![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 about The sudden sky; a novel of aerial combat [subtitle from dust jacket
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 about Planetabling from the Air reprinted from The Geographical Review, Vol. XXI, No. 2, January, 1931....
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 about Aeronautics: an authoritative work dealing with the theory and practice of flying [50 issue...
Cat.No: 211550
No. Hollywood: American Art Enterprises, 1989. Paperback. 154p., very good first edition PBO in original camp pictorial wraps. Gay pulp fiction. Just Us Guys JUG-136. Military aviators. More about Fly boys
Cat.No: 95650
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 about La Rivista illustrata del "popolo d'Italia". Fondatori: Arnaldo Mussolini - Manlio...
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 about A volume of photographs as a souvenir of: The Fourth National Reunion of the employees of the...
Cat.No: 144868
New York: Arno Press, 1976. 112p., wraps, corner bumped, small faint zstain on front cover, interior clean. More about How and Why Did Flight 514 Kill 92 People. An Accident Report from the National Transportation...
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 about Kamikaze diaries; reflections of Japanese student soldiers
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 about Codename Mule; fighting the secret war in Laos for the CIA
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 about The Transportation Blue Book, vol. 28 no. 5, Containing Railroad, Steamship, Motor State &...
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 about Drag, a comedy
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 about Drag, a comedy
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 about Spanish Republican Aces
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 about Chappie; America's first black four-star general, the life and times of Daniel James, Jr
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 about Chappie; America's first black four-star general, the life and times of Daniel James, Jr
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 about The American philatelist,; July 1970, vol. 84, no. 7; exclusive feature, Czechoslovakia's 1920 T....
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 about Jason's adventures with the Tuskegee airmen. A young boy's romp with the Black pilots of World War 2
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 about Who flouts the olympic ideals? decision of the USSR national olympic committee on the...
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 about The right to strike... Only in Poland? / Support the Air Traffic Controllers [pinback button
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 about Solidarity Day / Labor stands united / September 19, 1981 [pinback button
Cat.No: 207518
Swansea: Printed by the Guardian Press and Published by Keith Pryer & Co., Ltd., 1962. Pamphlet. 24p., illustrated with b&w photography on inserted coated stock, tables, and a cover/titlepage drawing credited to Peter Mason. Softbound, a decorated pamphlet in 8.5x5.5 inch stapled wraps, clean, sound and unmarked; a very good..... More about Luftwaffe Over Swansea; A History of the Air Attacks on Swansea, 1939 - 1945
Cat.No: 221855
London: Ernest Benn Limited, January 1944. 64p., inserted photographic plates as called for, first edition 7.5x5 inch cloth boards with spine titling, ex lending library per neat bookplate with not-so-neat deaccession stamp across it (the sole l.l. mark), a rather good copy. Author was president of the Institute of the... More about Fleet Street blitzkrieg diary
Cat.No: 166227
Los Angeles: Tuskegee Airmen, Los Angeles Chapter, 1976. Trade Paperback. 160p., later wraps printing. African American author. More about Lonely eagles; the story of America's Black Air Force in World War II
Cat.No: 23085
![TWA 800: a second exchange [in August 13 1998 New York Review of Books volume XLV number 13]....](/pictures/thumb/72897.jpg?v=1533611453)
New York: the review, 1998. Single page, three columns, about 1200 words. Entire 14.5 x 1075 inch staplebound magazine, mild edgewear, subscriber's mailing label. Mailed flat if requested. Jim Hall --chairman of the National Transportation Safety Board-- just barely keeps up his end of an ongoing exchange of ideas; his... More about TWA 800: a second exchange [in August 13 1998 New York Review of Books volume XLV number 13
Cat.No: 72897
New York: Human Sciences Press, 1986. Paperback. 274p., foreford, preface, appendices, reference notes, index, illustrated with a photo, tables, facsimile documents, chronology, very good first edition trade paperback in pictorial wraps. More about The Air Controllers' Controversy: lessons from the PATCO strike
Cat.No: 59558
