Famous Flights by John Frayn Turner - 1978-10-12

Arthur Baker, 1978. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. A very good copy in a very good dust jacket. No inscriptions.

London: Arthur Barker Limited, 1978. Price clipped jacket.......POSTED AT OUR STANDARD RATES FULLY INSURED (UK ONLY!).......Please email for further details.. Not Signed or Inscribed. First Edition. Brown Cloth. Near Fine (NEAR NEW)/Very Good (AVERAGE). Illus. by Not Illustrated. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾". HARDBACK.

London: Arthur Baker Limited, 1978. Book. Near Fine. Hardcover. 11th Edition. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. 160 pages, 350g. Brown cloth boards with some age browning to free end papers only, Near FINE in a Very Good d/w with small repaired tears to edges. Chronocles the courage and excitement of the great aviation period 1903 - 1936..

London England: Arthur Barker, 1978. Hardback. First Edition. Famous Flights. Couple of small tears to edge of D/J. December 1978 marks the seventy-fifth anniversary of man's historic first powered flight.This book chronicles the courage and excitement of the great aviation epoch from 1903 to 1936 - starting right at the beginning with the Wright Brothers and Bleriot. The exploits of every major air pioneer are covered - with legendary names like Charles Lindbergh and Jim Millison, Alan Cobham and Wiley Post, and the equally gallant girl fliers - Amy Johnson and Jean Batten, Beryl Markham and Amerlia Earhart. It was an unreatable era of famous fliers and famous flights. This book vividly recaptures the heroism and the drama of those first thirty-three years in aviation history - and the men and women who made it. 160 pp. (We carry a wide selection of titles in The Arts, Theology, History, Politics, Social and Physical Sciences. academic and scholarly books and Modern First Editions, Reference… Read More