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19737015.1Boston: Houghton Mifflin 1973. 1st edition. Dark blue cloth spine with light blue cloth boards. Blue dust jacket. NF/VG. 324 pp including index illustrated from photographs 8vo. <br/><br/>The building of the New York Rio & Buenos Aires Airlines as related by the man who conceived and built it. Houghton Mifflin hardcover books
199331589.1Carrollton Texas: Squadron / Signal Publications 1993. Color pictorial stiff-stock paper wrappers stapled. A Fine copy. 49 1 pp. Profusely illustrated by Joe Sewell mainly from b/w photographs. Color by Don Greer & Tom Tullis. Oblong format: 8-1/4" x 11" <br/><br/> Squadron / Signal Publications unknown books
19702321New York: Macmillan 1970. 1st edition. Hardback. Dust jacket. Nr. F/Nr. F lt soiling to rear dj panel. 308 pp including Index. 16 pp of b&w photographs. 8vo. <br/><br/>The history of aerial reconnaissance. Macmillan hardcover books
198131591Carrollton Texas: Squadron / Signal Publications 1981. Color pictorial stiff-stock paper wrappers stapled. A bit of age toning. Original price sticker to front wrapper. A Nr Fine copy. 49 1 pp. Profusely illustrated mainly from b/w photographs. Oblong format: 8-1/4" x 11" <br/><br/> Squadron / Signal Publications unknown books
199331587Carrollton Texas: Squadron / Signal Publications 1993. Color pictorial stiff-stock paper wrappers. A Nr Fine copy. 64 pp. Profusely illustrated with some color. 11" x 8-1/2" <br/><br/> Squadron / Signal Publications unknown books
197812478New York: Delacorte Press 1978. 1st edition. Lt blue cloth spine with blue paper-wrapped boards. Dust jacket. F/NF. 272 pp including index 8vo. <br/><br/>A classic title in the genre. Delacorte Press hardcover books
189529042Toledo Ohio 1895. 1st edition Aeronautic Americana 101. Original brown cloth binding with gilt stamped title lettering to spine & front board. Dr. Caulkins' name stamp to front paste-down. A VG copy. vi 7 - 90 pp. Frontis of Dr. Caulkins 7 inserted plates showing divers aspects of Dr. Caulkins' "aerial ship". 8vo. 9" x 6" <br/><br/> hardcover books
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> books
1910314553n.p. 1910. 4.75 x 7 inches. Some marginal creasing very good. Together with: Photograph of the 1910 Model B Flyer engine and radiator 4.75 x 7 inches. 4.75 x 7 inches. Signed by Orville Wright. Signed by Orville Wright at the right of the image. Albert Bond Lambert was the son of a pharmaceutical magnate and an early St. Louis flight enthusiast; he purchased a flyer from the Wright brothers in 1909 and took flight lessons from Orville Wright. Here the two men are pictured before take off in the Wright 1910 Model B Flyer. The years 1909-1910 were of monumental importance for the Wright brothers and for the history of aviation as Orville made a series of highly publicized exhibition flights in the U.S. and Wilbur in France which would demonstrate to the world the magnificence of their accomplishment. unknown books
1985278494New York: McGraw-Hill 1985. First. hardcover. very good-/very good. Many color plates. Oblong folio blue cloth d.w. slightly chipped on bottom of spine portion bottom of cloth spine lightly worn otherwise very good. New York: McGraw-Hill 1985.<br/><br/> McGraw-Hill unknown books
37513Paris: Imp. Kossuth & Cie n. d. 1st printing thus ca 1911. Printed light brown paper wrappers stapled. A VG example. 31 1 pp. Text in French. Illustrated from photographs. 8vo. <br/><br/>Aeroplanes featured herein include: Henry Farman Sommer Bleriot Tellier Voisin Antoinette Maurice Farman R.E.P. & Hanriot. Each is pictured and accompanied by a general description specs & summary of any perfromance records. The above followed by a poweplant section offering Gnome E.N.V. Renault Anzani R.E.P. Labor-Aviation Panhard-Levassor Antoinette Gregoire GYP & Darracq. The catalog concludes with divers other aircraft accessories and components including Carburateur Claudel Pieces Detachees Bleriot Helices Commandes Irreversibles Fixator etc. The company even offers hangar facilities for Bleriot Antoinette Voison & Farman models. Rare early aviation trade catalogue; not found on KVK for the relevant union catalogues nor on OCLC. Imp. Kossuth & Cie unknown books
191632826Hyde Park Boston Mass: B. F. Sturtevant Company 1916. 1st printing. Printed grey paper wrappers. Age toning to wrappers. A VG copy. 23 1 blank pp. Illustrated with 28 b/w images from photographs one schematic. 11" x 8-3/8" <br/><br/>"The B.F. Sturtevant Co. of Hyde park Boston Mass. was a big engineering firm even before the advent of the new science of aeronautics. Whilst the First World War was raging in Europe The Sturtevant Aeroplane Co. 1915-1918 was formed by the parent company to develop military aircraft. . They produced a number of aircraft for both the army and the navy in particular the "Battle" S4 aeroplane of naval type and the USN bought 12 of those machines whose inner structure was all metal a rather innovative approach for the time applied by Mr. Grover Loening Sturtevant's chief designer. . however it wasn't an elegant nor fast nor agile aircraft." The company also "designed developed and produced a number of high quality high performance aero engines. The 5A here advertised was only produced through 1917. It was "was installed in the Sturtevant S-4 and some L.W.F. V-1 training airplanes used by the Signal Corps at North Island Calif. and Mineola New York. Neither of these airplanes was too successful . Part of their difficulty resulted from the 5A engine which weighed more than 3.5 pounds per horsepower." sturtivant.org. Given it's short production life this Sturtevant Model 5A trade catalogue a rare survivor from the early days of US aviation- OCLC locates 2 cc though surprisingly neither are on the East Coast. B. F. Sturtevant Company unknown books
193031916Troy Ohio: The Waco Aircraft Company 1930. Printed paper wrappers stapled. Some general wear & soiling to wrappers. Date stamped with "1931". String hole along spine. A VG copy. 15 1 pp. Illustrated from photographs 15 images. Oblong 8vo: 5-1/2" x 8-3/8" <br/><br/>The catalogue features both the Straight-Wing and Tapered-Wing versions of Waco's "225" open cockpit bi-plane so designated because it's powered by the Wright J-6 7-cylinder 225 HP "Whirlwind" motor. The Waco Aircraft Company unknown books
156911paperback. near fine. Illustrated with b/w photographs. 24 pages. 4to original color pictorial wrappers with wonderful illustration by Stewart Rouse. Chicago: Aviation Service and Transport Inc. 1928. Near fine.<br/><br/> unknown books
33120Mountainside N.J.: International Aircraft Photo Service Inc n. d. 1st edition. Ca 1930s. Screw-post binding with stiff stock paper covers. Norman Barker drawing of 3 planes to front cover. General binding wear. Title leaf detached. ~ 10 leaves with varying degrees of damping with some associated adhesion damage to images none ruined per se but noticable; light scattered damp-spotting to images throughout. A Good set of an uncommon item. Unpaginated though 18 pages of text. 45 leaves with 8 tipped-in photographic style images 360 total of the divers aircraft. Oblong format: 7-1/4" x 12" <br/><br/> International Aircraft Photo Service Inc unknown books
2003AB1030New York:: Oxford University Press 2003. 2003. 8vo. xii 531 pp. Illus. index. Cloth-backed boards dust-jacket. Very good. ISBN: 0195160355 Oxford University Press, 2003. hardcover books
19442312651New York: The New Home Library 1944. Hard Cover. Good/Very Good. Jacket edges rubbed with some small chips small tears and creases jacket spine faded. Rear boards bowed. 1944 Hard Cover. 236 pp. Fully defined and explained. The technical scientific and slang words and terms of the new language of the air including aircraft types construction operation meteorology navigation aerodynamics Army Air Force Aeronautical Regulation etc. The New Home Library hardcover books
193948749n. p.: Essig Co. Ltd 1939. 1st printing presumed. Printed pale blue paper covers with wraparound graphic stapled. Artwork by Heckman. Now housed in an archival mylar sleeve. Modest wear a VG copy. Unpaginated though 24 pp. Profusely illustrated throughout with drawings & from photographs including initial fold-out "Cut-Away Diagram and Key to General Arrangement" 9" x 6" <br/><br/>The Douglas DC-4 is a four-engine propeller-driven airliner developed by the Douglas Aircraft Company. The aircraft employed Pratt & Whitney R-2000-2SD13-G Twin Wasp 14-cylinder air-cooled radial piston engines which each developed 1450 HP for take-off. The DC-4/C-54 proved a popular and reliable type 1245 being built between May 1942 and August 1947 including 79 postwar DC-4s. As the brochure begins "In these pages Douglas presents its latest and finest commerical air transport the world-famous DC-4. . From nose to tail the DC-4 is modern efficient pacemaking. New comfort speed and safety for 42 passengers and a crew of five the new 'Tri-Safety' landing gear and new standards of engineering and craftsmanship make the DC-4 the outstanding airplane of its time." And in fact the airframe continues in service today with a dozen or so active around the globe. Wiki Essig Co., Ltd unknown books
196839632n. p.: Sikorsky Helicopter 1968. 1st printing. Self-wrappers. Brochure - Fine. Artwork - VG signs of use as to be expected. One sheet of glossy stiff stock paper printed both sides folded 1x vertically forming a 4 panel brochure. Illustrated with 5 full color photographic images. 11" x 8-1/2" <br/><br/>". to supplement the already legendary HH-52A the U. S. Coast Guard has selected the Sikorsky HH-3F to add a new dimension to Air Rescue." Sikorsky Helicopter unknown books
196239623n. p.: Sikorsky Helicopter 1962. 1st printing. Self-wrappers. Brochure - Fine. Artwork - VG signs of use as to be expected. One sheet printed both sides folded 4x vertically forming a 10 panel brochure. Illustrated with 6 drawings one cut-out image of the turbine engine & a two-panel color photographic image of the S-61L in flight over downtown Los Angeles. Folded: 8-1/2" x 3-5/8". Unfolded: 8-1/2" x 18-1/4" <br/><br/>"The Sikorsky S-61L is the first helicopter specifically designed as a commercial short haul airliner and the first multi-turbine helicopter certified for passenger service by the Federal Aviation Agency." Sikorsky Helicopter unknown books
196237182n. p.: Sikorsky Helicopter 1962. 1st printing. Self-wrappers. Brochure - Fine. Artwork - VG signs of use as to be expected. One sheet printed both sides folded 4x vertically forming a 10 panel brochure. Illustrated with 6 drawings one cut-out image of the turbine engine & a two-panel color photographic image of the S-62A in flight over the Golden Gate bridge. Folded: 8-1/2" x 3-3/4". Unfolded: 8-1/2" x 18-1/4" <br/><br/>"The amphibious Sikorsky S-62A is the first American-made turbine-powered helicopter certified by the Federal Aviation Agency for passenger transport operations." This then advanced helicopter design in operation with the San Francisco & Oakland Helicopter Airlines Inc founded 1961 and begining service with this Sikorsky model offering 62 flights per day. The company ceased operations in 1985. Sikorsky Helicopter unknown books
19847787Fallbrook CA: Aero Publishers 1984. 1st edition. Blue buckram binding with gold spine lettering. NF/VG some edgewear. 190 pp. illustrated 8vo. <br/><br/>Selected as the Aviation Book of the Year by Aviation/Space Association Writers. Aero Publishers hardcover books
191912189Washington: G.P.O. 1919. 1st edition. 4to. 446pp. original cloth with illustrations. Front hinge loose signature on pastedown endpaper otherwise good. G.P.O. unknown books
194074411Washington: Government Printing Office. Very Good. 1940. Softover. This technical manual is soft-bound in tan printed wrappers. The cover wrappers show soiling and light edge-wear. The binding is solid. The contents are bright and clean with illustrations including some folding. . Government Printing Office 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 books
