Aircraft

(All you wanted to know about the Jumbos, but couldn’t find a pilot to ask), numerous illustrations from b&w photographs, very numerous plans and diagrams, appendix giving specifications of big airliners, list of abbreviations, index, x & 285 pp, dark blue boards in d/w, in very good condition, Airlife Publishing (Shrewsbury, Shropshire) 1984

21.3 x 13.3 cm, 570g, ISBN 0 90639 339 6

Written by a Boeing 747 pilot.  See the description (below) from the dustwrapper flap.

A later edition is still in print, but only in paperback, at £18.99, but appears to deal only with the Boeing 777.