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1990LFA00aabN° 5 - Septembre-Octobre 1990 : une revue de 98 pages, format 270 x 210 mm, illustrée, brochée couverture couleurs, bon état
198159444London, White lies Publ., 1981. origi.Kassette, gr.8°, enthält instructions booklet und 9 Flugzeugteile.
40 pages. Features: Engine Testing Laboratory - Aeronautics Branch installs three new torque stands - article with photos; Geared Centrifugal Superchargers for Aircraft Engines; Cabinet Interiors -article with photos; Copper and its Alloys in Motors and Aircraft; The Comet Engine - 7 cylinder radial air cooled engine with 165 HP; Aeronautics Branch will License Gliders; Los Angeles County promotional ad; New Aircraft - with photo inside the Ford Club plane; News of the Industry - with photos of Edward Macauley, L.W. Greve, and William Ganson Rose; New Developments; Nice Stromberg-Carlson ad on back cover with photo of C.E. Bolduc, radio technician of the Colonial Airlines, inspecting radio at Boston Airport; many more vintage ads. Unmarked with average wear. A sound vintage copy. Book
1953LFA-126724655Une revue de 24 pages, format 150 x 230 mm, illustrée, brochée, publiée en 1953, bon état
4to., First Edition, with photographs and illustrations throughout; green cloth, gilt back, a near fine copy in price-clipped dustwrapper. SCARCE.
VAV11Monaco, Ed. Paris-Méditerranée, 1945. In-8, 140pp., br.
No marks or inscriptions to contents. No creasing to covers or to spine. A very clean very tight copy with bright unmarked boards and no bumping to corners. 63pp. Covers all aspects of the hobby from choosing through research and design and construction methods to finishing the model glider. Concludes with useful tips on launching and flying, trimming and landing.
Appears unread. Inscription on front end paper. No other marks, no creasing to covers or to spine. A very clean very tight copy with bright unmarked boards and no bumping to corners. 127pp. A unique introduction to one of the world's most exhilarating leisure pursuits by a freelance journalist who followed this routine when he began as a complete novice.
8vo., Second Impression, with maps in the text; pictorial wrappers, a near fine copy.
VV18Stuttgart, Franckh's, 1957. In-8, 380pp., 243 fig. et photos in-t., pl. percaline éditeur.
8vo., First Edition, with plates; maroon cloth, gilt back, a fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper. Over fifty years as pilot, the author was involved in the development of WWII gliders and much else.
1196In 4 pleine toile rouge d’éditeur,plaque dorée animée à décor d’avions et dirigeable sur fond de Paris et tour Eiffel avec titre doré.Faux-titre,frontispice,titre,249 pages sur vergé,80 diagrammes explicatifs,118 gravures tirées hors-texte,Hachette & Cie 1911
2002LFA-1267494922 volumes de 537 et 542 pages, format 190 x 250 mm, illustrés, reliés cartonnage couleurs, publiés en 2002, Editions Flohic, bon état
113808Soleil éditions, DL septembre 2013 et aout 2015, les 2 volumes en première édition. 2 albums cartonnés d'environ 23 x 32 cm, 48 pages plus 8 pages de dossier sur les planeurs pendant la seconde guerre mondiale par BD, très bon état.
52 pages. Contents: The Public Can Be Trusted - editorial by Joseph Lister (J.L.) Rutledge; I flew into Battle in Albania - a Liberty reporter explores the heart of the Empire's fight for gallant Greece; Loved I Not - Honore More - a stirring story of a young man's heart and a girl who was beautiful and brave; Painter of Heaven - how an artist of today has brought the magic of modern beauty to the majesty of an ancient faith; Footloose - a brilliant, daring novel... the story of a girl with too much money and too little love; Can Larry MacPhail buy a Pennant?; In Action with the R.A.F. - by Pilot Officer Gene Tobin, R.A.F.; Hyacinths for the Soul - an eloquent, searching story of life and a woman; Germany's Secret Plans for Invading England - gas, gliders, tanks that fly - staff documents tell the story of Nazi plans and claims in amazing detail; Nightmare in Pale Gray, by Mary Norton; The Great Debunker - a close-up of the Gridiron Club by Senator Arthur H. Vandenberg; Girs Sticks out Neck - part 7 (conclusion); Laughter, Love, and Mr. Lloyd - a comedy star becomes a producer with gay results; To the Ladies - by Princess Alexandra Kropotkin. Nice black and white ads for Stetson Hats and Dodge cars. Average wear. Unmarked. Binding sound. A quality copy of this vintage issue. Magazine
64 pages. Features: Nice colour GM of Canada ad inside front cover says "25 Million Man-Hours ago", and illustrates wartime manufacture; News digest includes American attacks in the Pacific, Britain attacks at Dieppe, and Victory by Air Power?; Trans-Canada Telephone System one-page ad says "Day and Night, The Telephone is on the job for Victory"; Photo of Flt.-Lieut. H.T. Legge, D.F.C., of Calgary; Nice one-page Parker Pen ad; New Hearts for Old - article on medical advances; Hand Me Down the Moon (short story); Sabotage Strangles Hitler - photo-illustrated article with scenes of destruction in Germany and France; Great is the Glory (short story); One Grand (short story); Wings for the Infantry - photo-illustrated article explains how gliders and paratroops may play a vital role in our coming invasion of Nazi-controlled countries; Not in the Books (short story); Hollywood news and photos; Cotton at War - photo-illustrated article explains wartime uses of cotton; Ford Motor Company one-page illustration of young Windsor man training in machine shop; Fantastic centrefold Victory Bonds red and white ad says "Canadians Rally to the Call" and shows civilians marching; Pepsodent ad features photos of stewardess twins Athalie Davis and her sister; Woodbury Soap ad features photos of Lovely Denyse Quintal of Montreal; Woodbury Cold Cream ad features photo of Dorothy Lamour; Old Dutch Cleander illustrated ad titled "Housecleaning Hints for Wartime Wives!"; Article providing suggestings for packing overseas parcels; Recipes for wartime hospitality; Brazil - our new ally (brief article); Beauty tips article; Fashion illustrations; Quotes from around the world; Photo of children submitted by Mrs. J.L. Brood of Kenora; Rare one-page ad inside back cover in which the Government of Canada specifies "National Selectiver Service Regulations, Effective September 1, 1942; Back cover features unique ad by the H.J. Heinz Company titled "Keeping the Home Front... Fit!"; and more. Unmarked with average wear. A sound copy of this excellent wartime issue. Book
Features: Gliders of the Night - the aerial wizardry of flying squirrels; What in this world can a beetle see?; The Crisis in our Forests - Canada's forests are running out of marketable timber; Seismic Considerations - a look at earthquakes in Canada; The 1983 Nature Canada photo contest; Water Music - The unsung melodies of water in motion. Few library markings. Moderate wear. Sound copy. Book
538185 avril 1945 - N° 15 - revue illustrée - in-4 broché
8vo., First Edition, with plates; black cloth, gilt back, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper.
1988LFA-126732503Un ouvrage de 80 pages, format 115 x 185 mm, illustré, relié cartonnage couleurs, publié en 1988, Editions Le Livre de Paris / Hachette, collection "Echos", bon état
1944LFA-126735056Une revue de 56 pages, format 165 x 245 mm, illustrée, brochée couverture couleurs, bon état
Features: New knowledge on the rise of man - the Oriental Institute is a great research laboratory for the investigation of the early career of civilized man; Editorials - air transport - "seed" - a weapon for peace; Ultr-violet light and forgery - by making use of fluorescence, professional investigators detect forgeries in documents; Avalances and avalanche protection - in the Alps, great structures are necessary to divert avalanches; Things that happen in sunspots - An astronomer's photograph of the spectrum of a sunspot may give him material for many months of study and analysis; America emerges from partial maritime eclipse - completion of the first of two great liners for the north Atlantic route gives a promise of a revived great merchant marine; Flying in the beginning - from man-carrying kites, the army experimenters turned to gliders; In a rifle factory - over 2500 operations are required to produce accurate rifles that stand the test of use; Factory punishment for tires; Physical laboratories of the stars - the atoms in the stars have been braodcasting a description of their surroundings for millions of years; Profiting by enforced leisure - children, unemployed persons, hospital patients, and even jail inmates are increasing their demand for helpful books; Hoover Dam - conclusion - materials, supplies, manpower, and future program; The liner that cannot roll - new italian line ship has world's largest gyro-stabilizer plant; A post office for freight - New Union freight terminal in New York is first step in solution of freight handling and distribution problem; Houses of the future - they may be made in factories to individual design; Salmon fishing - great industry brings millions of dollars yearly to the pacific coast - how the salmon are caught and canned. Prior owner's pencilled name mostly erased from top of front cover. Book
Features: Hoover Dam - purposes, plans, and progress of construction; Editorials - Dr. George K. Burgess and Dr. George F. Kunz - are there White Indians? - back to earth - construction - wages; Flying in the beginning - early experiments with man-carrying kites and gliders; Peregrinations of a freight car - as a railroad freight car travels here and there over the country, records are made of its movements in minute detail; New Planetary discoveries - the discovery of minor planets has fairly been put on a basis of mass production; The muscular power of insects - the muscles of insects give them much greater power proportionately than other animals possess; A masterpiece of Museum-craft - the largest existing monument of Greek sculpture has been re-erected in a museum in Berlin; Radio in the forest service - new transmitter-receivers, one weighing only 10 pounds, are to be tested this year; Solo man - a fossil skull - a new find of great importance; new notes on ancient man - recent discoveries throw new light on man's antiquity; Tropical fish as pets; Food for a floating hotel - the supplies for an ocean liner's next trip are ordered while the liner is still 1000 miles out at sea; Whirling molten steel to make gun castings - newly perfected centrifugal process promises better guns; Treasure trove in lowly "Sweeps" - all wastes and sweepings in jeweler's plants are carefully salvaged and precious metals recovered from them. Building safety into automobile glass - laminated safety glass for cars does not shatter; Quartz takes up fire fighting in the automatic heads of sprinkler systems; Advertising a curb on product design pirates. Back cover graced with colour Lucky Strike advertisement featuring painting of a sensuous young woman beneath the caption "OK - Miss America! We thank you for your patronage."Three inch opening between top of spine and front cover. Book
8vo., First Edition, with plates; grey boards, blue cloth back lettered in silver, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper.
Pages 693-724. Features: Photo of Major John Bagot Glubb Pasha, reportedly killed in action in Iraq; Four photos of British evacuation from Greece; Informative two-page, seven-illustration feature describes the winged invaders of Crete - troop-carrying gliders - and the JU '52' sky tug; Excellent two-page illustrated feature entitled 'War in the Stratosphere' explains some problems presented by the enigma of flight miles above the earth; Six photos beneath the caption 'Eagle Wings of the Royal Navy - The Victorious Fleet Air Arm; H.M.S. Hood lost May 24 - photo of the ship and photo of part of her crew on deck during firing practice; Photo and illustration of the "Bismarck," sunk on May 27; The Battle for Crete - article; Three maps showing the strategic importance of Crete and Cyprus; Centrefold illustration depict Germany's air invasion of Crete - the first major attack by air-borne troops, across over 200 miles of sea; Photos of the "Beaufighter" night-fighter-bomber and the famous U.S.A. "Catalina"; Photos of thirteen personalities of the week include Igor I. Sikorsky setting record in Connecticut, Vice-Admiral L.E. Holland, Captain R. Kerr, Lord Austin of the well-known automaker, General Smuts, Sir Horace Rumbold, Flight-Officer F.H. Hanbury - first member of the W.A.A.F. to receive the M.B.E.; Two pages with twelve photos from Libya illustrate "Where Panzer Units Become Junk" - The Gallant Defenders of Tobruk; Five photos illustrate fighting in the western desert of North Africa where British patrols harass Nazis; Air photos of the cities of Rakki, Palmyra and Falluja; Photo of the King inspecting paratroops; Photo of truck carrying the wreckage of the ME. 110 fighter which Rudolf Hess flew to Glasgow; New discoveries in Iran exemplify the superb art of Persian goldsmiths over a period of seventeen centuries. Nice vintage ads. Unmarked with moderate wear. A quality copy of this informative wartime issue. Book