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191921571San Francisco: Caroline Poole/John Henry Nash 1919. First Edition Limited #153 of 250 copies for private distribution. From the library of John Henry Nash with his bookplate to front pastedown. Quarto; iii 53pp. Frontis is photograph of a woman in the desert; plus eleven additional tipped-in photographs and large folding map of journey at rear. Near Fine copy spine lightened & light scraping on title label in half grey linen and grey paper-covered boards. The interesting chronicle of a daring and adventuresome 2-week motor journey from Pasadena to Colorado Springs in 'Sallie' a 1913 Packard Six. O'Day p. 14-15. The archive of Caroline Boeing Poole an independent adventurer whose collection of American Indian baskets was the largest in private hands when she gave it to the Southwest Museum it now resides in the Autry Museum. Poole was sister to William Boeing the aviation pioneer who founded The Boeing Company and wife of Col. J. H. Poole a philanthropist and World War I veteran serving as Theodore Roosevelt’s aide in the Spanish-American War. According to The Autry website she was the third woman to ride on a transatlantic commercial Zeppelin. Of this pioneering trip by motor car Poole wrote "This little book was written from my letters to Col. Poole who was then in France & in response to the many inquiries from interested friends. Forgive its shortcomings & gaze upon and enjoy Mr. Nash's beautiful work behind whose skirts The Author hides - Caroline Poole' from a 1927 letter. Caroline Poole/John Henry Nash unknown
194325935Seattle: Boeing Aircraft Corp 1943 Scarce Boeing manual Document number D-4142 this stamped #2031 numerous photos and schematics 2 in color marked "Restricted" at the top of every page details all systems of the B-17 including armaments fuselage engine and electrical only minor wear to black flex leatherette boards name & Lockheed address of former owner inside front cover titles to front panel faded but clear & legible a clean tight exceptional copy of this very rare wartime manual concerning the B-17 the earliest numbered copy we've seen; sm 8vo; 682pp fully illus. Hard Cover. Near Fine. Boeing Aircraft Corp hardcover
1960234801960. Boeing industrial photo archive depicting aircraft manufacturing machining and early jetliner development during the rapid expansion of commercial air travel in the decade after the Boeing 707 transformed passenger aviation. Boeing introduced the 707 into commercial service in 1958 accelerating the replacement of propeller-driven fleets with turbine-powered aircraft capable of faster transcontinental and intercontinental travel while the 737 program launched in 1965 aimed to extend jet transportation onto shorter regional routes previously dominated by piston and turboprop aircraft. The group centers on Boeing's transition from military and long-haul production into high-volume civilian jetliner manufacturing during the years when American airports airlines and aerospace plants expanded around mass passenger aviation. Wichita manufacturing operations appear prominently linking the labor of machinists inspectors welders and assembly crews directly to the emergence of the modern commercial airliner industry.<br /> <br /> Photo archive of 9 silver gelatin and press photographs ranging from approximately 4 x 5 to 8 x 10 inches Wichita Kansas and Everett Washington circa 1960s-1967. Factory floor scenes show Boeing workers machining aircraft components on heavy drill presses welding structural assemblies beneath large tubular support frameworks and inspecting fabricated sections identified in verso notation as work connected to the "747 jet" and "heel beam under the wing." A posed group portrait includes machinists and supervisors standing on a production floor identified in manuscript as "Everett Washington Shop 4420." Boeing press photographs stamped "Photo by The Boeing Company" include an early Boeing 737 in flight the unfinished fuselage on the assembly line beneath a "First 737" sign and rollout preparations outside a Boeing hangar marked with a countdown placard reading "737 first flight 23 days away." Several versos retain Boeing numerical press codes including "P41473" "P40870" and "6A72097" while pencil annotations identify "Boeing Wichita" and internal production references.<br /> <br /> The 737 made its first flight on April 9 1967 entering a commercial aviation market reshaped by Cold War aerospace spending postwar suburbanization and the dramatic increase in passenger air travel during the 1960s. Industrial archives showing both internal aircraft manufacture and public-facing rollout imagery from this transitional period remain far less common than later airline publicity material particularly with direct factory-floor labor content tied to Boeing's Wichita operations. Light edge wear occasional surface creasing and minor fading to several prints; overall in very good condition. unknown
197863011Everett & Renton WA; Chicago: Boeing Company Commercial Airplane Division ca. 1978. Oblong 4to. 11 x 8.75 in. 45 leaves unnumbered. 22 printed colour photo plates some showing evidence of intent for ring binders 7 numbered plates of artist’s renderings 16 colour photographs on glossy Kodak colour photo stock sized 8.5 x 11 in. some w/ ink notations on versos. Colour-illustrated recent perfect-bound softcovers original perforations at gutter margin of some images some cropped smaller at fore-edge as originally issued minor age-toning to fore-edges still a VG exemplar. First edition of this exceedingly scarce original Boeing company photographic sales catalogue originally intended to be issued in adjustable ring binding detailing all the different models and customers for the famed four-engine jumbo jet which changed the history of aviation when it was introduced in 1970. Developed through the late 1960’s the first plane rolled out of the plant in 1968. This catalogue includes photographs of the Boeing engine programs for assorted configurations including Pratt & Whitney General Electric and Rolls-Royce. The next section of the catalogue is devoted to photographs showing off all the different seating configurations upholstery options as well as galleys lounges dining lounges and bunks for the Boeing 747SP which was a very popular shortened version. These photos encompass 10 & 9-seat Economy Class 8- & 9-seat Business Class together with reproductions of the original in-house Boeing artist’s renderings. Also featured are photos and printed photos capturing the two-level stairway upholstery options as well as galleys lounges dining lounges and lush 1970’s first class lounges. In addition these images represent an increased interest in reflecting diversity in flight crews for Pan Am TWA British Airways Cathay Pacific Quantas and other airlines as the flight attendants are in many cases featured as Asian Black & Caucasian sporting sleek nylons & stylish heels with polyester uniforms of the era. The upholstery and interior configuration photographs capture a wide range of 1970’s colours from Harvest Gold to Avocado Green wood paneling details for the first class lounge exotic psychedelic fabrics for the seating and opulent seating for Saudi or Middle Eastern Airliners with Moorish details and lavish fabrics. Included as well are a couple colour photo plates and photographs showing the assorted 747 freight variants and their “Intermodal Systemâ€freight containers being loaded from truck onto the aircraft and tied down cargo crates. The Boeing 747 was the original Jumbo Jet and the first wide-body produced and continues to be one of the most successful large jet airliners ever built with over 1574 built and the final aircraft delivered to Atlas Air in early 2023. These catalogues were issued in assorted variations with multiples of differing images often targeting specific customers so they were all intended as sales ephemera in process. No copies located in Worldcat. Boeing Company, Commercial Airplane Division, paperback
197980836General Motors Acceptance Corporation / Calvin E. Nelson 1979. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. Very Good in boards. Bound lease agreement. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall. General Motors Acceptance Corporation / Calvin E. Nelson hardcover
1942BBS-0767044Boeing Craftsman Seattle 1942 1942. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. Signed. > First edition. Special edition numbered 613 with a date of August 8 1942. 682 pages in black leather with green lettering on front. Sgt Don B Love has signed the front free endpaper with station and where he was located. Book has mild age toning to interior pages and some rubbing along outer spine. Black and white illustrations and diagrams throughout. Boeing, Craftsman Seattle 1942 hardcover
194395696Limited Restricted Edition: Boeing Seattle Washington 1943. Near Fine. 1943. First Edition. Hardcover. Hardcover in textured black cloth with pictorial stamped titles to covers. Wartime Limited Restricted Edition red stamped #6478 July 27 1943. Book is in near fine condition crisp and clean with tight binding and sharp corners. Generally fresh and bright. Historic photos as well as detailed technical diagrams and specs throughout. 8vo. 682pp. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall . Boeing, Seattle, Washington, 1943. hardcover
194423125Seattle Wa U. S. A.: Books for Libraries Press. Near Fine. 1944. First Edition. Flexible cloth. This is the original manual issued to an individualwho signed for it inside. ; Oblong 24mo 5" - 6" tall . Books for Libraries Press hardcover
1985031796Seattle WA: Boeing Commercial Airplane Company 1985. Hardcover. Very Good/No Jacket. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. chapt.pag.; 3vol.set: 3-ring binders; white w/green&blk.; some rub; PONft.covers; hilite&pencilotherwise cleantight pgs. Model 737-3Q8B "This manual is structured in a three-volume format . Volume 1 consists of bulletins limitations procedures and checklists. Volume 2 contains systems information. Volume 3 contains airplane performance data." Boeing Document No. D6-27370-3Q8B <br/> <br/> Boeing Commercial Airplane Company hardcover
96 pages. Features: Nice color ad for Schenley Whiskey inside front cover features pot-bellied stove being carried into nice home; Large illustrated ad for J&L Steel with military theme; Nice one-page photo ad for Boeing with photo taken beneath wing of huge plane; Brief obituaries for Horace D. Taft, Christopher G. Sinsabaugh, Joseph J. Sinnott and Henry A. Shute; Nice illustrated Bell and Howell ad shows soldier using their movie camera; Nice military-themed one-page photo-ad for Beech Aircraft shows their AT-11 bombing trainers; Nice military-themed ad for Chevrolet Trucks; Photo of FDR and Churchill at Casablanca; Photo of FDR inspecting US troops near Cacablanca; Lots of war coverage; MacArthur's plan to drive back the Japs; U-boat menace still tops agenda; Nazis lament manpower pinch - photo of Goring and Goebbels in full dress; Ernst Franz Sedgwick Hanfstaengl - photo and brief write-up of this former friend of Hitler; Interesting one-page two-color ad for Milwaukee Machine Tools features boy studying behind stacks of enemy books such as Mein Kampf; Fantastic one-page color ad for Seagram's V.O. Whiskey features illustration of a very early version of Skype as men in Chicago and London do business face-to-face; Wholesale horsemeat market in Newark, NJ; The Significance of 'Unconditional Surrender'; Photo of Marine Generals Holcomb, Mitchell and Vandegrift on Guadalcanal; Fantastic one-page color-illustrated Continental Can ad shows downed fliers adrift pouring SOS colored fluid into ocean; Fantastic one-page color-illustrated ad for Aircraft Accessories Corporation; Nice two-page color ad for Old Grand-Dad, Old Taylor, Old Crow, Mount Vernon and Old Overhold whiskeys; Classy Dowmetal Magnesium ad shows planes flying from aircraft carrier; Great photo from the Pullman-Standard plant in Hammond IN shows Merry Leone and Robert Patterson Jr. demonstrating the "Bomb Boogie" dance; Classy one-page ad for Scott Fine Radio Receivers; Nice one-page photo ad for Bethlehem Steel displays their safety practices; Photo of Coach Shaughnessy of Pitt; Nice one-page ad for movie "Yankee Doodle Dandy"; Jack Benny entertains troops; Nice Gem razor blad ad features illustration of clean-cut sailor; Color-photo ad for Canadian Club whiskey inside back cover features Jungle Zoo, winter hq of Clyde Beatty's Circus at Fort Lauderdale; Fantastic back cover color ad for Chesterfield cigarettes features US Marine Raiders in jungle. Center two pages loose but present. Average wear and soiling. Unmarked. A worthy vintage copy. Book
1968656423The Boeing Company 1968. First Edition. Wraps. New. An Engineering souvenir of the Saturn/Apollo 10 and 11 program. 3.5 x 5.5 in. vi 114pp. with 16 foldout schematic plates throughout; in the original red plastic binder with titles and design in white on the front cover. Calendars in the back dates 1966-69 covering Apollo 10 and 11. Laid in loose in the rear pocket are 11 cards belonging to an engineer on the program including 6 certification/course completion cards IBM Certificate; Propellant Hazards Qualification; Kennedy Space Center training card; Kennedy Space Center Hypergolic Propellant Hazards Training; Explosive Devices Safety; and MTM Association card Brookley Air Force Base; 1 medical certificate card qualified for Ordnance Handler; 1 State of Florida Voter Registration Card; and Identification Employee card identifying as a Qualified Ordnance Engineer Boeing Co; and two Apollo/Saturn Temporary Mission Decal laminated cards one for Apollo 10 and one for 11. All the cards date from Sept 11 1967 to Sept 23 1969. // The S-IC was the first stage of the American Saturn V rocket and was manufactured by the Boeing Company. This handbook provides System Test Management personnel with a functional understanding of overall system operation and the interrelationship of stage systems. It provides system schematic and or electrical block diagrams of each system. It also provides other pertinent information relative to the Saturn/Apollo Program. The Boeing Company unknown
2024x-9819758696Springer Nature 2024. Hardcover. New. 247 pages. 9.25x6.10x9.49 inches. Springer Nature hardcover
Pages 113-140. Features: Cover photo of Brigade H.Q. in the desert battle zone where the Brigadier, South African Command, directs operations - and photos of bombs exploding nearby; Twelve fascinating photos beneath the heading "Fighting in the Western Desert - Vivid Incidents, and Personalities, including Rommel in Tobruk and General Freyberg, V.C., Wounded; Two large photos from "The Battle of Midway Island"; Two-page map of the world entitled "Oil - The Supply Problem of the Warring Powers - A Map of Production Areas and Lines of Ocean Transport"; The Crisis in Russia (article); Seven great photos illustrate the pre-fabrication system in Shipbuilding - the U.S. sets the world's record in production; Photos of incendiary bombs - as were showered upon Hamburg - being prepared for raid; Two pages of photos and text describe the fall of Sebastopol; Centrefold illustration shows young British Officers studying tactical problems with models; Interesting photo-illustrated article explains how vegetables are dried, thus effecting considerable transport economy; Page of photos explaining the benefits of dried meat; Photo of test flight of the Boeing patrol bomber "XPBB-1"; Page of photos engaged in obstacle course training; Six photos of the "Mustang" - the fastest Army co-operation plane in the world; Two pages of photos of ice-covered decks of warships; Photos of twelve personalities of the week include cricketeer "Andy" Ducat, Sir Hugh C.T. Dowding, and Wing-Cdr. Hon. M. Aitken; Nice colour back cover ad for Puritan Leather Soles features illustration of Oliver Cromwell. This copy was never stapled. Clean and unmarked with moderate wear. A quality vintage copy. Book
48 pages. Features: Cover photo of a T.C.A. Lockheed approaching Canada's National War Memorial in Ottawa; Full-page Lockheed ad on page one features Two T.C.A. photos and one illustration - full T.C.A. theme - excellent!; Just Twenty Years Ago - Captain Stuart Graham's memoirs of Canada's first post-war flying; Full-page Lycoming ad; Awesome full-page illustrated ad for the Pioneer Instrument Company shows a 74-passenger transatlantic Boeing Clipper skipping across the water; Airport and Airway Lighting - article with illustrations; Nice full-page Beechcraft ad promotes their Model 18; 1917 Combatants - 1939 Correspondents - Ernst W. Steinitz and Capt. A.C. Burt; Igor I. Sikorsky speaks to Toronto gathering about engineering developments in aviation; Hudson's Bay Company selects Beechcraft 18D for air operation - brief article with great photo; Nice Rotax ad; Fantastic full-page colour photo ad for Player's cigarettes looking back from the deck of H.M.S. "Royal Oak" tothe H.M.S. Revenge; Centrefold ad for the Cygnet; Kenyon Field at Lethbridge is officially opened - article with photo and map; Great full-page illustrated ad for Blackburn Aircraft shows fighters diving; Taylorcraft Aviation Corp full-page ad features three photos of Miss Mary Spearing and her plane; McKee Trophy awarded to Operating Personnel of T.C.A.; New Variable Pitch Propeller for Light Aircraft; Grand Old Lady Retires; R.C.A.F. assigned important duties during Royal visit; The candid camera goes to Birmingham, Alabama; News from the West Coast; Wing Tips from Edmonton; Old Country Gossip; Know Your Pilots - J.H. Lymburner of Canadian Airways, Montreal; Nice full-page photo ad for McLaughlin-Buick; News from Flying Clubs; M.A.L.C. News; Cub Aircraft ad for their Trainer; Nice full-page ad for Rec Cap Ale with illustration of Hops being harvested and a photo of company employees with a caption listing their generous company benefits; *Fantastic* full-page Junkers photo ad inside back boasts of their new international speed record - the Junkers-Bomber with JUMO 211 engines achieved 517 mph; Intava ad on back cover; and more. Moderate wear. Unmarked. A sound vintage copy. Magazine
Features: Royal New Zealand Air Force; No. 14 Squadron, RNZAF; NZ Operations in the West; Liverpool Airport; Portuguese A.F. Serials; Swedish Airforce; Olympic Airways; Scottish Fighter Base; PZL - P.37 Los; Fighter Pilots; Strong Aircraft Industry; Seaplanes in Sweden; A singular Swede; Slingsby Sailplanes; Germany might have won in 1918; Martinair; Beaufighter restoration; Exeter Airport; Britten-Norman Islander; RAF's first 50 years; Albatros in Australia; First to Australia - the RAF Far East Flight 1927-28; 'Nipping and Eager Air'; The Sopwith Rotaries; Royal Netherlands Air Force; Boeing 737; Southend Airport; Swissair History - I; The Beverley Retires; Mitchell-Proctor Kittiwake; Finland's Air War - I; Hannover Highlights; Swissair History - II; SEPECAT Jaguar; Finland's Air War - II; No. 1 Squadron, R.A.F.; Relics in Bulgaria; West Australian Airways; From Hind to Hunter; Aerobatic Teams; Italy's Aircraft Industry; Development of Commercial Aviation in Italy; Royal Review at Abingdon; Aircraft at Abingdon; The Piaggio Story - I; PZL-104 Wilga 32; Britain's Aircraft Industry - Over the Crossroads?; British Military Aircraft; The Piaggio Story - II; Beagle Pup Air - Test; Gatwick Airport; Advanced Engine Technology; Britten-Norman BN-1F; Merchant Aircraft Carriers; Hawker Siddeley 748; Nationa Air Guard; R.N.A.S. Brawdy; The Nighthawk Family; Rollason D.62 Condor; Farnborough Report; Navy Days at Farnborough; Farnborough checklist; But for the Armistice; Merchant Aircraft Carriers; Cessna F-150 and F-172; Polish Air Force; Skyvan on a Strip; Finnair History; Danish Catalinas; Air Forces Gulf; Swiss A.F. Championships; Bristol Fighter; and much more. Index laid in. Tight and clean with gilt lettering to front board and backstrip. A quality copy. Book
Contents: Boeing ad boasts of their record coast-to-coast flight by a C-97, 6 hrs, 3 min, 50 sec.; Reo Truck ad; Full-page ad for a radio show called "Breakfast in Hollywood" with Tom Breneman on the Blue Network (ABC); Fisher Body color ad; Allies strike at Rundstedt's finest after 8-day race to the Rhine - Wehrmacht escapes disaster but loses heavily in pulling out and blowing up the bridges - great map; Sample of a 'safe conduct' pass showered down on Germans, as well as a humorous satirical German response; Two photos taken during the Bataan death march (stolen from the Japanese); News from Iwo Jima; Eighteen-year-olds fight and die as nation debates their status - European and Pacific wars were speeded by using youths Stimson says in defense; Photo of Erich Gimpel and William C. Colepaugh as they are led into court prior to being hung as Nazi spies; 67 Army nurses captured by the Japs on Bataan and Corregidor return the the US; Troubled return of vets - Mr. Jobe in Chicago; Britain accepts the Yalta Charter but U.S. keeps fingers crossed - F.D.R.'s report to Congress is received with reservation despite its urgent tone; Poland - scores to settle - General Anders; White Truck ad in color; Canada Calling - new CBC 50,000 watt short-wave transmitter; America's join in Alliance to keep hemisphere peace - the Inter-American Conference on Problems of War and Peace, in Mexico City; Interesting ad for Bituminous Coas - presents its varied military uses; Coal owners are unlikely to sign UMW contract calling for pertentage on each ton; Kansas corn piled outside for lack of freight cars; Vintage color Borden's ad featuring Elsie the cow and her family; Photo of 26-year-old Frank Sinatra with details of his draft classification; Wacs at work; Photo of Martin (The Blimp) Levy, a 640 pound wrestler; Studebaker color military ad inside back cover. Average wear. Address label atop front cover. Unmarked. A sound copy. Book
Contents: Ford ad (color) inside front cover; Boeing B-29 ad; Plymouth car ad; Nice color Borden's ad featuring Elsie the cow and family; International Trucks ad; War election proves to world America's faith in democracy - campaign hottest in years but politics stop at the borders of nation united in arms; Wehrmacht wages bitter fight to prolong war through winter - but British storm Walcheren, opening way to use of Antwerp as supply base for Allies; Photo of Red Army soldiers parading through Belgrade; One man's fight against corruption - the story behind the Gen. Joseph W. Stilwell Incident; Risque ad for Samson card tables features stripper (?) standing on table while soldiers look on with pleasure!; Heavy Going - Japs fight hard in Leyte Caves but defense lacks organization; De Gaulle's sway over France challenged by turbulent reds; Lucky Strike - nice color ad; Goodyear color centerfold ad shows the 'Rubber Railroad'; photo of soldiers outside an Italian showing of Charlie Chaplain's "The Dictator"; Photo of Greek money changer - inflation forces him to carry a literal armload of paper drachmae - with text; Mackenzie King names McNaughton to Cabinet - may avert showdown over Zombies; Jack Miner passes away - Canadian Goose man; Britain asks a helping hand to regain vital export trade - wants modified lend-lease and joint reconversion timing after victory in Europe; Kuppenheimer clothing ad - in color; Horse racing and betting popular; Homer P. Rainey booted out of the University of Texas; Brooks Atkinson's Chinese Drama; A.J. Cronin - doctor and craftsman; Great Northern Railway ad shows refrigerator cars for apples being pre-cooled with large blocks of ice; embarassing ad for Kreml Hair Tonic; Chesterfield cigarette color ad (nice) on back cover. Average wear. Address label atop front cover. Unmarked. 2" X 1" chip from lower corner of front cover. A sound copy. Book
Features: Two-page illustration shows the German "Lutzow" being torpedoed by Beaufort aircraft off Norway; The capture of Maleme airfield - with two great aerial photos of dozens of wrecked JU-52s; Photo of a meeting of the Vichy government after the Darlan-Hitler talks; Twopage overhead illustration of Alexandria, Egypt - "the focus of fascist ambition and Nazi air savagery"; Three photos of Polish troops en route to Norway; Coverage of the Allied Advance in Syria - Damascus, Tyre and Sidon; The Drama of the "Bismark's" last moments - five illustrations by J. Brooks, Midshipman on H.M.S. "Dorsetshire"; Article on "Planning for Victory" by Cyril Falls; Excellent photo of Churchill addressing allied statesmen at St. James's Palace on June 12th; Four illustrations of Home Guard realistic training for enemy invasion; Two-page centerfold illustation of activity at the mobile H.Q. of an army - air force intelligence liaison officer; Eight super photos of German paratroops landing in Crete; Nineteen photos of the leading personalities of the week; Photos of several warships who met their fate; Interesting photos of a "Bristol" Boeing Flying Boat used by the British for Air Communications; Photos of the British Garrison in Iceland - scenes of everyday life; Interesting naval photos include running a line between ships to pass a bag of important documents; Illustrations of bombed Wren City churches; Photos of ancient temples, including the temple of Jupiter; Colour Johnnie Walker ad on back cover in a library setting. Average wear. Faint Ink stamp to front cover. Clear tape inside each cover along spine, and externally along spine. A sound copy. Book
108 pages. Features: Nice color Nash car ad inside front cover; Very nice color ad for Ford Trucks features Mr. Brice Woody, Manager of the Gillespie Ranch of Tishomingo, Oklahoma; National Dairy Products Corp. ad features young boy posing like The Massive Massimo, whose illustration appears on the wall behind him; Texaco ad for their Havoline motor oil features colour illustration of bowler; Photo of 6'-9" basketball player Harry Boykoff; Nice color ad for red Dodge convertible; Interesting stylized color art ad for the state of Idaho/Container Corp. of America; Boeing ad features photo of their B-50 and C-97; Joseph Curran states the case against Communism in the National Maritime Union (NMU); Photo of the Zarief quadruplets of Brooklyn, NY with their mother; Obituary of Henry Ford; After the Lilienthal Debate; Good Year color ad features the massive XB-36 bomber and is massive tires; Lejon Brandy color ad; Japan - signals of economic storm - with horrible photo of homeless mother and child asleep; Photo of Marines departing China by train - with air escort to guard railway; Korea - America's most immediately serious problem in the Far East; Egypt - good-bye to the British; Belgium - paradox in peace; Message from Stalin to Bevin; Nice color Lucky Strike ad features farmer holding tobacco leaf; Nice color-photo portrait of Golfer Craig Wood in Lord Calvert Whiskey ad; Photo of British Royal family standing beside 7'-3" Cornelius Mostert of the Transvaal; General de Gaulle is divided into two parts; CCF (NDP and Premier Thomas (Tommy) Douglas race to success in Saskatchewan (with photo); Photo of bomb damage in Havana; Brief obituaries of Franz Seldte, The Marquess of Salisbury and Bessie Beatty; Nice two-color one-page ad for International Harvester crawlers in oil field; Rare and fantastic one-page photo ad for The Four Wheel Drive Auto Company (FWD) featuring a FWD towing trailer with power shovel up seven percent grade; Photo of Mount Hekla volcano in Iceland; Dr. Otto Robert Frisch; America Fore Insurance ad features six graphic photos of damage against which they protect; Captain Bill Beecher of the County Fair radio program; Nice color Borden's ad features Elsie the Cow; Lawsuit over Superman - Joe Shuster, Jerry Siegel and Harry Donenfeld/Detective Comics, Inc.; Baltimore cartoonist Quincy (Moco) Yardley, whose little beret-topped kibitzer brings a breakfast-table laugh to newspaper readers; Coal and the emergence of John L. Lewis; Leon Mandel of Mandel Bros. Department store offers workers a library and many other nice amenities; Our Fiscal Irresponsibility - article by economist Henry Hazlitt; Photos of major league baseball managers and their comments on their teams; The Color Question in Baseball - Satchel Paige and Josh Gibsons; Promotional one-page ad for Greater New Orleans; Nice color one-page ad for New York Central; Nice color-photo ad for McCall's Magazine; Knott Hotels ad features Sandusky, Ohio; Nice color Kinsey Gin ad features three Martini recipes; Impressive color-photo ad for Norfolk and Western Railway shows huge flaming rail wheel being fiited via heat expansion; Seagram's Gin color ad features photos of original early American flasks from the collection of George S. McKearin; Outlaw American Communism; and more. Above-average wear and soiling. Spine tapled. A worthy vintage copy. Book
96 pages. Features: Nice color ad for Mercury cars inside front cover; Photo of Dr. Bertha Lutz of Brazil; Nice early one-page ad for Northwest Airlines includes large table of their new flights and low fares; Great color-photo ad for Caterpillar called "Grand Canyon of the Mesabi" features massive iron ore excavation; Nice one-page ad for International Trucks; Food - that a hungry world may eat; Photo of fire at Barrett plant of Allied Chemical in Philadelphia; Photo of baby Betty Lou Hall kissing President Truman; Juvenile delinquency; Is 1946 another 1920?; Great one-page Boeing ad for their Stratocruiser shows cute little boy in cabin gazing out window; The Lichfield trial over brutality to prisoners; Nice Kaiser-Frazer car ad; Great one-page color Cadillac ad shows imposing red grill; Conflict in China; Prince Morimasa Nashimoto leaves Sugamo Prison; Photo of General Douglas MacArthur inspecting honor guard in Tokyo; Nice one-page ad for Good Housekeeping Magazine shows fashionable lady reading; Before and after photos of the hanging of Hungarian police major Laszlo Baky; The controversy of the Anglo-American command; Nice one-page color ad for TWA announces they are the first to put the Constellation in the air; Photo of blind war bride Mary Martin who married Sgt. George Alkenbrack and now lives in Napanee, Ontario; One-page ad for the Country Gentleman Magazine shows crop-duster in action; brief obituaries for Harlan Fiske Stone, Arthur Chevrolet, Walter E. Dandy, and John Maynard Keynes; Creepy photo of soldier wearing night vision equipment called snooperscope; Superman article features photo of Clayton Collyer, the radio actor-announcer who plays Superman; Gold - the South African find and the world's wealth; Stocking - leg bootleg; Color ad for National City Bank of New York features paingint of rubber tappers in Malaya plus photo of Raymond G. Hill, Singapore Supervisor; Nice ad for Trav-Ler radio; The OPA reaps the whirlwind; One-page ad for Redbook Magazine; New York Yankee Pitcher Spurgeon Chandler; Legend for Canadians - photo of Coulter and Willan who used folklore for Canada's first opera; Photo of Beverly Anne Cort performing a risque dance in the Detroit suburb of Van Kyke; Nice one-page color Budweiser ad features young boy returning from fishing with his catch, while envious adults look on; Nice color-photo ad for Canadian National features Jasper, Alberta and its lodge (with small inset color photo of Minaki Lodge in Ontario); Vindictive treatment of Stalin by Trotsky; The Faith of Harold Stassen; Nice color-photo Canadian Club ad inside back cover features Juan Belmonte, Spain's great bullfighter; Nice back cover color ad for Chesterfield cigarettes features man in suit who learned his ABCs (Always Buy Chesterfields); and more. Somewhat above-average wear and soiling. A worthy vintage copy. Book
40 pages. Features: Cover photo of a DeHavilland Dragon Rapide on Lake of Bays, Ontario; Nice full-page photo ad for the Junkers JUMO 210 aero engine; Nice full-page photo ad for Gold Flake cigarettes showing the terrace of Shepheard's Hotel, Cairo, Egypt; The Boeing Stratoliner - fantastic illustrated article on the Boeing 307-type transport; Commendable Winter Operation by City of Toronto Squadron; Full-page ad for the 1938 Stinson Reliant; A Day at Fort Nelson - great travel article with photos by O. Nordling; Full-page ad for Fleet Aircraft; The Martin Ocean Transport - article with nice photo; Flying North of Edmonton; One Thousand Hours Between Overhauls - The Gipsy Major 130 H,P. engine; Photo of new hangar under construction at Edmonton; Photo of the world's largest aeroplane tire made by Dunlop; Nice full-page ad for McLaughlin-Buick; The Continental Powered Aeronca KC; Lear ARC-5 Radio Compass; Nice one-page photo ad for Taylorcraft planes; Dr. Klemin Predicts Era of Revolutionary Light Planes; McKee Trophy to Romeo Vachon - article with photo; Great photo of wings being added to a Douglas DC-4; Photo of a Fokker T.5; Photo ad for the Gray Rocks Inn of St. Jovite Station, Quebec; Old Country Gossip; News from the West Coast; More About Instruments; Candid Camera Corner - photo and article on Sooren Topalian - Iraq's #1 Transport Pilot; Nice full-page ad for the new 1938 Cub Sport by Cub Aircraft; Blenheim Bomber featured in Bristol engine ad inside back cover; Intava products two-colour ad on back cover; and more. Average wear. Unmarked. A sound vintage copy. Book
100 pages. Features: Nice one-page photo-illustrated Boeing ad shows Flying Fortresses being assembled; Bill Robinson (Bojangles) marries Elaine Plaines - with photo; Thornton W. Burgess turns out his 10,000th syndicated nursery classic - with photo; Gene Tunney returns home from action; Jimmy Stewart promoted to Major; Brief obituaries for William Allen White, William T. Dewart, Sen. Frederick Van Nuys, Dr. Charles H. Townsend, Mrs. Cathleen Vancerbilt Arostegui and Dr. Daniel M. Molloy; Nice color-photo Union Pacific ad shows locomotive "The City of Los Angeles"; Nation replies in grim fury to Jap Brutality to Prisoners - "March of Death" in the Philippines - article with grim photo; From the Official Record of Jap Bestiality; Allies Shape Victory Pattern in Pacific; Major war coverage; Rome landing shows hurdles ahead when Allies invade Western Europe; Photo of "Jumbo Wilson"; Photo of Air Marshal Coningham; Third Reich admits bomb damage; Vichy regime hands over power to 'Chief with the iron fist'; Dramatic photos of occupied France; Argentina splits from Germany and Japan; Uncommon photo of Princesses Elizabeth and Margaret in pantomime costume; Finnish crisis - with photo of Premier Linkomies; Should Yugoslav King Peter alienate Serbs or risk losing British support?; Nice color ad for Lucky Strike cigarettes; Nice color Pontiac ad features artillery illustration and devasted Pacific Island landscape; Photo of Grand Mufti of Jerusalem heiling Storm Troops in Berlin; Photo of Indian Subhas Chandra Bose sharing platform with Hideki Tojo; Soldier Ballot dispute; Dramatic photo of Lt. Tommy Harmon returning home - now a seasoned P-38 pilot; Nice wartime color ad for Kodak full-color snapshots; The Neutrals' Honeymoon is over; Fantastic Schlitz one-page color ad called "Memories of a Kiss"; Great wartime International Harvester ad illustrates their conversion to war production; Great military Motorola ad shows soldier with walkie-talkie; Partial fascimile reproduction of US bond issue entitled "City of Tokyo, Japan - Destruction and Extermination"; Photos of INS correspondent Richard Tregaskis who was struck in the head by a shell fragment; Photo and article about Casey Stengel; Photo of boxer Ike Williams knocked out; Photo of James Hulbert and Mitford Mathews and their Dictionary of American English; Article about looted paintings acquired by the Nazis; Color-photo ad for Columbia Records shows Bruno Walter, Robert Casadesus, Nathan Milstein, Lotte Lehmann and Dimitri Mitropoulos; The Clark Williams family of Warrenville, IL deals with infantile paralysis/polio; Color-photo ad for Canadian Club features the Castle of Kul-Kul-Kan; Great back cover wartime Chesterfield cigarette ad features happy soldier opening carton of cigarettes and letter from his girl; and more. Above-average wear. Covers pulling from staples. A worthy vintage copy. Book
Features: Boeing's Pacesetting 247 - A very detailed and profusely illustrated feature article on this historic plane; Flying Pioneers - Chriss J. Peterson and Albert Elton; 9th Air Force in the Desert; Endurance Flying - The Pilots and Planes - Charles Lindbergh, Charles E. Kingsford-Smith, and others; Bleriot Models II to XII; The Long Flying Corsair - The 17 hour 1946 flight of First Lieutenant J.J. Bibee, USMC, in a standard Navy Corsair; Bibliography Section; We Fly the Curtiss Robin - Journal Flight Test Report #1; and more. Exceptionally well illustrated with black and white reproductions of archival photos. Pages 239-310. Cover illustration of United Air Lines Boeing 247 transport in hangar. Unmarked with average wear. A sound copy of this very informative vintage issue. Bonus: includes separate 8-page Index to Volume 9 (1964) of this publication. Book
40 pages. Features: Nice one-page color-photo ad for Revlon "Sheer Dynamite" face powder; From Guadalcanal to the Shores of Japan - General A.A. Vandegrift pictures the thrust of the amphibious wave that began three years ago; Photos of France's Marshal Petain, his trial and his accusers; The British election as seen by a strategist of the victorious Labor Party; Article on Clement Atlee, "Portrait of a Shy Man"; The British Election as seen by a Conservative M.P. who Survived; Letters from Soldiers overseas describe their vision for a better America; General Spaatz, Master of Our B-29 Superfortresses, will use in the Pacific the deadly tactics he applied in Europe; Wendell Berge argues that cartels should be outlawed; One-page photo ad for Boeing shows eight B-29s flying by Mount Fuji, presumably on their way to blast Tokyo; Growing crop of homicidal films poses questions for psychologists and producers - article with photo of Bogart and Bacall in scene from "The Big Sleep"; Britain is told that her boys need 'hangouts' like American drugstores; One-page color ad for Myron Foster's Hesperian Orchards of Wenatchee, Washington; Two pages of college casual fashions for young ladies; Fantastic back cover color ad for the Electric Boat Company presents cutaway illustration of submarine in action near blazing naval craft; and more. Moderate external soiling and wear. Unmarked. Moderate age-toning to paper. A sound copy of this vintage WWII issue. Book
Features: Gorgeous cover photo; the cry of the sixties - freedom; swing to permissiveness; why are the scientists worried? - US ban on germ warfare ignores defoliant sprays; what will Britain broadcast; sport in the seventies; New York - The Crystal Ball City; Inside the Boeing 747 Jumbo Jet; Mycenae's first temple; and more. Moderate wear. Clean and unmarked. Quality copy. Magazine
