Marsh Lt Col W (5 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. VG, text block nice and clean.

Cloth. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. A delightful and well-written non-technical explanation. pp88. Illus.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. Limited Edition. A collection of reproductions of early plates illustrating the history of Ballooning, published in a limited edition of 100 copies. This edition bound in full leather with a gilt title to spine and printed on heavy art paper. The frontispiece and colour plates are tipped in. T.E.G. with some minor insect damage to top of boards, collated complete. Online COPAC cites edition limited to 1000 copies.…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Oversized hardcover. Blue cloth with gold lettering and borders on cover and spine. Bevel edges boards. Overall very good condition, with minor bumps to corners. Top edge gilt. This is number 205 of 1000 copies. Color plate tipped in as frontispiece. TItle page dated 1924. 36 text pages plus 87 pages of plates, most of which are black and white, but a few of which are color plates tipped down on vellum-like pages. Binding good and tight. A nice clean copy. Measures slightly larger than 10 x 12.5 inches. Introduction by Sir Frederick H. Sykes. This is an oversized book, so additional shipping will be needed for international or priority shipping, and perhaps even for media shipping in the US. Please email with questions or to request photos. If there is a photo beside this listing, please note that it was placed there by ABE without our permission and is likely what they call a 'stock photo' (whatever that is). This volume is part of a large collection of Aviation and Ballooning books, a catalogue of which is available upon request. Most of the volumes have a small pencil notation on the first blank page - the letters KB and a number. Many have Evelyn Kendall's signature as well.…

Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition, Limited Edition. Limited edition, this being No. 519 of 1,000 copies. Large quarto. Bound in original blue cloth with bright gilt lettering to the spine and front board. Color plate tipped in as frontispiece. Title page dated 1924. 36 text pages plus 87 pages of plates, most of which are black and white, but a few of which are color plates tipped down on vellum-like pages. Includes a notable award bookplate on the front endpaper from the Cambridge University Air Squadron (CUAS), dated 1942. Condition: Very Good. The cloth shows typical shelfwear and rubbing to the extremities. The binding remains firm, and there's minor foxing to the text pages, else plates are clean and well-preserved. This item is being sold under the Retail Gift Aid scheme to support Amnesty International UK Section Charitable Trust.…