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My brother has just returned from a nostalgic trip to Milan and Como, where he spent a lot of time in the Sixties. He sent me this lovely book - a story about the restoration of a Caproni 100 and of...

Was following a 1932 Jane's AWA that came up on UK Ebay - price was looking reasonable - until the very end. It went for £164.

I was beginning to worry that book values were declining in the...

Sad article in today's Times, Ralf, about the demise of the wagon-lit. It seems the only people operating them nowadays are the Russians, Americans and a couple of routes here in the UK. Even the...

Takes me back to my first airline flights, Ralf !

Edinburgh-Heathrow in the wondrous Viscount - a lovely experience - oh, those big, big windows......

then Heathrow-Jersey in the BEA Dakota. ...

Gann's books are unrivalled. What a storyteller.....

You lucky fellows - our local bookshops are devoid of aviation interest !

Larkins' book is indispensable, Paul - nice one !

Difficult to believe it is nearly 30 years since there was a Dutch G.P., Ferry.

Ah, the shark-nose Ferrari - and proper racing not decided by tyres and electronics.........but that's for another...

A 1935 original Jane's just went on EBay UK - sold for £212 ($350) I put in a bid, but was some way off. Just as well - I would have been murdered by the Boss......

Well there's another New Year resolution gone ! Anyone who knows my predilection for flying boats will surely excuse this purchase. Nothing spectacularly new, but some great photographs, 3-views,...

Great stuff, Ferry - I've been thinking about that Bugatti book for a while, but it's going to have to wait until I start selling some of my surplus books to (a) raise some cash and (b) make some...

Getting depressed about the state of the specialist book market. There are 180 items on the British E-Bay site in the Aircraft section (auction only). No bids for any of them ! Decent copies of...

Santa's been around again.........:santahat:7780177802


Great for lovers of British blunders and FFFFrench ffffloaters !

Finally nabbed one of these - still fetching a chunky price ! But worth it.

Santa was good to me (after a few hints :jump:)

Blast ! Filling out your Juptners, eh ? Another source of mysteries closed off for me.........

Anyone know anything about these books ?
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Gulp ! Just bid for a bound Aircraft Profiles 205-222 on the Bay, and it went for a mind-boggling £51 ($74), over three times what I thought it was worth.

Someone really wanted that...

Well Santa brought no aviation books - except the ones I bought myself !

A 4-volume set of Heinz Nowarra's 'Deutsche Luftrüstung 1933-1945 now sits on my shelves. All I have to do now is learn...

It's been a great help to me with some of your mysteries, and you paid a fair price - it's becoming very hard to get, as I'm sure you know.

I nabbed a spare copy of J.M.Bruce's Putnam 'British...

Any Biggles men out there ??

When I was a kid (and you know how long ago that was!) I had a Biggles WWI short story omnibus, in large format, with superb colour plates.
All I remember is one...

Re James' Mushroom books - it seems they are hard to get hold of once the initial print run is sold out.
I have been looking for the Lysander - there seem to have been two versions of this...

The Putnam Miles went for the equivalent of $170.
It probably would have raised more, but there was a warning that it came from the collection of a heavy smoker - I have a couple of books like that...

There y'are - I did a 'remember me' this afternoon and it still asked me to log in again. Maybe I'm just instantly forgettable.......:frown:

Anyway, $127 wouldn't be a bad price for the Miles -...

Another Putnam 'Miles' has appeared on EBay - auction ending Friday.

4 bids already - I reckon £150+ for this one.

Re the Putnams, Kevin, I think you have missed out 'British Aircraft 1809-1914' by Peter Lewis. (I have a copy of this).

My personal count is 64, and I think I won't be getting any more ! (not...