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8vo., Second Edition thus, with very numerous photographs throughout; blue cloth, gilt back, a very good, bright, clean copy in price-clipped dustwrapper. Greatly expanded version of the first edition of 1958. VERY SCARCE IN THIS CONDITION.
20 pages. Features: Cover illustration (by McCall?) shows helicopters delivering diners to dinner at the 1964 World's Fair; Portrait of an Informer - Joe Valachi told all on Cosa Nostra and now lives a life of closely-guarded solitude - and fear; Much of a Woman (fiction); Tastes from Everywhere at the World's Fair - with lovely color-photo centerfold buffet display. Color ads include: Nice one-page color-photo ad for the Wide-Track Pontiac Le Mans; Fab laundry soap - with bridal theme; Scott 'soft-weve' toilet paper; Gerber baby foods; Dole pineapple; Wild one-page color-photo ad for Royal Key Lime flavor Pie Filling - with picture of green pie; Ken-L-Ration dog food; Salem cigarettes (back cover) - couple with dachshund in meadow. Average wear. Unmarked. A sound vintage copy. Magazine
96 pages. Features: The Corps' 22d Commandant - David M. Shoup; Operation Inland Seas - celebrating the opening of the St. Lawrence Seaway; Corps Album; Post of the Corps - Cinclant; West Pac Bound - Life on theUSS Lexington; Kansas City Reservists - there were no 'goldbricks' when Kansas City's Marine Reservists were called to active duty for the Korean War; Alibi on 24; ROK (Republic of Korea) Marines - The Korean Marine Corps has grown to a large combat force-in-readiness; Landlord to Royalty - Maj. Gaston Lauryssen, USMCR, is one of the world's best known hosts; If I Were a Commandant; We - The Marines; First Lady of SOPAC - Mrs. Alice Bowring ran a canteen in Noumea, New Caledonia; Rescue - Marine helicopters save Paul Polansky from Lake Michigan; Lengthy list of transfers; Rifle Award Winners - with photos of Lawrence N. Dubia, William V. Toy and Stanley S. Carr, Ernest O. Chilson, John R. Lewis, Harold B. West and Jesse G. Gradillas; Lovely one-page photo of Tuesday Weld in one-piece blue bathing suit; List of retirees, with photo of LtGen James P. Riseley; Nice color photo Budweiser ad on back cover features babe on sailboat; and more. Average wear. Bit of writong on back cover. Openings at each end of coverfold. A worthy vintage copy of this great issue. Magazine
pp. xiv, 161 + Plus frontis and full page photographs. Signed by the author on title page. Mildly XLib. 8vo. Original full blue cloth binding, slightly faded. Nice copy. Mr. Morris was chief test pilot and service manager for the Sikorsky helicopters. AIR/1
Features: Warships North - On Canada's roof a second year running; Arctic Fuel Cache - 450 Squadron's helicopters are harbingers; Surveillance of Soviet Force - watching Russians emerging as an ocean power; Summer of the Hard Look - Rembrance Day look at the Legion; Expanding roles and more servicewomen; Nursing in Europe; The Queen's Own Rifles - display at the Canadian Regimental Museum in Toronto at Casa Loma; Forces Band Inspiring; Air Show - Snow Birds and more; Whirlybird at Iroquois; This is a cycle - HMCS Yukon returns from 10 weeks in Japanese and Hawaiian waters; Cairns and Maxville - Pipe major's stirring school excursion; back cover features photo of Anne Murray in T-10 canopy harness at the PNE. Sound copy. Book
74 pages. Salute to the Skyraider - examing the color schemes and markings of the Navy's most famous attack aircraft; Air Intelligence - news from air forces around the world; Navy Accepts first operational Hornet - a new era in Naval air power; High Times - these two pilots have recorded more than 1,000 flying hours each in the Lockheed SR-71 Blackbird - Lt. Col. Robert Powell, Lt.-Col. George T. Morgan; Falcons of Georgia - History of Reserve Squadron VA-205; Igloo White - how we listened to the Ho Chi Minh Trail in stereo; Angel of another color - a new paint scheme on a Blue Angels aircraft; Fighting Falcon for Export - re-engined F-16 is planned for sale to smaller countries; Marines' Fighting Helicopters - how the USMC developed the helicopter into a fighting machine for aerial envelopment. Average wear. Unmarked. A sound copy. Book
Features. Grumman X-29A; Cook Island Hopping; "Mallet Blow"; Blackburn's Buccaneer - 1; Captured Argentine aircraft in the UK; Slingsby T67M Firefly; Schneider Trophy 1929; Air Malawi; Blackburn's Buccaneer - 2; R. Norwegian A.F.; Starfighter Twilight; 'Ocean Safari 85'; German Cargo Services; Where have all the Tridents gone?; ARV Super 2; Chinese 'Coke' with a western flavour; 'Frogfoot'; Back to Barbados; R.A.F. Finningley; Orions provide ASW network around the world; Coat of many colours; Aeronautical Research in WWI; South African DC-3 Anniversary; Republic of Singapore A.F.; EAP - Britain's fighter demonstrator; Bell AH-1W SuperCobra; First TriStar K.1 for No. 216 Squadron; Final Top-up with No. 57 Squadron; Zeppelin-Staaken E.4/20; Sun'n Fun; R.A.F. Fighter Command 50 years on; British Caledonian Airways - part 1; Electronic Warfare - part 1; R. Moroccan A.F.; Hanover Report; Tiger Club Air Show; Outback Medic; British Caledonian Airways - part 2; What to see at Farnborough; R.A.F. Support Helicopters; British Aerospace 146; British Caledonian Airways - part 3; Lynx Speed Record; British Aerospace ATP; Chile's Air Force; Sea Harrier Training; Freighters at Birmingham; Tactical Fighter Meet '86; Eastern Air Lines - part 1; Farnborough postscript; Beverleys in Aden; Visit to China; R.A.F. Support Helicopters; EW Training in the R.A.F.; Oshkosh Highlights; Eastern Air Lines - part 2; Westland Lysander; Index laid in. Clean and unmarked with moderate external wear. A quality copy. Book
Features: Light Aviation Today; Egyptian Helicopters; EMERLEC-30 - shells ready for use; Helicostat (project); How the Frigates Age - they are evolving to assume ever more unorthodox forms (long article); The Battle of the North Atlantic - an irreversible re-orientation for commercial air traffic; The LUPO Class - illustrated article with great colour fold-out; Electronic Warfare (part II); Additional illustrated stories. Clean and unmarked with light wear. Quality copy. Book
186 pages. Features: U.S. Route to Ottawa Favoured; The Final Frontier - first report on new route via Churchill; First Military Aviatrix - Helen Harrison is licensed to fly in four countries; Rescue, Northern Style - Captain Russ Baker of Canadian Pacific Air Lines; B-29 Armament Revealed; If Good Will Prevails; What's a Morrow Board?; Iso-Rev Propeller; Avro York Design; Reports from Ottawa; London Report; Trends in Washington; Packing for Export; British Helicopters Were Three Years Ahead; Modernized Blackfish for Royal Navy Carriers; Fairey Barracuda; Gliding Club Meets - Gatineau Gliding Club; Human Limits in Flight; Requires Small Planes; and more. Many pages of excellent WWII advertisements by a wealth of prominent companies. Average wear. Binding intact. A sound vintage copy. Magazine
244 pages. Features: Nice color photo Miller beer ad inside front cover; Dewar's Whisky ad features Barbary Waterston; James Deakin looks forward to the 1972 election with emphasis on Harold Hughes; Times Change, by Kurt Vonnegut Jr. - reflections from the class of '40; Too Bad - reflections on high-school students from the Class of now; Six Jobs looking for women applicants - hockey goalie, forest ranger, university president, construction worker, ladies' shoe salesman, locker room attendant; Son and Hair, by Thomas Berger; If Hitler asked you to execute a stranger, would you?; Helen Burley Brown only wants to help; Personal Helicopters; The War Machine vs. the Peace Machinist; Otto and Bruno, by Jonathan Strong; Phone Lovers take heart - new telephone products; Kirk Douglas at Large... and getting larger, by Roger Ebert; Three Harvard travelers tell you how to travel the world on the cheap - Franklin Chu, Larry Gage, and Dan Ardrey; Photo Series - how to take your pants off while wearing chains; The Murder of Jeremy Harlowe; Doing it the Hard Way - New York sculptor Harvey Citron; European fashion report with photos. Many great vintage photo ads. Average wear. A sound copy. Magazine
84 pages. Features. Cover illustration of outport village, Port de Grave, Newfoundland; Nice colour ad for International heavy trucks inside front cover; The Fabulous Shoemaker - Tom Bata, probably Canada's richest man, controls a million-a-day shoe output - part 1; Whirlaway to Work - interesting photo-illustrated article on using helicopters for urban transportation; The Lovers - story by Mona Williams - illustrated by Allen Richardson; Labor Cleans House - Stalin's stooges boss some of our key unions - it's a tough, nasty fight to unseat them but labour is doing it - article with photos; The Man with the Mail from Minsk - Samuel Hoffman has been delivering the mail along route 103 in Toronto for 25 years - article with photos; They Pay as They Sway - Arthur Murray Dance Lessons - article with photos; Wrestler Whipper Billy Watson (nee Potts) - article with colour photo; So You're Buying a Used Car; 10,000 Men for Dinner - Crawley and McCracken are the continent's biggest bush-camp caterers -article with photos; A Place for Children - story by Alec Rackowe - illustrated by W. Book; Young Man of the World - Garry Davis has renounced his US citizenship and declared himself a citizen of the world - article with photos; Now They Get Medicine From Blood - Attractive centerfold ad for the new custom Dodge car; Attractive two-page colour ad for the great new Plymouth; Sweet two-page colour ad for the Elegant new Chrysler; Nice two-page colour ad for the new Dodge; Handsome two-page colour ad for the distinctive DeSoto car; Ad for Austin 3 and 5 ton trucks; Full-page colour ad for Stokely's tomato juice. Moderate wear. Unmarked. A quality copy. Book
54 pages. Features include: Tenures around the world - Part 2; Asia - the new frontier; Logging down under; Palm Pilots, Calm Pilots and Helicopters; Close Calls; Necessity - the father of invention; New helicopter repari facility in Duncan; Morgan Skidder - homegrown success; Remember the Tugboatmen; River Dance - working on the river. Cover features photo of the world's largest self-loading, self-dumping barge, the Seaspan Forester, dumping its load into Howe Sound. Moderate wear. Usual library markings. Solid copy. Book
Features: XF-90 - Part II of the Air Force's Postwar Long Range Fighter controversy; Sikorsky S-55 - First of the classic helicopters; Douglas XO2D-1 Scout/Observation Floatplane - 8 pages of complete plans. Art: Lockheed XF-90 in flight; Consolidated PBY-5 Catalinas on patrol Book
Oblong 4to., First Edition, text in German, with frontispiece and numerous photographs and diagrams throughout; pictorial wrappers, wire-stitched as issued, a near fine copy.
2000LFA-126737697Un ouvrage de 379 pages, format 155 x 240 mm, illustré, broché couverture couleurs, publié en 2000, Editions Jacques Grancher, bon état
93 pages. Bibliography. Index. Generously illustrated with colour and black and white photos. "Helicopter flying in the high country brought fame and endless challenge to a small group of determined and innovative people in British Columbia and led the way to a world-renowned reputation in commercial helicopter operations. Beginning with Okanagan Helicopters in the late 1940s and Vancouver Island Helicopters in the early 1950s, British Columbia helicopter companies led the world in mountain flying." - back cover. Prior owner's address stamp atop half-title page otherwise clean and unmarked with light wear. A nice copy. Book
170 pages. Index. Profusely illustrated in colour and black and white. Clean, bright and unmarked with negligible wear. A gift-quality copy of this handsomely produced volume. Book
LFA-126725075Un ouvrage de 142 pages, format 235 x 310 mm, illustré, relié cartonnage sous jaquette couleurs, s.d., Ambre Bleu, bon état, peu courant
118 pages. Many great black and white photos. Features: Tons on Wings - large planes pushing the limits of runways; The Story of the GCA - part 1; Douglas Skystreak; The Martin 2 - 0 - 2; Plane Fishing; Bendix Helicopters in Full Color; Operation Helios; V-173 - The Flying Pancake; Air Progress; Honeymoon Isle in Florida - great photos; The Solution; Modelers - Get a Sponsor; The Pinnacle; Pity the Poor C-D; Twinster; White Comet, Jr.; Bullet 100; Piper Super Cruiser; 1947 Mirror Model Flying Fair; Many pages of great ads; and more. Moderate wear. Unmarked. Some age-toning to pages. A sound copy of this nice vintage issue. Magazine
Roy. 4to., First Edition, with numerous coloured and monochrome photographs throughout; pictorial wrappers, a near fine copy.
338891 vol in-4 broché - N° 19 de décembre 1979 - illustrations noir et blanc et couleurs en et hors texte
339181 vol in-4 broché - N° 46 de juin 1982 - illustrations noir et blanc et couleurs en et hors texte
8vo., First Edition, with illustrations in the text; blue cloth, backstrip lettered in silver, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper.
94 pages. Articles: How Truman Did It; The Barbizon Hotel - For Women Only - article with nice photos; Dogs are Big Business; I Saw the Reds Taste Freedom - Col. Robert Bishop's dramatic recollection of Bucharest, Rumania's brief taste of liberty in 1944, with great photo; How to Give Money Away; My Life in a Cooking School. Fiction: You Can't Win 'em All!; Girl With a Horse for Sale; The Miracle of Tepayac; Make Something Happen; Passage to Panama (part 6 of 7). Aviation Features: My Story of the Wright Brothers; Cavalcade of Trnasportation; The Collier Trophy - for flight beyond the speed of sound - won by John Stack, Lawrence D. Bell and Captain Charles "Chuck" E. Yeager, USAF; Diary of the First Flight; Our Aerial Arsenal - great compilation of color illustrations of US military aircraft; ; The World the Kitty Hawk Made; Super color aerial photo of Niagara Falls with Rainbow Bridge in backbround. Illustration of basketball player George Mikan of the Minneapolis Lakers; Ads include: Nice color Canada Dry ad inside front cover; Martin 2-0-2 Airliner; Pan American World Airlines; American Airlines;; B.F. Goodrich; Plymouth cars; International Trucks; Douglas Aircraft - attractive military theme; Good Year's Cross -Wind Landing Wheel; TWA Airlines; Nice two-page color-photo ad for Hiram Walker's liquor; The 1949 Frazer car; Pabst beer features color photo of Mrs. Winston Guest; "Enchantment" movie starring David Niven; Bell Aircraft ad features illustrations of their helicopters and X-1 jet; Nice Coke ad on back cover shows Santa reaching into a fridge for a quick drink. Covers pulling from staples. Unmarked. Average wear. A worthy vintage copy. Book
185 pages including notes, bibliography, index and black and white illustrations. The perilous 600-mile flight of the eight helicopters to Desert One, the secret rendezvous in the Iranian desert, is retraced, along with the disastrous events that followed, which stamped the endeavor with tragedy. Until all records are declassified, this book will stand as the most useful source available on the subject. Book clean, bright and unmarked with light wear. Attractive maroon cloth boards. Moderate wear to dust jacket with closed one inch tear to bottom edge of front panel. Book