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2021264282Oakland: PM Press 2021. Paperback. xiv-243p. As new. PM Press paperback books
1934188434San Francisco: the Legion 1934. Salmon-pink cardstock fiche 2x3.5 inches printed in dark blue faintest toning a fine exemplar surely un-revocable in this condition. Ephemeral piece from the 1930s San Francisco. the Legion unknown books
1938170758San Francisco: The Legion 1938. 8p. in stiff card wraps 425x8.5 inches wraps lightly worn else very good condition. Includes messages from the heads of various military branches. The Legion unknown books
1925183289Santa Clara: University of Santa Clara Press 1925. Hardcover. 72p. clothbacked 8x5.3 inch boards with printed paper cover label. Cover is disfigured with small splash stains and dust-soil rear endpaper is out bookplate and pencilled ownership legend in front. A fair copy signed across title page by Cody a Santa Clara Jesuit lit prof. Pieties not quite doggerel but quite inane. The only reason to catalogue our item is that laid in is a neat little "Admit One" card 2x3.5 inches to the "Eighth Annual Big Smoker Given By San Francisco Post No. 1 The American Legion In Honor of The Spanish American War Veterans May 17 1933" &c &c nicely printed in very good condition. University of Santa Clara Press hardcover books
19444829bdNew York: The Viking Press 1944. Octavo blue cloth hardcover gilt letters gilt illustration to upper cover xiv vi 175 pp. Very Good with sunning to edges and former-owner bookplate; in a Good dust jacket with edgewear with includes light chipping. From dust jacket: The great story of aviation and the direction in which it is going is the story of our future -- a future which will be written in terms of either winged peace or winged death. It’s a story which few men could tell with the authority and conviction of ‘Billy’ Bishop. Bishop learned aviation the hard way. In the cockpit of a World War I flying crate he became the greatest Allied ace by destroying 72 German aircraft. In the years between the wars he remained actively interested in aviation -- both military and commercial -- and kept a wary eye on the growing air might of Germany which he was sure we would have to fight again. When World War II broke Canada became the heart of Britain’s air-training and air-transport system and ‘Billy’ Bishop has played a vital role in this great program. Now at the climax of his career he has undertaken a new job and rendered what may well be his greatest service to aviation. He has poured into an utterly fascinating book the past the present and -- most of all -- the future of flight. He has told the story of aviation from Kitty Hawk to the B-29 Superfortresses much of it in terms of his personal experiences. He shows us how our world has already been changed geographically socially economically politically; how these changes will be either for great good or for desperate evil. He makes us aware of the new world map with its limitless directions and its textbook-shattering implications. He shows us the new routes over which we will either trade or fight find peace or destruction. Through all of Bishop’s stirring account written with burning urgency runs a zeal to make us understand the realities of world aviation today. The proved possibilities of stratospheric flight rocket and jet-propulsion have already rendered every plane now in the air obsolete. New York to London in three hours is assured. Tomorrow’s air age is here! The Viking Press, 1944. hardcover books
