Dancing the Skies
by Birkby, Carel
- Used
- Hardcover
- Condition
- See description
- ISBN 10
- 0869782223
- ISBN 13
- 9780869782224
- Seller
-
Port Elizabeth, South Africa
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
(Cape Town, Howard Timmins, 1982) 0869782223. 8vo; original blue boards; laminated pictorial dustwrapper; pp. xiv + 198; monochrome photographic plates. A little shelf-wear to bottom edges of boards; dustwrapper very slightly creased and rubbed; old price penned on half-title. Very good condition. "This book is about aeroplanes and people. Carel Birkby has enjoyed the freedom of the cockpits of the historic aircraft in the National Museum of Military History and the South African Air Force Museum. He has used this privilege as a golden thread to link many strange stories of flying concerning South Africa at war and in peace." .
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Details
- Bookseller
- Christison Rare Books, IOBA SABDA (ZA)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 10761
- Title
- Dancing the Skies
- Author
- Birkby, Carel
- Book Condition
- Used
- Binding
- Hardcover
- ISBN 10
- 0869782223
- ISBN 13
- 9780869782224
- Publisher
- (Cape Town, Howard Timmins, 1982) 0869782223
- Place of Publication
- South Africa
- This edition first published
- 1982
- Keywords
- Flying. Aviation. Dogfights. Aeroplanes. South African Air Force. SAAF. Carel Birkby. Pierre van Ryneveld. Pi Pienaar. 'Sailor' Malan. Military History Aviation
- Bookseller catalogs
- Aviation;
Terms of Sale
Christison Rare Books, IOBA SABDA
All books offered subject to availability. Returns are accepted where we have erred materially in our description of goods.
About the Seller
Christison Rare Books, IOBA SABDA
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Port Elizabeth
About Christison Rare Books, IOBA SABDA
Christison Rare Books operates as a mail order business, based in Port Elizabeth. We are members of IOBA and SABDA. Whereas we stock thousands of books on a wide variety of subjects, our focus has always been on SE Africa - its peoples, wildlife and history. The store is managed by Lindsay Christison. Although we do not run an open book shop, prospective customers who would like to examine items described in our on-line list of stock are welcome to make an appointment.
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