof Copy 1968
8vo. Printed paper Proof Copy wraps. small tear to back wrapper, few pencil marks on back wrapper, slightly coloured where it has been shelved next to a smaller book, otherwise Very good unmarked copy. Wrapper printed with publication date and price.
Price: $250.00

Flying the Golden Years
Prior, Rupert (compiled by)
Book Number: 4753
ISBN:
Publisher: London: Tiger Books, 1994
4to. Laminated boards, Hard Cover144pp. Colour & b/w illus. Very good, light foxing to endpapers.
Price: $15.00