Balus: The Aeroplane in Papua New Guinea. Volume II: The Rise of Talair Tapa dura - 1988

Robert Brown & Associates, 1988. Hard cover. Very good/Very good. Minor shelf wear on bottom edge of covers, otherwise crisp and clean all over.

Bathurst: Robert Brown & Associates, 1988. HEAVY. VOLUME TWO ONLY. x + 296 pp, 4 pp of colour photographs, illustrated throughout with b&w photographs, a double-page map, bibliography, index. Cloth boards in jacket. Long taped tear to rear of jacket. Some minor foxing to page edges, prev owner name whited out on front free endpaper, small bookseller label inside front cover. SIGNED by author on half-title page. Volume I covered the story of modern civil aviation in Papua New Guinea from the end of the Second World War to 1960, the year in which Qantas left PNG. This second volume (Volume II) continues the account to 1976, with its central theme the story of Talair and its rise to the position of one of the largest third-level operators in the world. . Signed by Author. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Fair.