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MOTOCOURSE 1988-89
No author listed.
Stock no. 1815838
Published by Hazleton Publishing. 1st 1988. Slightly better than very good condition in a very good dustwrapper.

13th Year of Publication. The World's Leading Grand Prix Annual. Large format. Colour photos. Motorcycle racing. Foreword by Eddie Lawson. ISBN: 0905138589. Board edges bumped. Contents fine. Pictorial dustwrapper is lightly edge-worn with a few closed tears (no loss), slightly grubby to rear panel, remains of label to base of spine.

JEAN BATTEN THE GARBO OF THE SKIES
Written by Ian Mackersey.
Stock no. 1610243
Published by MacDonald. Circa 1991. Very good condition in a very good dustwrapper.

Jean Batten was one of the great aviation megastars of the 1930s but who disappeared mysteriously in 1982. B/w photos. 465 pages. ISBN: 0356195732. Foxing to textblock. Wrapper is edge creased, with some marks and scratch to rear panel.

BRITISH FLIGHT TESTING: MARTLESHAM HEATH 1920-1939
Written by Tim Mason; T. Heffernan.
Stock no. 2124599
Published by Putnam. 1ST 1993. Nearly fine condition in a slightly better than very good dustwrapper.

Tracing the development of landplane testing during the whole period between the two World Wars. B/w photos. 256 Pages. Large format. Blue boards, gilt title to spine. ISBN: 0851778577. A little page edge browning. Some edge-creasing to wrapper.

WHEN MOTORING WAS FUN EARLY DAYS ON THE OPEN ROAD
Written by Tom Tyler.
Stock no. 1815735
Published by Halsgrove. 1st 2008. Fine condition in a fine dustwrapper.

Large format. Orange boards, gilt title to spine. 'Transports of delight' Reminiscences by Tyler. B/w photos throughout. ISBN: 9781841147659.

THE LEGENDARY DC-3
Written by Carroll V. Glines; Wendell F. Moseley.
Stock no. 1610227
Published by David & Charles. 1979. Very good condition in a very good dustwrapper.

A peerless book about a peerless airplane. Silver title to spine. B/w photographs. ISBN: 0715379216. Spine bumped. Small red sticker to front endpaper. Foxing to outer page edges. Wrapper is edge rubbed with a couple of tiny chips; a few grubby marks.

PASSENGERS NO MORE
Written by Gerald Daniels; L.A. Dench.
Stock no. 1815703
Published by Ian Allan. 2nd 1973. Very good condition in a nearly fine dustwrapper.

Black cloth. Looking at the impact the advent of the motor car has had on rail travel; particularly from 1919-1963. Over sixty photographs illustrate with some nostalgia, the decline of passenger rail travel this Century. 2nd edition. ISBN: 0711004382. Light mottling to endpapers. Fairly prominent musty odour present. Pictorial dustwrapper is price-cut.

THE ATLANTIC REGION TO CONFEDERATION: A HISTORY
Written by Phillip A. Buckner; John G. Reid.
Stock no. 1815696
Published by University Of Toronto Press. 1st 1994. Slightly better than very good condition.

An overview of emerging regional themes and issues, beginning with the evolution of Native cultures and the impact of the arrival of Europeans on those cultures, and continues to the formation of Confederation. Pictorial cardwraps. B/w illustrations. xviii and 491 pages including index. ISBN: 0802069770.

SPITFIRE AT WAR
Written by Alfred Price.
Stock no. 1610162
Published by Ian Allan Ltd.. 1977. Very good condition in a very good dustwrapper.

Large format. Red boards, gilt title to spine. B/w photos. ISBN: 0711005605. Fron endpaper has small red sticker, and inscription to verso. Light browning to wrapper.

CIVIL AIRCRAFT AND GLIDER REGISTERS OF UNITED KINGDOM AND IRELAND 2007
Written by Barrie Womersley.
Stock no. 1610153
Published by Air Britain. 2007. Nearly fine condition.

Glazed illustrated boards. 626 pages. ISBN: 9780851303833. Lower corner of textblock is slightly grubby.

30 YEARS OF PROGRESS IN PASSENGER ROAD TRANSPORT
Written by Walter Dowding.
Stock no. 1815612
Published by Red & White. 1st 1950. Very good condition.

A history of the Red & White Group of Omnibus companies 1919-1949. Red cloth, gilt title to front cover. B/w photos. Small ownership label to front endpaper. Musty odour present.

BRITISH CIVIL AIRCRAFT 1919 VOLUME II
Written by A.J. Jackson.
Stock no. 1610140
Published by Putnam. 1988. Nearly fine condition in a slightly better than very good dustwrapper.

2nd edition reprinted with corrections. Blue boards, gilt title to spine. B/w photos. 560 pages. ISBN: 0851778135. Wrapper is faded at spine, with a couple of wrinkles in the laminate.

THE PASSAGE MAKERS
Written by Michael K. Stammers.
Stock no. 2124214
Published by Teredo Books. 1st 1978. Very good condition in a very good dustwrapper.

120 plates with 22 in colour. The story of the Liverpool Black Ball Line. ISBN: 090366206X. SIGNED by author to half-title page. This is a Review Copy. Wrapper is edge-creased with repaired tear to bottom of spine; fading to spine.