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304p. Hardcover Very good condition
336p., illus. Hardcover Very good condition good
8vo., First Edition, with numerous plates, and maps and diagrams in the text; blue cloth, gilt back, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper, the latter very lightly browned at extremities. Enser, p.202.
126 pages. Fiction: Problem Mother; The Face of Death; First Baby; The Forbidden Island; Kiowa Moon (part 2 of 7); The Golden Shadow (conclusion). Articles: How an Amblance Chaser Works - other people's accidents make him money; If a President Collapses - proposed solutions to the problem of what to do if/when a President falls ill; The Face of America - The Golden Triangle - large color photo of the Monongahela meeting the Allegheny River; We are on the Spot in Spain - Franco's dictatorship rests on a powder keg; Premature Births Can Be Prevented - Releasin is used to delay labor - with photo of Mrs. Lorraine Yarsinsky and her triplets; Everybody Laughs at Me - Victor Borge - par 6 of 7 - his feud with Rudy Vallee, and the day he was arrested as a spy; We Flew Operation Sharkbait - Col. Charles F. Blair, Jr., USAF Res. recounts the harrowing tension-filled hoursin a jet fighter that spanned the Atlantic on a hush-hush test flight - the first Great Circle Route flight to Europe in a Thunderstreak Interceptor; Fishing at its Fanciest - article and great color photos from Palm Beach; My Ware with the Army - W.H. Von Rosenstiel got no mail for three months so went over his colonel's head - with astounding results; Should your child be a Librarian? Ads: Winston cigarettes (taste good); Pream coffee; Amana fridges (very nostalgic); Hart Schaffner & Marx clothing - with color photos of Dr. Joyce Brothers and Hal March of the $64,000 Question; 'Eggs Belong in Breakfast'; Presto appliances; Nice 1-page color ad for Boeing's 707; Ford cars - two-page color photo; Westinghouse washer - the famous 'sand test'; Tareyton; Pontiac cars - nice yellow Super Chief two-door hardtop; Baldwin Organs; GMC Air Suspension Tractors - two color pages; Union Pacific Railroad Vacations; RCA TV Service; Underwood Typewriters (golden gloves); Allis-Chalmers - 2-page ad showing their cement plant; USS United States Steel with illustration of futuristic bridge; GMAC color photo ad with old ladies telling young mom what to do; Nice two-page Borg-Warner ad in 'believe-it-or-not' format; Nice one-page color Pepsi adshows young painting couple; Magnavox High Fidelity TVs; MacGregor baseball gloves - featuring Red Schoendienst; GM two-page photo ad features Amanda, Ohio, home of GM supplier Mid-West Fabricating - with photos of Stanton Johns, Francis and Helen Crago, Dick Young, and L.E. Conrad; Evinrude outboard motors - nice color-photo ad; Ponderosa Pine Windows; Anchor Fence; IBM Selectric Typewriters; Santa Fe Super Chief; Briggs & Stratton engines; Nice Viceroy cigarette ad features bowler Don Carter; Chrysler 4-door hardtop Windsor - color photo; Betty Crocker Li'l Angel Food Cake Mix ad on back cover. Average wear. Unmarked. A sound vintage copy. Magazine
80 pages. Features: ; Unmarked with average wear. A quality vintage copy. Book
132 pages. Features: Gorgeous cover illustration of Peachtree Street in Atlanta, by John Falter; Great Day in the Morning (short story by G.S. Albee); Stowaway Boy (short story by Olaf Ruhen); Counterfeit Wife (short story by Robert Carson); The White Warrior (short story by Bill Gulick); We Learned To Live With Tragedy - Sparky Ratcliffe's ability to walk was threatened after an auto accident; Year of Decision for Bill Rigney, Manager of the San Francisco Giants; California's Complex Governor - Pat Brown struggles with capital punishment and the case of Caryl Chessman; Madam Soap Opera - Irna Phillips may be the all-time champ at providing misery-loving housewives with their daily ration of tears on TV; Flowers With Wings - Interflora; The Face of America - photo of New Harbor at Rockport, MA; They Killed Heydrich - The Betrayal (part 2 of 3) - the atrocity of Lidice failed to break the spirit of the Czechs, but then the Nazis found a traitor, Sgt. Karel Curda; Adventures of the Mind - The Origin of the Elements, by William Alfred Fowler; Nice one-page color-illustrated ad for Canadian Pacific jet-prop Britannia aircraft which fly from Montreal to Rome; The Case of the Duplicate Daughter (part 4 of 8); Journey Into Danger (conclusion); Two-page ad for GM Diesel Products; Unmarked with average wear. A quality vintage copy. Book
104 pages. Features: Nice cover illustration by Hughes of doctor making house call on little boy in his toy-strewn bedroom; Deadbeats Are My Business - Psychologist Eugene H. Barnes discloses the weird dodges people use to avoid paying their debts - and his technique for making them pay up; Avenging Lady - short story by George Bradshaw; Palm Springs - Oasis for Golfers - color-photo-illustrated article; The Girl From Mayo - short story by Brian Cleeve; My Adventures as An Illustrator (part 3) - I Break Into the Big Time - Norman Rockwell tells how he was duped as a gullible young artist - but still hit the jackpot at age 22; The Outsider - short story by Leon Ware; Is Foreign Aid Jeopardizing American Jobs?; What is Railroad Featherbedding? - controversy over 'unnecessary' jobs; Night Without End (part 2 of 8) by Alistair MacLean; My Journeys Toward the Stars - X-15 Test Pilot A. Scott Crossfield reveals some of the harrowing moments of his rocket-powered flights in the ship he is grooming to carry a man into space (conclusion - Brush With Disaster); Comanche Holdup - short story by Duvan Polk; The Monitor Affair (part 6 of 8) by Clarence Budington Kelland; Two-page black and white photo Marlboro ad features the Marlboro Man lying down with head resting on saddle; Back cover color-phot Camel ad features G.L. Stavely of Mexican Hat, Utah, a skipper for geologists mapping the mighty Colorado River. Unmarked with somewhat above-average wear. 2.5" x 1.5" chip from upper corner of front cover. Please note: missing pages 85-86 which contained a portion of The Girl From Mayo, otherwise a worthy vintage copy. Book
8vo., First Edition, with very numerous photographs throughout; blue cloth, gilt back, a fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper. From the formation of the service to the Gulf War of 1991.
4to., First Edition thus, with a coloured frontispiece and very numerous coloured photographs throughout; laminated photographic boards, a near fine copy in price-clipped dustwrapper.
VG (original blue cloth with gilt eagle on front board, minimal wear) Large format, quarto. Fourth edtn revised. 64pp illustrated throughout. A nice piece of upbeat propaganda at the point during the war when the RAF was probably at its lowest
Roy. 4to., First Edition, with photographs, maps and tables (several full-page) in the text; original pictorial boards, a fine copy. The first detailed study of the heroic if (predominantly) ill-fated air supply missions to 1 Airborne at Arnhem. Includes aircraft and squadron profiles, navigational aids, record of containers, panniers and parachutes with list of stores dropped, detailed register of aircraft with fates and crews, and ROH. A notable achievement and a valuable addition to the growing recent literature of Arnhem. ALREADY VERY SCARCE.
8vo., First Edition, with frontispiece and very numerous photographs throughout, neat stamps on endpapers; blue cloth, upper board and backstrip blocked and lettered in gilt, a very good, bright, clean copy.
8vo., First Edition, with maps in the text; blue cloth, backstrip lettered in silver, a bright, clean copy in price-clipped dustwrapper.
31p. 12mo. Original full printed wraps. Remains of album mountings on rear wrap. Nice copy. Contents of this scarce World War One piece include such sections and statements as: The Pilot's Training; War Flying; Duelists of the Air; Miscellaneous Duties; Deeds of Heroism; The Finest Air Story of the War; A Chance for the Americans "Now that thousands of Americans have enlisted in the Flying Corps, and other thousands are debating in their minds whether or not to follow their example. "The flying men will win the War. The historians of the Great War may conceivably tell us that the final rout of the Central Empires was brought about when ten thousand American airmen and ten thousand American aeroplanes arrived in Europe to destroy the enemy communications and cut off the German trench-dwellers from all their sources of supply. Is this possible? It is assuredly not impossible, and that is why the time has now come when American citizens are realising that fighting the Prussians in the air is one of the noblest enterprises permitted to the youth of the present day." WWI 12
New York, Ziff-Davis Flying Books, 1978, 25,5 x 19 cm., tela original, numerosas ilustraciones en negro y color, 151 págs.
Oblong 4to., Second Edition, with very numerous photographs in the text and pictorial endpapers; picctorial blue cloth, backstrip lettered in white, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper, the latter neatly repaired with tape at edges. First published in 1976. The second edition is limited to 300 copies. RARE.
8vo., First Edition, with plates; grey cloth, gilt back, a near fine copy in price-clipped dustwrapper.
Vg/Vg (transparent protective wrapper to dj, ex library copy with usual library markings else no significant fault) octavo 402pp. With 56pp of b/w photographs and 3 maps.
8vo., First Edition, with numerous plates and maps; blue cloth, gilt back, a fine copy in price-clipped dustwrapper.
8vo., First Edition thus, with numerous photographs and maps in the text; black cloth, backstrip lettered in silver, a fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper. High quality facsimile reissue of the scarce original edition published by the Air Ministry in 1948. With a new and extended index.
8vo. First Edition with numerous plates; black cloth gilt back a fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper. Lovely copy of the best and most detailed single-volume history of the RAF in WWII. Enser p.196.
Fine/fine (no faults with book or dj, as new) Substantial octavo 841pp illustrated. Definitive history
Oblong 4to., First Edition, with numerous coloured and monochrome photographs, and coloured illustrations; pictorial wrappers, covers lightly age-browned else a very good, bright, clean copy.
