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.....
Handbuch der Luftfahrt (Handbook of Aviation) Jahrgang 1939
Munchen and Berlin: J.F. Lehmanns, 1939. Hardcover. NOTE: DUE TO SIZE AND WEIGHT INTERNATIONAL ORDERS WILL REQUIRE SIGNIFCANT ADDITONAL POSTAGE. PLEASE INQUIRE). Large heavy oversized hardcover in blue cloth lettered and decorated in silver. 68 pp. of illustrated adverts at front + 596 pp. Folding map of the world showing.....
The Pioneers of Flight: A Documentary History
Princeton, NJ: Princeton Univ Pr, 1999. First. Cloth. First printing. Cloth, 234 pps. with index; illustrated. Selection of documents from Ovid to the Wright Brothers and beyond illustrating the dreams, and later the reality, of flight. Elegant. very fine, fresh copy in equally fine dust jacket.
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.....
Aireview's German Military Aircraft in the Second World War (English and Japanese Editions--2 Volumes)
Tokyo, Japan: Kantosha Co., 1959. Hard Cover. Two volumes, red cloth stamped in gilt. English language edition (second edition, 1960) is 160 pps. Japanese edition(first printing, 1959) is 258 pps with folding diagrams at front and folding charts at rear, two sections of black and white photographs and further illustrated.....
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.....
Ballooning As A Sport (Inscribed copy)
Edinburgh & London: William Blackwood, 1907. First edition. Hardcover. First edition. Light blue cloth lettered in dark blue and decorated with a dark blue silhouette of a hot air balloon; spine lettered and decorated in gilt with balloon design. "Eclipse". INSCRIBED ON THE RECTO OF THE FRONTISPIECE PHOTO PLATE "With.....
Benjamin Franklin On Balloons: A Letter Written Fron Passy, France, January Sixteenth MDCCLXXXIV
Saint Louis: Privately Printed, 1922. Merrymount Press. Hardcover. Limited to 250 unnumbered copies printed on Vidalon paper for friends of W.K. Bixby by D.B. Updike, The Merrymount Press, Boston, October, 1922. Slim quarto in illustrated paper covered boards over brown cloth spine. Title page illustrated with engraving of the Mongolfier.....
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.
Test Pilot
Garden City: Doubleday Doran, 1935. First Edition. Cloth. First edition (stated). Cloth, 178 pps. Scarce. Memoirs of early aviation test pilot Jimmy Collins. A "death diver", Collins belonged to a lost generation of flyers, men who tested early Navy planes and such during the era of the great expansion of.....
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.
Boeing 737 - Aero Series 37
Aero Publishers, 1989. Paperback. Paperback. Very good condition, with two ,light creases on front cover. 76 pgs. Black and white photographs and illustrations. Index.
The Hero, Charles A. Lindbergh: The Man and The Legend
London: Longmans, 1959. First edition. Hardcover. First edition. Hardcover in bright yellow cloth. 445 pp. with index. Illustrated with photographs. Fine, bright example, neat gift inscription front free endpaper. In the pictorial dust jacket, very good, bright and crisp, price clipped but with shallow wear spine extremities and a short.....
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.....