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2001025791Germany: EQIP 2001. Slight lean to spines. Some foxing to endpapers and title pages. Inscribed and signed by the author on the title pages of both volumes. Two volume set consists of:- Sailplanes 1920-1945 ISBN 3980677346 256 pages plus Sailplanes 1945-1965 ISBN 3980797740 272 pages. Both volumes with colour and b/w illustrations. Heavy set 3.2kg. . SIGNED. Hard Cover. Good/No Jacket. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. EQIP Hardcover
1940163578Tokyo: Tokyo takarazuka gekijo & Asahi shinbun Tokyo honsha 1940. An intriguing and lively piece of Second World War domestic propaganda sponsored by the Tokyo Takarazuka Theatre an all-female dance company founded in 1934. The rear cover and inside wrappers advertise a November 1940 production on pilots and aeroplanes which was staged to celebrate the 2600th anniversary of the accession of the first emperor. This booklet was issued to introduce audiences to Japan's airforce. It also seemingly served as a promotional "taster" for the magazine Aviation Asahi. The magazine was launched in late 1940 to promote interest in aviation among boys; here the front cover is identical to that of Aviation Asahi's debut issue and the periodical's publisher is listed on the imprint page. Small duodecimo 88 x 64 mm ff. 12. Map of East Asian air routes hand coloured perhaps as issued across central fold illustrations throughout text. Original illustrated wrappers wire-stitched as issued front cover lettered in blue and red. Lower corner of front wrapper creased a fine copy. unknown
198422080038Fishergate Pub. Co USA 1984. Second Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/Good. Hardcover. 180 pages. PUBLISHING DETAILS: Fishergate Pub. Co. USA 1984. Second Edition. CONDITION: The book itself is in near fine condition and comes in good dust jacket. More specifically: Corners of boards are lightly bumped. Dust jacket has light creasing. Edges of dust jacket have superficial wear and minor chips and/or tears. . Pages are clean and unmarked and in excellent condition. Quantity Available: 1. Category: Aviation; ISBN: 0942720059. ISBN/EAN: 9780942720051. Inventory No: 22080038. 9780942720051 Fishergate Pub. Co hardcover
194913826Salem Oregon: The Oregon State Board of Aeronautics. Very Good. 1949-1955. First Edition. Magazine. Includes 10 issues from the first two volumes then a straight run from volume 3 no. 1 to vol. 7 no. 12. The first two volumes are 8 1/2x11 4 pages the rest are half that size 6 to 10 pages. A very scarce bit of Northwest aviation history. First two volumes are punched for a three ring binder the rest have gummed tabs applied for the same purpose. Should be removeable if you wish as they are water based and a damp sponge will remove them. I've never seen another copy of this publication. The only xlib marks are a stamp or pencil notation in the upper right corner. ; Ex-Library; 8vo 8" - 9" tall . The Oregon State Board of Aeronautics unknown
192320361Washington D. C.: United States Touring Information Bureau Inc. Very Good. 1923. First Edition. Hardcover. Very light rubbing with one spot of soil on the front cover. Includes the scarce folding map in the rear pocket. Only flaw is the missing blank fep. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall . United States Touring Information Bureau, Inc. hardcover
193117448<p>Strasburg Virginia: Shenandoah Publishing House 1931 First edition of this history of early aviation. Publisher's pictorial blue cloth stamped in silver. . Octavo. With frontispiece and dozens of illustrations throughout including many full- and half-page photo reproductions Binding is clean and attractive. A remarkably bright and fine copy signed by the author "Jack Stearns Gray" in the very good original dustjacket. In the foreword Jack Stearns Gray 1890 – 1961 writes "My first flight was over a part of the Adirondack Range in 1912; my last flight over Washington D.C. in 1927. The first was made sitting on the wing—the last in a cockpit." Gray was the first Virginia woman aviator to fly from Virginia soil and along with her husband George A. Gray traveled all over the eastern United States as barnstormers in their Wright Model B. Gray knew many of the major aviation pioneers including Amelia Earhart Charles Lindbergh Glenn Curtis and the Wright brothers and she records their stories in the present work. She also discusses her contemporary woman aviators including Elinor Smith Ruth Nichols Ruth Elder Camp Opal Kunz and many others. Gray writes in the foreword: "'Jack' is my nickname. I have borne with it flown with it and now I feel like it. Edith is my real name but on only three rare occasions have I used it" including "when I visited Ethel Roosevelt at the White House in 1908." The present work was also praised by Lieutenant Commander Earle Ovington the first U.S. Air Mail pilot and Congressman R. Walton Moore.</p> Shenandoah Publishing House, hardcover
1910A38279Pucheim Germany. Very Good. 1910. Other. B&W Illustrations; This is a group of four small photographs 3.5" length x 2.5x height possibly on salted paper of airplanes flown at the Munich Air Race of 1910. The reverse of the photographs give basic descriptions including the place -- Puchheim and the Aviators. The grpou of for prints come with an autograph handwritten statement from the owner giving them to a friend for his aviation collection. The aviators include: Emil Jeannin Dr. Otto Lindpaintner and Gustav Otto. While Emil Jeannin is listed as one of the five pilots engaged for this race the other three aviators were apparently running in the same circles / groups and likely brought their planes with them. "The Munich "Akademie für Aviatik" was founded in 1909 mainly by members of the Royal Bavarian Automobile Club. Its main aim was promoting aviation particularly by flying dirigibles and other flying machines. This included building an airfield with all necessary installations but also creating a library and a museum and the awarding of prizes for competitions. Suitable grounds for an airfield were found in the village of Puchheim 15 kilometres west of central Munich where 76 hectares of moorland was bought and leased. A modern and completely equipped airfield with a two-kilometre race course was built. It was decided to celebrate the opening of the airfield by organizing an "aviation week" of five days in the end of May starting less than a week after the Berlin-Johannisthal spring meeting. Five pilots were engaged. Emil Jeannin Baron Pierre de Caters and Ellery von Gorrissen came directly from the Berlin meeting where the two former had been very successful. They were accompanied by Belgian Jules Tyck on a Blériot and local Munich man Simon Brunnhuber on one of the Antoinettes bought by Walther Huth who would later start the Albatros company." from Wikipedia . unknown
19653029Apollo Logistics Training; North American Aviation Inc. Space and Information Systems Division; Downey California; 1 January 1965. 1965 Paper wraps 2-hole metal binding various pagination Preface; Table of Contents; List of Illustrations; List of Tables; Introduction: 11 pp.; Cryogenic Storage System: 9 pp.; Fuel Cell System: 18 pp.; Batteries and Battery Charger: 9 pp.; DC Power System: 7 pp.; AC Power Generation & Distribution: 16 pp.; Controls and Displays: 13 pp.; Bibliography: 2 pp. Numerous figures and one table. About good minus moderate rust two-hole metal binder; the first page title page has STL Copy No. 5 written in red pencil STL undoubtedly refers to Space Technology Laboratories Inc.; modest edgewear; moderate browning of paper due to inherent quality of paper used but paper not brittle. Defects described in detail. Rare in any condition. No OCLC library holdings. It looks like the Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum Archives Division has a copy of this Study Guide. 3214046. 1st Edition. Soft cover. Good. Apollo Logistics Training; (North American Aviation, Inc., Space and Information Systems Division; Downey, California); 1 Januar paperback
1986012174Canada's Wings 1986. 211 pp. The author " . Latvia's most prolific aircraft designer describes it all from the earliest pioneers to the final Soviet occupation--military and civil aviation flying clubs and airlines competitions and long-distance flights aircraft design and production." Numerous b&w photos and figures. Red cloth. A bright clean copy. . Very Good/Very Good. 4to. Canada's Wings hardcover
1990JA109-001The Society of the First World War Aviation Historians 1990. Book. Very Good. Stapled Wraps. 4to - over 9¾ - 12" tall. 32 issues complete 1990-1997. 4 per year. Pictures etc on request. The Society of the First World War Aviation Historians Paperback
197114183France: Jeanne-D'arc. Fine in Near Fine dust jacket. 1971. First Edition. Hardcover. A history in French of the first free flight in a balloon. Not speaking French I am at somewhat of a disadvantage in translating the content. ; Small 4to 9" - 11" tall; 205 pages . Jeanne-D'arc hardcover
195853090Burbank CA: Lockheed Aircraft Corporation 1958. Nine parts in one vol. 4to. 4; 11 1; 13 3; 15 1; 14 2; 19 1; 19 1; 15 1; 15 1 pp. all issues separately paginated black white & coloured ink throughout. With over 250 photo illustrations text illustrations diagrams maps. All issues with self-printed softcovers bound together in original Lockheed Corporation adjustable blue & silver foil softcovers copper lettering stamped on front cover yapp edges very slight uniform toning NF set from the library of David H. Kenyon 1918-2011 former Lockheed engineer & military sales manager as well as aviation consultant for Pan American TWA and the Venezuelan Airlines and later President of the Southern California Wing of the OX5 Aviation Pioneers. First editions of these unusually rare original printings of the in-house history magazine published by the Lockheed Public Relations office at the end of 1957 into 1958. This work was published in chapters each with separate heading and intended to stand alone so subscribers and Lockheed employees could choose to collect them all or just some. Back issues were available for only a limited time in 1958 as was the company printed softcover post-binder and additional 4 page introduction present here. These magazines drew from a number of Lockheed archive scrapbooks company factory photographs with contributions from Robert & Courtlandt Gross Cyril Chapellet Carl Squier Allan Lockheed Walter Varney John K. Northrop all providing an excellent and informative history of Lockheed aviation through the first six decades of the 20th century. Worldcat locates 1 complete collection Hagley -- several institutions hold assorted chapters the 1980 Arno reprint or the later continuation of the history under the same title. Lockheed Aircraft Corporation, paperback
151958083Lock Haven PA: Piper Aircraft Corporation Oct. 15 1946. Oblong 4to. 11 x 8.5 in. 12 pp unpaginated. With three-colour plates colour-printed throughout self-printed colour softcovers minor shelfwear slight creasing still NF copy w/ printed price-list mounted verso front cover. First edition of this extraordinarily scarce Piper Aircraft Corp. sales brochure issued just after World War II before private Civil Aircraft restrictions had been lifted in the United States. The models featured here include the Piper Cub Super Cruiser a 3-passenger aircraft fitted with 100 horsepower engine and capable of 600 miles flying range; the Piper Cub Special which was the thrifty low-cost model fitted with a 65-horsepower engine and cruising range of 200 miles; and finally the Piper Cub Sea Scout which was a Super Cruiser fitted with pontoons. The PA-12 Super Cruiser was basically a J-5C aircraft produced from 1946-1948 and two of them flew around the World in 1947 with both still surviving in museums. Worldcat locates 1 copy Canada Sci & Tech Museum. Piper Aircraft Corporation, paperback
194263319Dayton OH: The Material Center Experimental Engineering Section Wright Field Aug. 1942. 4to. 40 pp. mimeograph typescript. With photo illustrations with text illustrations diagrams. Blue-tinted printed softcovers Rising Sun motif on front cover blue lettering minor age toning to fore-edges minor bumping to couple corners edgewear still VG copy 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 balloons after World War II. First edition of this very rare original Restricted Wartime report on the flight and combat capabilities of the famed and innovative Japanese aircraft less just 9 months after the attack on Pearl Harbor and one month after the US was able to secure a Mitsubishi A6M2 Type Zero which had crashed during the Aleutians campaign in Alaska in July 1942. This report focuses on the Mitsubishi Aichi Kawanishi and Nakajima bombers fighters reconnaissance aircraft torpedo bombers dive bombers flying boats and float planes. Worldcat locates 1 copy Defense Bibliothek NL. The Material Center, Experimental Engineering Section, Wright Field, paperback
19998622463Butterworth-Heinemann 1999. This is an ex-library book and may have the usual library/used-book markings inside.This book has soft covers. In fair condition suitable as a study copy. Please note the Image in this listing is a stock photo and may not match the covers of the actual item850grams ISBN:9780340741528 Butterworth-Heinemann paperback
1980032008New York: Atheneum 1980. Near Fine condition. Square and tight. Sharp corners. NO owner's name or bookplate. NOT a library discard. NOT a remainder. Pages are crisp clean and unmarked. NO underlining. NO highlighting. NO margin notes. The Incredible Story of Brent Dyer and Donna Johnson who endured a plane crash in the mountains of Idaho and were forced to resort to cannibalism to survive. Bound in the original blue boards with a gilt-stamped blue cloth spine. From GoodReads: "Documents the efforts to survive undertaken by Donna Johnson and Brent Dyer after their plane crashed in the mountains of Idaho and the two had no choice but to consume the flesh of one of the dead passengers." From a 2024 review by Amanda: "My partner is related to one of the survivors of this tragic incident and one of his family members lent me this book as a must read but warned me that it would be emotionally heavy which it is. While its a quick read you cant help but feel the sense of despair and helplessness that the victims felt as they came to terms with their injuries their isolation and their hunger. They survived a horrific crash and had to cope with the death of Don and the insanity of Norm following his brain injury all while coming to terms with the fact that nobody was coming for them as Search and Rescue were likely looking in the wrong area and likely couldnt see their white plane amongst the white snow that continued to fall. I appreciated the authors historical review of cannibalism throughout the many different cultures that have practiced it out of necessity or to gain something spiritually or otherwise from the act. Without being in an extreme survival situation it is impossible to know what I or anyone else for that matter would do in those circumstances and I hold no judgment towards survivors who fall back on extreme measures such as these to stave off death. One thing that surprised me was the amount of supplies they took with them on their walk that served no practical purpose for survival such as a curling iron aftershave perfume etc; they were seriously injured and struggling to walk so I thought they would try to lighten their loads as much as possible but I can also understand how hard it must be to leave behind items that brought them comfort regardless of their impracticality. Im not surprised that they eventually ditched some of these items. I had to fight to hold back tears reading the section of the book when they were found and finally got a chance to call home and when Jimmy Robertston offered to bring the dog to them." GoodReads rating 3.89 stars. First Edition so stated. Hardcover. Near Fine condition/No dust jacket. Illus. by NOT a library discard. 8vo. 203pp. Great Packaging Fast Shipping. Atheneum Hardcover
19270007580Paris: L'Illustration 1927. First edition. Hardcover. Very Good. Folios full leatherspines scuffed minor repair splitting at ends of joints. Approximately 15.5 x 11.5 inches. / 39 x 29 cm. <br/><br/>A massive work with beaucoup photogravures and tipped-in full-page full-color plates of the principal generals heads of state and others; also other partial-page full-color plates. Preface by Georges LeComte. Chapter 10 covers the Russian Revolution. Chapter 15 is the War in the Air. The large folding map in color at the rear of vol. 2 depicts the troop movements in the final five months before the Armistice. L'Illustration hardcover
008746Fairchild Corp. approx 40 un-unmbered pages. Fairchild Corp publication showing F-105 in Vietnam. Includes overlay map of Vietnam patches of units flying F-105 and overlay with"Red River Valley" song. Unusual rare publication. Clean. 1st Edition. Decorative Boards. Near Fine/No Jacket. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. Fairchild Corp hardcover
19528933New York: The Viking Press 1952. First Edition First Printing. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. Chesley Bonestell. 8 1/4 X 11 Inches. 147 PP. "Across the Space Frontier" is a landmark anthology that gathered the most forward-thinking aerospace experts of its day-including Wernher von Braun Willy Ley and Heinz Haber-to outline technically credible visions of rockets orbital stations reusable shuttles and lunar voyages. The book turned speculative ideas into vivid accessible concepts that sparked public enthusiasm and helped lay the intellectual groundwork for later NASA programs such as the Saturn V. As a primary source on pre-Sputnik optimism it remains a crucial reference for historians tracing how early scientific optimism transitioned into the concrete engineering achievements of the space age.<br /> <br /> First edition copy with original price of $3.95 intact on front flap. Text clean and tight. DJ lightly worn at edges and spine ends. The first book in the series of three that were expanded from Van Braun's earlier Collier's magazine articles. An important work in the history of space travel and the American Space program. The Viking Press hardcover
20034805New York: Crown Publishers 2003. First Edition First Printing. Hardcover. Near Fine/Near Fine. 8 3/4 X 11 1/4 Inches. 110 PP. First printing with complete number line to the "1" on the copyright page. Original price of $19.95 on front flap. Signed by Sally Ride directly on the FFEP. A superb example with sharp corners. Crown Publishers hardcover
20054787New York: HarperCollins 2005. First Edition First Printing. Hardcover. Near Fine/Near Fine. Wendell Minor. 8 3/4 X 11 1/4 Inches. First printing with complete number line to the "1" on the copyright page. Original price of $15.99 on rear panel. Signed by both Buzz Aldrin and Wendell Minor on the title-page. PSA/DNA autograph authentication to same page with slip laid-in. HarperCollins hardcover
19885562Boston: Quinlan Press 1988. First Edition First Printing. Hardcover. Near Fine/Very Good. 6 1/4 X 9 1/4 Inches. 227 PP. Signed by Schirra on the half title-page. Original price of $16.95 on inside rear flap. A clean copy with hint of wear at DJ edges and crown of spine. An increasingly difficult book to find in true collectible condition. Quinlan Press hardcover
191673081Chicago and Grand Rapids: Bud Morriss Airplane School 1916. Original photograph of "Bud" Morriss and his chief engineer Tony Stadlman at the controls of his flying boat. Photograph measures 3 x 2 1/2 inches. It is in the original frame and with the original label on the verso which reads; "This is an authentic photograph taken in Grand Rapids 1915 of P. G. B. Bud Morris at the controls of his Benoist Flying Boat accompanied by his Chief mechanician Tony Stadlman who later became Superintendent of the Lockheed Airplane Company of Burbank." Together with an original stickpin for the school in brass and blue and with an image of a biplane. It reads "Bud Morriss Airplane School Chicago 1916." The original celluloid covering the photograph is still present. Rare mementos of an early and influential aviator and his aviation school.Percival George Brockhurst Morriss 1884-1944 a native of England learned to fly at Brooklands racetrack in 1909. Soon after that he came to the United States. A former assistant engineer in the Marconi Wireless Telegraph Company he championed the use of wireless to communicate with airplanes in flight. Later the same year he learned to fly a Bleriot in England and then joined the Curzon aviators. In 1914 he operated a flying boat service on the Chicago lake front and in the same year was managing editor of Aero & Hydro an aviation weekly paper. In 1915 he opened the Bud Morriss Flying School in Chicago. His next venture was with the Benoist Aeroplane Co. of St. Louis serving successively as assistant pilot and instructor Chief instructor and finally as vice-president and sales engineer. In 1917 he served as a member of the Chicago Aero Commission. During the First World War he enlisted as a seaman in the Navy in which he served for 18 months. Upon discharge Morriss was executive officer of aviation schools at a naval air station. Anthony Stadlman was in 1886 in Bohemia. He emigrated to the United States from his home in what was then Czechoslovakia in 1906 ispired by news of the aviation work of Orville and Wilbur Wright. By 1910 he was helping to build flying machines at the Chicago School of Aviation. For a short while he was chief engineer at the Bud Morris Aviation School. The Lockheed Aircraft Corporation originally called the Loughead Aircraft Manufacturing Company was organized in the summer of 1916 by brothers Allan and Malcolm Loughead. Their plant was located in the rear of a garage on State Street in Santa Barbara. Tony Stadlman met Allan Loughead on a Chicago airfield and became superintendent of manufacturing when the company changed its name to Lockheed in 1927. Bud Morriss Airplane School unknown
199056654Falls Church VA & Burbank CA: Melpar Inc. E-Systems; Lockheed Aircraft Co. ca. 1990. Nine colour photo transparencies sized 8 x 10 in. all mounted on cream-coloured and green matte boards sized 10 x 12 in. many w/ pencil & ink annotations some w/ Melpar ownership label on versos 1 image from a printed colour photo all w/ nice contrast minor edgewear rubbing to matte boards still VG set. These scarce images focus on assorted configurations for the famed Lockheed U-2R spy planes including those later converted into U-2S jets and some appearing in their Superpod configuration while others in the very odd Span Pod configuration in flight and on the tarmac. The aircraft depicted include the 68-10339 U-2 which first flew in Oct. 22 1968 transferred to Davis-Monthan AFB in 1972 and later to Beale AFB before being upgraded and later crashed killing Captain Rich Snyder Dec. 13 1993; the 80-1074 TR-1A U-24 U-2S delivered to Beale AFB in Fe.b 1984 and later converted to U-2S in May 1996; and the 80-1071 U-2R delivered to Beale and converted to U-2S in Oct. 1994. Two of the images show the U-2R in Superpod configuration developed by Melpar including one image of the aircraft flying over the Golden Gate Bridge featuring twin 24-foot-long superpods mounted at midspan each wing capable of carrying 800 lbs. of equipment and three times longer than the instrument pods used during the EP-X trials. Other images show the Span Pod Configuration which consisted of a 30-inch parabolic antenna housed in an unpressurized dorsal radome on the fuselage and two for the control systems trailer. See: Peter W. Merlin Unlimited Horizons: Design and Development of the U-2 2015; David Donald U-2 The Second Generaltion Black Jets 2003. Melpar, Inc., E-Systems; Lockheed Aircraft Co., hardcover
192861893Baltimore MD: Chesapeake Aircraft Co. Logan Field ca. 1928. 8vo. 4 x 9.25 in. 24 pp. With illustrations decorated initials photo illustrations centerfold photo spread. Colour-illustrated softcovers cover art pictorial map of Fairchild 71 & AMOCO-Gas Co. ad w/ glass bulb of visible pump shown below aircraft minor shelfwear slight scuffing small paper repair back cover lower corner still VG bright copy. First edition of this exceedingly scarce early promotional catalogue for the Chesapeake Aircraft Co. created and based out of Logan Field Baltimore MD by the early 1920’s and the pioneering passenger airline through the late Roaring 20’s. As of the time of printing the company had carried over 5000 passengers and aircraft logged over 50000 miles with their offered destinations ranging from Baltimore to Miami FL $ 630 Dallast TX $ 795 Savannah GA $ 350 St. Louis MO $ 456 and even Birmingham AL $458. They offered one-way and round-trip tickets contracted with Franklin Motor Car Co. for delivering passengers and also offered Aerial tours to Washington D.C. Harper’s Ferry Eastern Shore Tour Gettysburg Battlefield Tour and more. They flew primarily the Fairchild 71 which was an upgraded FC-2 but now a FC-2W built from 1928-1930 and also marketed their aircraft with the Chesapeake Aircraft Co. No copies in Worldcat: See: Paul Freeman Abandoned & Little-Known Airfields Maryland Dundalk Flying Field/Logan Field Baltimore MD 2023. Chesapeake Aircraft Co., Logan Field, paperback
