Maycock robert wing commander (10 risultati)

Condizione: Good. 1957. First Edition. 145 pages. No dust jacket. Blue cloth. Book is in better condition than most examples of this age. Neat, clean, well bound pages with very minimal foxing, tanning and thumbing. Small inscriptions and neat labels may be present. Boards have mild shelf wear with light rubbing and corner bumping. Some light marking and sunning.…

Hardcover. Condizione: Used - Very Good. London: George Allen & Unwin, first published 1957. 145 pages. 15 plates: balloonists, cold, decompression, wind tests, handwriting, rocket track, ejection seat, air pickup, Normandy casualty airlift, flotation device, exposure suit, igloo. 8.75 x 5.5", silver stamped blue paper boards, dj. Henry Rouse Viets bookplate. VG/VG. …

Condizione: Good. 1957. First Published. 145 pages. Pictorial dust jacket over blue cloth. Black and white photographic plates throughout. Pages and plates have light tanning and foxing throughout. Pencil inscription to front pastedown. Binding remains firm. Boards have light shelf-wear with corner bumping. Slight crushing to spine ends. Clipped jacket has heavy edgewear with areas of loss, heavy tears, chips, and creasing. Water marking to rear panel. Medium tanning overall.…

Hardcover in jacket. Condizione: Very Good. DOCTORS IN THE AIR By Wing Commander Robert Maycock; Thomas Nelson and Sons. New York, NY. 1957. First American Edition. This book is hard-bound in navy blue boards in a nice Dust Jacket with wear to the edges. The binding is solid and tight. The contents are bright and clean with illustrations throughout. "The author was one of the first two R. A. F. doctors to pass the full pilot's wartime training course, and now the first to tell the splendid story of aviation medicine". Very Good condition.…

Hb In Dw 145pp Illustrations The Story Of Aeronautical Science and The Experiments To Enhance Medical Knowledge Of The Subject.

Hardcover. Condizione: Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. Boards are worn and marked.Ex-library book.Tanning.Excellent binding.[R.K]. Our orders are shipped using tracked courier delivery services.

Hardcover. Condizione: Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. The boards are rubbed and sunned.Some foxing.Well bound.[R.N]. Our orders are shipped using tracked courier delivery services.

1957-1st ed., h/c+d/j, 145 pp, 22x14, d/j small tears, shop stamp in f/s, price clipped, browning to top and side edges, many illustrations throughout. Pioneer Aviation development, by the author, in survival techniques and manoeuvres from thin air, cold and hot parachute drops, violent environments, etc.…

8vo. [10], 145, [1] pp. Photo frontisp., with numerous photo plates. Blue tweed publisher's boards, silver lettering on spine (minor dustsoiling, slight bowing to covers), w/ d.j. surrealistic cover art of pilot wearing breathing mask (minor shelfwear, British price clipped, U.S. price of 3.75 rubber stamped w/ imprint on jacket), still VG/VG copy. First American edition of this surprisingly uncommon memoir and study of Altitude Training Program during World War II, and afterwards, designed to familiarize flying aviators, and bombing crews, with the physiological principles in ascent to high altitude. He details the research to aid pilots in coping with great hights, trans-sonic speeds, violent acceleration, parachute drops, exposure, fatigue during the mammoth Berlin airlift, and early studies of the effects of observing an atomic explosion mushroom cloud from a Canberra jet.…

145 pp including index, b&w photographic plates, top edge tinted, fine condition with like pictorial d/j. First edition.