Wrecks & Relics

That is a wonderful book, anybody who has enjoyed the archive threads on here really should have this in their collection.

The March Pilot magazine has just reviewed the new ‘Wrecks and Relics: The Album’

The review is superb and sings the praises of Ken Ellis.

Published by Mildland Publishing at £16.99. ISBN 1 85780 166 127 pages. A4 paperback.

Just in case anybody is interested there are a few older editions of Wrecks and Relics on ebay at the moment.

Right that’s my good deed done for the year 😀

Well, I got a 1st edition Donald Campbell book from the 1950’s on ‘abe’, so n’er!

😀

No probs – its actually mentioned in the 10th edition in the little historical bit about W&R at the back. Surprised me too when I discovered I had both! Not sure if that makes them worth anymore though…

Flood.

Wrecks & Relics

Dave,

Thanks for the offer, an off forum email is already on its way to you.

Plazz – you might want to check the picture captions on page 169 to see if you have editions from the first and second print run of edition nine – the first edition being in the wrong order! (Purely by luck I have both!)

Flood,

Well what do you know! as it turns out I also have both:)
I would never have known that if you hadn’t told me to check,

Regards Plazz

I have them all from the 3rd edition(1968) onwards. They are always great reading for those wet Sundays. Years when Duxford and Hendon didn’t even have a entry! A time when Horsa fuselarges seems scattered all over the country and scrap yards were still in full swing.

W&R

Plazz

I have No 4 , 7 and 8 .. contact me off board at
[email]dave.mcdonald@xtra.co.nz[/email]
and lets see if we can work something out.

regards
Dave

www.abebooks.com advanced search wrecks and relics shows 69 hits.

Originally posted by Lancman
www.abebooks.com can be a great source of second hand books?

Thanks – but since we are talking about books from 1961 (reprinted 1974), 1963 (reprinted 1979), and 1976 it is more luck than wading through book lists I need!
Lots of tenth edition onwards for the new collectors though!

Flood.

Wrecks and Relics

I bought my first one this year! and i haven’t put it down!:D

i think its brilliant!

www.abebooks.com can be a great source of second hand books?

Thanks for the name check!
They are bloddy useful – I drag two or three different editions down each day (rotten memory)!
I have a third edition, a fourth edition, then all from the sixth onwards, getting my first ‘new’ copy at edition nine and just continued on from there. I also buy duplicates whenever I see them for sale on bookstalls – at the beginning of the summer I bought a pristine second-hand copy of the current eighteenth edition for £2. In fact looking at the pencilled second hand prices the most I paid was £5 for the third edition, down to 50p(!) for an eighth edition with a letter dated 7/6/82 asking if it might be included in the book review column (but not to which publication it was sent) and signed by Ken Ellis!
Plazz – you might want to check the picture captions on page 169 to see if you have editions from the first and second print run of edition nine – the first edition being in the wrong order! (Purely by luck I have both!)
They are the ‘standard’ in the field (to quote Ken in his letter!), but the early ones do suffer from being practically a word of mouth and author-observation only directory, and since the deadline for the next edition is the end of January 2004 if you do hear of any changes to anything old, not flying, or else just fits the description it wouldn’t hurt to let him know! (Sorry, plug over… Just the one free copy, please Ken!)
Meanwhile I am on the lookout for the first, second, and fifth editions… (Nearly had a second edition once, but they wanted £25 for it – it looked a bit manky, too – and when I finally decided I wanted it they had sold it just an hour before… Grr!)

Flood.