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Douglas,

thanks for sharing this. I was very lucky myself in this regard.

I believe the pages in my copy of  Observer's Book No. 2 are made of a
thick, though now yellowed kind of paper which is oddly horizontally
furrowed. Somebody told me that this kind of paper is called Lord
..somebody...paper but I don't know how much weight to give to that opinion.
Later editions were no doubt of a more basic war-economy quality.

I was also lucky enough to get R.A.F. Air Navigation Volume 1 (A.P. 1234),
1941 edition and two volumes of R.A.F. and South African Air Force
Astronomical NAvigation Tables (latitudes: 25-29 and 30 -34) for bargains.
But they might be more common, I am no expert.

"Also, regrettably, second-hand bookshops canot make a living anymore in
this country with the high costs of shop premises so they have all but
dissapeared."

Yes. A lot of good things are disappearing. For example, GPS is great but
...I won't start.

Christian Scheele
Cape Town


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Christian:

The Observer's books of Astro-Navigation are now probably very difficult to
obtain.

I have been scouring second-hand bookshops all my life and only came across
them very rarely by chance.  Being small, made of poor quality paper (it was
wartime and paper was rationed), and of a very minority interest, I have no
doubt over the years most people as they come across them just threw them
out as being of no significance. (If someone was clearing a deceased
parent's posessions for example).

Also, regrettably, second-hand bookshops canot make a living anymore in this
country with the high costs of shop premises so they have all but
dissapeared.  Your only chance is to look on the internet as most
second-hand bookdealers now use that as their outlet.

Douglas Denny.
Chichester. England.




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