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1 BLAKE, John Early Airplanes: Aviation's Heroic Age.
London Camden House 1985 
Quarto, 80 pages with 100 illustrations (some in colour). Fine copy (ownership details on pastedown under the foldover) in the fine dustwrapper. 
Price: 2.00 AUD
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2 BROWNE, Gerard The Aircraft Lift-the-Flap Book.
London Orchard Books 1992 
Smal quarto, 16 pages with illustrations. Pictorial laminated boards; a fine copy. 
Price: 3.00 AUD
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3 BRYANT, John H. and Harold N. CONES Dangerous Crossings: The First Modern Polar Expedition, 1925.
Annapolis Naval Institute Press 2000 
208 pages with a map and illustrations. Fine copy in the fine dustwrapper. Considered one of the most heroic missions in the annals of naval aviation, the expedition included the overflight of some thirty thousand square miles of the High Arctic in open cockpit Loening Amphibian biplanes and a series of other events in which the explorers risked their lives in an unforgiving environment to add to the store of human knowledge. 
Price: 8.00 AUD
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4 CROSS, Wilbur Disaster at the Pole: The Crash of the Airship Italia and the 1928 Nobile Expedition to the North Pole.
Guilford Lyons Press 2002 
316 pages with a map plus plates. Paperback with minor signs of use; a very presentable copy. 
Price: 5.00 AUD
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5 DYSON, Marianne J. Home on the Moon: Living on a Space Frontier.
Washington DC National Geographic 2003 
Quarto, 64 pages with colour illustrations. Fine copy in the fine dustwrapper. SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR 
Price: 25.00 AUD
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6 FYSH, Sir Hudson Wings to the World: The Story of Qantas 1945-1966.
Sydney Angus and Robertson 1970 
236 pages plus plates. Fine copy in the slightly chipped (a very small portion missing from the foot of the spine), rubbed, torn (a trifle) dustwrapper faintly sunned on the spine; a very presentable copy. 
Price: 25.00 AUD
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7 HOFFMAN, Paul Wings of Madness. Alberto Santos-Dumont and the Invention of Flight.
London Fourth Estate 2003 
381 pages plus plates. Fine copy in the fine dustwrapper. "Reflects the man and his work: chaotic, eccentric and intriguing". 
Price: 5.00 AUD
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8 HORAN, Michael Parachuting Folklore. The Evolution of Freefall.
Richmond Parachuting Resources 1980 
Quarto, 167 pages with numerous illustrations. Illustrated papered boards very slightly rubbed; an excellent copy. 
Price: 3.00 AUD
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9 LONGMAN, Jere Among the Heroes: The Story of Flight 93 and the Passengers Who Fought Back.
New York Simon and Schuster 2002 reprint 
288 pages plus plates. Fine copy in the fine dustwrapper. 
Price: 3.00 AUD
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