Our red rivals
npl: Harold Mansfield :: Boeing Airplane Company, 1958. Pamphlet. 31p., 3.5x8 inch staplebound pamphlet; in very good condition. Propaganda on economic and industrial competition between Russians and Americans. More
Cat.No: 304340
npl: Harold Mansfield :: Boeing Airplane Company, 1958. Pamphlet. 31p., 3.5x8 inch staplebound pamphlet; in very good condition. Propaganda on economic and industrial competition between Russians and Americans. More
Cat.No: 304340
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
Biella: Eventi & Progetti Editore, 2005. Paperback. 83p., profuse b&w aerial photos of sizeable cities, taken at various altitudes, with a few pages of prefatory material; text entirely in the Italian language. Softbound in 8.5 inch square wraps decorated with one of the pictures. A bit edgeworn, with a remnant..... More
Cat.No: 291123
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
Novato, CA: Presidio Press, 1981. Hardcover. viii., 278p., very good condition in shelfworn and extensively edgeworn jacket. More
Cat.No: 316994
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
San Francisco: Northern California Peace Action Coalition, [1972]. Handbill. Leaflet, 8.5x11 inches, very good condition, printed on one side only. More
Cat.No: 275288
Brescia: Editore Giulio Vannini, 1934 / XIII. Paperback. 99p., glazed alkaline paper throughout featuring numerous illustrations from wartime activity (aviation pix the most interesting) and documents in facsimile, signatures mostly unopened thus many photos are hidden from us, softbound in 10x7 inch decorated wraps. Covers have a small corner bump..... More
Cat.No: 287414
Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2007. Hardcover. 199p., first edition, very good condition in like dj. More
Cat.No: 216854
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
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
Los Angeles: Tuskegee Airmen, Los Angeles Chapter, 1976. Trade Paperback. 160p., spine mildly sunned, light crease on back cover, else very good later wraps printing. African American author. More
Cat.No: 23085
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
Cat.No: 72897
New York: Human Sciences Press, 1986. Paperback. 274p., foreword, preface, appendices, reference notes, index, illustrated with a photo, tables, facsimile documents, chronology, very good first edition trade paperback in pictorial wraps. More
Cat.No: 59558
Chicago: Imprint Publications, 2005. Paperback. xiii, 235p., professionally-printed softbound, 9x6 inch glossy wraps. Unmarked, undamaged, an as-new copy. Ten essays, including one by Khrushchev's son Sergei, Qiang Zhai on PRC/US relations during Ike's presidencies, Clayton Laurie on Ike and the CIA, R. Cargill Hall on the U2 flights. More
Cat.No: 231158
New York: Street & Smith Publishers, [circa 1899 - 1917]. Paperback. 229p. [+ads]paperback in pictorial wraps, paper evenly toned, last few pages poorly cut by the binder, unopened with protruding edges in upper right hand corner. According to Gottesman, this edition of "Adrift in Midair" is a reprint of the..... More
Cat.No: 206795
[Healdsburg]: Self-published by the author at Booklocker, 2009. Paperback. xii, 250p., personal inscription signed by the author/publisher, very good first edition trade paperback in pictorial wraps. More
Cat.No: 178459
New York: Spartacist Publishing Company, 1983. Pamphlet. 23p., 8.5x11 inches, evenly toned, otherwise very good in wraps. On the Korean Air Lines flight shot down by the USSR; the pamphlet accuses the Reagan administration of intentionally provoking a Soviet response. More
Cat.No: 139870
Konstanz: Verlag Friedr. Stadler, 1966. 100p., fullpage captioned aerial photos on coated paperstock throughout, oblong 10.5x12.5 inch photo-decorated paper over boards, a very good copy. More
Cat.No: 165958
Lisbon: SNI Books / Editorial Imperio, n.d., circa 1944. Pamphlet. 28p., plus about 30 pages of appended b&w photographs from military and journalistic sources: Portuguese sites on the Azores featuring British and US planes, Portuguese mariners saving downed Allied servicemen. Softbound, a pamphlet in 6.5x4.5 inch stylized wraps. Item bears..... More
Cat.No: 304178
London: Kate Sharpley Library, 2006. Paperback. 90p., preface, introduction, appendixes, notes, illustrated with b&w photos, very good expanded second edition trade paperback in blue and white pictorial wraps. Anarchist Library #8. More
Cat.No: 223054
New York: Simon and Schuster, 1944. 430p., first edition openweave cloth boards with printed spine label; much-handled, titling illegible, has a "Property of U. S. Govt." stamp and other more subtle evidence of having been part of a military lending library, but it remains a readable copy. German exile novel..... More
Cat.No: 115662