Flight by Batten Jean (5 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Good. 1st Edition. Some light rubbing to the board edges. A very good clean copy. The first-hand account of Jean Battens record-breaking aviation journeys in the 1930s, told with clarity, courage, and emotional honesty. The book recounts Batten's determination to become a world-class pilot, beginning with her early training in England and culminating in her historic solo flights across vast and often hostile landscapes. She describes her first failed attempts to reach Australia, including crash landings and mechanical failures, before finally succeeding in May 1934. That flight, from England to Darwin in a Gipsy Moth, took just under 15 days and made her the first woman to complete the journey solo.…

1st edition orig. cloth Nice Copy small octavo 215pp., b/w plates, ep maps, Story of the 10,500 mile solo flight in a de Havilland biplane by the famous New Zealand Aviatrix in 1934. Light wear to pale blue boards o/w a nice copy.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. First Ed. Signed by Jean Batten. Boards have minor edge wear and faded spots here and there. Very good internally. Maps on EPs. Please contact O'Connell's Bookshop Adelaide (est. 1957) to check availability etc. We have many thousands more books in our shop than appear on line. Size: 19 x 12cm. Signed by Author.…

1st Edition. 215 pages. Very good pale blue cloth covers. Rare pictorial dust jacket heavily taped on the front and inner edges of the wrapper. Internally very good with light foxing. Black and white ills. Exceptionally signed by the author on the half title page dated 1934. Below an inscription dated 1936. Poem pasted-in by Walter White on the front free end paper. Scarce.…

Sydney: Jackson & O'Sullivan, 1934. Sm. 8vo. Orig. cloth (slightly soiled & flecked). (256pp.). With 8 full-page plates, and endpaper maps. 1st ed. Slight foxing on end-papers and text-block. Inscription on half title-page offset onto opposite page. Rare.