51. Taking Flight: Inventing the Aerial Age From Antiquity Through the First World War
by Hallion, Richard P. 
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52. Taking Flight: Inventing the Aerial Age From Antiquity Through the First World War
by Hallion, Richard P. 
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53. Taking Flight: Inventing the Aerial Age From Antiquity Through the First World War
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54. Taking Flight: Inventing the Aerial Age From Antiquity Through the First World War
by Hallion, Richard P. 
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55. Taking Flight: Inventing the Aerial Age From Antiquity Through the First World War
by Hallion, Richard 
Price: USD 50.00
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Description: New York Oxford University Press 2003 1st Printing Hard Cover Near Fine. DJ Near Fine Small Quarto. Signed by Author From the Booklist review: Hallion, an international authority on aviation, draws on journals, diaries, and memoirs of aviation pioneers in a book that he has divided into what he calls "seven distinct phases to the invention of flight." They are the "prehistory" of human flight from antiquity to the Enlightenment; the era of the balloon and the first airships; early interest and work on the airplane, from the end of the eighteenth century to just before the Wright brothers' flight; the development of the airplane by the Wright brothers, another American, and a German; the resurgence of European aeronautics between 1905 and the end of 1909; the international expansion of flight and its incorporation into the military; and finally an era when planes played an ever more important role in world affairs. Hallion presents his book as an attempt to integrate and interpret the early history of flight within the context of prevailing social, cultural, technological, scientific, political, and military history. Filled with rare photographs and drawings, a decisive work. Gilt titles on gray cloth, over cream paper-covered boards. 531pp. Flatsigned on title page. Not an uncommon title, but signed copies are scarce. 

56. Taking Flight: Inventing the Aerial Age From Antiquity Through the First World War
by Hallion, Richard 
Price: USD 27.50
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Description: NY Oxford Univ Pr 2003 First Hard Cover As New in As New jacket First printing. 531 pps. with index. Illustarted with photographs and drawings. A bold examination of aviation history, streesing its global roots, making extensive use of extracts from journals, diaries and memoirs of the pioneers of flight. AS NEW IN DUST JACKET. 

57. Taking Flight: Inventing the Aerial Age From Antiquity Through the First World War
by Hallion, Richard 
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58. Taking Flight: Inventing the Aerial Age from Antiquity Through the First World War
by Hallion, Richard P 
Price: USD 39.95
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59. Taking Flight: Inventing the Aerial Age from Antiquity Through the First World War
by Hallion, Richard P. 
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60. Taking Flight: Inventing the Aerial Age from Antiquity Through the First World War
by Hallion, Richard P. 
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61. Taking Flight: Inventing the Aerial Age from Antiquity Through the First World War
by Hallion, Richard P. 
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62. Taking Flight: Inventing the Aerial Age from Antiquity Through the First World War
by Hallion, Richard 
Price: USD 50.00
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Description: ISBN10: 0195160355, ISBN13: 9780195160352, [publisher: Oxford University Press, New York] Hardcover First Edition From the Booklist review: Hallion, an international authority on aviation, draws on journals, diaries, and memoirs of aviation pioneers in a book that he has divided into what he calls "seven distinct phases to the invention of flight." They are the "prehistory" of human flight from antiquity to the Enlightenment; the era of the balloon and the first airships; early interest and work on the airplane, from the end of the eighteenth century to just before the Wright brothers' flight; the development of the airplane by the Wright brothers, another American, and a German; the resurgence of European aeronautics between 1905 and the end of 1909; the international expansion of flight and its incorporation into the military; and finally an era when planes played an ever more important role in world affairs. Hallion presents his book as an attempt to integrate and interpret the early history of flight within the context of prevailing social, cultural, technological, scientific, political, and military history. Filled with rare photographs and drawings, a decisive work. Gilt titles on gray cloth, over cream paper-covered boards. 531pp. Flatsigned on title page. Not an uncommon title, but signed copies are scarce. Size: Small Quarto [Tipp City, OH, U.S.A.] [Publication Year: 2003]  

63. Taking Flight: Inventing the Aerial Age from Antiquity Through the First World War
by Hallion, Richard 
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by Hallion, Richard 
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65. Taking Flight: Inventing the Aerial Age from Antiquity Through the First World War
by Hallion, Richard 
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Description: ISBN10: 0195160355, ISBN13: 9780195160352, [publisher: Oxford Univ Pr, NY] Hardcover First Edition First printing. 531 pps. with index. Illustarted with photographs and drawings. A bold examination of aviation history, streesing its global roots, making extensive use of extracts from journals, diaries and memoirs of the pioneers of flight. AS NEW IN DUST JACKET. [Bordentown, NJ, U.S.A.] [Publication Year: 2003]  

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by Hallion, Richard 
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67. Taking Flight: Inventing the Aerial Age from Antiquity Through the First World War
by Hallion, Richard 
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Description: ISBN10: 0195160355, ISBN13: 9780195160352, [publisher: Oxford Univ Pr, NY] Hardcover First Edition First printing. 531 pps. with index. Illustarted with photographs and drawings. A bold examination of aviation history, streesing its global roots, making extensive use of extracts from journals, diaries and memoirs of the pioneers of flight. AS NEW IN DUST JACKET. [Bordentown, NJ, U.S.A.] [Publication Year: 2003]  

68. Taking Flight: Inventing the Aerial Age from Antiquity Through the First World War
by Hallion, Richard 
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69. Taking Flight: Inventing the Aerial Age from Antiquity Through the First World War
by Richard P. Hallion 
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70. Taking Flight: Inventing the Aerial Age from Antiquity Through the First World War
by Richard P. Hallion 
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by HALLION, Richard P. 
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72. Taking Flight: Inventing the Aerial Age from Antiquity through the First World War
by HALLION, Richard P. 
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73. Taking Flight: Inventing the Aerial Age from Antiquity through the First World War
by Richard P. Hallion 
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Description: ISBN10: 0195160355, ISBN13: 9780195160352, [publisher: Oxford University Press, U.S.A.] Hardcover First Edition Publisher: Oxford University Press, 2003. First Edition, First Printing. Hardcover is in near-fine condition (spots on the side of the text block, bumped on the bottom of the spine/the top corner of the back cover/the bottom edge of the front cover and soiled/stained on the front and back covers). Dust jacket is in very good condition (torn at the bottom of the spine and edge wear). Brodart protected. 531 pages with black and white photographs. Size: 8vo-over 7¾-9¾" tall. The invention of flight represents the culmination of centuries of thought and desire, with the aeroplane truly launching an Aerial Age. A century after the Wright Brothers' historic flight, Richard Hallion offers an examination of aircraft history. [Fort Smith, AR, U.S.A.] [Publication Year: 2003]  

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by Hallion, Richard P. 
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by Hallion, Richard P. 
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78. Taking Flight: Inventing the Aerial Age, from Antiquity through the First World War Hallion, Richard P.
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79. Taking Flight: Inventing the Aerial Age, From Antiquity Through the First World War
by Hallion, Richard P. 
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by Hallion, Richard P. 
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81. Taking Flight: Inventing the Aerial Age, From Antiquity Through the First World War
by Hallion, Richard P. 
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82. Taking Flight: Inventing the Aerial Age, From Antiquity Through the First World War
by Hallion, Richard P. 
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83. Taking Flight: Inventing the Aerial Age, From Antiquity Through the First World War
by Hallion, Richard P. 
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84. Taking Flight: Inventing the Aerial Age, From Antiquity Through the First World War
by Hallion, Richard P. 
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85. Taking Flight: Inventing the Aerial Age, From Antiquity Through the First World War
by Hallion, Richard P. 
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86. Taking Flight: Inventing the Aerial Age, From Antiquity Through the First World War
by Hallion, Richard P. 
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87. Taking Flight: Inventing the Aerial Age, From Antiquity Through the First World War
by Hallion, Richard P. 
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by Richard P. Hallion 
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89. Taking Flight: Inventing the Aerial Age, from Antiquity Through the First World War
by Hallion, Richard P. 
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by Hallion, Richard P. 
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by Hallion, Richard P. 
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92. Taking Flight: Inventing the Aerial Age, from Antiquity Through the First World War
by Hallion, Richard P. 
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93. Taking Flight: Inventing the Aerial Age, from Antiquity Through the First World War
by Hallion, Richard P. 
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by Richard P. Hallion 
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by Richard P. Hallion 
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96. Taking Flight: Inventing the Aerial Age, from Antiquity Through the First World War
by Richard P. Hallion 
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by Richard P. Hallion 
Price: USD 25.36
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Description: ISBN10: 0195160355, ISBN13: 9780195160352, [publisher: Oxford University Press Inc, United States, New York] Softcover The invention of flight represents the culmination of centuries of thought and desire. Kites and rockets sparked our collective imagination. Then the balloon gave humanity its first experience aloft, though at the mercy of the winds. The steerable airship that followed had more practicality, yet a number of insurmountable limitations. But the airplane truly launched the Aerial Age, and its subsequent impact-from the vantage of a century after the Wright Brother's historic flight on December 17, 1903-has been extraordinary. Richard Hallion, a distinguished international authority on aviation, offers a bold new examination of aircraft history, stressing its global roots. The result is an interpretive history of uncommon sweep, complexity, and warmth. Taking care to place each technological advance in the context of its own period as well as that of the evolving era of air travel, this ground-breaking work follows the pre-history of flight, the work of balloon and airship advocates, fruitless early attempts to invent the airplane, the Wright brothers and other pioneers, the impact of air power on the outcome of World War I, and finally the transfer of prophecy into practice as flight came to play an ever-more important role in world affairs, both military and civil. Making extensive use of extracts from the journals, +iaries, and memoirs of the pioneers themselves, and interspersing them with a wide range or rare photographs and drawings, Taking Flight leads readers to the laboratories and airfields where aircraft were conceived and tested. Forcefully yet gracefully written in rich detail and with thorough documentation, this book is certain to be the standard reference for years to come on how humanity came to take to the sky, and what the Aerial Age has meant to the world since da Vinci's first fantastical designs. The book has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged. [Goring-By-Sea, WS, United Kingdom] [Publication Year: 2003]  

98. Taking Flight: Inventing the Aerial Age, from Antiquity Through the First World War
by Richard P. Hallion 
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99. Taking Flight: Inventing the Aerial Age, from Antiquity Through the First World War
by Richard P. Hallion 
Price: USD 23.70
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Description: ISBN10: 0195160355, ISBN13: 9780195160352, [publisher: Oxford University Press Inc, United States, New York] Softcover The invention of flight represents the culmination of centuries of thought and desire. Kites and rockets sparked our collective imagination. Then the balloon gave humanity its first experience aloft, though at the mercy of the winds. The steerable airship that followed had more practicality, yet a number of insurmountable limitations. But the airplane truly launched the Aerial Age, and its subsequent impact-from the vantage of a century after the Wright Brother's historic flight on December 17, 1903-has been extraordinary. Richard Hallion, a distinguished international authority on aviation, offers a bold new examination of aircraft history, stressing its global roots. The result is an interpretive history of uncommon sweep, complexity, and warmth. Taking care to place each technological advance in the context of its own period as well as that of the evolving era of air travel, this ground-breaking work follows the pre-history of flight, the work of balloon and airship advocates, fruitless early attempts to invent the airplane, the Wright brothers and other pioneers, the impact of air power on the outcome of World War I, and finally the transfer of prophecy into practice as flight came to play an ever-more important role in world affairs, both military and civil. Making extensive use of extracts from the journals, +iaries, and memoirs of the pioneers themselves, and interspersing them with a wide range or rare photographs and drawings, Taking Flight leads readers to the laboratories and airfields where aircraft were conceived and tested. Forcefully yet gracefully written in rich detail and with thorough documentation, this book is certain to be the standard reference for years to come on how humanity came to take to the sky, and what the Aerial Age has meant to the world since da Vinci's first fantastical designs. The book has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged. [Goring-By-Sea, WS, United Kingdom] [Publication Year: 2003]  

100. Taking Flight: Inventing the Aerial Age, from Antiquity through the First World War
by Hallion, Richard P. 
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