Mr john boyle (2 Ergebnisse)

First edition thus (per matching dates upon title and copyright pages but reprinting stories first published in Blackwood's Magazine). [8], 268 pages. Hardcover: H 22.25cm x L14.75cm. Dust jacket rubbed with some soiling; spine panel toned with short tearing and chipping at head; spine heel nicks with flap fold ends worn; toning to flaps. Blue boards; white discoloration to rear board; bumping to spine ends and board corners. Text block edges toned; light staining to fore-edge. Some toning/soiling to endpapers; interior pages are clean. Binding is firm. A very good- copy in a very good- dust jacket. With Foreword by Air Chief Marshal Sir Dermot A. Boyle and seventeen stories/essays: "Fledgelings: Early Flying Experiments and Experiences" by The Hon. Alan Boyle; "Early Days in the R.F.C." by John Mackworth; "The Last of the Zeppelins" by C.S. Iron; "Dawn Flight" by M.O.W. Miller; "Per Ardua Ad-Terram" by 'Cocles'; "Portrait of a Night Fighter" by Douglas Reekie; "Watery Return" by Victor MacClure; "With a Fighter Squadron in Malta" by Lord David Douglas-Hamilton; "Coned" by 'Nosmo'; "A Taranto Diary" by M.R. Maund; "Atlantic Ferry" by E.C. Palmer; "Operation 'Co-operation'" by 'Won-tolla'; "The Ways of a Walrus" by 'Griff'; "The Last Flight of Hastings TG.574" by 'Nosmo'; "Faster than Sound" by A.G.D.; "Playing with Time" by M.D.L. and A.G.D.; and "The Taxpayer's Money" by Brian J. Haimes. In 1967 Blackwood published a follow-up volume of other aviation stories selected from their monthly magazine.…

Zustand: Very Good. pp 647-678 (Pppp1-Tttt4 - lacking the engraved plate) An early edition of the Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society containing contributions from Van Leeuwenhoek, Hevlius, Flamsteed, Cassini and a review of Robert Boyle's Experiments, Notes. Quarto pamphlet bound by Sotherans of London marbled paper covered boards with an antique-style paper label to the upper cover and new endpapers The text is close cropped, affecting signatures at the foot of the page and even a line of text on a couple of pages. There is a big stain across the first leaf. Even by the standards of the Royal Society this is an unusually interesting compilation with Antoni Van Leeuwenhoek writing about his discovery of 'sels or pores' in trees, Hevelius, Flamsteed and Cassini provide observational data on a solar eclipse, 23 June 1675, and unsigned reviews of new works by Boyle and other writers. Very Good Please contact Christian White Rare Books Ltd for more information or images of this item.…