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1965AESP00001Reading MA et al.: Addison-Wesley Publishing Company 1965 WYSIWYG pricing--no added shipping charge for standard shipping within USA. Blue cloth gilt & black titles on front board & spine xi 624 pp glossary index. Extremities rubbed corners & bottom edge of rear board bumped owner's name & date on front paste-down. DJ heavily scuffed in places with a 6" tape-repaired tear with creasing at top of rear panel corners & spine ends chipped; in Brodart archival cover. A mailing label from one of the editors Rittenhouse to a NASA engineer is laid in. Contents: ascent aerodynamic environment by L. A. McKellar; ascent vibration environment by J. Cobb; structure of the upper atmosphere by A. D. Anderson & W. E. Francis; solar radiation by F. S. Johnson; albedo and earth radiation by W. G. Camack; penetrating radiation by A. Andrew D. L. Crowther W. H. Harless Jr. D. M. Newell & M. Gomez; physical impact phenomena by J. B. Neiger; minor environments by J. B. Singletary; thermal control materials by T. F. Vajta; optical materials by J. E. Gilligan & A. G. Elliot; materials for lubricated systems by F. J. Clauss & W. C. Young; adhesives by R. E. Mauri; materials for sealing applications by R. E. Mauri; organic materials for structural and related applications by R. E. Mauri; electronic components and materials by W. E. Price E. E. Gaines J. K. Miles D. M. Newell E. B. Pearson & E. A. Smith; metallic and ceramic materials for structural applications by R. W. Parcel & J. B. Neiger; spacecraft materials experience by John B. Rittenhouse J. B. Singletary & H. M. Abbott; selection of materials for optimum performance by authors of previous chapters; introduction to biological interaction with spacecraft materials by H. W. Ross O. M. Meredith V. H. Lynch & A. H. Hammond. Shipping weight 4 lbs. Revised Ed. . VG/G. 24 X 19½ cm. Addison-Wesley Publishing Company Hardcover
195422295Hondo TX: Hondo Airbase. Near Fine. 1954. First Edition. Hardcover. Slight rubbing at the spine ends. Includes a booklet from the class graduation. ; 11" . Hondo Airbase hardcover
198915849Motorbooks International. Near Fine. 1989. First Edition. Softcover. 0852429835 . Owner's stamp on the fep's. Price is for the 3 volume set. ; Aircraft Archive; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 96 pages . Motorbooks International paperback
194926611Washington D. C.: Secretary of the Airforce. Very Good with No dust jacket as issued. 1949. Revised Edition. Disbound. Price is for both publications. Punched for a 3 ring binder the Handbook pages are loose the Parts Catalog pages are held by a staple at the top. ; Small 4to 9" - 11" tall; 6232 pages . Secretary of the Airforce unknown
194326612Washington D. C.: Army Air Forces. Very Good- with No dust jacket as issued. 1943 1944 1944. disbound. Price is for all three publications. All three are punched for a 3 ring binder. ; Small 4to 9" - 11" tall; 15 26 28 pages . Army Air Forces unknown
194426613Washington D. C.: Army Air Forces. Very Good with No dust jacket as issued. 1944. 1944 1945. Disbound. Price is for all 4 publications. All are punched for a 3 ring binder. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 24 38 30 35 pages . Army Air Forces unknown
199728723Arlington Heights IL: International Helicopter Financial Services. Very Good with No dust jacket as issued. 1997. First Edition; Second Printing. Three ring binder. Small pocket inside the front cover is empty. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall . International Helicopter Financial Services unknown
a112182Moscow. 1937 and 1938 first edition. Editorial Office Petrovsky Pereulok 8. 5 issues of this newspaper. Folio 17 x 11-3/4 inches. wraps. Many bw photo illustrations. 12-24 pages per issue. Each issue has cover photo or picture with numerous photos on other pages . All issues Good to Good Plus one issue has reinforcement on backstrip. All issues have some light wear and light staining. All have center fold crease. No ownership marks. All have light toning but are not brittle and quite usable for reading/research. No duplicates. Issues in this lot: June 23 1937; June 30 1937; July 21 1937; August 25 1937 and April 20 1938. Articles on Matilda Gutnikova F B Fahrig V P Chkalov A V Belyakov F G Baidukov. Articles include "World Record set by Soviet Flyers" who flew - Moscow to Southern California" "Oirot Girl Glider Pilot" "Flight Spurs Hopes for Transpolar Airline"and "Moscow Workers Learn to fly in their spare time". . paperback
199885611Sydney: Allen & Unwin 1998. 1st edition. As New. Quarto. dust jacket x 289pp. b/w plates index Published to celebrate the 50th Anniversary of HMAS Albatross. Nice production with many unusual photographs. Limited edition. Copy No. 122. Signatures of several Fleet Air Arm members mentioned in text on the title-page Allen & Unwin unknown
194457229New York: MacMillan 1944. reprint. Very Good. octavo. orig. cloth xix 868pp. b/w pls. text ills. diags. maps appends. glossary index Very comprehensive account of aviation technology to date. Neat ownership inscription o/w nice copy MacMillan hardcover
1928E1267NY: Aeronautical Chamber of Commerce of America 1928. First. Hardcover. Khaki colored cloth stamped in blue and red 551 pps. with index statistical appendices. Illustarted with monochrome photos and drawings. This edition the 10th annual covers Lindbergh's famous flight to Paris. Sections include: Ephocal Flights of 1927 Civil Avaiation in the U.S. Governmental including miltary Aviation Airports and Airways Airships and Balloons Aeronautical Education and Foreign Aeronautical Review. A tight clean fine copy couple of tiny nicks to the front cover. <br/><br/> Aeronautical Chamber of Commerce of America hardcover
a62592Washington 1989 Federal Aviation Administration. Oblong 4to 446pp. original printed wraps. A few depository library stamps and numbers on front and on title page. VG. . paperback
191817838Paris: Plon-Nourrit et Cie. 1918. 1918. Good. - Octavo softcover bound in printed white wraps with pictorial decorations in light green and titled in gilt & green on the front cover & spine. The book is housed in a marbled folding tray case backed with a blue morocco spine with gilt lettering. The covers are slightly foxed with minor chips to the edges and to the head and tail of the spine. The corners of the case are slightly rubbed. 320 pages illustrated with a portrait frontispiece. The pages are darkened. There is a previous owner's name on the title page. Good in a handsome case. <p>The 17th thousand published the same year as the first edition. Paris: Plon-Nourrit et Cie., 1918. paperback
194599433<p>East Hartford CT: Hamilton Standard Propellers Jan. 8 1945. 1945. Very good. - Quarto11 inches high by 8-1/2 inches wide. Softcover spiral bound in printed stiff charcoal paper wrappers. Title & 58 pages. Illustrated with 53 figures of the various parts. The previous owner World War II veteran Henry S. Duntz has his ownership stamp on the front endpaper and at the top of a few pages. Very good.</p><p>"Hamilton Standard Propellers" was a Division of United Aircraft Corporation. When Hamilton Standard was formed in 1929 it was the largest manufacturer of aircraft propellers in the world.</p> East Hartford, CT: Hamilton Standard Propellers, Jan. 8, 1945. paperback
195457523South Bend IN: Leigh Fisher & Associates May 1954. 4to. 52 leaves mimeographed on green-tinted and beige-coloured paper. Colour-illustrated covers plastic comb-binding as issued cover art of Modernist skyline w/ dual-rotor helicopter landed minor soiling tide mark at fore-edge back cover rubbing still G copy from the library of George Reed Volker 1925-2018 former World War II pilot and urban planner in California New York and Washington State w/ ownership stamp at upper fore-edge front cover. First edition of this informative report exploring the challenges in developing helicopter heliports in US cities at the end of the Korean War and efforts to tie them into the rapidly growing local airports to fill transportation needs. Of interest are the excellent sections on the history of rotary-wing aircraft and the predictions of the needed growth at that point in the Mid-20th Century. Leigh Fisher & Associates, unknown
194962765London & Paris: British European Airways 1949. 4to. 20 pp unpagianted. colour-illustrated maps and red & black text throughout. Self-printed colour-illustrated maps w/ ad for BP Aviation Service and Anglo-Iranian Oil Co. Ltd. on back cover Dunlop tire ad verso of front center crease fold as issued w/ original BEA sleeve from the library of Archibald Angus MacDonald 1892-1977 stepson of famed southern California oil man William F. Byrne as well as oil company and drilling equipment owner and manager of MacDonald & Burns Oil Producers. First edition of this surprisingly scarce BEA route map book issued following World War II and prior to the establishment of the Western US UK and French Zones into the Federal Republic of German and the Soviet Zone into the German Democratic Republic East Germany. In 1946 BEA was established to feed short commuter flights across Europe and until 1950 used a fleet of Douglas DC-3 aircraft based out of Croydon and Northold Airports moving to Heathrow in 1950. No copies in Worldcat. British European Airways, unknown
195057432San Francisco CA: Grabhorn Press 1950. Tall 8vo. 11 5 pp. Title illust. & decorated in red black & blue couple leaves w/ black letter type. Blue softcovers pale white lettering yapp fore-edges very slight shelfwear still NF copy signed & dated by Farquhar on title w/ original mailing envelope. First edition signed of this charming Grabhorn Press piece recounting the polar aerial adventure of Farquhar noted California historian mountaineer & Bohemian Club member and Garfield Merner founder of the Allied Arts Guild in Menlo Park CA. The black letter excerpts from Haluyt’s 1582 Divers Voyages and Martin Frobisher in 1578 serve as preface and afterword. [Grabhorn Press], paperback
195763192Wichita KS: Cessna Aircraft Company 1957. Oblong 4to. 12 x 9 in. 8 pp unpaginated. which folds out into 24 x 18 in. poster colour-printed & illustrated recto & verso. Self-printed colour-illustrated softcovers cover art photos of the Cessna 182/180 aircraft slight dustsoiling NF copy. First edition of this very scarce original Cessna dealer’s brochure/poster extolling the advantages of the latest redesigned aircraft the Cessna 180A and the Cessna 182A Skylane. The Cessna 180 first introduced in 1953 during the 50th Anniversary celebration of the company featured a 225-horsepower engine and proved very popular with bush pilots the 182A in 1957 had its landing gear widened 5.4 inches and lowered by 4 inches and improved handling substantially in crosswinds. No copies in Worldcat. Cessna Aircraft Company, paperback
190859609Leipzig: Fr. Wilh. Grunow Druck von Karl Marquart 1908. 8vo. 6 237 3 pp. With 44 photo plates and text illustrations 3 text maps 2 large folding maps at rear. Publisher’s illustrated softcovers illustrated borders of Icarus flying in a balloon over the German landscape minor edgewear rubbing still VG uncut and largely unopened copy former ownership stamps on endpapers from the library of Otto C. Winzen 1917-1979 pioneering German-American aeronautical engineer was interned during World War II and later significantly advanced material and construction of high-altitude ballons after World War Ii. First edition of this excellent early memoir on lighter-than-air travel through Germany Poland and Russia at the beginning of the 20th Century. Poeschel 1855-1936 was a noted sport balloonist and rector of St. Aframeissen Church who undertook balloon training via correspondence courses earned his ballooning license in 1905 and would later publish his Einfuhrung in die Luftfahrt Introduction to aviation in 1925. Fr. Wilh. Grunow, [Druck von Karl Marquart], paperback
197362282Riverside CA: Pearl Baker Printed by A-to-Z Printing Inc. 1973. 8vo. 8 143 1 pp. With text illustrations photos. Blue pictorial publisher’s cloth yellow illust. & lettering w/ d.j. F/F copy from the library of Charles H. “Brig†Belvin IV b. 1937 w/ ownership markings on half-title. First edition of this memoir by the noted author of “The Wild Bunch at Robbers Roost†and “Trail on the Water†detailing her flights and experiences with noted Western aviator Jim Hurst 1922-2004 who managed airports and flew for years along the magnificent “Canyonlands†or Book Cliffs of Green River Utah and into the Colorado River. Pearl Baker, Printed by A-to-Z Printing, Inc., hardcover
195061896Honolulu H.T.: Hawaiian Airlines 1950. 8vo. 5.25 x 9.3 in. printed in red white & blue which folds out into oblong folio 21 x 9.3 pictorial route map on verso recto w/ photo text illustrations. Self-printed softcovers pictorial map of Hawaii w/ DC-3 flying overhead slight shelfwear. First edition of this post-World War II travel brochure touting the many places visitors could enjoy on their tours through the Hawaiian Islands on the airlines DC-3’s including Akaka Falls Waimea Canyon giant ferns on Kiluaea Honolulu Lahaina and more. Although misdated by some cataloguers due to the introduction of DC-3’s in 1941 by Hawaiian Airlines the population statistics for the fold-out pictorial map match those issued in 1950 with Territorial and Federal Census. Worldcat locates 2 similar copies DLC U of WI smaller 1953 version. Hawaiian Airlines, paperback
191348081Chicago: Noel & Company Oct. 25 1913. 4to. 37-56 pp. Numerous photos text illustrations illustrated ads. Illustrated printed softcovers photo cover art photo of Ralph Upson & A.D. Preston and the Balloon Goodyear winning the race minor thumbing dustsoiling shelfwear still VG- copy from the collection of Albert Colson 1898-1975 World War I veteran who trained to fly with the Portland-Based Dudrey Aircraft Company. First edition of this scarce early aviation periodical including photos and article on Glenn Curtiss in Russia scale drawings of the Grahame-White Aero-Char-A-Bancs as well as the Deauville Hydro Competition. Noel & Company, paperback
191663165London: John Lane The Bodley Head 1916. 8vo. xviii 2 158 2 pp. Photo frontisp. numerous photo plates. Burgudy-coloured publisher’s cloth white lettering front cover & spine minor chipping & rubbing to lettering slight bowing to covers light shelfwear still VG copy w/ former ownership markings at gutter margin and bookseller’s stamp on front pastedown. Second edition of this informative work detailing the importance impact and details on construction and military capabilities of the 72 Imperial German Zeppelins in World War I. The author questions the decision by the French to not engage in building airships and degraded capabilities on the battlefield and in this edition specifically details the casualties and impact of the early German Zeppelin raids on England in 1916. Only 14 of the aircraft survived the War only to be destroyed afterwards or turned over to the Allies. John Lane, The Bodley Head, hardcover
19896265Dallas: George W. Clearley Jr. 1989. First edition. 4to 200pp. Diagrams illustrations facsimiles. Signed by Clearley on the title page. Perfect bound in glossy illustrated wrappers. Nearly fine. <br /> <br /> Copiously illustrated and researched history on Dallas Love Field which began as a training base during WWI and later became open for civilian use in 1927.<br /> <br /> Clearley self-published several works on the airline industry most of which are quite uncommon. . George W. Clearley, Jr. unknown
193388120New York: The Geograhpical Press / Columbia University 1933. First Edition. Octavo. Brown simulated leather over boards hardcover; 207pp; illus; map endpapers; large folding map in rear pocket as issued. Private or non-circulating library copy with neat white ink shelf-number at base of spine and ink annotation to rear endpaper no institutional markings. Light external wear but still a sound Very Good copy.<br /> <br /> A fascinating work dating from the earliest years of American commercial aviation utilizing aerial photography to identify prominent geological and geographical features visible to the trans-continental air traveller. The book's sub-title suggests that this was the first of a planned series of related studies but we find no evidence that further works were published. The Geograhpical Press / Columbia University unknown