LaVergne TN: self-published, 2009. 121p., snapshot and archival illustrations throughout in color and b&w, first edition 11x8.5 inch wraps, a very good copy, inscribed by author once and signed twice. A adopted kid born in Seattle to parents who couldn't afford to feed him properly, wound up a good ol..... More
Cat.No: 171104
New York: Public Affairs Committee, 1944. 31p., ad; staplebound 8.5 x 5.25 inch wraps, mild edgewear. Public affairs pamphlet no. 78. More
Cat.No: 59642
Gilroy Ca; various US cities: "alumni" associations, 1989 - 1992. Substanial packet of newsletters, survivor directories, job opportunities, aviation museum brochures, reunion association cards and printouts, a holograph note with a color family snapshot, a licenceplate-sized logo on thick plastic, offers of memorial coins, many items in original envelopes addressed..... More
Cat.No: 198460
Washington DC: Smithsonian, 1999. Hardcover. 160p., introduction, illustrated with b&w photos in-text, personal inscription to Black Scholar editor and author Robert Allen, signed by the author, fine first edition in gray cloth and gilt, unclipped dj. Smithsonian History of Aviation Series. More
Cat.No: 180650
Redstone Arsenal AL: Research Branch, Redstone Scientific Information Center, U. S. Army Missile Command, 31 July 1965. v, 58p., keyboard-set text, plain printed 11x8.5 inch wraps, very good copy. Contents cover the results of component testing, future or planned work, literature cited, bibliography, survey participants. The distribution list, covering about..... More
Cat.No: 167265
Norwalk CT: The Easton Press, 1992. Hardcover. ix, 243p., b&w photo sections, rubricated titlepage, hardbound in thick 8.5x5.5 inch red reconstituted leather boards gilt. All edges gilded, placekeep ribbon, publisher's "Notes" to reader leaf laid in at back, a fine as-new copy, probably never handled (our source had money to..... More
Cat.No: 247788
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
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, a fine bright copy 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
Moscow: Foreign Languages Press, 1939. Pamphlet. 32p., wraps with a trace of soiling else very good condition, 4.25x5.5 inches, illustrated. More
Cat.No: 126760
Moscow: Foreign Languages Press, 1939. Pamphlet. 32p., wraps with alittle soiling, old price in pen on first page else good condition, 4.25x5.5 inches, illustrated. More
Cat.No: 259097
San Jose: National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics;, 1988. Paperback. unpaginated, softbound oblong, profusely illustrated with b&w photos including employees and their families, very good in 11x8.5 inch 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
Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2007. Hardcover. 199p., first edition, very good condition in like dj. More
Cat.No: 216854
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
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
