Sir gordon taylor (55 risultati)

Paperback. Condizione: Fair. No Jacket. Readable copy. Pages may have considerable notes/highlighting. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.

Condizione: Good. Good condition. A copy that has been read but remains intact. May contain markings such as bookplates, stamps, limited notes and highlighting, or a few light stains.

Condizione: New. pp. 112.

Condizione: New. pp. 112.

Mass Market Paperback. Condizione: Acceptable. First Printing: August, 1970. This 1970 mass market paperback edition of "The Sky Beyond" is in fair condition. The cover exhibits noticeable wear, including creases and slight discoloration. The spine is intact, though it shows signs of handling. The pages are yellowed with age but remain securely bound. There are no inscriptions or library markings present. unknown (no dust jacket as it's a paperback). Cover art by Ronald Lesser (illustratore).…

Condizione: Very Good. Former library copy. Pages intact with possible writing/highlighting. Binding strong with minor wear. Dust jackets/supplements may not be included. Includes library markings. Stock photo provided. Product includes identifying sticker. Better World Books: Buy Books. Do Good.

Mass Market Paperback. Condizione: Very Good. 1st Edition. First printing, August 1970, stated; cover price 95 cents; cover art by Ronald Lesser; page edges tinted orange; eight pages of photos. The book is unmarked; spine slanted and creased; age-toning to the pages; some creasing and edgewear to the front wrap; sleeve protected.…

Paperback. Condizione: Brand New. english language edition. 112 pages. 8.50x5.50x0.50 inches. In Stock.

Paperback. Condizione: Fair. No Jacket. Readable copy. Pages may have considerable notes/highlighting. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.

Hardcover. Condizione: Very Good. Condizione sovraccoperta: Good. 1st Edition. Taylor's memoir is both a personal chronicle and a technical record of early flight. His accounts of pioneering long-distance routes, emergency landings, and the development of aerial navigation give the book enduring historical value. For readers interested in Australian aviation heritage, it is one of the essential primary sources of the mid-20th century. Loss to dust jacket, inscription to front end page, several B&W plates.…

Hardcover. Condizione: Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. 140pp. 24.5cm. Indexes of personal names and subjects. Hard cover. Lettered in gilt. Spine lettering faded. A good clean copy.

Paperback. Condizione: Collectible-Very Good. Treasury of over 170 English and American sonnets by more than 70 poets, from the Renaissance to the 20th century. Shakespeare's 'Shall I Compare Thee to a Summer's Day?', Milton's 'On His Blindness,' Wordsworth's 'The World Is Too Much with Us,' many more by Spenser, Sidney, Blake, Byron, Coleridge, Longfellow, Yeats, Frost, Poe, etc.…

Col.Ill.wrapps. 363pp. (sl foxing) Very good copy. 1st paperback ed. Australian air pioneer of flying world air routes, Sir Gordon Taylor, was awarded the George Cross for climbing onto the wing of an aircraft to transfer fuel from a failed engine to a good one.

Mass Market Paperback. Condizione: Very Good. 1st Printing.

Hardcover. Condizione: Very Good. Condizione sovraccoperta: Very Good. 1st Edition. Cassell and Co London 1968 First Edition VG (blue cloth w title in gilt on spine, sl worn, head and foot of spine v sl bumped, fep missing, yellow marks where tape had been on front and rear pastedowns,) in VG DW (previous owner had plastic protected, sl worn, yellow marks on flaps where tape had been).…

Hardcover. Condizione: Very Good. Condizione sovraccoperta: Very Good. Looks unread with almost no wear to the dj. Aircraft WWI.

Hardcover. Condizione: Very Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. Frontispiece, xii, 288 pp; 49 figs. Original cloth. Very Good. This copy does NOT have any library markings. First Edition. "The important work on Bell, is an accurate but discursive biography and includes a bibliography of Bell's writings and the literature on him" (D.S.B. 1: 584).…

Octavo, photo. illus. boards (hardcover), gilt letters, v, 366 pp. Near-Fine, with former-owner bookplate and darkening to pages; in a Very Good, mylar protected dust jacket with lightly rubbed edges. From dust jacket: This is a rich personal chronicle of flying during the years 1916 to 1951, written by one of Australia's brilliant pioneer aviators, Sir Gordon Taylor. The author's first plane was a little Sopwith Scout fighter which he flew on the French Front in 1917. Twenty-five years later, in 1942, he flew Liberator bombers across the Atlantic for theR. A. F. -- one of the few pilots to fly actively in both World Wars. But the heart of this aviator is in pioneering flying. In The Sky Beyond hetells of his perilous exploratory flights -- many of them in the great Catalina flying boats -- across the Tasman Sea and the Indian and Pacific Oceans during the 1930s and 1940s. As recently as 1951 he commanded Frigate Bird II on its historic return flight between Australia and South America. Such pioneering flights were as dangerous and demanding as they were compelling. On the first West-East crossing of the Pacific from Australia to the United States in 1934, the Altair, of which Sir Gordon was navigator, spun uncontrollably in a dive of over 10,000 feet. Even more appalling was a 1935 trans-Tasman flight during which the author repeatedly had to crawl out onto the wibng struts of the Fokker Southern Cross and, using an improvised container, transfer oil from the dead starboard engine to the failing port engine. Almost a decade later, on a 1944 exploratory flight of the Central Pacific from Mexico to the Marquesas, the Catalina Frigate Bird was trapped by a hurricane in the lagoon of isolated Clipperton Island. And in 1951, in the process of a rocket-assisted take-off from rough open ocean, Frigate Bird II veered directly toward the sharp cliffs of Easter Island, where she had just refuelled. The Sky Beyond is an important addition to aviation history and an exciting testimonial to human ingenuity and courage. The author's love of flying shines through every page. Sir Gordon honestly appraises himself and his fellows as men incapable of living any other life without withering and dying. Anyone wh has ever shared or felt the attraction of the sky beyond will find his story impossible to put down. Aviation, Pilot Biography, British History, Military History, Adventure. tslic. …

Hardcover. Condizione: Very Good. 1st Edition. GORDON-TAYLOR, Sir Gordon (1878-1960); WALLS, E. W. (1911-1996). Sir Charles Bell His Life and Times. Edinburgh and London: E. & S. Livingstone Ltd 1958. 1st Edition. 4to (225x170mm), xii, 288pp. Very Good. Original brown cloth binding with gold gilt profile of Sir Charles Bell on the front board, lettering on publishers logo on the spine. Original price clipped dust jacket. Minor knocks to corners of the boards and at the base and head of the spine. Stain on the edges of the long page edge, but only visible when the book is closed. Discolouration from the dustjacket is also present on the endpages. Small tears to the dustjacket, but these are purely cosmetic. Minor bend to spine, but again this is a non-structural issue. Signed by the Gordon-Taylor (the author) and dedicated to "Professor R. D. [Robert Douglas] Lockhart" [1894-1987] who was an anatomist, Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgth and Curator of the Marischal Museum in Aberdeen. There are notes from a previous owner on the rear free endpage which give an insight into the history of this copy, as it contains the date and place of previous purchase in 1985. There is also ephemera of a list from a bookseller with this copy circled and highlighted. In 1985 this book cost £40, according to the BoE inflation calculator that would be £127.21 today. Signed by Author(s).…

Paperback. Condizione: Very Good +. No Jacket. 1991 Edition.

Hardcover. Condizione: Very Good. Condizione sovraccoperta: Very Good. First British edition. Very good or better in like dust jacket.

revised edition stiff wrappers Nice Copy small octavo 366pp., map, index, A Famous Aviator's personal story of pioneering aviation : 1916 to 1951. Taylor was possibly the most technically accomplished of Australian Pilots and one of a select few to fly actively in both World Wars. This revised edition is uncommon.…

Hardcover. Condizione: Very Good. Condizione sovraccoperta: Good. First Edition. 22.0 x 14.0cms, 366pp, b/w illusts, pages lightly foxed throughout with some heavier spotting, small tear in top of dustjacket on front & bigger tear at top of spine. These stories cover the first 35 years of the author's flying life. Those years were lived through two world wars & most of the pioneering age of transocean flight which has lead to the international air services of today.…

Condizione: Very Good. First edition, 8vo., pp.(x),177, blue hardcover lettered in silver, b/w plates; very good, in unclipped pictorial dust-jacket, which is a little rubbed to extremities, with light creasing at headband, else very good.

1st edition orig. cloth Nice Copy 8vo. 366pp., b/w plates, index, A Famous Aviator's personal story of pioneering aviation : 1916 to 1951. Taylor was possibly the most technically accomplished of Australian Pilots and one of a select few to fly actively in both World Wars. No dust jacket o/w a nice copy.…

Hardcover (Printed Boards). Condizione: Good. The book was written by one of Australia's brilliant pioneer aviators who was in WWI flying Sopwith fighters, then he was flying Liberator bombers in WWII and….

Hardcover. Condizione: Very Good. Condizione sovraccoperta: Good. private library liquidation. Book has some edge wear. Green cloth white lettering hard stamped cloth. Pages have some yellowing/darkening. DJ is good has some edge wear with mylar.Age spots.

Hardcover. Condizione: Very Good+. Condizione sovraccoperta: Very Good+. First Edition. Corners are lightly bumped otherwise fine in fine dust jacket. No jacket chips or tears, not price-clipped. No previous owner markings or bookplates, unread appearance.

Cloth. Condizione: Near Fine. Good+ (in mylar). First Edition. First Edition. Lightly bowed; Endpaper map; Lightly toned edges; Textblock very clean and tight. Decorative cloth binding, minimally worn. Unclipped dust jacket, a peanut-sized hole along the spine on front cover, small tears to corners on head of spine, creasing to head and foot of spine, lighlty rubbed, some soiling to covers. 284pp. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Photographs (illustratore). Hardcover.…

Or.bds. Dustjacket. 284pp. b/w plates. Sl.tanning to pages else a Very good copy. 1st ed. How Sir Gordon Taylor developed his flying boat cruise service over the islands of the South Pacific.