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1963723717PN. New. 1963. Soft Cover. Date is original print. This is a reprint edition. . PN paperback
1961714504PN. New. 1961. Soft Cover. Date is original print. This is a reprint edition. . PN paperback
1963720411PN. New. 1963. Soft Cover. Date is original print. This is a reprint edition. . PN paperback
1964724268PN. New. 1964. Soft Cover. Date is original print. This is a reprint edition. . PN paperback
1975751121PN. New. 1975. Soft Cover. Date is original print. This is a reprint edition. . PN paperback
1964007657New York: Pergamon Press / The Macmillan Company 1964. Very Good EX-LIBRARY. A solid reasonably tight copy. Sharp corners. Inner hinges are sound. WITHDRAWN stamp and a few other library markings. Text pages are clean and crisp. No underlining. No highlighting. No margin notes. Translated from the Russian by O. M. Blunn. Translation edited by W. G. Hughes. Chapter 1 rewritten and expanded by A. J. Sarnecki who also revised Appendix I. With a contribution by E. T. J. Davies on BRITISH AND AMERICAN WORKS ON THE MOTION OF UNGUIDED ROCKETS DURING THE BURNING PERIOD. Illustrated with 139 figures/diagrams. Tables. Graphs. Three appendices. Bibliographical references. Index. Bound in the original black cloth lettered in shiny gold on the spine. A volume in the International Series of Monographs on Aeronautics and Astronautics. 1st ed in English revised and expanded. Hardcover. Very Good EX-LIBRARY/No jacket. 8vo. xiii 379pp. Pergamon Press / The Macmillan Company Hardcover
192720634Springfield MA: McLoughlin Brothers. Very Good. 1927. First Edition. Hardcover. Absolutely wonderful illustrations. Line drawings of biplanes chromolithographs and a really really nice full color chromo 2 page center spread. Rubbed around the edges of the paper covered boards with surface soil darkening the covers somewhat. For an almost 90 year old children's book this is pretty cottin' pickin' nice. ; 4to 11" - 13" tall; 14 pages . McLoughlin Brothers hardcover
1941205601New York: Liveright 1941. First edition. Fine in a rubbed dust jacket with light wear to extremities. 8vo 260pp illustrated; cloth. A first hand account by the pioneering aviatrix of her greatest adventure a flight that took her from Paris to Shanghai with numerous stops along the way. In the course of flying over Germany she took the first aerial photographs of the Dachau concentration camp one of which appears in this book facing p. 86. Liveright unknown
191896142New Haven: Yale University Press 1918. 1918. Good. - Octavo pictorial teal boards titled in gilt and illustrated in blue on the front cover & the spine. A small three-paneled paper label is mounted between the title and the author's name on the spine. The covers are slightly rubbed and soiled. 256 pages illustrated with a color frontispiece portrait by Rudolph Ruzicka and 4 black & white plates by W.A. Dwiggins. Good. <p>First American edition. From the library of the World War One naval aviator Charles Frederic Beach signed by him on the front endpaper.<p>Laid in at the front is a typed form letter signed by the founder of the Yale University Press George Parmly Day presenting the book to a classmate of Ensign Curtis Seaman Read in his memory. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1918. hardcover
198159672Anchorage AK: The Alaskan Historical Aircraft Society 1981. 4to. 4 1 leaves 2-119 pp. With photo illustrations text illustrations document reproductions. Printed flexible covers colour photo mounted front cover plastic-comb-binding as issued minor edgewear light dustsoiling still VG copy. First edition signed of this very scarce report on aviation and military aviation artifacts and historical aircraft in Alaska augmented with history of the U.S. Military in Alaska the Aleutians Campaign Japanese Naval Air Operations in the Aleutians and more. Worldcat locates 2 copies Alaska State Lib. Museum of Flight. The Alaskan Historical Aircraft Society, unknown
193163162New York & Chicago: A.L. Burt Co. Publishers 1931. 8vo. 256 pp. Photo frontisp. 3 photo illustrations colour illustration cover art of USS Los Angeles Zeppelin. Orange publisher’s cloth black lettering & ruling front cover black lettering on spine rubbing shelfwear dustsoiling w/ d.j. cover art of USS Los Angeles sailing through the clouds minor chipping head & foot of spine closed tears at corners fore-edges VG/VG- copy. First photoplay edition based on this Art Deco inspired for Dirigible -- Frank Capra’s epic aviation disaster film for Columbia pictures. Based on the crash of the airship Italia flown by Umberto Nobile in May 1928 near the North Pole and the subsequent rescue which cost Roald Amundson his life Capra intended to emulate the success of Wings. This fascinating film was shot in a semi-documentary style providing splendid footage of the USS Los Angeles mid-air docking/recovery of a fighter aircraft and the crash of an airship during a storm just a few years before the Hindenburg disaster. The movie starred Jack Holt Ralph Graves and Fay Wray two years before her huge success in King Kong. This was the first Columbia Pictures film to receive a glamorous premiere at Grauman’s Chinese Theatre. A.L. Burt Co., Publishers, hardcover
193563681Sydney Australia: Angus & Robertson Ltd. 1935. Thick 8vo. xiv 262 pp. Photo frontisp. numerous photo plates. Light blue publisher’s cloth gilt lettering & ruling on spine route maps illustrated on endpapers slight shelfwear very minor foxing to fore-edges w/ d.j. cover art of Lady Southern Cross minor edgewear creasing slight sunning to spine old paper repairs on verso still a VG/VG- copy. Second edition of this rousing first-hand memoir of one of Sir Taylor’s flights with Kingsford Smith flying the Lady Southern Cross in their Lockheed Altair monoplane making the first eastward trans-Pacific flight from Australia to the United States in October-November 1934. They experienced bad weather over Fiji struggled through repairs to the fuel and oil systems in Hawaii but arrived safely in Oakland Nov. 4 1934. The pair later disappeared during an overnight flight from Allahabad India to Singapore over the Andaman Sea a year later. Angus & Robertson, Ltd., hardcover
193163160Strasburg VA: Shenandoah Publishing House 1931. Tall 8vo. xv 1 384 pp. Photo frontisp. numerous photo plates decorated initials. Blue ribbed publisher’s cloth silver metallic lettering & illustration on front cover w/ d.j. cover art photo of “Jack Stearns Gray by C.R. Wood illust. in metallic silver & black slight dustsoiling NF/NF copy signed by the author on ffep. First edition signed 1st issue w/ pictorial jacket of this unique and fascinating memoir of the first woman from Virginia to fly from Virginia soil. The author and her husband - George A. Gray -- were barnstormers all over Virginia and the East Coast in their Wright Model B. Gray 1890-1961 took her first flight in 1912 knew most of the aviation pioneers including Amelia Earhart Charles Lindbergh Glenn Curtis the Wright Brothers and many others. She details many of the women fliers from her flying days including Elinor Smith Ruth Nichols Ruth Elder Camp Opal Kunz and many others. Shenandoah Publishing House, hardcover
1939106338<p>Program 4to 13" x 10" original colored wrappers illustrated 64 pp. Wrappers lightly worn small ad clipped from last leaf slight aging; otherwise very good. Rare program from the 19th annual National Air Races held in Cleveland Ohio September 2-5 1939. Contains some wonderful early aviation ads including those for United Airlines Lochheed Aircraft Corporation Firestone Airplane Tires and American Steel/ Another ad shows past winners of the Bendix Trophy Race for the past eight years. The 1938 winner was a woman named Jacqueline Cochrane who flew from Burbank California to Cleveland in 8 hours and 10 minutes. Program also includes a daily program of events. A great piece of aviation history.</p>
190463168New York: The Century Co. 1904. 8vo. ix 1 356 pp. Title in red & black photogravure portrait frontisp. with photo plates throughout. Pictorial blue-gray publisher’s cloth cover art illustration of airship tower and clouds by Decorative Designers initials in lower right white lettering front cover & spine some edgewear rubbing minor soiling and thumbing ex-lib markings on endpapers & spine still a G copy from the Southern Pacific Railway Clubs car library. First American edition of this excellent and well-illustrated work on aviation by Santos-Dumont who was a pioneering Brazilian aviator at the turn-of-the-19th- into the 20th-Century. The diminutive playboy and talented engineering machinist raced motorized tricycles Locomobiles and began building his own dirigibles and in 1901 piloted his Airship No. 6 sround the Eiffel Tower. In 1904 after publication of this work he began experimenting heavier-than-air aircraft building an unsuccessful helicopter in 1905 and in 1906 a biplane reminiscent of the Wright Flyer dubbed a “canard†by the French and in 1906 set the first aviation record in Europe. Brazilians like to claim he preceded the Wright Bros. because he made his first flights in front of huge public crowds but aviation experts and historians demur. The Century Co., hardcover
196238521Fallbrook CA: Aero Publishers 1962-1978. Seven vols. Sml. folio. 247 7; 291 7; 286 6; 315 5; 288 6; 364 4; 352 pp. 1000s of photos diagramsillusts. Uniformly bound in blue cloth gilt lettrng occasional rubbng edgewear slghtly cockd on a couple spines w/ d.j.s mnr edgewear rubbng slght sunng still a VG-/VG- set. First editions of the first 7 volumes of this great series intended to cover all civil airplanes given an Approved Type Certificate by the U.S. Government including Buhl-Verville Airster Travel Air 6000 Bird Biplane Parks P-2 Lockheed Sirius Boeing 247 C-W Condor Fairchild 24-C8E Arrow Sport Model F Taylorcraft BL Douglas DC-3 Piper Cub Stinson Reliant and 100s more. Aero Publishers, hardcover
192962686Montreal Canada: Canadian Pacific Express 1929. Oblong 8vo. 4 pp unpaginated. text & borders printed in blue sepia & black. Self-printed softcovers vivid Art Deco cover art front cover of Canadian Pacific Express making delivery to airport by Charles James Greenwood 1893-1965 a NF copy. First edition thus of this wonderful menu issued at the end of the Roaring 20’s touting the lavish breakfasts available on Canadian Pacific streamliner service sleeping cars dining cars station restaurants and planes in 1929. Greenwood was a graphic designer who began creating posters for the Canadian Pacific in the 1920’s and was noted for his posters promoting cruises to Alaska. No copies in Worldcat. Canadian Pacific Express, paperback
194356782Portland & Eugene OR Seattle WA: West Coast Lumbermen’s Assoc. 1943-1944. 4to. 25 3 pp. Numerous woodcut & photo illustrations text diagrams. Orange printed softcovers 3-hole punch at gutter margin as issued together with 1 leaf TLS mimeograph copy of TLS from W.B. Greeley to the West Coast Lumbermen’s Assoc. on letterhead dated April 1944 and the 1 leaf mimeograph Uneven Kiln Temp. report. light shelfwear light toning still NF. First edition of this report as sawmills and lumber operations across the West tried to ramp up and meet wartime demand for aircraft lumber during World War II especially for troop glider production many of which were used in the D-Day landings. There were production problems primarily from uneven temperatures and improperly used kilns as well as kilns which were not upgraded to handle the production of the required Aviation seasoned lumber. Worldcat locates 4 copies Yale Utah State Central Wash U of W. West Coast Lumbermen’s Assoc., paperback
1916169401916. Three folds. VG with vibrant colors. Fold-out color poster given as a "free gift" with volume 38 number 8 issue June 1916 of The Boy's Own Paper. It features a number of historic flying machines including the Zeppelin Airship Farman Biplane Graham-White Biplane Sopwith Hydroplane Bleriot Monoplane Avro Hydroplane Nieuport Sea-Plane Bristol Biplane and Parsifal Airship British French Airship. Blank on verso. Approx. 24 x 9 3/4" unknown
1944054986Corpus Christi TX: Aviation Cadet Regiment U.S. Naval Air Training Center 1944. Hardcover. Very Good -/No Jacket. Folio - over 12" - 15" tall. 319pp.photo section&adverts; HB quarter-bound; white burlap&blue w/blue&gilt; rubbed w/lg.stainft.cover-PON&info.ft.cover; wear on edges&corners w/some soil; hinges cracked w/2"teartitle; cleantight pages except for info on pertinent pages by previous owner -Ray Jackson Rogers of Corona NM. Rogers' separation paper tipped in bk.endpaper w/more infobk.pastedwn. signed by Rogers. historical. <br/> <br/> Aviation Cadet Regiment, U.S. Naval Air Training Center hardcover
198318349Mission Viejo CA: Blake Publishing. Fine. 1983 1984. First Edition. Magazine. Price is for all 5 issues. ; Small 4to 9" - 11" tall . Blake Publishing unknown
197918721Independence Oregon: Albatros Publishers. Fine. 1979. First Edition. Spiral bound. Signed by Blanchard on the back of the front cover. Printed in b/w on heavy card stock. ; Folio 13" - 23" tall; 16 pages; Signed by Author . Albatros Publishers unknown
199313501Iola WI: Piper Owner Society. Very Good-. 1993. First Edition. Softcover. 1879825082 . Simply looks used. The spine and covers are creased corners a little bent. Contents are very good. ; 4to 11" - 13" tall; 528 pages . Piper Owner Society paperback
194425191Washington D. C.: Gpo. Very Good. 1944. Revised Edition. Metal post. Stamp on the title page from the Portland Oregon Army Air Base. ; 11"; 9582 pages . Gpo unknown
194225192Chicago: Marshall White Press. Very Good. 1942. Revised Edition. Metal post. 11" . Marshall White Press unknown