Burge C G Editor (15 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Fair. Light bumping, rubbing to spine extremities. Bit of rubbing to corner tips. Slight spine lean. Else binding clean. Page edges age-darkened. Else pages clean. Rubbing, chipping to DJ spine extremities and corners. Edgewear to DJ, with tears. 3" x 1-1/2" loss at DJ bottom front corner. ; TRH19C; 9.75" x 7.5"; 640 pages.…

Condition: Good. - Large square octavo, blue cloth titled in gilt on the front cover & spine. The spine & extremities are faded. The binding is bumped & lightly soiled with a few small stains. 641 & [1] pages. 1 color plate & many black-and-white illustrations & diagrams. There are some pencil notes on the front pastedown. The verso of the color plate is foxed. Good.…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Oversized hardcover. Blue cloth over boards with gold lettering on front and spine, wrapped in protective mylar. Small, faint stain on spine near foot, light toning. Binding is tight and secure. Pages are clean, crisp, and bright. Printed in B&W. 36 photographic plates. 714 pages. Title page dated 1933. Copyright page dated 1932. Previous owner's name written in top corner on front free endpaper. A very good copy. This volume comes from the Aviation collection of Prof. Chris Sterling. Sterling spent his lifetime teaching, writing, and collecting books on civil and military aviation. We are proud to house his Aviation collection, part of the extensive library which is his legacy. Please email with questions or to request photos. Note: If there is a photo beside this listing, it is a STOCK photo that ABE put there (for reasons that we cannot understand or control) and might not match this actual book. This is an oversized book, so extra shipping will be required for priority or international shipping.…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Oversized hardcover. Blue cloth over boards with gold lettering on front and spine, wrapped in protective mylar. Toning on spine with light rubbing at crown and foot. Binding is tight and secure. Pages are clean, crisp, and bright. Printed in B&W. 28 photographic plates, 41 monochrome illustrations, 2 color illustrations, 3 suntone plates, and 2 maps (both fold-outs.) 774 pages. Title page dated 1930. Copyright page dated 1930. Previous owner's name written in top corner on front free endpaper. A very good copy. This volume comes from the Aviation collection of Prof. Chris Sterling. Sterling spent his lifetime teaching, writing, and collecting books on civil and military aviation. We are proud to house his Aviation collection, part of the extensive library which is his legacy. Please email with questions or to request photos. Note: If there is a photo beside this listing, it is a STOCK photo that ABE put there (for reasons that we cannot understand or control) and might not match this actual book. This is an oversized book, so extra shipping will be required for priority or international shipping.…

Hardcover. First Edition. lxxv, 774 pages. The state of the art of British aviation, covering civil aviation, sporting flying, military planes, engines, wheels and brakes, wirelss navigation, and aircraft production. Illustrated with photogravures, three-color plates, suntones, and maps. Lots of great ads, too. First edition (first printing). A very good hardcover copy; a large, heavy book.…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Oversized hardcover. Blue cloth over boards with gold lettering on front and spine, wrapped in protective mylar. Toning to spine, faded marker with library catalogue numbers near foot. Binding is tight and secure. Pages are clean, crisp, and bright. Printed in B&W. 47 illustrations. 815 pages. Title page dated 1935. No date on copyright page. Library markings on front attached endpaper for the Paramount Pictures Research Department, dated 1939. Previous owner's name written in top corner on front free endpaper. A very good copy. This volume comes from the Aviation collection of Prof. Chris Sterling. Sterling spent his lifetime teaching, writing, and collecting books on civil and military aviation. We are proud to house his Aviation collection, part of the extensive library which is his legacy. Please email with questions or to request photos. Note: If there is a photo beside this listing, it is a STOCK photo that ABE put there (for reasons that we cannot understand or control) and might not match this actual book. This is an oversized book, so extra shipping will be required for priority or international shipping. …

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Oversized hardcover. Blue cloth over boards with gold lettering on front and spine, wrapped in protective mylar. Faint scuffs to covers, likely due to shelf wear. Binding is tight and secure. Pages are clean, crisp, and bright. Printed in B&W. 3 color prints and 48 half-tones, map tucked into front of book. 718 pages. Title page dated 1934. Copyright page dated 1933. Previous owner's name written in top corner on front free endpaper. A very good copy. This volume comes from the Aviation collection of Prof. Chris Sterling. Sterling spent his lifetime teaching, writing, and collecting books on civil and military aviation. We are proud to house his Aviation collection, part of the extensive library which is his legacy. Please email with questions or to request photos. Note: If there is a photo beside this listing, it is a STOCK photo that ABE put there (for reasons that we cannot understand or control) and might not match this actual book. This is an oversized book, so extra shipping will be required for priority or international shipping.…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Oversized hardcover. Blue cloth over boards with gold lettering on front and spine, wrapped in protective mylar. Light, patchy staining of black, just a shade or two darker than cloth, across spine and spreading about two inches across back cover. Binding is tight and secure. Pages are clean, crisp, and bright. Printed in B&W. 74 photographic plates, 49 monochrome illustrations, 1 line illustration, and 1 map (fold-out.) 651 pages. Title page dated 1932. Copyright page dated 1931. Previous owner's name written in top corner on front free endpaper. A very good copy. This volume comes from the Aviation collection of Prof. Chris Sterling. Sterling spent his lifetime teaching, writing, and collecting books on civil and military aviation. We are proud to house his Aviation collection, part of the extensive library which is his legacy. Please email with questions or to request photos. Note: If there is a photo beside this listing, it is a STOCK photo that ABE put there (for reasons that we cannot understand or control) and might not match this actual book. This is an oversized book, so extra shipping will be required for priority or international shipping.…

Hard Cover. Condition: Very Good. First Edition. HEAVY. lxiv, 774pp, index, num bw ills (inc some folding), map, num adverts. Or blue cloth titled in gilt. Some white spotting to front, toning/foxing to page edges, one of folding plates with tear, 1 plate detached but present. Second year of issue. Size: 8vo. …

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Oversized hardcover. Blue cloth over boards with gold lettering on front and spine, wrapped in protective mylar. Light fading to spine, corners gently bumped. Binding is overall tight and secure but shallowly cracked along front gutter, revealing small glimpse of backing linen. Pages are clean, crisp, and bright. Printed in B&W. 25 B&W illustrations. 480 pages. Title page dated 1939. No date on copyright page. Previous owner's name written in top corner on front free endpaper. A very good copy. This volume comes from the Aviation collection of Prof. Chris Sterling. Sterling spent his lifetime teaching, writing, and collecting books on civil and military aviation. We are proud to house his Aviation collection, part of the extensive library which is his legacy. Please email with questions or to request photos. Note: If there is a photo beside this listing, it is a STOCK photo that ABE put there (for reasons that we cannot understand or control) and might not match this actual book. This is an oversized book, so extra shipping will be required for priority or international shipping.…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Oversized hardcover. Blue cloth over boards with gold lettering on front and spine, wrapped in protective mylar. Light fading to spine, corners gently bumped. Binding is tight and secure. Pages are clean, crisp, and bright. Printed in B&W. 51 B&W illustrations. 616 pages. Title page dated 1938. No date on copyright page. Previous owner's name written in top corner on front free endpaper. A very good copy. This volume comes from the Aviation collection of Prof. Chris Sterling. Sterling spent his lifetime teaching, writing, and collecting books on civil and military aviation. We are proud to house his Aviation collection, part of the extensive library which is his legacy. Please email with questions or to request photos. Note: If there is a photo beside this listing, it is a STOCK photo that ABE put there (for reasons that we cannot understand or control) and might not match this actual book. This is an oversized book, so extra shipping will be required for priority or international shipping.…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Oversized hardcover. Blue cloth over boards with gold lettering on front and spine, wrapped in protective mylar. Light toning to spine, library catalogue number written in faded marker near foot. No other ex libris markings. Binding is tight and secure. Pages are clean, crisp, and bright. Printed in B&W. 54 B&W illustrations. 524 pages. Title page dated 1937. No date on copyright page. Previous owner's name written in top corner on front free endpaper. A very good copy. This volume comes from the Aviation collection of Prof. Chris Sterling. Sterling spent his lifetime teaching, writing, and collecting books on civil and military aviation. We are proud to house his Aviation collection, part of the extensive library which is his legacy. Please email with questions or to request photos. Note: If there is a photo beside this listing, it is a STOCK photo that ABE put there (for reasons that we cannot understand or control) and might not match this actual book. This is an oversized book, so extra shipping will be required for priority or international shipping.…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Oversized hardcover. Blue cloth over boards with silver lettering on front and spine, wrapped in protective mylar. Toning to spine, corners gently bumped. Binding is tight and secure. Pages are clean, crisp, and bright. Printed in B&W. B&W illustrations throughout text. 772 pages, tabbed out by section like a dictionary along fore edge. Title page dated 1936. No date on copyright page. Previous owner's name written in top corner on front free endpaper. A very good copy. This volume comes from the Aviation collection of Prof. Chris Sterling. Sterling spent his lifetime teaching, writing, and collecting books on civil and military aviation. We are proud to house his Aviation collection, part of the extensive library which is his legacy. Please email with questions or to request photos. Note: If there is a photo beside this listing, it is a STOCK photo that ABE put there (for reasons that we cannot understand or control) and might not match this actual book. This is an oversized book, so extra shipping will be required for priority or international shipping.…

Card Covers. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. Card covers. Rare original example of the Schneider Trophy Contest Souvenir Programme for September 12th 1931. Some excellent coloured artwork on both the cover and the two following pages, four in all at front of brochure and three at the rear. 1st Edition 1931 Gale & Polden. 52pp., numerous ills., map, previous winners. Staples rusty and centre pages have one staple of two firmly in place. A few minor blemishes, else very nice condition. Ships from UK.…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. 774 p. Includes: illustrations, index, bibliography.