THE SKY BEYOND by Taylor, Sir Gordon - 1970

Ballantine, August 1970. Paperback. Good - Cash. Heavier general surface and edge wear. The cover has soiling, small tears, chipping, creasing, and a few small missing pieces. The binding is creased with a slight tilt. Previous owner's name stamped inside. Pages show reader wear. A few pages have some water waving and staining. The binding is tight and pages are secure. Stock photos may not look exactly like the book.

New York: Ballantine, 1970. Light creases to the spine. Slight wear to the edges.. Paperback. Very Good-.

Penguin Books (Australia), Ringwood, Victoria, 1966. Reprint. Softcover. Good Condition. Foreword by author and index. At the beginning of the text there is a double page map showing the various boots that the author took in his aviation career. Photographic paperback binding with pink coloured titles to the front panel and black and white coloured titles to the back strip. Black and white portrait of author to the lower edge of the rear panel. Quoting from the rear panel blurb " ... Sir Gordon's record of his days of Pioneer flying and the action two world wars breed the spirit of genuine adventure. It is also an important contribution to the history of aviation." The book was first published in 1963. Minor creasing of the book corners with rubbing of the book edges and panels. Sunning and staining to the book edges with reading creases to the back strip. Tanning to the text block edges and lighter tanning to the pages; spotting to the top text edge. Browning to the edges of… Read More

Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company. 370 pages. Personal chronicle of flying between 1916 and 1951 by Australia's pioneer aviator. . Near Fine. Hardcover. 1st Edition. 1963.

Ringwood. Penguin Books Australia., 1966.. 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.

London: Penguin, 1966. revised edition. Nice Copy. small octavo. stiff wrappers 366pp., map, index, A Famous AviatorÕs 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

Melbourne: Cassell Australia, 1963. Octavo, papered boards, (vi), 366 pp., six double-sided illustrated plates. Rubbed on spine ends, foxing on papered boards, heavy spotting on endpapers, heavy foxing throughout, otherwise a fair copy. The stories in The Sky Beyond cover the first 35 years of Sir Gordon Taylor's flying life. Those years were lived through two world wars and most of the pioneering age of transocean flight which has lead to the international air services of today.

Bantam Books, 1991. 1st Printing. Mass Market Paperback. Very Good.

London: Cassell, (1963). First Edition. 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… Read More

London: Cassell, 1963. 1st edition. Nice Copy. 8vo.. orig. cloth 366pp., b/w plates, index, A Famous AviatorÕs 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