Lot 102
Aeronautical Books.
A very good selection of thirty mainly hardback volumes in generally very good condition, including such scarce titles as The Aerial Age, A Thousand Miles by Airship Over the Atlantic Ocean, by Walter Wellman, 1st Ed. 1911; How to Fly, or The Conquest of the Air, by Richard Ferris, 1st Ed. 1910; Travels in Space, by E. Seton Valentine & F. L. Tomlinson, 1st Ed. 1902, (cloth rubbed and dull, front and rear hinges weak, ex-Tabard Inn Library, but clean and sound internally); Challenge to the Poles: Highlights of Arctic and Antarctic Aviation, by John Grierson, 1st Ed. 1964; The Gloucester Gladiator, by Francis K. Mason, 1st Ed. 1964; Aircraft Paintings of C. Rupert Moore, A. R. C. A., by O. G. Thetford, n.d. (1940s); and other interesting volumes. (30)