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193057215the Work Projects Administration of New York City. Good with no dust jacket; Boards worn library stamps and markings. 1930. Hardcover. Facsimile reprint of Dr. Jeffries' 1786 privately printed account of his two balloon trips in 1784 and 1785. The printed paper label on the front cover notes that this is the first book written by an American on aeronautics and describes the first aerial crossing of the English Channel. Anonymously written foreword and account of Dr. Jeffries' reception by French society prepared by his grandson from the aeronaut's diaries. Several illustrations. Decorative borwn card covers with brown cloth corners and spine. ; Ex-Library; 4to 11" - 13" tall; 88 pages . the Work Projects Administration of New York City 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
191960735Great Lakes Chicago & Waukegan IL: Naval Aviation Training School L. Blakemore Isaack Wallenstein & Western Photo Studio Photographers ca. 1919-1921. Oblong atlas folio. 21.5 x 9 in. 43 leaves unnumbered. on thick black paper stock. With 52 original silver gelatin photos tipped-in sized from 5 x 7 in. up to 19 x 8 in. 36 panoramas sized from 18 x 3 in. up to 19 x 18 in. some w/ photographer’s imprint w/in negative at lower fore-edge some captioned all tipped-in. Contemporary Spruce plywood post-binder covers same as wood used for spars and biplane bodies in World War I rounded corners piano hinge front joint gilt decorative lettering & logo on front cover minor scuffing shelfwear still VG exemplar. This outstanding souvenir album depicts the height of the vital Naval Aviation Training School which provided essential technical expertise and training to entire generations of Naval Aviators and Naval aviation mechanics and carpenters through World War I and beyond. Founded originally in 1904 when a board appointed by President Theodore Roosevelt selected two farms of north of Lake Bluff IL as a training station which originally covered 172 acres. By Armistice Day at the end of World War I the facility had expanded to 1200 acres and over 45000 men underwent training. Of particular interest in this album are the 36 panoramic photographs documenting Naval Aviator and Naval Aviation mechanic classes for the 15th Regiment and 1st Battalion 15th Regiment from 1919-1920 as well as class rooms machine shops for aviation mechanics and Naval instructors. Others encompass the cutaway model Aviation engines with instructional charts on the surrounding wals the carpenter’s shop with aviation machinery jigs on work benches and airline bodies under construction. One photo depicts the Motor Laboratory Steam Laboratory and Equipment from the USS Eagle 25 at the Aviation Mechanics’ School a US Navy patrol boat which had sunk in a storm in June 1920 and then been raised and sold off as a hulk by Dec. 1921. Other panoramic photos capture the Riggers’ School classroom at Great lakes with full scale biplanes and seaplanes scale model dirigible the Coppersmith School classroom the Fittings classroom with airplane propellers hanging from the walls dip baths for machined parts and nickel plate coating and several of the Naval Aviation School football baseball and other sporting teams including the largest panorama of the Inter-Training Station Baseball championship team from Great Lakes. Wallenstein 1861-1958 was a longtime Chicago photographer through the first four decades of the 20th Century who operated his studio out of his 3928 N. Kenneth home and specialized in panoramic photographs. Western Photo Studio in Waukegan IL appears to have been short-lived as the Waukegan IL directories from 1918-1921 do not list the business but possibly connected with the Western Union Telegraph offices as the address was interchangeable. Volpe 1885-1950 began working in New York originally as a bookbinder before enlisting as an aviation mechanic with the US Navy in 1910 assigned originally to the newly formed ground school in Pensacola and later became Chief Warrant Officer Pilot Airman and Instructor who oversaw the Naval Aviation Training School from 1918-1921. He was also the assistant Athletic officer for baseball and tennis at the base. Naval Aviation Training School, L. Blakemore, Isaack Wallenstein, & Western Photo Studio (Photographers), unknown
19981307762PN. New. 1998. Soft Cover. Date is original print. This is a reprint edition . PN paperback
194255329St. Louis MO & Pompano FL: William F. Remmert Elizabeth Douglas Remmert Remmert-Werner Inc. 1942-1963. Thick folio. 14.75 x 12 x 3.5 in. 166 pp unpaginated. most original folio sized beige paper other smaller mylar sleeves with photos & clippings inserted many pages with significant manuscript in ink. With 230 total photographs tipped-in some in corners some inserted into archival sleeves occasional old scotch tape mountings over 30 in colour sized from 2.5 x 3.5 in. up to 8 x 10 in. and even 6 x 14 in. most with pencil ink typed or printed captions beside in the lower margins or amongst the 200 clippings mounted and tipped-in to the sheets many large folding two original dealer’s catalogues for the Sabreliner aircraft including dealer literature and business cards. Original padded post-binder embossed & raised decorations in gilt & silver on front cover typed title label taped to upper fore-edge some scuffing edgewear chipping & tears to some leaves toning to newspaper clippings offsetting and ghosting from tape some photos w/ minor tears occasional offsetting from clippings still an excellent exemplar. This impressive and well-documented photo album/scrapbook filled with 230 photographs provide an incomparable visual and textual record for the aviation company Remmert-Werner Inc. from World War II to the 1960s. Remmert 1913-1989 was a high school dropout working at the Curtiss-Wright hangar at Lambert Field in St. Louis where his father worked as a Watchmen in the 1930s. He quickly rose in the company becoming the Curtiss-Wright Company Tech Rep in China during the opening years of World War II and in 1943 became a Naval Officer inspecting material production for aircraft until 1945. As shown in the photographs and explained through clippings and manuscript notes in Remmert’s bold hand Remmert-Werner Air Service was founded at Lambert Field following World War II selling Beechcraft and Cessna Aircraft and buying up war surplus airplanes for conversion. The images depict the Air Ambulance charter service with a fleet of three Beechcraft airplanes from 1945-1946 as well as the Air Service establishing themselves as dealers for Motorola Piper Swift and Fairchild Aircraft founding a Flight Training School and contracting with Texaco to sell aviation fuel at the field. The images also portray Remmert-Werner quickly buying up a couple surplus PT-19 biplane trainers when their flight school expanded to Starling Airport by 1947. They would later begin selling and leasing Beechcraft Lodestar and eventually the Sabreliner corporate jets. The photographs also display their twin engine Beech D18S aircraft setting in front of the Remmert-Werner hangar with Texaco signage and Texaco oil truck the Cessna 140 winner of the Miami Air Races Motorola Radio J3 Cub aircraft their Vultee BT-13 Valiant trainer aircraft and even a Convair B-36 Peacemaker which was the largest mass-produced piston-engined aircraft ever built on display at an Army air show on Lambert field with the Remmert-Werner hangars in the background. Remmert-Werner quickly moved into converting aircraft for corporate clients in 1946 and over the next two decades would convert over 200 aircraft service 1000s of planes and became famous for their luxurious flying penthouses for corporate and wealthy clients. Not only are their images showing the clients visiting the Remmert-Werner hangars and airfields with clippings specifying and promoting their clients but also many images of the company dog named Myrtle setting on discarded parts or nosing her way into photos. Remmert & Werner began their career by converting a surplus C-47A to the DC-3 “Prairie Wings†by enlarging the windows installing luxurious seats galley operations and upon completion took the whole company to the Indianapolis Air Races in 1948 which were the first following World War II. They also converted and maintained the corporate fleet for the Gaylord Container Corporation by buying up a number of surplus B-25 aircraft and turning them into corporate and freighter planes for Gaylord. In 1948 they began work on creating a deluxe aircraft for Arthur Godfrey 1903-1983 radio and TV entertainer and aviation enthusiast with photos showing the progress the painting news clippings and even an inscribed thank you note from Godfrey. Their other clients included Coca-Cola Procter & Gamble International Harvester Olin Matheson Chemical Grumman Aircraft and Hercules Powder. Their conversions involved gutting the planes and installing completely new systems and interiors including lounge chairs sofas tables lamps galleys and any other special furnishings. They were well known for their DC-3 window modifications which increased the size of the windows for passengers. They also established company affiliates in Toledo OH Cleveland OH Mercer County Airport at Trenton NJ and an airfield in Pompano Beach Florida in 1956. See: Remmert-Werner. . . Big-Change Artists Flying Magazine Dec. 1957 pp. 54-56; Bill Remmert & Bob Werner Airplane Purveyors Aviation Week 2004. William F. Remmert, Elizabeth Douglas Remmert, Remmert-Werner, Inc., unknown
1981762689PN. New. 1981. Soft Cover. Date is original print. This is a reprint edition. . PN paperback
1965726428PN. New. 1965. Soft Cover. Date is original print. This is a reprint edition. . PN paperback
19797285Fairfield WA.: Ye Galleon Press 1979. Reprint . Imitation Leather. Fine/No Jacket. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. Quarto x 310 pp. endpapers b/w illus. tables. A facsimile reprint of the 1850 first edition the first serious U.S. book on the subject of flight. This reprint edition is #152 of 500 copies. Gold foil stamping to the front & spine of a cream colored imitation leather hardcover binding in fine cond. <br/> <br/> Ye Galleon Press hardcover
192837428Argentina: El Grafico 1928. 1928. Good. - A 12-1/8 inch high by 8-3/4 inch wide leaf from the Argentinian sports magazine "El Grafico" with a full-page illustration of the American aviator & explorer Carl Ben Eielson in the year he and Sir George Hubert Wilkins flew from North America over the North Pole to Europe. Eielson attired in a heavy coat over pilot's leather pants and wearing a leather pilot's hat is pictured against a background of snow next to the polar explorer George Hubert Wilkins. The corners are slightly creased and there are stab-marks along the page's right edge. A color illustration of the "Primera Division del Club Atletico Boca Juniors" soccer team is portrayed on the verso. Good. <p>The American aviator bush pilot and explorer Carl Ben Eielson 1897-1929 learned to fly in the U.S. Army Air Service in 1917 and served in the Signal Corps during the First World War. While supporting himself as a Capitol police officer while studying law at Georgetown Law School he met Daniel Sutherland then Alaska's delegate to Congress who convinced him to move there. Eielson flew the first air mail in Alaska from Fairbanks to McGrath in 1924. In 1927 he explored the drift ice north of Alaska with the Australian Polar explorer George Hubert Wilkins and was the first to land a "land plane" onto drift ice. In 1928 Eielsen flew from Point Barrow over the North Pole to Spitsbergen a 20 hour flight. He accompanied Wilkins on his Antarctic Expedition in 1928 and they were thus the first to have flown over both polar regions. Eielson established Alaskan Airways shortly before he and his mechanic Earl Borland died in a crash in Siberia as they attempted to evacuate crew and merchandise from the cargo ship the Nanuk trapped in the ice at North Cape.<p>Founded by Constancio Vigil in 1919 "El Grafico" was an Argentine sports magazine which started as a weekly newspaper before subsequently turning exclusively to the coverage of sports. One of the most highly regarded sports magazines in Latin America it came to earn the nickname "La Biblia de deporte" "The Bible of sports". Argentina: El Grafico, [1928]. hardcover
1997BIB330830Mount Gambier South Australia: Published by Author. 1997. Octavo Size approx 14x22cm. Near Fine copy in a Very Good dustjacket. DJ is very lightly rubbed with some interior tape repairs to top of DJ spine and now protected in our clear archival purpose-made plastic sleeve. An excellent copy. Illustrated with Black & White Photographs and Maps. Nominal Roll of Service Personnel mentioned in Operational Records No 2 AOS. Scarce. Robust professional packaging and tracking provided for all parcels. 274 pages. No 2 Air Observers School 2 AOS was one of the first Australian schools to be established under the Empire Air Training Scheme EATS. Its primary function was the training of air observers and navigators. . Near Fine. 1st Edition. Hardback. Published by Author hardcover
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
1997012444Tuscaloosa AL: Univ of Alabama Pr 1997. 421pp/illus. Inscribed by author. The moving memoir of a black military officer and illustrates the period of racial integration in both military and civilian life. The Tuskegee Airmen were trained to fly in the skies over Alabama in the early 1940s and fought the war in Europe in World War II. Clean. Inscribed By Author. 1st Edition. Cloth. Near Fine/Near Fine. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Univ of Alabama Pr Hardcover
1997011049Tuscaloosa AL: Univ of Alabama Pr 1997. 421pp/illus. The moving memoir of a black military officer and illustrates the period of racial integration in both military and civilian life. The Tuskegee Airmen were trained to fly in the skies over Alabama in the early 1940s and fought the war in Europe in World War II. Clean. 1st Edition. Cloth. Fine/Fine. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Univ of Alabama Pr Hardcover
196774781Los Angeles: American Aviation Historical Society 1967. Nice Copies. lge. octavo. card covers 304pp. b/w pls. diags. scale drwgs. Incl. Curtiss Condor II; Turbo-Supercharger development; The Yamamoto Mission; Thomas Morse Military Racing Airplanes American Aviation Historical Society unknown
196874784Los Angeles: American Aviation Historical Society 1968. Nice Copies. lge. octavo. card covers 288pp. b/w pls. diags. scale drwgs. Incl. Memories of 86th FG; The ÒChiefsÓ of Fighting Two; The Brewsters of Fighting Two; The Boeing Stratocruiser American Aviation Historical Society unknown
196374786Los Angeles: American Aviation Historical Society 1963. Nice Copies. lge. octavo. card covers 302pp. b/w pls. diags. scale drwgs. Incl. Presidential Aircraft; Bleriots-Past and Present; The German Jets & the USAAF; RyanÕs XFR-1 Fireball American Aviation Historical Society unknown
196874783Los Angeles: American Aviation Historical Society 1968. Nice Copies. lge. octavo. card covers 304pp. b/w pls. diags. scale drwgs. Incl. Douglas DB-7Õs in French Service; Last of the Flying Clipper Ships; B-47 Odds & Ends; Philippine Fighter Diary. Also a 4pp. index to Volume 13 American Aviation Historical Society unknown
196474785Los Angeles: American Aviation Historical Society 1964. Nice Copies. lge. octavo. card covers 310pp. b/w pls. diags. scale drwgs. Incl. The Eagle Squadrons; History of the 491st Bombardment Group; The 12th Aero Squadron; 9th AF in the Desert; Boeing 247 American Aviation Historical Society unknown
1996260603012AAHS Journal American Aviation Historical Society 1996. Hardcover. Very Good. Binding has some very minor wear but the individual magazines are in VERY nice condition. These are magazines that the previous owner had decided to be bound in a hardcover binding very common for magazines and are bound 2 years per book. AAHS Journal American Aviation Historical Society hardcover
1978260603005AAHS Journal American Aviation Historical Society 1978. Hardcover. Very Good. Binding has some very minor wear but the individual magazines are in VERY nice condition. These are magazines that the previous owner had decided to be bound in a hardcover binding very common for magazines and are bound 1 year per book. AAHS Journal American Aviation Historical Society hardcover
1994260603011AAHS Journal American Aviation Historical Society 1994. Hardcover. Very Good. Binding has some very minor wear but the individual magazines are in VERY nice condition. These are magazines that the previous owner had decided to be bound in a hardcover binding very common for magazines and are bound 2 years per book. AAHS Journal American Aviation Historical Society hardcover
1979260603006AAHS Journal American Aviation Historical Society 1979. Hardcover. Very Good. Binding has some very minor wear but the individual magazines are in VERY nice condition. These are magazines that the previous owner had decided to be bound in a hardcover binding very common for magazines and are bound 1 year per book. AAHS Journal American Aviation Historical Society hardcover
1992260603010AAHS Journal American Aviation Historical Society 1992. Hardcover. Very Good. Binding has some very minor wear but the individual magazines are in VERY nice condition. These are magazines that the previous owner had decided to be bound in a hardcover binding very common for magazines and are bound 2 years per book. AAHS Journal American Aviation Historical Society hardcover
1975260603003AAHS Journal American Aviation Historical Society 1975. Hardcover. Very Good. Binding has some very minor wear but the individual magazines are in VERY nice condition. These are magazines that the previous owner decided to be bound in a hardcover binding very common for magazines and are bound 2 years per book. AAHS Journal American Aviation Historical Society hardcover
1990260603009AAHS Journal American Aviation Historical Society 1990. Hardcover. Very Good. Binding has some very minor wear but the individual magazines are in VERY nice condition. These are magazines that the previous owner had decided to be bound in a hardcover binding very common for magazines and are bound 1 year per book. AAHS Journal American Aviation Historical Society hardcover
