Stuart Biard (6 results)

Octavo, black cloth (hardcover), gilt letters, map illus. endpapers, 186 pp. Illustrated. Neat former-owner bookplate; otherwise, Near-Fine, in a Good, mylar protected dust jacket with edgewear that includes chipping. Contents: Aerial View; Airport Requirements; Existing Airports; The Case for Seadromes; Traffic and Safety; British Empire Airliners; United States Airliners; Freighters, Conversions and Foreign Aircraft; Transatlantic Air Routes; Empire Trunk Routes; Foreign Trunk Routes; Future of Air Trunk Lines; United States Internal Networks; British Internal and European Networks; British Commonwealth Airline Companies; Foreign Networks; Operational Costs and Problems; Mails; Fares and Freights; Airline Personnel; Air Transort Expansion; Private and Club Flying; Gliders and Sailplanes; Racing and Sport; Airships; Fighting Air Forces; Air Police; High Routes of the Future; Chances in Aircraft Design; Looking Forward. Aviation, Aeronautics, Aeroplanes, Air Planes, Aircraft. nslic.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Hardcover. Black cloth over boards with gold lettering on spine. Covers uniformly rubbed, especially on lettering and crown and foot of spine. Binding sturdy. No date on title page; no date on copyright page. 186 pages. Black and white plates throughout. Pages uniformly toned; otherwise clean. Ex libris copy with faded call number on spine and blue stamps on title pages and copyright page. From the BBC Library. Chris Sterling signed FFE. 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's a STOCK photo that ABE put there (for reasons that we cannot understand or control) and might not match this actual book.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. 190 pages all original HB in blue cloth gilt, 16 x 24 cm. Frontispiece photo portraits of authors (Image 1). Title: image 2. Miles Aerovan: image 3. Lancastrian & Shetland: image 4., Miles Messenger: image 5. [See alsp our ABE Listing: # 007850 "Wilson Airways Kenya. An original 1929 photograph"].

Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. Uk hardcover edition in good condition.Undated but has a map dated 1945 to rear, so probably printed 1946. Small piece missing to inside front cover, and slight separation of pages between 178 & 179 (see pics). light foxing to page edges.

First edition hard back binding in publisher's original black cloth covers, gilt title and author lettering to the spine, end paper maps dated 1945. 8vo. 9½'' x 6¼''. Contains 186 printed pages of text with 26 monochrome photographs throughout. Light soiling to the covers and in Good clean condition, no dust wrapper. Member of the P.B.F.A. AVIATION & AERONAUTICS.

Long John, London no date (c. 1950). 186 pages + plates. Original cloth. No jacket.[#201095].