Aviation Paperbacks: appendices 1936. Aircraft and the Air, Compiled and Edited by Eric Sargent, See: 2nd ed. 1938 APPENDICES below [not held] Appendix 1: The Aviation Book Club 1938. Aircraft and the Air. Compiled and Edited by Eric Sargent. 10 x 13cm. pp. [iv] v- Published by John Hamilton, ca.1932-1940. xxi 1-674 [pp.664-674 blank, headed ‘Notes’] Case-bound. Titles identified [those held + [8]pp. adverts. for “Dumpy” Books + 11 col. marked with an asterisk]: plates (1 folding) + 8 folding plates (drawings and maps). Photos, drawings. 7/6d 1932* Wiley Post and Harold Gatty. Around First edition October 1936. Second edition the World in Eight Days April 1938. 1934* Willy Coppens. Days on the Wing [first Small-format encyclopaedia of aviation published 1934 by John Hamilton] covering history, construction, 434pp. of 1934* R. Dallas Brett. History of British aircraft types, gliding, parachuting, technical Aviation 198-1914 (2 vols.) details, operations, air transport companies, 1934. Elliot White Springs. Nocturne Militaire records, club flying etc. 1935. C. Nordhoff and J.N. Hall. Falcons of France [1938]. A Recognition Book, Aircraft of the 1935. C.H. Keith. Flying Years World. Edited by Paymr. Liuet.-Comdr. E.C. 1936. A.R. Kingsford. With the Earth Beneath Talbot-Booth, R.N.R., Drawn and Compiled 1936. L.W. Sutherland. Aces & Kings [first by Eric Sargent. 13 x 10.5cm. pp. [iv] v-ix [x] published 1936 by John Hamilton] 1-1056 [1045-1056 blank, headed ‘Notes’] + 1936. Hans Schröder. A German airman 11 col. plates. Silhouettes. 7/6. remembers [p.v] Many people … have expressed for some 1937* Sir Charles Kingsford Smith. My Flying time the need for a book which gives more Life than just mere illustrations of the world’s 1938. Duncan Grinnell-Milne. Wind in the aircraft, and that there should be a book giving Wires [originally published 1933 by Hurst & silhouettes of aircraft as they appear in flight. Blackett] 1939. Jean Batten. My Life [originally [1938]. Fighting Planes of the World. Edited published by Harrap 1938] by Paymr.-Lieut. Comdr. E.C. Talbot-Booth, 1939. R.H. Kiernan. Captain Albert Ball R.N.R., Compiled by Eric Sargent. 10 x 13cm. 1939. A.R. Kingsford. Night Raiders of the Air pp. [iv] v-xv [xvi-xviii] 1-616 [602-616 blank, 1939. James McCudden. Flying Fury headed ‘Notes’] [617-624] adverts. + col. 1940. Louis Strange. Recollections of an frontis. + 24 col. plates + 4 folding maps. Airman Photos, diags. 7/6. 1939. Aircraft of the British Empire. Leonard Appendix 2: Dumpy Books Bridgman. 13.5 x 21cm. pp. [xxvi] [inc. 15pp. adverts.] 1-158. Photos, g.a. drawings. All published by Sampson Low Marston & Co Ltd. Authors and other details as indicated. All 1942. Fighting Planes of the World. Eric except the last two titles (with col. illus. limp Sargent. 4th ed. 624pp. Photos covers) were bound in blue or black cloth. [not held] 1936. Aircraft of the British Empire. Leonard [1943]. Aircraft and the Air. Eric Sargent. 4th Bridgman. 13.5 x 21.5cm. pp. [xxiv] [inc. edition. 10 x 13cm. pp. [iv] v-xv [xvi] blank 1- 17pp. adverts.] [prelim. pagin. mis-numbered] 767 + 2 col. plates + 5 folding diags. and [1] 2-178. Photo, g.a. drawings. 5/-. maps. Photos, illus., diags. Index. [p.xix] It is approximately two years since the Small format encyclopaedia of aviation first edition … and the publishers now feel featuring details of representative aircraft, that there is justification not only for the engines, air transport etc. appearance of this, the second edition, but also for making this publication an annual one [1943]. Allied and Enemy Aircraft. Eric henceforth. Sargent, 3rd Edition. 12 x 18cm. pp. [iv] v-vii 8-144. Photos. Index [1943]. The Royal Air Force. Eric Sargent. incidentally, works out at sixpence a copy, 10.5 x 14.5cm. 775pp. Illus., silhouettes. Index whereas “sixpennies” nowadays cost [not held] ninepence on the bookstalls. Units only: The Force Book Club will take no [1944]. Aircraft Recognition Without Tears. individual subscribers. Only units may join J.C. Gent. Illustrated by Linda Bramley. 8o. xi, (including also, for this definition, Formations, 180pp. Photos, silhouettes, drawings Headquarters, Messes, Army Study Centres). [not held] The books become the absolute property of the units, but they must not be resold anywhere in 1957. The Dumpy Book of Air Forces of the the world. World. General Editor Henry Sampson, Who Pays? Units can raise the subscription Compiled by: B. Beirman, F.M. Hayes, C. any way they like. They can “club together” Shanks, J.W.R. Taylor, E.S. Wolff. 10 x and ask their commander to send the cheque 12.5cm. pp. [vii] [sic, v] 8-317 [318]. Photos, for them. Or commanders, at their discretion, illus. endpapers. 4/6. Col. illus. Gloster can make the subscription a charge on unit Javelins front cover, aircraft profiles rear cover private funds. 1960. The Dumpy Book of Aircraft and Flight. Selections for October: Henry Sampson. 9.5 x 12cm. pp. [v] [sic, iii] Modern Battle, Major Paul W. Thompson 6-189. G.a. drawings, diags.. Diags. on A Diary of World Affairs, Marcel Hoden endpapers Cine-biology, Mary Field, J.V. Durden and F. Percy Smith The House of Exile, Nora Waln Ur of the Chaldees, Sir Leonard Woolley Appendix 3: The Penguin Forces Book Club Silver Ley, Adrian Bell The Red Badge of Courage, Stephen Crane Many Servicemen have been finding The Eyes of Max Carrados, Ernest Bramah themselves short of books lately, especially of Panic Party, Anthony Berkeley cheap books. The scarcity has been particularly Ballygullion, Lynn Doyle felt by remote and inaccessible units such as searchlight clusters, A.A. batteries, corvette Selections for November: crews. The reason for the shortage, of course, Sunshine Sketches, Stephen Leacock is the same as for all other shortages Fontamara, Ignazio Silone nowadays. Paper supplies are reduced, many The Three Hunting Horns, Mary Fitt printers have been switched over to war work, The Murders in Praed Street, John Rhode and distribution is a perpetual headache to National Velvet, Enid Bagnold publishers. Is Tomorrow Hitler’s? H.R. Knickerbocker A plan has now been devised whereby the The Escaping Club, A.J. Evans Services can be sure of a ration of good Profiles, From the New Yorker reading. The Army Bureau of Current Affairs What Happened in History, V. Gordon Childe and the Services Central Book Depot have Town Planning, Thomas Sharp collaborated with Penguin Books Ltd., to create the Forces Book Club; and official [advert. in Pelican A124, 1943] authority has now been given to put the plan into operation from October 1st., 1942. The plan is simple and easily workable. Here Appendix 4: The Prisoners of War Book are its main points: Service Ten a Month: each month a committee will select 10 books … Each month, in connection with the The Monthly Parcel: These 10 books will be organizations responsible for the distribution made up into a standard parcel and distributed of printed matter to Prisoners of War Camps, to all subscribing units of whatever size. A unit and if necessary the Censors, the publishers can take out a subscription covering any select ten [five in 1944] works of Modern number of these standard parcels. Fiction, Crime, Travel, Biography, Humour, The Cost: The subscription will be £3 a year Science, etc., which are packed and dispatched for one parcel a month (viz. 120 different to individual Prisoners of War through the books in all). If a unit subscribes £30 it will get usual channels. The annual subscription of 10 such parcels a month, and so on. For this three [two in 1944] guineas payable in advance subscription parcels will be delivered free to can be sent through any bookseller and will units anywhere in the world. This rate, provide 120 [60 in 1944] books delivered regularly throughout the year at a cost per Appendix 6: The Observer’s Book of book, packed and delivered, of just over Aircraft sixpence; six monthly and quarterly subscriptions will be accepted pro rata. 1983-1986 title The New Observer’s Book of Aircraft. 1987-1989 Observers [sic] Aircraft. Recent selections have included the following Standard format 14 x 8.5cm. 1952-1960 titles: compiled by William Green and Gerald The Cherry Tree, Adrian Bell Pollinger, with a Foreword by Peter G. The Dark Flower, John Galsworthy Masefield. 1961-1989 compiled by William Death of a Ghost, Margery Allingham Green with silhouettes by Dennis Punnett. Dewer Rides, L.A.G. Strong Imprint Frederick Warne & Co Ltd, London European Painting and Sculpture, Eric Newton and New York, from 1985 part of the Penguin Farewell Victoria, T.H. White (then Viking Penguin) Group, and 1992 title The Growth of Science, A.P. Rossiter only “published by Bloomsbury Books, The Lady of the Barge, W.W. Jacobs London, under licence from Penguin Books. A Life of Shakespeare, Hesketh Pearson Photos (1991-1992 titles col. photos) and Northanger Abbey, Jane Austen silhouettes. Price 5/- for many years, but 1967 The Old Road from Spain, Constance Holme to 6/- and increased thereafter. Aircraft illus. in On the Night of the Fire, F.L. Green colour on d.j. (from 1979 laminated boards and Quinneys’, H.A. Vachell 1983-1986 paper covers) as noted (from 1959 South Latitude, F.D. Ommanney col. photos): Speedy Death, Gladys Mitchell What Happened in History, Gordon Childe 1949. [not held] Whistler, James Laver 1952. Avro 698 William Cook- Antique Dealer, Richard 1953. Avro Vulcan Keverne 1954. Hawker Hunter The Worst Journey in the World (2 volumes), 1954. Folland Midge, Roy Cross Apsley Cherry-Garrard 1955.