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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
19401668821940. AVIATION. Steel Horizons. Aviation Issue. Volume 2 Number 4. 46 pp. illustrated throughout. Folio bound in publisher's wrappers. Pittsburgh: Allegheny Ludlum Steel Corporation 1940. Given the subject matter an unusual example of imaginative design more of the kind one might have expected from Holland at the time. unknown
1991482231991. Commercial Pioneer "Slip-in Pocket Photo Album X-Pando Post Style - JPF 46" maroon faux-leather covers. Album modest wear the occasional seam split on a mounting pocket Very Good. Photographs clear & sharp Fine. 19 fold-out mounting leaves with 12 photographs per leaf. ~25 images at rear are of other SF.260s. 200 color 'snapshot' photographs 3-1/4" x 5". 13-5/8" x 7-3/4" <br/><br/>An interesting album compiled by an anonymous individual visually documenting the rebuild & restoration of an SF.260 beginning with a bare-metal fuselage sans engine to the lovely final product N74FD. hardcover books
1945611929. BOOKENDS DEPICTING LINDBERGH WEARING A HELMENT WITH HIS AIRPLANE AND AN EAGLE IN THE LOWER CORNERS 1929 SO DATED ON VERSO. TITLE ON THE BASE: "THE AVIATOR." APPROXIMATELY 6 1/2" IN HEIGHT AND 6" IN WIDTH. VERY GOOD-FINE. [1929] unknown books
1945611929. BOOKENDS DEPICTING LINDBERGH WEARING A HELMENT WITH HIS AIRPLANE AND AN EAGLE IN THE LOWER CORNERS 1929 SO DATED ON VERSO. TITLE ON THE BASE: "THE AVIATOR." APPROXIMATELY 6 1/2" IN HEIGHT AND 6" IN WIDTH. VERY GOOD-FINE. [1929] unknown
1961010558Hamden CT: Shoe String Press 1961. 1961 reprint of 1960 edition. Unmarked interior tight binding. 407 pages. Illustrated with maps and black & white photos. Growth of overseas British civil aviation from the beginnings through the formation of Imperial Airways in 1934 eventually ending in the BOAC. Clean. Cloth. Near Fine/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Shoe String Press Hardcover
115168The vintage gelatin silver photographs are in excellent condition; two are 130 × 180 mm taken on 22 July; one is 180 × 240 mm taken on 14 August. The large one is a slightly raking view of the village taken from a height of 400 metres; the substantial shell damage to virtually every building is clearly evident. The two smaller photographs are taken from a higher altitude and the extensive networks of trenches and numerous shell craters are the stand-out features. <p>From late June 1916 to early October 1916 Champneuville and other villages in the surrounding area were the scene of attacks and counter-attacks between the German and French forces. In late August 1916 the French recaptured Champneuville during the Second Offensive Battle of Verdun. We have several other aerial views of the Western Front for sale; enquiries welcome. 3 items. unknown
17204S.E.C.M Paris, 1928, SECM, grand in-8 broché, 74pp. Couverture imprimée, Illustrations de Léon Raffin. 36 compositions reproduites en couleurs avec des aplats argentés au palladium, dont une vignette de titre, 9 sur trois quarts de page et 26 bandeaux, culs-de-lampe et vignettes in texte, et de petits dessins reproduits en noir. Exemplaire numéroté sur vélin pur fil blanc Lafuma d'un tirage à 1500 exemplaires. Récit de 10.850 kilomètres parcourus en 7 jours dont 67 heures de vol à bord d'un Amiot 122BP3 de bombardement à distance en septembre 1927 au départ de Paris. Les membres de l'équipage se posèrent successivement à Casablanca, Tunis, Benghazi, Le Caire, Rayak, Bucarest, Vienne, avant de revenir à Paris. Superbes illustrations Art Déco de Léon Raffin (1906-1996), artiste membre du Salon des artistes français. A ce jour nous ne connaissons que deux ouvrages illustrés dans ce style par le jeune artiste de 22 ans à l'époque : celui-ci et Les choses meurent de Jérôme Doucet, publié en 1927. La couverture de l'ouvrage en papier japon nacré est en très belle condition (deux ou trois infimes piqûres).Très bon état pour ce très bel ouvrage typiquement Art Déco.
567915London, Chapman and Hall, London, 1865. Fort in-4, rel. d’éditeur percaline bordeaux, pièce de titre noire, tête dorée, XXIII-530 pp., 40 pl. hors texte en zincographie (une contrecollée), fig. et et vignettes gravées dans le texte. Index. Texte en anglais.
L6-00110Skyhorse 2014-09-02. paperback. New. 8x0x10. Ship within 24hrs. 100% Satisfaction is Our #1 Goal! Skyhorse paperback
1997028588Tuscaloosa & London: The University of Alabama Press 1997. SIGNED by the AUTHOR and 5 other Tuskegee Airmen / Red Tails. The author Lieutenant Colonel Charles W. Dryden U. S. Air Force Retired has signed as "Chuck 'A-Train' Dryden." Five others have also signed including LTC Alex Jefferson 332rd FG 301st F.S.; Dennis Mills Tuskegee Airmen; Burton Lowe Tuskegee Airmen Capt Richard D. Macon P-51 Mustang Pilot 99th F.S.; and 1 more their signatures only NOT personalized to anyone. For more about these heroes SEE BELOW. Fine condition. Square and tight. Sharp corners. NO owner's name or bookplate. NOT a library discard. NOT a remainder. Hinges are perfect. Pages are fresh crisp clean and unmarked. 1997. First Printing of the First Edition. Foreword by Lieutenant General Benjamin O. Davis Jr USAF Ret. Illustrated with a few b&w photos. Bibliography. Glossary Index. Bound in the original silver-stamped blue cloth. From the publisher: "A-Train is the story of one of the black Americans who during World War II graduated from Tuskegee AL Flying School and served as a pilot in the Army Air Corps 99th Pursuit Squadron. Charles W. Dryden presents a fast-paced balanced and personal account of what it was like to prepare for a career traditionally closed to African Americans how he coped with the frustrations and dangers of combat and how he along with many fellow black pilots navigators bombardiers and crewmen emerged with a magnificent war record. Under the command of Colonel Benjamin O. Davis Jr. the Tuskegee airmen fought over North Africa Sicily and Europe escorting American bomber crews who respected their 'no-losses' record. Some were shot down many of them were killed or captured by the enemy and several won medals of valor and honor. But the airmen still faced great barriers of racial prejudice in the armed forces and at home. As a member of that elite group of young pilots who fought for their country overseas while being denied civil liberties at home Dryden presents an eloquent story that will touch each and every reader." From Wikipedia: "Alexander Jefferson November 15 1921 June 22 2022 was an American Air Force officer famous as one of the Tuskegee Airmen the 332nd Fighter Group. He served in the United States Army Air Forces during World War II. His book Red Tail Captured Red Tail Free: Memoirs of a Tuskegee Airman and POW is a personal memoir of those who served America in World War II and after." Dennis Mills and Burton Lowe were also Tuskegee Airmen / Red Tails. Richard Macon a Captain CPT with the US Air Force USAF Tuskegee Airmen was the first black Prisoner of War POW during World War II. -- per DPLA. SIGNED by the AUTHOR and 5 other Tuskegee Airmen. First Printing of the First Edition. Hardcover. Fine condition/No dust jacket. Illus. by NOT a library discard. 8vo. xvii 421pp. Great Packaging Fast Shipping. The University of Alabama Press Hardcover
20099995983Jane's Information Group 2009. This is an ex-library book and may have the usual library/used-book markings inside.This book has hardback covers. In good all round condition. No dust jacket. Please note the Image in this listing is a stock photo and may not match the covers of the actual item3450grams ISBN:9780710628800 Jane's Information Group hardcover
19998622462Butterworth-Heinemann 1999. This is an ex-library book and may have the usual library/used-book markings inside.This book has soft covers. In poor condition suitable as a reading copy. Please note the Image in this listing is a stock photo and may not match the covers of the actual item200grams ISBN:9780340741528 Butterworth-Heinemann paperback
1901113896Paris, Librairie Bernard Tignol 1901 In-8 23 x 14 cm. Broché, couverture beige, auteur et titre en noir sur le dos et le premier plat, 144 pp., illustrations dans le texte, table des matières. Exemplaire enrichi d’une carte de visite de l’auteur, annotée de sa main. Couverture défraîchie, mouillure angulaire en continu.
1894102118Couverture rigide. Brochure de 24 pages. 15 x 23 cm. Légèrement défraîchie.
1910ARCA00005N°53 à 107 ; 1910-1911. 832 pages (année complète) reliure cassée mais la revue en état correct.~
1992009048Saint Louis Missouri: United States Army Aviation Systems Command Historical Office 1992. 8.75" wide by 11" tall. A bright clean tight copy. The spine is square and flat although it does have two light reading creases. NO owner's name or bookplate. NO remainder mark. Pages are clean. NO underlining. NO highlighting. NO margin notes. Sequel to the author's earlier book ARMY AIR CORPS AIRPLANES AND OBSERVATION 1935-1941. Illustrated with 109 b/w photographs -- primarily full-page shots of planes rotary-winged autogyros and helicopters. Bound in the original off-white wraps stamped in black on the spine and front cover. From the preface: "This book resumes as it were the narrative. After some background necessary both for those who did not read ARMY AIR and those unfamiliar with the game and some of the players this second installment on the origins of what is today Army aviation speaks of the foundation of organic aviation in the Ground Arms the expansion of aviation the interplay amongst the major Army elements on the question of aviation the standing of aviation between war's end and the secession of the Air Corps from the rest of the Army and because of its overwhelming importance in later decades to Army aviation the maturation of the rotary-winged aircraft and its placement in the Army.". First Edition. Soft Cover. Very Good condition. xx 636pp. United States Army Aviation Systems Command, Historical Office Paperback
2003022193Buderim QLD Australia: Self Published 2003. Illustrated laminated boards. Volumes 1 and 3 are signed by the author on the title page. Volume One Development of air transport 1903-1943 414 pages ISBN 0646426370 published 2003 : Volume Two 1943 - Year of expansion and consolidation 566 pages ISBN 064645837x published 2006 : Volume Three 1943 - Air transport approaches full strength 453 pages ISBN9780646484143 published 2008 : Volume Four 1944 - Supporting the Allied advances 555 pages ISBN 9780646926377 published 2013. All volumes with b/w illustrations. Heavy set please ask for postage quote. . SIGNED. Hard Back. Near Fine/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Self Published hardcover
19144149222Sampson Low Marston & Co. 1914. This is an ex-library book and may have the usual library/used-book markings inside.This book has hardback covers. In good all round condition. No dust jacket. Please note the Image in this listing is a stock photo and may not match the covers of the actual item1200grams ISBN: Sampson Low, Marston & Co. hardcover
19402091502135500698Not Available 1940. Soft Cover. Fine. Number of pages: 3 books Size: 16x23 cm Not Available paperback
