(Dayton, OH: Air Technical Service Command), 15 March 1945.. 15 March 1945.. Good. - Small quarto [10-7/8 inches high by 8-3/8 inches wide], softcover with the contents stapled between printed gray cover sheets. Three holes are punched in the left margins of the cover sheets & contents. There are a few small stains to the cover sheets & their edges are darkened. The bottom corner of the front wrap is bumped & there is a short tear to its front edge with a very small area of the surface rubbed away There is a tear & crease to the inner edge of the rear cover sheet. iv & 94 pages with an errata ... View More...
(Washington, DC: War Department, 1940).. 1940).. Very good. - Octavo, printed tan wraps. The wraps are lightly soiled & bumped, & slightly faded along the spine. The initials T.F.P.U., -- S.E.A.C.T.C. are handwritten on the front wrap. Approximately 60 pages plus index [page numbering is irregular]. Illustrated with black-and-white diagrams & photographic illustrations. The page corners are lightly creased. Very good. Dust jacket present. View More...
Washington, DC: War Department, 1941.. 1941.. Fair. - Octavo, softcover bound in printed tan wraps. The wraps are lightly dampstained with some creasing. The notation "T.F.P.U., - S.E.A.C.T.C." is handwritten in ink on the front wrap. 113 pages. The top corners of the pages are dampstained & their top edges are rippled. Good only. Dust jacket present. View More...
Washington, DC: War Department, 1940.. 1940.. Very good. - Octavo, softcover bound in printed tan wraps. The spine & extremities are faded. There is a tiny stain to the top corner of the front wrap & there are handwritten initials along its top edge. 96 pages. Illustrated with black-and-white drawings & diagrams with a folding temperature graph laid in. The top page corners are very slightly creased & there are tiny stains to the top corners of the first 2 leaves. Very good. Dust jacket present. View More...
Washington, DC: War Department, 1940.. 1940.. Good. - Octavo, softcover bound in printed tan wraps. The wraps are lightly bumped & soiled & the spine & extremities are faded. There are handwritten initials along the top of the front wrap. 132 pages. Black-and-white photographic illustrations & diagrams. There is a small area of light dampstaining to the fore-edge & to the front edges of the pages in the rear three-quarters of the manual. There is also a small area of light dampstaining to the top edge with minor rippling to the top edges of the pages. Good. View More...
Washington, DC: (Government Printing Office), 1943.. 1943.. Good. - sc Quarto [10-1/2 inches high by 8 inches wide], printed gray cover sheets bound with 3 brass studs. The edges of the cover sheets are faded with the top inner corners chipped. There is an owner's name & address stamp on the front cover sheet. Title, [iii] & 66 pages. The same owner's name & address stamp appears on the title page. Illustrated with black-and- white diagrams & cartoons. Good. View More...
- Octavo, pictorial teal boards titled in gilt and illustrated in blue on the front cover & the spine. A small three-paneled paper label is mounted between the title and the author's name on the spine. The covers are slightly rubbed and soiled. 256 pages, illustrated with a color frontispiece portrait by Rudolph Ruzicka and 4 black & white plates by W.A. Dwiggins. Good. First American edition. From the library of the World War One naval aviator Charles Frederic Beach, signed by him on the front endpaper.Laid in at the front is a typed form letter signed by the founder of the Yale University Pr... View More...
New York: FAR Gallery, 1949.. 1949.. Fine. - sc 4 fine bright hand-colored lithographs depicting events in the history and birth of flight. Each of these beautiful prints is lithographed on 8 inch high by 5-1/2 inch wide cardstock. There is a little minor smudging at the bottom of the lithograph depicting "The Vauxhall Balloon", else the prints are in fine condition. The images respectively depict:The "Descent near Philadelphia, Phil., 1850" of a single pink balloon topped with a red & yellow floral accent and horizontal red stripe. A yellow and blue flag and the American flag ... View More...
Paris: Plon-Nourrit et Cie., 1918.. 1918.. Good. - Octavo, softcover bound in printed white wraps with pictorial decorations in light green and titled in gilt & green on the front cover & spine. The book is housed in a marbled folding tray case backed with a blue morocco spine with gilt lettering. The covers are slightly foxed with minor chips to the edges and to the head and tail of the spine. The corners of the case are slightly rubbed. 320 pages, illustrated with a portrait frontispiece. The pages are darkened. There is a previous owner's name on the title page. Good in a handsome case. The... View More...
(Washington, DC: War Department, 1942).. 1942).. Good. - Octavo, printed tan wraps. The wraps are lightly bumped. The front wrap is soiled with an owner's ink initials in the top corner. Approximately 108 pages plus index [page numbering is irregular]. Illustrated with black- and-white diagrams & photographic illustrations. The top sections of the pages are rippled. The first page is torn at the staples & its top edge is lightly stained. Good. View More...
Paterson, NJ: Wright Aeronautical Corporation, 1941.. 1941.. Good. - Quarto [11-1/2 inches high by 8-3/4 inches wide], limp brown cloth titled in gilt on the front cover & spine. The binding is rubbed with some white staining to the front cover & a small white stain to the rear cover. xviii pages plus separately numbered sections, 7 diagrams including 6 folding, blanks for notes & a 17-page index. There are some small stains to the rear endpaper & a small area of its surface is rubbed away. The bottom corners of the first few leaves are creased. Black-and-white illustrations and diagrams. Goo... View More...
- Duodecimo, 7-7/8 inches high by 5-5/8 inches wide. Spiral bound blue wraps titled in gilt on the front cover. [58] pages, including inserted pages 42-A & 42-B, with decorations and vignettes in blue throughout and several full-page illustrations. There is a tiny tear to the top left of the title page. Near fine in the original Wright Aeronautical Corporation manilla envelope. Laid in at the front is a trifold from the "Personnel Director Wright Aeronautical Corporation" meant to be signed and dated by the employee attesting that the employee has read the following: "Pages 39 to 44 inclusive,... View More...
Brooklyn, NY: Chemical Publishing Co, Inc., 1941.. 1941.. Good. - Small squarish octavo [6-5/8 inches high by 5 inches wide], teal cloth, in a dust wrapper. The covers are very lightly bumped with some very light spotting to the front cover. The dust jacket is darkened, soiled & chipped with pieces out of the head of the jacket spine & the rear panel & a tear to the top edge of the front panel. There is a crease to the top edge of each flap. 91 pages. There is occasional light soiling & the page edges are slightly darkened. Illustrated with black-and-white diagrams. Good in a fair dust wrapper... View More...
New York: Bonanza Books, (1989).. (1989).. Very good. - Small oblong quarto [8-3/4 inches high by 11-1/4 inches wide], cloth in a price-clipped dust wrapper. There are a few small stains to the covers & the rear cover is rubbed. There is a light stain to the front panel of the dust jacket. iv, [i] & 79 pages plus a large section of full-page color illustrations after paintings by Tony Weddel. Very good.
New York: Harry N. Abrams, Inc., Publishers, (1988).. (1988).. Fine. - Quarto [11-3/4 inches high by 9-3/4 inches wide], black cloth titled in silver on the front cover & spine in a dust wrapper. The rear cover & the dust wrapper are lightly rubbed. 498 pages printed in 2 columns. Profuse illustrations in color and black & white. There is a minor tear to the paper along the front hinge. Near fine.
Second edition. Revised and updated. Dust jacket present. View More...
Sir Isaac Pitman & Sons, Ltd., [circa 1930s].. [circa 1930s].. Good. - Large square octavo, blue cloth titled in gilt on the front cover & spine. The spine & extremities are faded. The binding is bumped & lightly soiled with a few small stains. 641 & [1] pages. 1 color plate & many black-and-white illustrations & diagrams. There are some pencil notes on the front pastedown. The verso of the color plate is foxed. Good. View More...
- A 12-1/8 inch high by 8-3/4 inch wide leaf from the Argentinian sports magazine El Grafico, with a full-page illustration of the American aviator & explorer Carl Ben Eielson, in the year he and Sir George Hubert Wilkins flew from North America over the North Pole to Europe. Eielson, attired in a heavy coat over pilot's leather pants and wearing a leather pilot's hat, is pictured against a background of snow next to the polar explorer George Hubert Wilkins. The corners are slightly creased and there are stab-marks along the page's right edge. A color illustration of the Primera Division del C... View More...
Phoenix, AZ: September 3, 1991.. 1991.. Fine. - A white 3-5/8 inch high by 6-1/2 inch wide envelope is illustrated with an image of a bombed battleship & a rescue boat at Pearl Harbor titled "Commemorating World War II / 1941: A World at War" with an Atlantic Charter postage stamp. Signed "Lt/Col James W. Empey" on the address panel. Fine World War II fighter pilot James W. Empey [1924-2013] became an ace at the young age of 20 when he shot down five German aircraft within a month in 1944. After the war he returned to the United States and became a training instructor. He sub... View More...
- A 12-1/8 inch high by 8-3/4 inch wide leaf from the Argentinian sports magazine El Grafico, with a full-page illustration of the Irish aviation pioneer James Fitzmaurice shaking the hand of American aviator Floyd Bennett following the Bremen's flight and shortly before Bennett's death from pneumonia in 1928. Fitzmaurice, in his officer's uniform wearing high boots over jodhpur pants and cap is portrayed shaking Floyd Bennett's hand in front of a tri-plane. Bennett is attired in a full-leather body suit with goggles over his pilot's hat. The corners are slightly creased and there are stab-mar... View More...
- Octavo, red cloth in a dust wrapper. The dust jacket is rubbed & chipped and the tail of its spine is torn with a piece out. xii & 275 pages. Illustrated with black-and-white maps drawn by Charles A. Lindbergh. The fore-edge & bottom edge are lightly foxed. Very good in a good dust wrapper. First edition. Anne Morrow Lindbergh, wife of Charles A. Lindbergh, writes an account of the crucial ten-day flight which the pioneering couple made across the Atlantic Ocean from Africa to Brazil in December 1933 at the end of their survey of the North Atlantic air routes. Charles Lindbergh drew the map... View More...
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