Jersey City: Time Inc., 1945. Paperback. Softcover item: 272p., the usual lavish color and b&w photogravure production; 13x10.5 inch wraps with cover illustration credit to US Navy; somewhat edgeworn with severe silverfishing to spine panel, and small touches elsewhere on cover; contents very good. Good copy. Substantial story with color..... More
Cat.No: 181397
Jersey City: Time Inc., 1945. Magazine. Softcover item: 300p., the usual lavish color and b&w photogravure production; 13x10.5 inch wraps with cover illustration credit to Ralston Crawford, a little edgeworn with three-quarter inch splits at head and tail, ownership name on cover and titlepage; but --caveat emptor-- quite musty. Should..... More
Cat.No: 181392
Twentynine Palms: Twentynine Palms Air Academy. ; United States.; Army Air Forces.; Seventeenth Army Air Forces Flying Training Detachment, [1944]. [36p] 8.5x11.25 inches, photographs of administrative officers, commanders, instructors, crew members and trainees, staff, caricatures, cartoons, biographical sketches, mild wear to cover edges otherwise very good flight school yearbook in... More
Cat.No: 217215
London: Hodder and Stoughton, 1985. 192p., b&w photo insert section, first edition boards in color-photo dj. A quite good copy. Mountaineering accidents in Scotland; some Scottish "glens" are wicked and often the scene of fatalities. Civilian rescue teams are formed by locals aided by a military helicopter. More
Cat.No: 169283
Raleigh, NC: Todd Huvard, 1998. viii, 200p., hardcover with dj, inscribed by author. Narrative of a cross-country trip by a Scotsman in an ultralight plane nicknamed the Pink Panther. More
Cat.No: 127653
![The sudden sky; a novel of aerial combat [subtitle from dust jacket]. B. Michelaard](/pictures/thumb/78534.jpg?v=1505617742)
New York: Charterhouse, 1974. viii, 756p., first edition, massive shelfworn boards in worn dj. Novel of the Luftwaffe engineers and fliers, with material on aerial combat in Spain, WWII (battle of Britain, North Africa), and Korea, imagined by a "pseudonymous American aeronautical engineer and former jet pilot now living in... More
Cat.No: 78534
New York: American Geographical Society, 1931. Paperback. Offprint, pp.201-212, diagrammatic charts amidst text on coated stock; paperback item in plain printed grey 10x6.5 inch wraps; an old vertical crease affects all leaves, expect dustsoil, handling and a touch of rust at the staples, a fair copy. More
Cat.No: 180976
New York: National Aeronautics Council, 1940-1941. Magazine. Fifty issue broken run of the magazine, various pagination, larger than digest size, photos, lectures, diagrams, plans, tables, lightly-worn silver and blue pictorial wraps. This magazine ran for 54 issues from September 4, 1940 - September 10, 1941 presenting 1,028 lectures on aviation... More
Cat.No: 211550
Milan: the monthly, 1928. Magazine. 96p., softbound magazine in color wraps (art deco image of European lady on howdah, credited to Erberto Carboni), 13x9.5 inches, profuse b&w photographic illustrations throughout running texts. Condition is a bit rough with an abraded spine panel, complete and clean within, a handleable useful copy..... More
Cat.No: 224708
San Jose: National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics;, 1988. unpaginated, 11x8.5 inches oblong, profusely illustrated with b&w photos including employees and their families, very good in wraps. The reunion was held at Moffett Field. More
Cat.No: 144868
New York: Arno Press, 1976. 112p., wraps, corner bumped, small faint zstain on front cover, interior clean. More
Cat.No: 141055
Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2006. xviii, 227p., author's note, preamble, notes, references, index, illustrated with 8 glossy plates of b&w photos, fine first edition in cloth and dj. Author is a Japanese American Research Professor at University of Wisconsin-Madison. More
Cat.No: 131737
Annapolis MD: Naval Institute Press, 1995. xxiv, two line maps, 193p., first edition green cloth gilt, a fine clean copy slightly crimped at head and tail and lacking the dj. Parker graduated from Chapel Hill, Viet platoon leader 1965-6, recruited CIA 1970, now retired to North Carolina. Lots of first... More
Cat.No: 164415
San Francisco: The Peck-Judah Company, Inc., 1931. Paperback. 192p., small booklet in 6x4.5 inch perfectbound wraps. The "perfect" binding (a glue-only method) is weak and several cracks have developed, without immediate risk of losing leaves. Absolutely clean and unmarked with bright-white alkaline paperstock throughout; except for the cracks an astonishingly... More
Cat.No: 227572
Boston: Little, Brown, and Company, 1925. Hardcover. viii, 359p., bookplate removal stains on endpaper, ownership signature on same page, edges foxed otherwise good first edition green cloth boards. The title appears to be meant in aviation's sense of "friction," according to Leo Ribuffo's discussion of Pelley, citation below. The plot... More
Cat.No: 196409
Boston: Little, Brown, and Company, 1925. Hardcover. viii, 359p., first edition green cloth boards, tinted top edge and front-cover panelling in blind; a reasonably nice production in quite good condition. The title appears to be meant in aviation's sense of "friction," according to Leo Ribuffo's discussion of Pelley, citation below... More
Cat.No: 217206
Oxford UK / Long Island City NY: Osprey Publishing, 2012. 96p., profuse b&w period photography and many renderings of planes in profile (plus an action scene on cover) in color, on substantial coated paperstock throughout; first edition 9.5x7 inch softbound, entirely sound and clean, a near-fine copy. Osprey aircraft of... More
Cat.No: 191977
Novato: Presidio Press, 1991. Hardcover. xvi, 366p. + 16p. photographs, previous owner's gift inscription to front free endpaper near top. price clipped dj. African American author. More
Cat.No: 11103
Novato: Presidio Press, 1991. Hardcover. xvi, 366p. + 16p. photographs, 1st printing. signed with a brief inscription by Phelps, previous owner's signature, dj. The African American author's biography of the Tuskegee airman. More
Cat.No: 126318
State College PA: The Journal of the American Philatelic Society, 1970. Entire issue; professionally cased into titled buckram boards with utilitarian titling, marbled endsheets over cloth hinges, a nice job. Cover titling promotes an article by Malcolm MacGregor, "South Polar expoloration and explorers" rather than the featured story. Pp. 569-664... More
Cat.No: 166941
Pilgrim Enterprises, 1983. 57p., slender illustrated paperback, very good but for some exterior fading and minor toning. Self-published children's book, citing Tuskegee airman Raymond Williams as a consultant. We find only two holdings of a later revised edition (which used the same ISBN) in OCLC as of August 2018. More
Cat.No: 227883
Moscow: Novosti Press Agency Publishing House, 1984. [64]p., a few press pix, 7.5 x 5 inch booklet, mildly worn and creased with an accession stamp (provenance on request). Korean Air flight 007 had just been downed. Elsewhere, the Russians stipulated that they did it; it goes unmentioned here. The ensuing... More
Cat.No: 110652
![The right to strike... Only in Poland? / Support the Air Traffic Controllers [pinback button]....](/pictures/thumb/207551.jpg?v=1535944238)
n.p. [1981]. 2 inch diameter pin, very good. Caption refers to Ronald Reagan's decertification of the union during an air controllers' strike, at the same time as the US supported the Solidarity movement in Poland. More
Cat.No: 207551
![Solidarity Day / Labor stands united / September 19, 1981 [pinback button]. Professional Air...](/pictures/thumb/207518.jpg?v=1536023461)
New York: 1981. 2.5 inch diameter pin, "PATCO" in grey letters behind the slogan. Very good. PATCO had been broken the brevious month when Ronald Reagan decertified the union during an air controllers' strike. More
Cat.No: 207518
