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<p>29 cm, foglio con ritratto del direttore Myung-Whun Chung e sua firma autografa. Al verso organico dell'orchestra filarmonica della Scala con Riccardo Muti direttore principale</p>
<p>29 cm, foglio con biografia del maestro Myung-Whun Chung e grande firma autografa con penna blu e ritratto in b/n. Al verso organico dell'orchestra filarmonica della Scala con Riccardo Muti direttore principale</p>
8vo., First Edition, with 45 plates on 16 and maps in the text; black cloth, gilt back, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper. Detailed biography of one of Montgomery's protogees from 1940 to post-war service in Korea and with NATO.
In-8 p., mezza pelle, titolo oro al dorso, custodia, pp. 261, con numerose tavole in bianco e nero e a colori nel testo. Buono stato (good copy).
Features: NA-73X - first of a famous breed; RAF's Mustang 1; A-36 - Dive-Bombing Mustang; P-51 & P-51A - Early Development; P-51B & P-51C - The Razorbacks; ACQR Mustang Color Portfolio; P-51D - a sword in the heart of Germany; TP-51D - Mustang built for two; P-51H - last of the Mustangs; XP-51F/G/J - the Lightweights; Mustangs for the Air National Guard; Mustang People; The Early Days - developments that led to the birth of the mightiest sea-going weapon; The first carrier - the USS Langley; The New Breed - the Lexington and Saratoga and aircraft like the F4B and Helldiver controlled the seas in the 1930s; Carriers in Combat; The Post-War Carriers - they were kept busy with Korea, Vietnam and more; New Wings for the Fleet - upgrading carriers and their planes toward the year 2000; Listing of USN Carriers - a complete list of all USN carriers; The Stirrings of War; WWII - the Island War against the Japanese; ACQR Color Portfolio - 16 color pages; Leathernecks over Korea - MSMC vets meet again over Korea; Into the Jet Age - the Marines equip with jet aircraft; Master of Vertical Envelopment - USMC refines the methods of helicopter warfare; USMC in the 1970s - new aircraft boost its strength. Special issue devoted to the US Air Force Museum features articles on: how it was moved from Patterson Field to Wright Field; Color Portfolios; How the USAF made a Sopwith Camel; Saga of 33-324, a rare Douglas biplane; Restoring the last B-10; The last P-35; WWII; Royal Frey remembers; Shoo-Shoo Baby - the history of a B-17; Aircraft of the jet age; inventory listing; and more. Moderate wear. Binding sound. A quality copy. Book
Features: The rise and fall of the VNAF - the rise and fall of the South Vietnamese Air Force, from 1951 to 1975; America's Spitfires - the USAAF was second only to the RAF as a major operator of the Supermarine Spitfire - a review of their operational history in American service; The RAF in Greece - 1940/41 - the fulfillment of Britain's treaty obligations; CW-21 - the St. Louis Lightweight - the story of the relatively unknown Curtiss-Wright CW-21 fighter in WWII; Sixes and Sevens - completing the story of the 4-engined Douglas transport family, begun in AE/15 - the DC-6 and DC-7; The Blenheim in Yugoslavia - two successful years of Blenheim operations in Yugoslavia were followed by eight days of disaster in 1941; F13 - the Pioneer from Dessau - first flown in 1919, the Junkers F 13 was still serving after WWII; Armstrong Whitworth's Flying Wings - Laminar flow research and boundary layer control, as applied to the A.W.52 flying wings; Walrus - amphibious angel of mercy - designed by Reginald Mitchell; PR Flying and the Spitfire - an account of war-time photographic reconnaissance operations in the Middle and Far East; "Britain Captures Schneider Trophy" - this 1931 headline summed up the culmination of an 18-year endeavour; The MiG Killers of Korea - the North American F-86 Sabre achieved the greatest success in air-to-air combat; Fokker's D VIII - the reluctant Razor - the world's first operational cantilever-winged fighter; Caught by the wing-tip - C.E. 'Bud' Anderson's experiences as a test pilot in the wing-tip coupling experiments; Bombay - Pegasus Draught, Bristol Dray - the flying characteristics and operational career of the Bristol Bomber-transport; Quest for Altitude - The First Generation MiGs - a comprehensive account of the first fighters to bear the MiG appellation; Return of the Razorbacks - the restoration and flight demonstrations of the only Allison-engined Mustangs now extant; A seversky in the Spanish War - the SEV-3; Stratocruiser - ending an airline era - the role of the Boeing Stratocruiser in post-war air transport evolution; Destination - Disaster - how 8 new Saab B 18Bs of the Swedish Air Force met their doom, and how they came back; Estonian Air Power, 1918-1945. Clean, bright and unmarked with negligible wear. A lovely copy. Book
Features: The F-86 in Korea - Spectacular eight page color section - the aces, the planes, the combat; DC-2 Bombers; Orion attack planes; Gamma fighters; American aircraft of the Spanish civil war; The Arado 234 Jet Bomber - Germany's last-ditch wonder weapon. Art: Special Color Pictorial - North American F-86A, E and F Sabres in Combat over Korea. Faint crease to front cover. Book
Features: Farewell Pegasus; First AWACS delivered for operational use; Sagittario Launched; Kormorans on the Baltic - anti-ship missile; USA industry at the end of the 70's - 'No' to the B-1 signals the end of an era - long article; Greenwich '77; The Niteroi Class - Super fold-out colour illustration and much more; Surveillance Radar for air transport control and warning systems; Sabres in Korea (Part II); Kaiten Guided Torpedoes (Part IV); Many additional illustrated stories. Clean and unmarked with light wear. Quality copy. Book
182 pages. Cover: Al Parker Illustration. Special Features: The Women's Revolution in the Arab World; My Son Died in Korea; Why Not Draft Women?; Baby's 12th Month: A New Year, A New Horizon; How America Lives: A Home of Their Own - John and Laura Patrello; and Don't Overstress "Regularity". Many articles on domesticity, fashion, decorating, food and homemaking (inc recipes), short stories and poetry. Full page colour vintage print advertising including Aunt Jemima Pancake Mix, Zenith Television, and Seven-Up. Full page colour Max Factor Hollywood ad with Lana Turner. Full page colour movie poster for "September Affair" starring Joan Fontaine and Joseph Cotten. Full page black/white ad for Lux Flakes promoted by Diana Lynn. American Illustrators include: Al Parker, Jon Whitcomb, and Robert G. Harris. Above-average wear. Few small openings front/back cover fore-edge. A 2 inch opening front cover at top spine. A sound copy. Magazine
34 pages. Features: B-52 Heavyweights in SAC; The Malvinas War - an Argentinian Viewpoint; Team Spirit 1983 - the annual exercise of US and Korea; Company C - Destroying the Marines; Elite Forces of the United Kingdom. Average wear. Unmarked. A quality copy loaded with great photos in colour and black and white. Magazine
Features: In the Beginning; Bannock binds a better team; 'Mick the Stick' and his airmen; Patricia's in the second world war; The Colonel-in-Chief; Patricia Memorabilia; Korea; 'Patricia-Linc' Mike Brien retires; 'Van Doo' winners of the Victoria Cross; 1914-1974 the Royal 22e Regiment's 60th Anniversary. Light wear. Nice copy. Book
Features: Divinely Deco - Jewellery in the 1930s; The Forgotten Charm of Victorian Watercolours; The Renegade Pre-Raphaelite - John Everett Millais; Furniture from the East, Part II, China, Korea and Japan; Crested China Souvenirs of the First World War; Transfer printing on Worcester Porcelain, Robert Hancock; and more. Average wear. Three-inch opening to front cover at top of spine. Magazine
Features: Contra-rotating Azipods for fast Japanese ferries; Optimising the design of new-generation Russian icebreakers; Membrane waste-water treatment for cruise liners; Paints for new-generation ships; Korea; Tanker technology. Clean and unmarked with light wear. A quality copy. Book
Features: Mis-Applied Science, by Dr. Albert E. Burke - America is losing tomorrow's battles by insisting that scientists concentrate on producing better mousetraps; The Hot War in Vietnam - Can the U.S. win it?; Master of the Jab - Ho Chi Minh is waging the kind of war he knows best; Sunday's Gladiators - as the armed (pro football) combatants struggle before the crowds, there are reminders of ancient Rome; The Charmed Life of Gangster Tony Accardo - arrested 23 times but never convicted; That Bowl of Fire Called Chili - a peppery dish invented by the pioneers of the old Southwest is still savored by their descendants; My Awful Wedded Husband, by Mrs. Kirk Douglas; Inside the Frozen Mountain - colour photos from deep inside Wyoming's Fossil Mountain; Let'em Eat... Turkey - the crisis that erupted when the Veep missed Thanksgiving dinner in Korea, by Walter M. Turner; Boy's Home on the Range - at Boy's Ranch in the rugged cow country of Texas' Panhandle, Cal Farley uses work, love and discipline to turn bad boys into good ones. Average wear. Unmarked. A sound copy. Colour Corvair ad inside front cover. *Awesome* colour cadillac ad on page 9. Book
Features: The Treasure Map - Buried Treasure in the South Sea Islands, with photos; Salving the Guadarrama - a marine surveyor's account of a remarkable salvage operation; Mr. Kim's Secret - an incident from the grim struggle in Korea; The Man Who Turned Pirate - reprint of a 1938 story involving the American schooner-yacht Aafje, with photos; Australia's Mail-Men; Smiler - another case of Jack ashore getting into trouble in Malaya; The Earthquake - the author and his wife narrowly escape near the Tibetan frontier; Greek Fire - a forgotten incident from World War II involving the protection of a petroleum installation; Average wear. Back cover almost loose. Book
Stories: The Hunting of Bad Young Man; A Doctor In Korea; British Columbia Loggers; The Ways of Crocodiles; The Man Who Blundered; Down Channel; The Thieves Market; Our Treasure Hunt; The Odyssey of Idle Hour; To the Congo Volcanoes; White Man's Magic; The Uninvited Guest; Old Silas; A Bush Christmas. Prior owner's name upon front cover. Average wear. Covers separated from textblock but present. Book
114 pages. Features: Outrage after North Korea shoots down American EC-121 piloted by Lieut. Commander James Overstreet; The Sirhan Sirhan verdict; Crookston, MN flood; Strike leader Mary Moultrie in SC; Fascinating photo-illustrated article on North Korea - What is Behind Their Belligerence?; End of the Dubcek era in Czechoslovakia; Vietnam war news; A visit to the home of RFK's family in Virginia; Montreal Expos and St. Louis Cardinals play first major league baseball game outside the U.S.; Great color-photo ads for the Kingswood Estate station wagon, Ford Maverick (centerfold), Chrysler Newport and Cadillac Fleetwood Eldorado; Police death squads in Rio; and much more. Unmarked with moderate wear. A sound vintage copy. Book
Contents: Westinghouse ad features photo of the new Connecticut Yankee plant; Nice Cadillac color photo ad; Adam Clayton Powell; Photo of RFK preparing speech; Autocide; Group photo of Reagan, Nixon, Romney and Percy; Jim Garrison; Wharlest Jackson; Henry R. Luce; Vietnam War; Riots in Aden; South Korea - hope in the Hermit Kingdom; Nice ad for Chrysler 300; Photo of Beatles in moustaches; Helicopter traffic reporters Ross & Lange; Iraq Petroleum Co.; Photo of Cassius Clay (Muhammad Ali) and family; Nice Ford Mustang ad on back cover; and much more. Unmarked. Above-average wear. A sound copy. Book
Features: The P-51 Mustang in Korea - Exclusive color photos; Face of the Focke-Wulf - over two dozen drawings of the Luftwaffe's best fighter. Art: USAF Mustang montage Korea, 1950-1954; US, South Korean and South African Mustangs Book
cm.15,5x21, pp.XV-253, br.cop.fig.
Mm 120x200 Collana " Le Letterature del Mondo, enciclopedia universale delle letterature diretta da Riccardo Bacchelli, Giovanni Macchia, Antonio Viscardi ". Brossura editoriale di 563 pagine. Esemplare in ottime condizioni. SPEDIZIONE IN 24 ORE DALLA CONFERMA DELL'ORDINE.
Mm 225x300 Storia universale Vallardi, volume ottavo, tomo secondo: L'area Culturale Cinese Indocina Cina Corea Giappone. Volume rilegato in tela rossa con impressioni oro al piatto e al dorso di pp. XXXII-652, con illustrazioni in bianco e nero, tavole e cartine geografiche a colori fuori testo. In ottimo stato. SPEDIZIONE IN 24 ORE DALLA CONFERMA DELL'ORDINE.
261 pages. Colour fold-out sketch map of central Korea. Tissue-protected frontisplate. Wonderful black and white photographic plates plus numerous black and white illustrations in text, complete per list on page A. Her conclusions are the result of "... a long and intimate study of a people whose isolation during many centuries renders a description of their character, institutions, and peculiarities especially interesting at the present stage of their history." - from Preface. Binding sound. Label of Rosa Fitz-George atop front free endpaper - See Wikipedia for details of this storied woman. Gilt lettering upon backstrip. Red and black decoration with gilt lettering upon front board. Fore-edge rough-cut. Above-average external soiling to boards and edges. Please note: Volume 2 not included. Book
Milano, 1952, stralcio con copertina posticcia muta, pp. 952/964 con fotografie e tavole fotografiche. - !! ATTENZIONE !!: Con il termine estratto (o stralcio) intendiamo riferirci ad un fascicolo contenente un articolo di rivista, sia che esso sia stato stampato a parte utilizzando la stessa composizione sia che provenga direttamente da una rivista. Le pagine sono indicate come "da/a", ad esempio: 229/231 significa che il testo è composto da tre pagine. Quando la rivista di provenienza non viene indicata é perchè ci è sconosciuta. - !! ATTENTION !!: : NOT A BOOK : “estratto” or “stralcio” means simply a few pages, original nonetheless, printed in a magazine. Pages are indicated as in "from” “to", for example: 229/231 means the text comprises three pages (229, 230 and 231). If the magazine that contained the pages is not mentioned, it is because it is unknown to us.
8vo., First Edition thus, with plates; buff boards, black cloth back, lettered in gilt, a very good, bright, clean copy in unclipped dustwrapper.