Monk and Winter (31 results)

Condition: Good. No Edition Remarks. Unpaginated. No dust jacket. Blue cloth with decorations. Each chapter paginated separately. Black and white illustrations throughout. Prize plate stuck to front free endpaper. Pages and binding are presentable with no major defects. Minor issues present such as mild cracking, inscriptions, inserts, light foxing, tanning and thumb marking. Boards have mild shelf wear with light rubbing and corner bumping. Some light marking and sunning.…

Condition: Fair. 1935. Reprinted. 300 pages. No dust jacket. Green cloth covered boards with gilt. Contains black and white photographic plates. Pages have mild tanning and foxing throughout, moderate at end-papers, paste-downs and text-block edges. Plates are bright and clear. Some occasional mild cracking to gutters throughout, binding remains reasonably firm. Boards have moderate edge-wear with bumping to corners and rubbing to surfaces. Mild crushing to spine ends. Book has a slight forward lean. Gilt lettering is bright and clear.…

Condition: Good. Light wear to boards. Light toning to pages with some spotting. DJ has edge wear with tears to rear.

(Subject: Aviation - General) Blackie's Flying series. Grey boards slightly marked. Brown spine. No date but thought to be c 1930s. previous owner name on endpaper. From arriving at the Hangar to 'doing a loop' (Publisher: Blackie & Son Ltd) (Pagination: 58pp drawings) (Condition: Good) UL-XXXXXX.

Condition: Fair. No Edition Remarks. 224 pages. No dust jacket. Blue cloth with black lettering. Contains black and white photographic frontispiece, with other similar plates, as well as illustrated ones, throughout. Pages are mildly tanned and foxed, but text remains clear. Plates are bright. Binding is firm. Previous owner's inscription to front pastedown. Boards have moderate shelf-wear, with noticeable corner bumping and some scuffing to edges. Spine is moderately sunned, with noticeable crushing and slight splitting to ends. Moderate rubbing and scuffing overall, with some visible marks to rear board. Book has a minor backwards lean. …

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. 1935 Reprinted. The Gresham Publishing Co, London, 1935. Hard Cover. Book Condition : Very Good, clean text, binding tight. Mild spotting page edges. Bookseller Inventory #003535. Size: 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. N/A (illustrator). N/A.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. First Edition. Stamp marks from the previous owner on the end pages. The front-end page has been removed, the book starts on the half title page. Complete with all plates. Heavy book extra postage may be required. Green top page edges. Frontispiece (has skillfully been repaired). The boards are a touch edge worn and slightly faded marks, remain in strong condition. There is foxing around the block of the book within the body of the book. All pages are accessible. The binding is secure. GK. Our orders are shipped using tracked courier delivery services.…

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. 223 pages. Not dated (1936). Blue cloth covers & lightly flecked cover and foxing throughout. St.Paul's S.S. Wahroonga Awarded front end paper. Dust jacket tear and torn some partly & repaired.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Early Edition. Nd possibly first edition No jacket. Blue cloth, a few scuff marks, a little darkening to spine, else good. No inscr. Eight half tone plates and diagrams. A good copy.

Condition: Good. This is an ex-library book and may have the usual library/used-book markings inside.This book has hardback covers. In good all round condition. No dust jacket. Please note the Image in this listing is a stock photo and may not match the covers of the actual item,600grams, ISBN.

Hardcover. Condition: Generally Good. First Edition. Nd shown, believed to be first. Blue cloth, titles in black. A little corner bumping else sound. No inscriptions. No jacket. 8 half-tone plates and diagrams. Contents clean. A good copy.

Hardback. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. Foxing to dust jacket and pages. Inscription on inside front cover. Dust Jacket clipped and torn.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. hardback, 8vo, 230pp, illustrated, clean and sound, blue cloth pictorial, rubbed, Good / no dustwrapper.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. Good condition. Edges foxed and slightly discoloured. Some foxing throughout. Inscription on front flyleaf. No jacket. Cover slightly marked but otherwise good. Minor bumping/wear to corners and spine ends. 304 pages.

224pp. 8vo. Original boards in worn dustwrapper with slight tears to edges. Light foxing to edges and endpapers. B/w plates & diagrams. A very good copy.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Cloth Spine, Papered Boards. 64 pages, 3 maps, name on front endpaper. This copy has the rare dust jacket, price clipped but almost very good. First chapter is about Admiral Byrd in Antarctica, second chapter about searching for hidden temples in Yucatan and chapter 3 about the voyage of the Hobby and Fram led by Amundsen and Riiser-Larsen to the Arctic Seas in 1925. On board they had 2 planes with which they reached 87 degrees North.…

Decorative Cloth. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. Reprint. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good -. H/B blue cloth bds, VG-, a little age-darkened in places and minor soiling, contents clean and tight, with 8 half-tone plates, text maps and diagrams, pges tanning, neat inscript. dated 1942-3 on fep. A sound reading copy.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good+. Dust Jacket Condition: Good+. First Edition. Dust jacket creased and heavily chipped head & tail of spine, with short tears, shelf soil on back panel of DJ; A bright, solid book, DJ in protective Mylar sleeve, unclipped. Blue cloth covered boards show light wear only, hinges intact, 8 half tone plates and diagrams.; Enterprise Library; Small 8vo 7½" - 8" tall; 224 pages; Monk and Winter examine man's efforts using various forms of flight to go higher and higher in vehicles ranging from balloons to aircraft to early rockets. Illustrated by B&W Plates (illustrator).…

Condition: VG, NO dj. later ptg. 16mo. 64pp. Uncommon book in the US.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. No publication date (1930s), small 8vo, 64 pages, book in very good condition in paper covered boards and cloth spine (edges of book spotted, two ink date stamps on front free end-paper) with good dust-wrapper (not price clipped, dust marked, edges creased wit wear to the corners and top and bottom of the spine).…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. 1st Edition. 224pp., ills., A few modest blemishes and interesting prize plate (1943) to original blue cloth, o/w vgc in heavily chipped dw, with futuristic image, also lacking fly leaf to dw. 0.0.

Blue Cloth. Condition: VERY GOOD ( AVERAGE). Dust Jacket Condition: Fair (WELL BELOW AVERAGE). Undated Circa 1933. Parts missing from repaired jacket.Please Email for further details Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾". With Eight Half Tone Plates and Diagrams (illustrator). Signed By a "F.G.A Dolbear".

Hardback. Condition: Very Good. First Edition. 63pp illustrated. Cloth at the spine and boards are clean. No previous ownership markings. Thick paper has foxing in the margins.

Hardback. Condition: Very Good. First Edition. 64pp illustrated. Cloth at the spine and boards are clean. No previous ownership markings. Thick paper has foxing in the margins.

Hard back blue cloth covers, black titles and vignette of biplane to upper panel. Frontispiece, many illustrations. Contents : How an Aeroplane flies; How the airman finds his way; Exploring by air; Great stories of the air. Rubs to all edges and surfaces of cloth, '1934' hand written to title page, small reference number to spine, not ex-library, interior clean and tidy without foxing. Member of the P.B.F.A. AVIATION & AERONAUTICS. …

Cloth. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Interesting pre-war primer. pp58. n.d. c.late 1930's.

Presumed First Edition. Leslie Carr dustjacket art. Illustrated with plates and maps. Very Good in nearly Very Good dustjacket, slightly shorter than book, few small chips and tears.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. Undated. Circa 1930's. Corners crushed, ffep removed. d/w complete but with some shelfwear and small nicks and tears to corners and has been price clipped. Overall a good example.

Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Advance In The Air is an aviation history book written by FV Monk and HT Winter the work is part of the publishers Enterprise Library series Originally written as an engaging informative science and transport text targeted at boys and girls This copy is complete with its dust jacket and is illustrated with several historic photographs The pictorial dust jacket displays some discolouration with a small closed tear to the top of the spine Despite this it remains in very good condition Underneath lie bright and clean blue cloth boards with printed titles and pictorial to the front The text block is tight The pages display a little foxing to the prelims otherwise a very good clean copy pp 223 A superb copy and rare to find in such good conditionnbsp. book.…