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[AVIATION] - DEMAIZIERE (Louis) -
Un grand pilote Romanet.
, France empire, 1980 ; in-8, 250 pp., broché, couverture illustr . Broché en bon état - dédicacé de l'auteur.
Bookseller reference : 201608275
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[AVIATION] - MENJAUD (Henri) -
Un groupe de chasse au combat.
Paris, ARTHAUD, 1941 ; in-12, 172 pp., br. Préface du général roques.
Bookseller reference : 201508247
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[AVIATION] - GISCLON (Jean) -
Un du ciel.
Paris, Editions France Empire, 1973 ; in-8, 282 pp., br. En superbe état avec sa jaquette.
Bookseller reference : 201504774
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[AVIATION] - GISCLON (Jean) -
Un du ciel.
Paris, Editions France Empire, 1973 ; in-8, 282 pp., br. En superbe état avec sa jaquette.
Bookseller reference : 201414766
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[AVIATION] - NOETINGER (Jacques) -
Un pilote quelconque.
Paris, France empire, 1959 ; in-8, 315 pp., br. Broché en bon état avec sa jaquette.
Bookseller reference : 201300421
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[AVIATION] - LEDUC (Suzanne) -
Un hommes seul.
Paris, Editions france empire, 1961 ; in-8, 300 pp., broché,couverture imprimée.
Bookseller reference : 200803228
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[AVIATION] - BOUSSARD (Dominique) -
Un probleme de defense nationale: aéronautique miliatire au parlement (1928-1940).
, Service histoire de l armée de l air, 1983 ; in-8 , 191 pp., broché, couverture illustr.
Bookseller reference : 200602354
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[AVIATION, BIOGRAPHIE] - VOEGELE (Charles) -
Une fière figure d'Alsace… CHARLES EDOURD AMIOT.
Mulhouse, L'alsace, 1953 ; in-8, 64 pp., broché.
Bookseller reference : 200906263
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[AVIATION, BIOGRAPHIE] - VOEGELE (Charles) -
Une fière figure d'Alsace… CHARLES EDOURD AMIOT.
Mulhouse, L'alsace, 1953 ; in-8, 64 pp., broché.
Bookseller reference : 200906262
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[AVIATION] - VOEGELE (Charles) -
Une fière figure d'Alsace… CHARLES EDOURD AMIOT.
Mulhouse, L'alsace, 1953 ; in-8, 64 pp., broché.
Bookseller reference : 200618076
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[AVIATION] - ADLER (Major H.) -
Unsere luftwaffen.
Berlin, Wilheim Limpert verlag, 1940 ; in-12, 127 pp., broché, couverture illustr (plat du dos salis ptes usures) restauration dos .
Bookseller reference : 200803179
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[AVIATION] - LEY (WILLY) -
VERS LA CONQUÊTES DES MONDES.
Paris, Amiot Dumont - bibliothèque de l'aviation, 1955 ; in-8, 291 pp., br. Broché en bon état.
Bookseller reference : 201403155
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[AVIATION] - HÉBRARD (J.) -
Vingt-cinq années d'aviation militaire tome I et II.
Paris, Albin Michel, 1946-1947 ; in-8, 290-477 pp., broché. Les 2 volumes. Tome 1 : 1920-1945 la genèse du drame aérien de 1940 - tome 2 : la guerre aérienne 1939-1945.
Bookseller reference : 200702849
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[AVIATION] - KOHL ( hermann) -
Volltreffer!
Reutlingen, Enslin & Laiblin, 1941 ; grand in-12, 160 pp., cartonnage de l'éditeur. Flieger zertrummern ein weltreich.
Bookseller reference : 200803171
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[AVIATION] - DECURE (Danielle) -
Vous avez vu le pilote? c est une femme!
, Robert laffont, 1982 ; in-8, 213 pp., broché, couverture illustr (ptes usures). État correct.
Bookseller reference : 201006151
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[AVIATION] - DECURE (Danielle) -
Vous avez vu le piote? c est une femme!
, Robert laffont, 1982 ; in-8, 213 pp., broché, couverture illustr.
Bookseller reference : 200602671
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[AVIATION] - DÉCURÉ (Danielle) -
Vous avez vu le pilote ? C'est une femme !
Paris, Le grand livre du mois - collection "vécu", 1982 ; in-8, 213 pp., cartonnage de l'éditeur. Avec jaquette.
Bookseller reference : 200405092
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[AVIATION] - FOSBURGH (H) -
Vu d en haut.
, Presse de la cité , 1953 ; in-8, 315 pp., cartonnage de l'éditeur. Avec jaquette.
Bookseller reference : 200601618
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[AVIATION] - GREEN (William) -
War planes of the second wolrd war fighters volume one.
London, Macdonald, 1960 ; in-12, 191 pp., cartonnage d'éditeur. Avec jaquette tome 1.
Bookseller reference : 201226598
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[AVIATION] - ETHELL (Jeffrey l) -
Wings of war fighting WWII in the air.
London, Greenhill books, 1994 ; in-4, 136 pp., cartonnage de l'éditeur. Avec jaquette.
Bookseller reference : 202502537
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[AVIATION] - BAVOUSETT (Glenn b ) -
World war II aircraft in combat.
New york, ARco publishing compagny , 1976 ; in-4, 144 pp., cartonnage de l'éditeur. Avec jaquette.
Bookseller reference : 202502448
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[AVIATION] - JOHNS (Captain w.e) -
Worrals de la R.A.F.
Paris, Hachette, 1952 ; in-12, 188 pp., br. Avec jaquette.
Bookseller reference : 202101771
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[AVIATION] - JOHNS (Captain w.e) -
Worrals de la R.A.F.
Paris, Hachette bibliotheque verte , 1952 ; in-12, 188 pp., cartonnage de l'éditeur. Avec jaquette.
Bookseller reference : 201904424
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[AVIATION] - JOHNS (Captain w e ) -
Worrals de la r.a.f.
Paris, Hachette bibliotheque de la jeunesse, 1952 ; in-12, 188 pp., broché, couverture illustr avec jaquette .
Bookseller reference : 200818210
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[AVIATION] - JOHN (W.-E. capitaine) -
Worrals en mission.
Grenoble et Paris, B. Arthaud, 1947 ; in-8, 266 pp., cartonnage de l'éditeur.
Bookseller reference : 200702774
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[AVIATION]
ZEPPELIN, MARSCH!
Berlin, Verlag Ullstein, 1936 ; in-4, 64 pp., broché, couverture illustr (EN TRÈS BON ÉTAT). VON LZ1 bis LZ 129.
Bookseller reference : 200602469
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[AVIATION] - GEILING (W), SAUTER (A. Manfred) -
Zeppelins erben.
Konstanz, Verlag stadler, 2000 ; grand in-8, 128 pp., cartonnage de l'éditeur. (en allemand).
Bookseller reference : 200506405
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[AVIATION].
École supérieure de guerre. - Cours d'aéronautique. Notes sur l'emploi de l'aéronautique par le commandement. 1928-1929.
Rambouillet, Imprimerie Pierre Leroy, s.d. (1928) in-8 carré, VIII pp., 91 pp., abondantes surcharges manuscrites au crayon de bois, broché.
Bookseller reference : 227146
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[AVIATION] - CHAMBE (Rene) -
Équipage dans la fournaise 1940.
Paris, Flammarion, 1945 ; in-12, 222 pp., cartonnage de l'éditeur.
Bookseller reference : 201011336
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[AVIATION -- WORLD WAR I PHOTOS].
A compelling small archive of 48 photographs documenting the war in the air during World War I including fighters bombers Zeppelins aerial photos German casualties English tanks and more.
Paris: n.p. ca. 1918. 4to. 24 leaves unnumbered. archival mylar sleeves holding 48 silver print photos sized 5 x 7 in. most w/ pencil or pen annotations either below in white blank or on verso some w/ “Copyright Reproduction Interdite†stamps on verso others w/ inventory numbers in pen or pencil minor soiling creasing some minor chipping & closed tears still good set of photographs. These 48 images encapsulate the devastation of World War I not only capturing many of the French & German aircraft but also downed planes casualties significant historical figures such as General Pershing on an inspection tour as well as the effects of bombardment on French buildings and public works. Aircraft identified in the images include the massive Handley Page Type O biplane bomber Spad biplane downed German Zeppelin a Nieuport 17 C.1 French sesquiplane fighter; Voisin biplane a French dirigible and others. Also included are images of German aviators’ remains near their downed plane German casualties on the battlefield one pile of skeletal remains along with German Turret Gun German POW’s on the march and French tank. The aerial views capture Notre Dame and the Seine dogfight with German planes the Arc de Triomphe village of Forges after an artillery bombardment and danger signal fireworks at night above the trenches. n.p., unknown
Bookseller reference : 59655
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[AVIATION -- WORLD WAR I EDUCATION]. VOLPE, Chief Carpenter Aviation Anthony Michael (Compiler).
A remarkable souvenir album documenting the Naval Aviation Training School in Great Lakes IL which trained thousands of US Navy Marine and US Army Air Force pilots and aircraft mechanical specialists during and after World War I.
Great Lakes Chicago & Waukegan IL: Naval Aviation Training School L. Blakemore Isaack Wallenstein & Western Photo Studio Photographers ca. 1919-1921. Oblong atlas folio. 21.5 x 9 in. 43 leaves unnumbered. on thick black paper stock. With 52 original silver gelatin photos tipped-in sized from 5 x 7 in. up to 19 x 8 in. 36 panoramas sized from 18 x 3 in. up to 19 x 18 in. some w/ photographer’s imprint w/in negative at lower fore-edge some captioned all tipped-in. Contemporary Spruce plywood post-binder covers same as wood used for spars and biplane bodies in World War I rounded corners piano hinge front joint gilt decorative lettering & logo on front cover minor scuffing shelfwear still VG exemplar. This outstanding souvenir album depicts the height of the vital Naval Aviation Training School which provided essential technical expertise and training to entire generations of Naval Aviators and Naval aviation mechanics and carpenters through World War I and beyond. Founded originally in 1904 when a board appointed by President Theodore Roosevelt selected two farms of north of Lake Bluff IL as a training station which originally covered 172 acres. By Armistice Day at the end of World War I the facility had expanded to 1200 acres and over 45000 men underwent training. Of particular interest in this album are the 36 panoramic photographs documenting Naval Aviator and Naval Aviation mechanic classes for the 15th Regiment and 1st Battalion 15th Regiment from 1919-1920 as well as class rooms machine shops for aviation mechanics and Naval instructors. Others encompass the cutaway model Aviation engines with instructional charts on the surrounding wals the carpenter’s shop with aviation machinery jigs on work benches and airline bodies under construction. One photo depicts the Motor Laboratory Steam Laboratory and Equipment from the USS Eagle 25 at the Aviation Mechanics’ School a US Navy patrol boat which had sunk in a storm in June 1920 and then been raised and sold off as a hulk by Dec. 1921. Other panoramic photos capture the Riggers’ School classroom at Great lakes with full scale biplanes and seaplanes scale model dirigible the Coppersmith School classroom the Fittings classroom with airplane propellers hanging from the walls dip baths for machined parts and nickel plate coating and several of the Naval Aviation School football baseball and other sporting teams including the largest panorama of the Inter-Training Station Baseball championship team from Great Lakes. Wallenstein 1861-1958 was a longtime Chicago photographer through the first four decades of the 20th Century who operated his studio out of his 3928 N. Kenneth home and specialized in panoramic photographs. Western Photo Studio in Waukegan IL appears to have been short-lived as the Waukegan IL directories from 1918-1921 do not list the business but possibly connected with the Western Union Telegraph offices as the address was interchangeable. Volpe 1885-1950 began working in New York originally as a bookbinder before enlisting as an aviation mechanic with the US Navy in 1910 assigned originally to the newly formed ground school in Pensacola and later became Chief Warrant Officer Pilot Airman and Instructor who oversaw the Naval Aviation Training School from 1918-1921. He was also the assistant Athletic officer for baseball and tennis at the base. Naval Aviation Training School, L. Blakemore, Isaack Wallenstein, & Western Photo Studio (Photographers), unknown
Bookseller reference : 60735
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[AVIATION -- PHOTO ALBUM]. REMMERT, William Francis & WERNER, Robert "Bob"
A sketchy pictorial review. Remmert-Werner Inc. and affiliates. . . an outstanding photo album and clippings scrapbook filled with 230 original and commercial photographs and over 200 pieces of ephemera tracing the aircraft airfields affiliates and commercial efforts of the Remmert-Werner Air Service based in St. Louis Missouri at Lambert field from 1942 until the mid-1960s and their expansion to Pompano Florida together with gold Elgin DeLuxe pocket watch with engraved inscription from Curtiss-Wright Corporation on back.
St. Louis MO & Pompano FL: William F. Remmert Elizabeth Douglas Remmert Remmert-Werner Inc. 1942-1963. Thick folio. 14.75 x 12 x 3.5 in. 166 pp unpaginated. most original folio sized beige paper other smaller mylar sleeves with photos & clippings inserted many pages with significant manuscript in ink. With 230 total photographs tipped-in some in corners some inserted into archival sleeves occasional old scotch tape mountings over 30 in colour sized from 2.5 x 3.5 in. up to 8 x 10 in. and even 6 x 14 in. most with pencil ink typed or printed captions beside in the lower margins or amongst the 200 clippings mounted and tipped-in to the sheets many large folding two original dealer’s catalogues for the Sabreliner aircraft including dealer literature and business cards. Original padded post-binder embossed & raised decorations in gilt & silver on front cover typed title label taped to upper fore-edge some scuffing edgewear chipping & tears to some leaves toning to newspaper clippings offsetting and ghosting from tape some photos w/ minor tears occasional offsetting from clippings still an excellent exemplar. This impressive and well-documented photo album/scrapbook filled with 230 photographs provide an incomparable visual and textual record for the aviation company Remmert-Werner Inc. from World War II to the 1960s. Remmert 1913-1989 was a high school dropout working at the Curtiss-Wright hangar at Lambert Field in St. Louis where his father worked as a Watchmen in the 1930s. He quickly rose in the company becoming the Curtiss-Wright Company Tech Rep in China during the opening years of World War II and in 1943 became a Naval Officer inspecting material production for aircraft until 1945. As shown in the photographs and explained through clippings and manuscript notes in Remmert’s bold hand Remmert-Werner Air Service was founded at Lambert Field following World War II selling Beechcraft and Cessna Aircraft and buying up war surplus airplanes for conversion. The images depict the Air Ambulance charter service with a fleet of three Beechcraft airplanes from 1945-1946 as well as the Air Service establishing themselves as dealers for Motorola Piper Swift and Fairchild Aircraft founding a Flight Training School and contracting with Texaco to sell aviation fuel at the field. The images also portray Remmert-Werner quickly buying up a couple surplus PT-19 biplane trainers when their flight school expanded to Starling Airport by 1947. They would later begin selling and leasing Beechcraft Lodestar and eventually the Sabreliner corporate jets. The photographs also display their twin engine Beech D18S aircraft setting in front of the Remmert-Werner hangar with Texaco signage and Texaco oil truck the Cessna 140 winner of the Miami Air Races Motorola Radio J3 Cub aircraft their Vultee BT-13 Valiant trainer aircraft and even a Convair B-36 Peacemaker which was the largest mass-produced piston-engined aircraft ever built on display at an Army air show on Lambert field with the Remmert-Werner hangars in the background. Remmert-Werner quickly moved into converting aircraft for corporate clients in 1946 and over the next two decades would convert over 200 aircraft service 1000s of planes and became famous for their luxurious flying penthouses for corporate and wealthy clients. Not only are their images showing the clients visiting the Remmert-Werner hangars and airfields with clippings specifying and promoting their clients but also many images of the company dog named Myrtle setting on discarded parts or nosing her way into photos. Remmert & Werner began their career by converting a surplus C-47A to the DC-3 “Prairie Wings†by enlarging the windows installing luxurious seats galley operations and upon completion took the whole company to the Indianapolis Air Races in 1948 which were the first following World War II. They also converted and maintained the corporate fleet for the Gaylord Container Corporation by buying up a number of surplus B-25 aircraft and turning them into corporate and freighter planes for Gaylord. In 1948 they began work on creating a deluxe aircraft for Arthur Godfrey 1903-1983 radio and TV entertainer and aviation enthusiast with photos showing the progress the painting news clippings and even an inscribed thank you note from Godfrey. Their other clients included Coca-Cola Procter & Gamble International Harvester Olin Matheson Chemical Grumman Aircraft and Hercules Powder. Their conversions involved gutting the planes and installing completely new systems and interiors including lounge chairs sofas tables lamps galleys and any other special furnishings. They were well known for their DC-3 window modifications which increased the size of the windows for passengers. They also established company affiliates in Toledo OH Cleveland OH Mercer County Airport at Trenton NJ and an airfield in Pompano Beach Florida in 1956. See: Remmert-Werner. . . Big-Change Artists Flying Magazine Dec. 1957 pp. 54-56; Bill Remmert & Bob Werner Airplane Purveyors Aviation Week 2004. William F. Remmert, Elizabeth Douglas Remmert, Remmert-Werner, Inc., unknown
Bookseller reference : 55329
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[AVIATION -- CATALOGUE]. SHRADER, Welman A (Ed), JARCK, Berneice H, ROGERS, Russell F, et al
Aeronautical engineering catalog. . . .
New York NY: Institute of Aeronautical Sciences 1946. 4to. 409 1 pp. i.e. 420. With over 200 pages of illustrated manufacturers advertisements most in colour along with price lists etc. some leaves printed on colour-tinted paper. Pebbled-blue publisher’s cloth Art Deco lettering & cover design in silver silver on spine slight shelfwear very slight bumping to couple corners still NF copy. Third edition revised & expanded of this invaluable catalogue tracing the changeover of the aviation industry from World War II production to civil airlines in the Post-War era. Companies include Aerojet from Azusa CA touting their rocket propulsion jets; Allison Division of GM their jet propulsion engines such as the engine for the Lockheed P-80 Shooting Star; Edison Aeronautical Equipment; B.F. Goodrich airline wheels and brakes; Hardman Manufacturing “Siesta Seats†for passenger airliners; the United States Rubber Co. airline upholstery fabrics; and even Warner Aircraft Engines. Last half is a detailed directory of all manufacturers listing over 2000 aviation parts. Institute of Aeronautical Sciences, hardcover
Bookseller reference : 57091
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[AVIATION -- TRAVEL DIRECTORY].
Airports and established landing fields in the United States: with supplementary sections for Alaska Canada and Mexico. . . 1934 edition.
Hackensack NJ: Airport Directory Co. 1933. 4to. 184 2 42 pp. With over 200 aerial photos numerous maps throughout colour-illustrated ads for Shell Aviation and other text illustrations. Black cloth-backed softcovers rounded corners ads for Viking automatic sprinklers front cover Stanovo Aviation Engine Oil on back cover minor sunning & dustsoiling front cover still VG bright copy. First edition thus of this 2nd installment in the noted Airport and Landing Fields directories which would continue to be issued through the Great Depression World War II and into the Mid-20th Century. Prior to December 1935 and the nascent attempt by an airline consortium to open the first Airway Traffic Control Station pilots used visual cues maps compasses and radio communications to fly between airports. These directories which were continually updated with aerial photographs offered essential reference points for pilots navigators and now researchers as they captured architectural geographical and physical details visible beyond the edges of hundreds of airports. Airport Directory Co., paperback
Bookseller reference : 62672
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[AVIATION -- ZEPPELINS, DIRIGIBLES & BLIMPS]. BEAUBOIS, Henry
Airships yesterday today and tomorrow. Drawings by Carlo Demand. Translated and adapted by Michael and Angela Kellly.
New York NY: The Two Continents Publishing Group Ltd. 1973. Folio. 222 26 pp. With 82 colour illustrations many large folding 125 black & white illustrations some full page and 160 printed photographs. Gray cloth gilt dirigible on front cover gilt lettering on spine minor foxing to a few fore-edges and creases of large folding plates w/ d.j. still a VG/NF copy. First edition in English of this surprisingly scarce and extremely detailed lavishly illustrated work examining the development of the non-rigid and rigid airships of over 50 different basic designs built in several countries over a span of nearly 50 years. This work ranges from the first experiments with the “La France†airship the complex Zeppelin giants such as the “Graf Zeppelin†the “Hindenburg†the “R-100†the tragic “R-101†as well as the “Akron†and “Shenandoah.†The Two Continents Publishing Group, Ltd., hardcover
Bookseller reference : 64264 ISBN : 0846701502 9780846701507
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[AVIATION -- CALIFORNIA]. [EHRENCLOU, V[aldor] L (Gen Manager) & PRITCHARD, Robert J (Ed)].
An industry weathers a storm; 1931 in review; The dispatcher how he operates; A moormast on wheels U.S.S. Akron; Developing a course of study at the Boeing School of Aeronautics; News of the West. . . In: Western Flying Air Race Report Issue Vol. XI No. 1; together with ZOOM Flyers fix firs Frolic date Pearson Field Vol. 1 No. 1 broadside.
Los Angeles CA & Portland OR: Occidental Publishing Co. 145 S. Spring St.; Portland District Army Air Corps January 1932. Two pieces. 4to. 64 pp. Over 100 text illustrations photo illustrations colour-tinted illustration Colour-illustrated softcovers cover art advertisement for Eclipse aviation engine starters colour advertisements on verso and rear covers for Curtiss-Wright Union and Douglas Amphibion aircraft slight scuffing minor shelfwear minor creasing 1 small tear still VG copy; 4to. 1 printed leaf very slight edgewear & toning still NF copy. First edition of this scarce issue of the famed California trade magazine intended for the fast growing aeronautical industry on the West Coast detailing the Goodrich Airplane Tires in Alaska United Airlines and review of the Army Air Corps in 1931. Of special interest is the exceedingly scarce humorous broadside for the Portland District of the Army Air Corps Zoom announcing the Frolics for Pearson Field commanded by Lieutenant Carlton F. Bond in Vancouver WA featuring officers friends and family of the 321st Squadron with the Seventh Infantry Band. Occidental Publishing Co., 145 S. Spring St.; Portland District, Army Air Corps, paperback
Bookseller reference : 51853
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[AVIATION -- LOCKHEED U-2].
An unusual group of colour photo transparencies for lighted salesman sample cases or overhead presentations illustrating several configurations of Lockheed U-2R and U-2S spy planes developed by Melpar E-systems in the 1980s and 1990s.
Falls Church VA & Burbank CA: Melpar Inc. E-Systems; Lockheed Aircraft Co. ca. 1990. Nine colour photo transparencies sized 8 x 10 in. all mounted on cream-coloured and green matte boards sized 10 x 12 in. many w/ pencil & ink annotations some w/ Melpar ownership label on versos 1 image from a printed colour photo all w/ nice contrast minor edgewear rubbing to matte boards still VG set. These scarce images focus on assorted configurations for the famed Lockheed U-2R spy planes including those later converted into U-2S jets and some appearing in their Superpod configuration while others in the very odd Span Pod configuration in flight and on the tarmac. The aircraft depicted include the 68-10339 U-2 which first flew in Oct. 22 1968 transferred to Davis-Monthan AFB in 1972 and later to Beale AFB before being upgraded and later crashed killing Captain Rich Snyder Dec. 13 1993; the 80-1074 TR-1A U-24 U-2S delivered to Beale AFB in Fe.b 1984 and later converted to U-2S in May 1996; and the 80-1071 U-2R delivered to Beale and converted to U-2S in Oct. 1994. Two of the images show the U-2R in Superpod configuration developed by Melpar including one image of the aircraft flying over the Golden Gate Bridge featuring twin 24-foot-long superpods mounted at midspan each wing capable of carrying 800 lbs. of equipment and three times longer than the instrument pods used during the EP-X trials. Other images show the Span Pod Configuration which consisted of a 30-inch parabolic antenna housed in an unpressurized dorsal radome on the fuselage and two for the control systems trailer. See: Peter W. Merlin Unlimited Horizons: Design and Development of the U-2 2015; David Donald U-2 The Second Generaltion Black Jets 2003. Melpar, Inc., E-Systems; Lockheed Aircraft Co., hardcover
Bookseller reference : 56654
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[AVIATION -- POLAR EXPLORATION]. LACHAMBRE, Henri & MACHURON, Alexis
Andree and his balloon. . . .
Westminster UK: Archibald Constable & Co. 1898. 8vo. viii 9-301 3 pp. plus 15 1 pp. publisher’s illustrated catalogue. Colour chromolithograph frontisp. 44 photo plates. Blue-ribbed pictorial publisher’s cloth cover art illustration of Andree’s balloon on front cover & spine slight rubbing very minor wear to corner tips still VG bright largely uncut & unopened copy. First edition in English of this work examining the preparations and efforts of the Salomon August Andree’s doomed Polar Expedition via balloon in 1897 traveling with Knut Fraenkel and Nils Strindberg. Andree beleived he could steer the hydrogen-filled balloon with a drag line but this proved ineffective and his Polar balloon the Ornen Eagle leaked far more hydrogen than expected and as of the end of this contemporary crashed and disappeared. In 1930 the expedition’s last camp was discovered with documents and photos recording how they’d crashed on a drifting ice pack poor Arctic gear and died on Kvitoya in Svalbard. Archibald Constable & Co., hardcover
Bookseller reference : 63167
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[AVIATION -- MAPS].
BEA international route maps. . . .
London & Paris: British European Airways 1949. 4to. 20 pp unpagianted. colour-illustrated maps and red & black text throughout. Self-printed colour-illustrated maps w/ ad for BP Aviation Service and Anglo-Iranian Oil Co. Ltd. on back cover Dunlop tire ad verso of front center crease fold as issued w/ original BEA sleeve from the library of Archibald Angus MacDonald 1892-1977 stepson of famed southern California oil man William F. Byrne as well as oil company and drilling equipment owner and manager of MacDonald & Burns Oil Producers. First edition of this surprisingly scarce BEA route map book issued following World War II and prior to the establishment of the Western US UK and French Zones into the Federal Republic of German and the Soviet Zone into the German Democratic Republic East Germany. In 1946 BEA was established to feed short commuter flights across Europe and until 1950 used a fleet of Douglas DC-3 aircraft based out of Croydon and Northold Airports moving to Heathrow in 1950. No copies in Worldcat. British European Airways, unknown
Bookseller reference : 62765
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[Aviation Training Division: Office of the Chief of Naval operations]
Boxing: The Naval Aviation Physical Training Manuals
United States Naval Institute 1943. hardcover. Very Good. 0x0x0. Tight and unmarked but lacks jacket. Illustrated throughout. 1943 issue. D35 Please email for photos. United States Naval Institute hardcover
Bookseller reference : 117040
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[Aviation Training Division: Office of the Chief of Naval op
Boxing: The Naval Aviation Physical Training Manuals
United States Naval Institute 1943-01-01. hardcover. Used - Acceptable. 0x0x0. some wear. has moldy odor. discoloration from age. very readable copy. United States Naval Institute hardcover
Bookseller reference : 24-08-21-gw-35758-lcz
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[Aviation Training Division: Office of the Chief of Naval operations]
Boxing: The Naval Aviation Physical Training Manuals
United States Naval Institute 1943. hardcover. Good. 0x0x0. Hardback--spine tight--pages unmarked--cover good--dust cover shows wear United States Naval Institute hardcover
Bookseller reference : TA2603020357Z17
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[AVIATION -- MAGAZINE]. NOEL, E Percy (Ed)
Buffalo racing boats sink flying boats float; New Borel meets military requirements. . . In: Aero and Hydro. America’s Aviation Weekly Vol. VI No. 24.
Chicago: Noel & Company Sept. 13 1913. 4to. 449-460 pp. Numerous photos text illustrations illustrated ads. Illustrated printed softcovers photo cover art photo of Aviator Pegoud the first man to fly voluntarily upside down minor thumbing dustsoiling shelfwear still VG- copy from the collection of Albert Colson 1898-1975 World War I veteran who trained to fly with the Portland-Based Dudrey Aircraft Company. First edition of this scarce early aviation periodical including photos and scale drawings of the Borel Military Monoplane. Noel & Company, paperback
Bookseller reference : 48082
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[AVIATION -- LOCKHEED]. [JUERGENS, Philip L (Ed).]
Cover title. Of men and stars: A history of Lockheed Aircraft Corporation 1913-1957 Chapters I-IX March - January.
Burbank CA: Lockheed Aircraft Corporation 1958. Nine parts in one vol. 4to. 4; 11 1; 13 3; 15 1; 14 2; 19 1; 19 1; 15 1; 15 1 pp. all issues separately paginated black white & coloured ink throughout. With over 250 photo illustrations text illustrations diagrams maps. All issues with self-printed softcovers bound together in original Lockheed Corporation adjustable blue & silver foil softcovers copper lettering stamped on front cover yapp edges very slight uniform toning NF set from the library of David H. Kenyon 1918-2011 former Lockheed engineer & military sales manager as well as aviation consultant for Pan American TWA and the Venezuelan Airlines and later President of the Southern California Wing of the OX5 Aviation Pioneers. First editions of these unusually rare original printings of the in-house history magazine published by the Lockheed Public Relations office at the end of 1957 into 1958. This work was published in chapters each with separate heading and intended to stand alone so subscribers and Lockheed employees could choose to collect them all or just some. Back issues were available for only a limited time in 1958 as was the company printed softcover post-binder and additional 4 page introduction present here. These magazines drew from a number of Lockheed archive scrapbooks company factory photographs with contributions from Robert & Courtlandt Gross Cyril Chapellet Carl Squier Allan Lockheed Walter Varney John K. Northrop all providing an excellent and informative history of Lockheed aviation through the first six decades of the 20th century. Worldcat locates 1 complete collection Hagley -- several institutions hold assorted chapters the 1980 Arno reprint or the later continuation of the history under the same title. Lockheed Aircraft Corporation, paperback
Bookseller reference : 53090
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[AVIATION -- CONVAIR].
CV-340 Flight manual: general 1 thru 20 -- systems description. . . airplane limitations and performance. . . .cruise control. . . ; Flight Training Center Denver DENTC United Air Lines Inc. CV-340 Transition Training Topical Course. . . .
San Diego CA & Denver CO: Consolidated Vultee Aircraft Corporation Convair; Flight Training Center Denver DENTC 1957-1960. Two parts in one vol. 4to. Approx. 250; 200 pp sections separately paginated some unpaginated or unnumbered. first part w/ text illustrations diagrams colour charts photos MS flight logs; 2nd w/ mimeographed and copied Convair training literature and coursework sheets many on DENTC letterhead many w/ MS notes. United Airlines black pebbled cloth 3-ring binder piano hinged covers United logo in colour on front cover w/ lettering blocked out minor edgewear some scuffing hand-written spine label still VG copy from the library of Lt. W.illiam L.ouis Airis 1927-2004 former National Guard pilot and commercial pilot for United Airlines based out of Seattle WA. First edition of this very scarce original flight manual for the Convair CV-340 which was basically a Super Convair 240 the first private aircraft used in a US Presidential campaign by John F. Kennedy and named Caroline. The CV-340 airliners featured more length greater wing span and power for high-elevation performance and were launched when United Airlines ordered 55 of the aircraft with orders from Braniff Continental Delta Northeast and National Airliners. They earned a reputation for reliability and profitability which allowed them to be developed into the final piston-engined Convairliner the CV-440. The Denver Flight Training Center for United Airlines required pilots to complete simulation training flight training and also included illustrated information on stability flaps instrument controls and more. Airis has included flight log sheets for flights from June 21 1960 through Jan. 27 1961. No copies in Worldcat. Consolidated Vultee Aircraft Corporation, Convair; Flight Training Center, Denver, DENTC, hardcover
Bookseller reference : 61913
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[AVIATION -- BALLOONING]. BERNHARDT, Sarah
Dans les nuages: impressions d’une chaise. . . illustre par Georges Clairin.
Paris: G. Charpentier Editeur 13 Rue de Grenelle-Saint-Germain Imprime par Georges Chamerot 1878. 4to. 6 94 pp. Illustrated title frontisp. woodcut engraved plates & illustrations 2-colour lithographs and etchings. Brick-red pictorial publisher’s cloth over beveled boards cover art illustration of the “chair†and the balloon blown by wind lettering in black & gilt black decorative pattern back cover a.e.g. minor dustsoiling edgewear slightly shaken still VG bright copy sold from “The Grolier Club†w/ bookplate on front pastedown. First edition of this cheeky and satirical semi-autobiographical memoir by the superstar actress documenting her adventures in an escaped balloon over the L’Exposition Universelle in Paris in 1878 with her lover Clairin 1843-1919 who had painted the famed salon Portrait of Bernhard 1844-1923. Lured back in 1878 to the Comedie Francaise the brilliant star with a chancy temper had been requested by the balloon’s owner to make the maiden voyage ascent but a storm ripped it from its moorings and they eventually landed outside Paris. Subsequently she refused to pay the 100 Francs fine as she had left Paris without permission. See: Claudine Hemingway Episode 23 -- Sarah Bernhardt Oct. 26 2020; Victoria Larson Across Oceans Mountains and Spaces: Sarah Bernhardt’s American Tour June 8 2010. G. Charpentier, Editeur, 13, Rue de Grenelle-Saint-Germain, [Imprime par Georges Chamerot], hardcover
Bookseller reference : 63713
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[AVIATION -- WORLD WAR I GERMANY]. SUPF, Peter
Das Buch der deutschen Fluggeschichte. Vorkriegszeit Kriegszeit Nachkriegszeit bis 1932. Herausgegeben vom Verein zur Forderung des Luftsports. Zweiter Band.
Stuttgart: Drei Brunnen Verlag 1958. Thick 4to. 736 pp. Photo frontispiece 100s of photo illusts. maps diagrams. Blue cloth silver lettering minor shelfwear w/o endpapers still G copy. First edition of this famed illustrated monograph on German aviation history from before World War I until 1932. The author provides an expansive and excellent history of the formation of the German air force early German aviation pilots in the German Colonies the development of planes and pilots during World War I the evolution of air racing in Europe and much more. Drei Brunnen Verlag, hardcover
Bookseller reference : 45753
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[AVIATION -- NETHERLANDS]. BAKKER, Lt WN (Editor). W N
De Luchtvaart Geillustreerd tijdschrift voor Luchtvaart en aanverwante vakken. Aviation. Illustrated magazine for aviation and related subjects. Officieel orgaan van de Nederlandsche Vereeniging voor Luchtvaar en de Nederlandsch-Indische Vereen. . . . Tweede jaargang. . . .
Haarlem: Gedrukt bij J.A. Boom 1910. 4to. Twenty-six issues in one vol. iv 460 pp. With 100’s of photo illustrations text illustrations digrams charts maps. Quarter-black cloth over publisher’s illustrated boards blue & black lettering illustration on front cover minor scuffing wear dustsoiling wear to corners slight fraying head & foot of spine and light uniform interior toning ex-lib markings on title endpapers still VG- copy w/ perforated stamp at foot of title w/ withdrawn stamp and ownership stamp of Bill Rhode b. 1915 Aeronautical Collection was the owner of a large clipping service for aviation and flying subjects and worked for the legendary Gates’ Flying Circus was a stunt parachute jumper B-17 tail gunner during World War II and later acrobatics instructor. First edition of all 26 issues of the second volume in this pioneering Dutch aviation magazine. These exceedingly scarce early illustrated magazines provide an essential visual and textual documentary record of aviation within the first decade of the Wright Brothers first powered flight. Articles encompass early balloon trips barrage military balloons lighter-than-air airships descriptions and illustrations of the latest Wright airplanes Maxim’s new plane Etrich’s monoplane and many early aviators air races crashes and more. Issued biweekly from 1909-1913 this magazine was the official publication of the Dutch Aviation Association & 1910-1913 for Dutch East Indies Association for Aviation. [Gedrukt bij J.A. Boom, hardcover
Bookseller reference : 59028
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[AVIATION -- CINEMA & IFILM]. ANDREWS, Frank A
Dirigible: based on The Columbia Picture screen version by Lieut. Commander Frank Wilber Wead U.S.N.
New York & Chicago: A.L. Burt Co. Publishers 1931. 8vo. 256 pp. Photo frontisp. 3 photo illustrations colour illustration cover art of USS Los Angeles Zeppelin. Orange publisher’s cloth black lettering & ruling front cover black lettering on spine rubbing shelfwear dustsoiling w/ d.j. cover art of USS Los Angeles sailing through the clouds minor chipping head & foot of spine closed tears at corners fore-edges VG/VG- copy. First photoplay edition based on this Art Deco inspired for Dirigible -- Frank Capra’s epic aviation disaster film for Columbia pictures. Based on the crash of the airship Italia flown by Umberto Nobile in May 1928 near the North Pole and the subsequent rescue which cost Roald Amundson his life Capra intended to emulate the success of Wings. This fascinating film was shot in a semi-documentary style providing splendid footage of the USS Los Angeles mid-air docking/recovery of a fighter aircraft and the crash of an airship during a storm just a few years before the Hindenburg disaster. The movie starred Jack Holt Ralph Graves and Fay Wray two years before her huge success in King Kong. This was the first Columbia Pictures film to receive a glamorous premiere at Grauman’s Chinese Theatre. A.L. Burt Co., Publishers, hardcover
Bookseller reference : 63162
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[AVIATION -- MILITARY MEDICINE]. MAYCOCK, Wing Commander Robert
Doctors in the air.
New York & London: Thomas Nelson and Sons Printed in Great Britain by George Allen & Unwin Ltd. 1957. 8vo. 10 145 1 pp. Photo frontisp. with numerous photo plates. Blue tweed publisher’s boards silver lettering on spine minor dustsoiling slight bowing to covers w/ d.j. surrealistic cover art of pilot wearing breathing mask minor shelfwear British price clipped U.S. price of 3.75 rubber stamped w/ imprint on jacket still VG/VG copy. First American edition of this surprisingly uncommon memoir and study of Altitude Training Program during World War II and afterwards designed to familiarize flying aviators and bombing crews with the physiological principles in ascent to high altitude. He details the research to aid pilots in coping with great hights trans-sonic speeds violent acceleration parachute drops exposure fatigue during the mammoth Berlin airlift and early studies of the effects of observing an atomic explosion mushroom cloud from a Canberra jet. Thomas Nelson and Sons, [Printed in Great Britain by George Allen & Unwin, Ltd.], hardcover
Bookseller reference : 60508
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