Hawker and grieve (5 risultati)

Hardcover. Condizione: Good. Hardcover. Blue cloth over boards with dark blue lettering. Spine toned; light toning to covers. Minor rubbing at crown and foot of spine. Covers wrapped in protective mylar. Binding tight. No date on title page. Copyright page dated 1919. 128 pages. Black and white illustrations in the text; black and white plates throughout. Pages uniformly toned; light spotting to first and last few pages. Signed by former owner on title page. Also signed by Chris Sterling on title page. Overall very good condition. 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.…

128 pp. With fourteen illustrations and six diagrams. 12mo, publisher's cloth. First edition. Old ink gift inscription; light use to cloth; tight and sound.

Hardback. 1st. With a preface by MajorGeneral J E B Seely with fourteen illustrations and six diagrams 128 pp. book.

Hardback. Condizione sovraccoperta: Fair to Good. First Edition. St Marys Books is incredibly proud to present this 1919 first edition of Our Atlantic Attempt by H G Hawker and K Mackenzie Grieve housed in its original dustjacket making it an incredibly scarce copy Bound in light blue cloth this hardback book contains ixi and 126 pages of text complete with stunning contemporary black and white photographs Within the pages of this book the reader is treated to a modest account of a gallant and pioneering voyage across the Atlantic This copy is impeccably well preserved other than a small inscription and some minor offsetting on the front free endpaper there are few notable blemishes or imperfections on this book The original dustjacket on the other hand can only be described as fair as though it remains clean it has suffered significant losses however it is nevertheless remarkable that this copy has its dustjacket Our Atlantic Attempt is looking for a new home and would make for a perfect gift for any early aviation enthusiast or lover of a good pioneering adventure. book.…

See Blades' obituary in The Times, 25 May 1953 ('Lord Ebbisham | A Notable Lord Mayor of London'). 5pp., 12mo. On five leaves attached to one another through punch holes to a corner. Addressed to 'My Lords and Gentlemen'. In his reply to the toast he wishes to say 'a few words on the subject upon which Lord Reading has just made such a magnificent speech', i.e. 'the World's Peace'. He speculates on what peace would have been 'dictated to us had the enemy won the war. Doubtless their peace terms are still pigeon-holed in the Foreign Office at Berlin. [] In any case, we should all have been put to much inconvenience. | Just picture to yourselves the horror with which the British printers would have received their orders to set up proclamations and other such-like disagreeable documents in the German type. Well luckily they are saved from the realization of such a nightmare and they can take comfort in the fact that a large staff of British printers are daily busily engaged in producing an excellent English newspaper in Cologne.' He discusses the need to 'repair the devastation of the past 4 ½ years', and the 'formidable task of national and inter-national reconstruction'. A passage on the League of Nations and 'the Worlds peace' is added in pencil, and the speech concludes: 'I am very pleased to see Mr. Hawker and Lieut-Commander Grieve as our guests here to-night, and I am sure that you will all join with me in extending to them both our heartiest congratulations on their very plucky attempt to fly the Atlantic, and on their safe return to England. [] Our very best wishes go to them for better luck next time.' Hawker and Grieve made the first attempt to cross the Atlantic by air. They left St. John's, Newfoundland, on 1 May 1919, and crash landed 1,100 miles of the coast.…