F-117 Stealth in Action (Aircraft Series No. 115)
Carrollton, Texas, U.S.A. Squadron/Signal Pubns, 1990. Softcover. Oblong, color illustrated softcovers. 50 pps. Illustrated with photos.Very good, bright and crisp.
Aviation
Handbuch der Luftfahrt (Handbook of Aviation) Jahrgang 1936
Munchen: J.F. Lehmanns, 1936. Hardcover. (NOTE: DUE TO SIZE AND WEIGHT INTERNATIONAL ORDERS WILL REQUIRE SIGNIFCANT ADDITONAL POSTAGE. PLEASE INQUIRE). Oversized heavy hardcover in blue cloth lettered and decorated in silver. Text in German. 66pp. (illustrated adverts) + 413 pp. + final 4 pp. of ads at rear. Illustrated throughout.....
Human Problems of Supersonic and Hypersonic Flight: Proceedings of the Fifth European Congress of Aviation Medicine, Lonson 29 August-2 September, 1960
New York, Oxford, London, paris: Pergamon Press, 1962. Hardcover. Hardcover in black cloth lettered in gilt. Deaccessioned from a seminary library with thier markings on spine and endpapers. Interior tight and clean. 592 pp. with author index and subject index. Charts and tables. Collection of the papers presented at the.....
Doomed Demons
NY: Grosset & Dunlap, 1935. Hard Cover. Emerald green cloth stamped in darker green; illustrated endpapers; illustrated with full page drawings by J. Clemens Gretter. A title in the Air Combat for Boys Series. This title listed first of three on the rear jacket panel, "War Wings" being the last.....
A Mighty Fortress: Lead Bomber over Europe
Havertown, Pennsylvania, U.S.A. Casemate Pub & Book Dist Llc, 2002. First. Hard Cover. First edition, first printing (stated). AS NEW IN DUST JACKET. 186 pps. with index. Illustrated. World War II B-17 pilot Chuck Alling recalls his days during the war.
They Also Flew: The Enlisted Pilot Legacy, 1912-1942
Washington, D.C. Smithsonian Inst Pr, 1992. Hardcover. Cloth, 264 pps. with, index, bibliography; illustrated with photographs. The history of enlisted military pilots from the establishment of the aviation scholl at Fort McKinley in 1912 through the early months of World War II. The author, himself a WWII combat pilot, draws.....
The Soviet Air Force
London: Duckworth, 1961. Revised. Hardcover. Hardcover. The Revised and Enlarged Edition. 288 pp. with index. Illustrations. Fine in dust jacket with a sunned and stained spine strip, few small staiuns inner portion of the front panel. Detailed survey of the machines, organization and persons of the Soviet Air Force with.....
Aircraft Year Book 1928
NY: Aeronautical Chamber of Commerce of America, 1928. First. Hardcover. Khaki colored cloth stamped in blue and red, 551 pps. with index, statistical appendices. Illustarted with monochrome photos and drawings. This edition (the 10th annual) covers Lindbergh's famous flight to Paris. Sections include: Ephocal Flights of 1927, Civil Avaiation in.....
The Courage of Early Morning
Phila: McKay, 1966. Hardcover. 1966 (1967). Cloth, 211 pps. with index. Illustrated. Second edition. Biography of World War One combat pilot Billy Bishop, an ace who survived more than 170 air battles and was credited with 72 kills. Authored by his son, it is nonetheless a remarkably objective work about.....
Dave Dawson, Flight Lieutenant (The War Adventure Series)
Akron: Saalfield Publishing Co, 1941. Hard Cover. Brown cloth stamped in black. Pages embrowned as usual with these inexpensively produced juveniles. Slight loos to the front top right tip and the head edge of the spine. In dust jacket with chipping at the edges and corners.
British Aeroplanes 1914-18
NY: Funk & Wagnalls, 1969. Second. Hard Cover. Large, thick quarto sized volume in turquoise cloth with spine stamped in gilt. 742 pps. with index of aeroplanes (British and other nationalities), index of engines, index of manufacturers. With 712 photographic illustrations. The second edition. By far the most detailed, comprehensive.....
B-29 SUPERFORTRESS
Sparkford, UK: Haynes Publications, 1983. First edition. Hardcover. Oversized in glossy illustrated hardcovers. First printing. Illustrated endpapers. 56 pp. with appendix of specifications. Illustrated with photos. Fine. Includes sections on the Boeing XB-29, YB-29, B-29, World War II variants, the Enola Gay and Bock's Car, 345-2 and B-50.
Testing Time: The Story fo British Test Pilots and Their Aircraft
New York: Harper & Bros, 1961. First edition. Hardcover. First printing. Hardcover. 224 pp. with bibliography, index. Illustrated. Fine in very good, spine sunned dust jacket. The development of the combined art and science of test piloting over fifty years from the early 20th century through 1960. Herein we meet.....
Young America's Aviation Annual (Sixth Edition)
NY: McBride, 1946. First. Cloth. First edition of this, the sixth annual edition. Cloth, 224 pps.; illustrated with photos. A near fine copy, tight and with a bit of fading to the edges. In an edgeworn copy of the scarce dust jacket illustrated with dramatic photo of a WWII era.....
Jet: 82 Challenging New Adventures
TAB Books, 1987. First edition. Hardcover. First edition. Hardcover, issued without dust jacket. Fine condition. 192 pgs. Black and white photos, digrams. Index. Fascinating collection of 82 jet aircraft scenarios and events played out in training simulator games" by various manufacturers.
P-51 Mustang in Action
Carrollton, Texas, U.S.A. Squadron/Signal Pubns, 1981. Softcover. Oblong color illustrated softcovers. 58 pps. Illustrated with photos, diagrams and double-page color plate. Near fine, small light crease upper left corner front cover.
Gunslingers In Action (Aircraft Series No. 14)
Squadron/Signal, 1974. Soft Cover. Oblong in color illustrated softcovers. 50 pps. illustrated throughout with vintage black and white photos and with color illustrated centerfold. Illustrared survey of the military helicopters of the Vietnam era. Fine.
The Mechanics of the Aeroplane: A Study of the Principles of Flight
London: Longmans, Green, 1917. Hard Cover. Maroon cloth with spine lettering gilt; 230 pps. with translator's preface. New impression. Highly regarded early work on powered flight, translated from the French. Duchene was a French military officer and scientist and this work was awarded the Monthyon Prize by the Academy of.....
The Mechanics of the Aeroplane: A Study of the Principles of Flight
London: Longmans, Green, 1916. Hardcover. Maroon cloth with spine lettering gilt; 230 pps. with translator's preface. New impression. Highly regarded early work on powered flight, translated from the French. Duchene was a French military officer and scientist and this work was awarded the Monthyon Prize by the Academy of Sciences.....
Boeing The First Century
Enumclaw, Washington: Taba Publishing, 2000. First edition. Hardcover. First Edition. Hardcover in black cloth. Lettered in gilt on spine. 383 pp. Index. Bibliography. Illustrated with photographs. Bauer follows the making of Boeing airplane company through the evolution of the big bombers, their role in World War II, and the aquisition.....
Sky Fighters of France: A French Official Exhibition of Paintings of Battles in the Air
Washington, D.C. Washington Club, 1918. Wrappers. Very scarce. N.d. (1917 or 1918) Oversized pamphlet of 20 pps. in printed wrappers. Color frontis portrait of Capt. Georges Guynemer. Illustrated with photographs and with duo-tone plates of paintings in the exhibition. Cataloge of a special exhibition of World War I French air.....
Segelflug und Segelflieger. Entwicklung- Meister- Rekorde (Gliding and Gliding Development, Champions, Records)
Munchen: Knorr & Hirth, 1935. First edition. Hardcover. Presumed first edition. Text in old style German. Hardcover in light tan cloth lettered in blue. 215 pp. Dedicated to and with a photographic portrait plate of Hermann Goring. Illustrated with photographic plates , drawings and diagrams. Very good, small ownership signature.....
Sky Larking: The Romantic Adventure of Flying
NY: Horace Liveright, 1929. First. Cloth. First printing. Half cloth over deco-design paper covered boards. Illustrated with seven highly stylized black and white drawings by Cosmo Clark. very good only, significantly rubed at the spine and with edgewear to the paper covered boards. No jacket.
Gliding And Soaring Operation Manual
Detroit: Stone Aircraft Company, 1938. Hardcover. Presumed first edition. Slim hardcover in illustrated paper covered boards over green cloth spine. 73 pp. Illustrated with photographs, drawings and diagrams. About very good, some soiling to the covers and wear and bumping to the lower front outer tip. Ownership stamp front free.....
The Journals of Ernest George Fenton Hall
London: Worldwide Evangelisation Crusade, 1925. Second. Softcovers. Second printing (Nov. 1925) stated. Blue wrappers stamped in black edges gilt, oval cutout showing portrait of Hall. Illustrated with drawings, photographs, maps. The journals of pioneer RAF flyer who became a missionary to the interior of South America. Very good plus.