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1990biblio284<p>1st edition Signed by author</p> Airlife Publishing Ltd hardcover
1973746422PN. New. 1973. Soft Cover. Date is original print. This is a reprint edition. . PN paperback
194127592East Hartford CT: Pratt & Whitner Aircraft. Very Good with No dust jacket as issued. 1941. Second Edition. Metal comb binding. Small chip to the upper right corner of the front cover. ; 8"; 103 pages . Pratt & Whitner Aircraft unknown
194025793Syracuse NY: Aircooled Motors Corporation. Very Good with No dust jacket as issued. 1940. First Edition. Softcover. Also includes several service bulletins for those engines plus carburetors and magnetos. ; Small 4to 9" - 11" tall; 47 pages . Aircooled Motors Corporation paperback
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
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
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
1931W2423Unknown Place: Unpublished 1931. The press called Blanche Stuart Scott 1884-1970 the "Tomboy of the Air" in celebration of her groundbreaking role as a pilot. In addition to being the first American woman to fly solo she was the first woman stunt pilot and the first to fly from coast to coast. The picture appears to have been signed at an airshow clearly after Scott's soloing days were over. The autograph in blue ink remains bright and unfaded--as is the snapshot itself. . SIGNED. Original. Single Sheet. Near Fine. 5 7/8 inches by 3 1/2 Inches. Manuscript. Unpublished
191911663N. Y & London: John Lane Co. Very Good. 1919. First Edition. Hardcover. Clean lt. Brown cloth with black lettering on spine. Text tight clean & intact. Pictorial frontispiece. B/W illustrations. Can air service be made safe Can it be made reliable Can it be made to pay Spine cloth slightly sun faded Aviation; B/W Illus.; 12mo 7" - 7½" tall; 185 pages . John Lane Co. hardcover
195661052Garden City NY: Doubeday & Co. Inc. 1956. 8vo. 318 pp. Numerous colour and black & white photo plates. Beige publisher’s cloth blue & black lettering front cover & spine pictorial map endpapers slight shelfwear w/ d.j. wraparound cover art of the couple with their Cessna 180 “Charlie†slight scuffing shelfwear NF/NF copy. First edition stated of this uncommon aviation adventure chronicling the aerial odyssey of the Thomas’s over Africa Europe the Middle East and into Central Asia with stops in Post-World War II Afghanistan Iran Saudi Arabia Israel North Africa Turkey and more. Doubeday & Co., Inc., hardcover
196122749NY.D.van Nostrand Comp, 1961. 179 S. Mit Fototafeln. OLwd.
1985048045London: Hutchinson 1985. Signed First Edition. Cloth. Very Good/Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Type: Book 15 line dedication signed by the author on the title page which relates to the books content. N.B. Corners of boards a little bumped with fading to top edge of boards and spine. Head and tail of spine a little bumped. Fading to edges of D/J with some shelfwear. 317pp. Hutchinson hardcover
1964723921PN. New. 1964. Soft Cover. Date is original print. This is a reprint edition. . PN paperback
193828467NY: Harcourt Brace. Very Good with no dust jacket. 1938. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. Light soil to the covers. Spine ends are rubbed and one small spot of soil on the spine. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 99 pages . Harcourt Brace hardcover
194124584Paterson NJ: Wright Aeronautical Corporation 1941. 1941. Good. - Quarto 11-1/2 inches high by 8-3/4 inches wide limp brown cloth titled in gilt on the front cover & spine. The binding is rubbed with some white staining to the front cover & a small white stain to the rear cover. xviii pages plus separately numbered sections 7 diagrams including 6 folding blanks for notes & a 17-page index. There are some small stains to the rear endpaper & a small area of its surface is rubbed away. The bottom corners of the first few leaves are creased. Black-and-white illustrations and diagrams. Good. <p>Second printing. Paterson, NJ: Wright Aeronautical Corporation, 1941. hardcover
196426615Muskegon MI: Continental Motors Corp. Very Good with No dust jacket as issued. 1964 1965. First Edition. Softcover. Price is for both publications. Each has title on the edge in black marker and another number on the front covered with a sticker. ; Small 4to 9" - 11" tall . Continental Motors Corp. paperback
197925794Pratt & Whitney. Near Fine with No dust jacket as issued. 1979. Plastic comb binding. 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 255charts pages . Pratt & Whitney unknown
194225213East Hartford CT: Pratt & Whitney Aircraft. Very Good with No dust jacket as issued. 1942. First Edition; First Printing. Binder. In the original binder. Rubbed at the edges. Owner's name on the title page. ; 4to 11" - 13" tall . Pratt & Whitney Aircraft unknown
194125232East Hartford CT: Pratt & Whitney Aircraft. Very Good with No dust jacket as issued. 1941. First Edition. Binder. In the original binder. Rubbed at the edges. ; 4to 11" - 13" tall . Pratt & Whitney Aircraft unknown
194225202Paterson NJ: Wright Aeronautical Corporation. Near Fine with No dust jacket as issued. 1942. Second Edition. Binder. In the original maroon binder. ; 4to 11" - 13" tall; 29215 pages . Wright Aeronautical Corporation unknown
19772090502128704518Osaka Airport Office Osaka Civil Aviation Bureau 1977. Soft Cover. Fine. Volume: 1 Osaka Airport Office, Osaka Civil Aviation Bureau paperback
196960086Garden City NY: Doubleday & Co. Inc. 1969. 8vo. xiii 1 415 1 pp. With numerous black & white photo plates. Half-green over beige publisher’s cloth gilt lettering on spine minor shelfwear rubbing w/ d.j. wraparound colour aerial photograph slight shelfwear NF/NF copy from library of George T. Banister w/ TLS laid-in addressed to Goddard and reply ALS from Gen. Goddard and copy inscribed by Goddard on title w/ clippings laid-in. First edition stated and signed chronicling the efforts of Gen. George Goddard 1889-1987 who pioneered aerial photography and began early studies in infra-red long-range photography aerial cameras photographic aircraft and field lab equipment for the US Military. Goddard writes in his poignant TLS to Banister that “I am please to know that you liked the book which I am sorry to say did not do very well. . . military books which were published in 1969 during the Vietnam War could not compete with books by Abbie Hoffman Dr. Spock Jane Fonda and their ilk.†Doubleday & Co., Inc., hardcover
194225209East Hartford CT: Pratt & Whitney. Near Fine. 1942. Fourth Edition. Binder. In the original red binder. ; 4to 11" - 13" tall . Pratt & Whitney unknown
1985006528Pittsburgh PA: OX5 Aviation Pioneers 1985. Limited . Hardcover. New/None. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. New/N hc blue faux-leather with gilt text on spine and gilt disc on upper illustrated end papers 268 pages. Interior clean no marks pages bright binding tight. No wear to exterior. No dj as issued. Illustrated with b & w images of the OX5 and some of the airplanes it was used in. A compilation of those mechanics and pilots that were associated with the OX5 engine. <br/> <br/> OX5 Aviation Pioneers hardcover
1997MASTER304832ICarrollton TX.: Squadron/Signal Publications. Vg In Wraps. Lightly Worn. Pages: 72. 1997. Trade Paperback. Squadron/Signal Publications paperback
