‎Aviação‎

‎Wendt, H.C.; Fitzpatrick James R.; Fuller, Forrest B.; Klemin, Alexander‎

‎Aviation Engineering (Magazine) - The Technical Journal of the Aeronautical Industry, September (Sept.) 1930 - Experiments on the Burnelli All-Wing Principle‎

‎40 pages. Features: The Development of Curved Surfaces; Aviation Engine Cylinder Finishing; Plywood in Aircraft; Aircraft Ignition Equipment; The Technology of Woods Used in Aircraft Construction; Radiophone Communication on Air Passenger and Mail Routes - article with photo of engineer Thorp Hiscock; News of the Industry; New Developments; Wind Tunnel Experiments on the Burnelli All-Wing Principle; Ad for the new Chevrolet 333 engine includes photo of Louis Chevrolet; Ford Transport aircraft photo ad says it offers optional Packard Diesel motor; many more vintage ads. Unmarked with average wear. A sound vintage copy. Book‎

‎Nagel, C.F. Jr.; Hoglund, G.O.; Chilton, R.; Benton, B.; LeBer, R.; Holt, F.A.; Klemin, A.; Pillard, M.; Green, E.; Dyer, H. Jr.‎

‎Aviation Engineering (Magazine), With Which is Consolidated Aircraft Servicing - The Technical Journal of the Aeronautical Industry, February (Feb.) 1931 - The Privateer Amphibian / Making the Navy Type Cable Splice‎

‎50 pages. Features: Thompson Valve ad commemorates the round the world trip of Mears and Collyer in 1928; Design and Construction of Aluminum Alloy Floats - article with photo of Keystone Commuter; Air-Cooled Cylinder Head Design; The Privateer Amphibian - A Low Wing Pusher Monoplane; Wind Tunnel Testts on Airplane Wheel Cowlings; Improvement and Economy in Carburetor Control; Vortex Theory and the Tapered Wing (part II); Effectiveness and Balance of Horizontal Control Surface; The Month's best from the Foreign Press; Assembly Instructions of the Fairchild Cabin Monoplane 71; Method of Making the Navy Type Cable Splice; How to Design and Build and Aircraft Finishing Room; Airplane and Engine Repair Cost Accounting; Puti It Up to Parker; How Fast Do They Fly?; New Products; Nice ad inside back cover Detroit's Hotel Fort Shelby; many more nostalgic ads. Unmarked with average wear. A sound vintage copy. Book‎

‎Klemin, Alex.; Pike, F.J.; Finlay, W.; Dyer, H. Jr.; Boedecker, K.; Smithowski, J.‎

‎Aviation Engineering (Magazine), With Which is Consolidated Aircraft Servicing - The Technical Journal of the Aeronautical Industry, May 1931 - Impressions of the Detroit Aircraft Show‎

‎50 pages. Features: Thompson Valve ad commemorates Capt. Frank Hawks and his 1930 record-setting flight racing the sun from New York to Los Angeles in 14 hours and 50 minutes non-stop; Packard ad includes photo of Walter Lees and Frederic A. Brossy who set a U.S. record of over 73 hours aloft without refueling; My Impressions of the Exhibits at the Detroit Aircraft Show (major article with photos); Accessories and Equipment at the Show, Many New Devices; Interior Furnishing and Decoration of Flying Boats; Machining For Wasp Cylinder Heads; The Month's Best From the Foreign Press - including more information on the D'Ascanio Helicopter; Reviews; Servicing the American Cirrus Engine - with clearance diagram; Heed These Points for Satisfactory Finishing Results; Special Equipment for the Overhaul of Wright Aircraft Engines; Simple Instructions for Wing Repairing; Servicing Problems; Servicing Pains; Nice one-page illustrated ad for H.K. Porter Inc. of Everett Mass. displays their portable hand operated cutting tools; many more nostalgic ads. Unmarked with average wear. A sound vintage copy. Book‎

‎Angle, G.; Caldwell, F.; Sperry, E.; Lederer, J.; Allen, J.; Vaughan, G.; Hoffman, E.; Klemin, A.; Herrick, G.; Weidinger, H.‎

‎Aviation Engineering and Aircraft Servicing (Magazine), With Which is Consolidated Airway Age - The Technical Journal of the Aeronautical Industry, January (Jan.) 1932 - The Sperry Automatic Pilot / The Herrick Vertoplane‎

‎58 pages. Features: Front cover Thompson Valves ad commemorates Major "Jimmy" Doolittle's record transcontinental flight from Burbank to Newark in 1931; Positioning of Link Rod Wrist Pins in Articulated Connecting Rods; Propeller Design; The Sperry Automatic Pilot for Airplanes; Fire Extinguishers; Methods of Laying Out Flat Patterns; Fuel and Lubricants in Relation to Engine Design; The Triangle Parachute; Vortex Theory and the Tapered Wing; The Herrick Vertoplane; German Experiments with Chemical Cooling of Aircraft Engines; New Planes - The C-J Bird and the Cabin Giro; Cold Prevention of Dural Age-Hardening; Overhaul of the Menasco B-4; New Products; News; Sperry Gyroscope ad features photo of George Cushing of Eastern Air Transport, Inc., in his Mailwing; Nice photo ad for Autogiro inside back cover; many more nostalgic ads. Unmarked with average wear. A sound vintage copy. Book‎

‎Eskin, B.; Davydow, N.; Miller, R.; Lloyd, A.; Haeberly, H.; Lubcke, H.‎

‎Aviation Engineering (Magazine), January (Jan.) 1933 - Servicing the Autogiro / History of the Scintilla Magneto‎

‎32 pages. Features: Front cover Thompson Valves ad salutes Northwest Airways; Racon Electric Co. photo ad inside front cover says their Racon 9 unit airplane horn was used to direct landing of the "Akron"; Highlights at Paris; Balanced Elevators; Metal Monocoque Construction; Inspection gauges Used on Radial Engine Crankcases; Servicing the Autogiro; New Planes and Engines - the Hornet Tic, the Heinkel Sportplane; Review of Foreign Press; Airports and Transportation Engineering; Airplane Reception of Television from Ground Station; Edo Automatic Water Rudders; Electric Welding in Aircraft Construction; The History of the Scintilla Magneto; Books; News of the Industry; nostalgic ads; One-page photo portrait of "The Sky Chief", Frank Hawks' new Northrop monoplane; and more. Unmarked with average wear. A sound vintage copy. Book‎

‎Schofield, Jack: Editor‎

‎BC (British Columbia) Aviator Magazine: July/August (Aug.) 1991 - Ginger Coote (part 2)‎

‎40 pages. Illustrated in colour and black and white. Features: The Village of Fort St. James; Ginger (Part 2) - Ginger Coote buys a Fairchild 51 and a Fox Moth, starts a pioneer BC airline and hires Russ Baker; Port McNeill; Grumman Mallard; Tech-Log - Oil and Airplanes; Robinson 22's (R22s); a restored Avro Anson. Clean and unmarked with light wear. A quality copy. Book‎

‎Pan American World Airways‎

‎1961 Pan Am (Pan American World Airways) Timetable with Ticket Book and Wallet (3 pieces)‎

‎Folded timetable unfolds to a 9" x 8" book with 36 pages documenting Pan Am's impressive list of worldwide destinations. Enclosed ticket book indicates the original traveller flew return from Seattle to Hawaii. Modern day travellers and airline staff may be astonished by the considerable amount of handwriting required to process this single ticket. A nice Pan Am/aviation memento. Book‎

‎Bill Hockney and Moe Gates‎

‎Nadir to Zenith - An Almanac of Stories By Canadian Military Navigators‎

‎399 pages. Black and white reproductions of archival photos. "Presents stories of pre-GPS times - the halcyon days of the navigator - when his skills were so very often the 'key to success'". - dust jacket. Clean, bright and unmarked with negligible wear. Dust jacket now preserved in glossy new archival-grade Brodart. A superb copy. Book‎

‎Roche, Arthur Somers; Kent, F.R.; Rice, Grantland; Flynn, J.T.; Cohen, O.R.; Et al‎

‎Collier's - The National Weekly (Magazine), December (Dec.) 15, 1928, Vol. 82, No. 24: Gus Edwards (Pt II) / President-Elect Herbert Hoover‎

‎58 pages. Features: Cover illustration of boy standing in icy water; Nostalgic one-page illustrated ad for the circular Western Electric 560-AW loudspeaker; Marriage for Two (fiction by Roche); President Elect Herbert Hoover - It's Going To Be Different; Other Men's Poison (fiction by Roark Bradford); Thunder in the Backfield - Grantland Rice reviews the star-studded running backs of 1928, with photos of Ken Strong N.Y.U., and Chris Cagle of Army; In Loving Memory (fiction by Fred Sweet); "Too Collegiate" - fiction by Lucian Cary; Good Clean Fun - two pages of charming vintage illustrations of how people amused themselves before movies, radios and cars; The Ticker's In a Jam - great photo-illustrated article explaining stock ticker technology; Cabaret (fiction by O.C. Cohen); The Kid's Clever - Part 2 of the Gus Edwards story; Marvelous one-page illustrated ad for Flexible Flyer includes their seven sled models for children, plus an illustration of Commander Byrd at the South Pole; I Can Pick Winners, But - A famous horse racing handicapper explains why he still works for a living; The Shepherd of Guadaloupe, by Zane Grey (part VIII); Nice one-page Atwater Kent Radio ad includes photos of their Models 40 A.C., 42 A.C., a Model E circular speaker, Model 44 A.C., and Model 52 A.C.; Master of Sinister House (fiction by E. P. Oppenheim); Nice one-page color ad for the 50 box of Gillette shaving blades; Color centerfold ad for Remington Rand procalims "The Emancipation of the American Business Man" with illustration of "the bent and withered office drudge"; Nice one-page Edgeworth pipe tobacco ad includes illustration of their four-sized tin and letter from one F.W. Fitzpatrick; Classy one-page photo-illustrated ad by Bosch Radio (American Bosch Magneto Corporation) displays their Model 29B, 28A and features photo of the Model 28; Marvelous one-page ad for Lucky Strike cigarettes includes illustration and endorsement of Lady Grace Drummond Hay, the first woman to fly the Atlantic from Europe to the United States, aboard the Graf Zeppelin (which is also illustrated in the ad); Smoth Brothers' cough drops ad includes photo of vaudeville comedian Joe Cook; Quarter-page illustrated ad for Daisy Air Rifles - "That's What Our Boy Has Been Asking For"; Classic back cover Victrola ad displays their Models 835, 918, 43, 711, 255, and 1069. Unmarked with average wear. Binding intact. A sound copy of this great vintage issue. Book‎

‎Hadfield, Dave; Grant, Robert S.; Putter, Kelly‎

‎Canadian Aviator Magazine, January / February 2010 - Dorothy Rungeling‎

‎52 pages. Features: Flying Ski-Equipped Aircraft; Robert S. Grant takes us on a typical DC-3 run for First Nations Air in Manitoba; Dorothy Rungeling - The Flying Housewife; and more. Unmarked with average wear. A sound copy. Book‎

‎Peppler, Graeme; Bell, Justin; Niles, Russ‎

‎Canadian Aviator Magazine, September / October 2009 - Race Pilot Pete McLeod‎

‎54 pages. Features: Race Pilot Pete McLeod seeks to win the Red Bull Air Race Series; Paris Air Show Slump; DC-3 Dreams; Tony Smith gets rated in a DC-3, through the assistance of a Georgia vintage airplane buff; and more. Unmarked with average wear. A sound copy. Book‎

‎Zuuring, Peter‎

‎Arrow Countdown - Rebuilding a Dream and a Nation‎

‎142 pages. "The first in a series of books that will deal with the rebuilding of Canada's most famous airplane, the Avro Arrow. Learn all about Arrow Supersonic flight from those who were there - featuring 'Spud' Potocki. Follow cockpit development with never-before-seen detailed photos and Institute for Aviation Medicine studies. Read about plans to rebuild the Arrow and how it can be accomplished, including sample Technical Bulletin. Walk around stricken Arrows. Arrow technology for TSR2. Iroquois engine recovery in the UK, Engines sold provide slush fund. Arrow accident and molecular physics and much more." - from back board. Clean, bright and unmarked with very light wear. A high-quality copy. Book‎

‎Michael Burns‎

‎McDonnell Douglas F-4K and F-4M Phantom II (Osprey Air Combat)‎

‎200 pages. Index. "The first book devoted to the anglicized versions of the American McDonnell Douglas F-4 Phantom II - the F-4K and F-4M (Designated FG.1 and FGR.2 respectively by the British Services). A very significant book which reveals a wealth of new information about the most expensive Phantoms ever built." - dust jacket. Clean, bright and unmarked with light wear. Price-clipped dust jacket now preserved in glossy new archival-grade Brodart. A nice copy. Book‎

‎Wylie, R.W. (Ron); Bishop, Arthur (Foreword); McPhail, G.C. (Acknowledgement)‎

‎400 (Four Hundred) (City of Toronto) Squadron History 1932 to 1996‎

‎viii, 133 pages. Bibliography. Generously illustrated with reproductions of black and white and colour photos. Oblong 9" x 10.75". Photo endpapers. A "Very carefully and diligently recorded documentary which clearly illustrates how well the squadron has served our country for over 60 years and continues to do so." - Foreword. Book unmarked with average wear. Binding tight. Above-average wear to dust jacket which is now preserved in glossy new archival-grade Brodart. A sound copy of this excellent squadron history. Book‎

‎Robert F. Dorr‎

‎McDonnell F-101 Voodoo (Osprey Air Combat Series)‎

‎198 pages. Index. Glossary. Profusely illustrated with reproductions of black and white photos and twelve in color. "Altough designed to escort American bombers into the Soviet Union, the McDonnell F-101 Voodoo's most numerous variant became an interceptor guarding North America from other bombers. The story begins in the crucible of Southeast Asia, with the men of the 20th Tactical Reconnaissance Squadron. Many of these men were interviewed specially for this book. Includes the Chinese Nationalist RF-101A flights over the mainland from Taiwan, and a first-hand account from the Canadian back-seater of an F-101B. Although incredibly difficult to fly, this aircraft was loved by all who went aloft in her during peace and war." - back cover. Clean and unmarked with moderate wear. A sound copy. Book‎

‎Procter, Capt. (R.)Tom [Editor]; Brigadier-General Brian Cameron [Foreword]‎

‎407 Squadron (The Demon Squadron) 1941 - 2000: A Narrative History‎

‎340 pages. Colour and black and white reproductions of photos. Rolls of Honour. "8th May 2001 marked the 60th anniversary of the formation of 407 "Demon" Squadron RCAF at Thorney Island, Hampshire, England. In WWII the Demons were credited with four U-boat kills and seven U-boats damaged, plus many thousands of tons of enemy shipping sunk and damaged, but at the cost of the lives of 240 members." paraphrased from Foreword. Part One deals with the wartime years, 1941-1945 and is divided into anti-shipping operations and anti-submarine operations. Part Two deals with the post-war years, 1952-2000 and includes these chapters: The Squadron Reformed, The Lancaster Years, The Neptune Years, The Argus Years, The Aurora Years, plus ten informative appendices. Signed and inscribed in 2005 by C.O. P. Ormsby upon title page. Usual library markings. Binding intact.. Above-average external wear. A worthy copy of this informative and important history which includes 64 more pages than the 1996 edition. Book‎

‎Cautley, R.W.; Morgan, Theodore; Marcuse, B.‎

‎Canadian Geographical Journal, October [Oct.] 1930, Vol. I, No. 6 - The Story of the R-100 Airship‎

‎X [ads], 465-554 pages. Profusely illustrated with wonderful black and white photos. Features: Jasper National Park - article which includes five full-page colour reproductions of A.Y. Jackson paintings; Five Million Tourists - Canada's second greatest industry; Asbestos - "Pierre a Coton" - article with dozens of excellent photos of Quebec's mighty asbestos industry; The Story of the R-100 Airship - largest and greatest in the world - article illustrated with many sensational photos; New Books; Glorious vintage ads for national Canadian brands; and more. Unmarked with average wear. Binding intact. A sound copy of this extraordinary Canadian aviation history memento. Book‎

‎Batchelor, Dudley, E.; Patterson, Ewen K.; Grant, J. Fergus; et al‎

‎Canadian Geographical Journal, February [Feb.] 1937, Vol. XIV, No. 2 - Trans-Canada Airway / Ski-ing [Skiing] In Canada‎

‎VI [ads], 55-124 pages. Profusely illustrated with black and white photos. Features: Ski-ing in Canada; With the Pearlers (Pearl Divers] of Northern Australia; Trans-Canada Airway - article includes informative map showing Canada's public airports, airports with lights, intermediate aerodromes and intermediate landing fields, and photos of land clearing for airports at Salmo, B.C., Kitchener, B.C., Coleman, Alberta, Amesdale, Ontario, and Yahk, B.C.; New Books; and more. Unmarked with average wear. Binding intact. A sound copy of this nice issue. Book‎

‎Rimell, Raymond Laurence; Sowrey, Air Marshal Sir Frederick B. [Foreword]‎

‎Zeppelin!: A Battle for Air Supremacy in World War I‎

‎256 pages. Footnotes, bibliography and index. Profusely illustrated with black and white reproductions of sensational archival photos. "In this book, the complete story of the Zeppelin offensive, from Admiral Hugo von Pohl's successful campaign to persuade the Kaiser to initiate the raids, to the destruction of L53, the last Zeppelin to be brought down in combat, is chronicled in minute detail. The author has spent over ten years in personal research, which has extended to many interviews and much correspondence with surviving servicemen and close relatives of the leading personalities of the time, both British and German. Over 300 illustrations, most taken from private collections and not previously published, plus a large number of first-hand accounts, give a vivid insight into the drama of the times, and extensive appendices providing details of the men and machines involved complete a fascinating story that never before has been told with such thoroughness." - dust jacket. Book clean and unmarked with light wear. Binding tight. Light wear to price-clipped dust jacket which is now preserved in archival-grade Brodart. A nice copy of this excellent work. Noffsinger 1215. Book‎

‎Robert F. Dorr‎

‎Vought A-7 CORSAIR II - Osprey Air Combat‎

‎200 pages. Index. Glossary. Profusely illustrated with reproductions of black and white photos and twelve in color. "The first major work to be devoted to Vought's hard-hitting A-7 Corsair II attack jet. A penetrating, absorbing, and highly detailed record of the SLUF's story, a career highlighted by the airplane's involvement in Vietnam, the Iranian hostage crisis, the invasion of Grenada, and yet more combat in Lebanon. Includes a revealing account of the genesis and scope of the Corsair programme, a full description of every variant (including rebuilds and conversions), and the Corsair in service with Navy, Air Force, and Air National Guard squadrons." - back cover. Clean and unmarked with light wear. A nice copy. Book‎

‎Cheesman, E.C.; Beaverbrook, The Right Hon. The Lord [Foreword]‎

‎Brief Glory: The Story of the A.T.A. [Air Transport Auxiliary]‎

‎248 pages. Printed upon glossy stock. More than seventy black and white photos. "The first authentic account of the romantic rise to fame and ultimate disbandment of the Air Transport Auxiliary, the little-known Ferry Pilot service of the (second world) war. Starting with 30 amateur pilots, its numbers finally totalled over 700 who, between 1939 and 1945, ferried more than 308,000 aircraft of more than a hundred different types from the factories to the Royal Air Force." - dust jacket. Appendices include: Special Commendations; Honours List; List of A.T.A. Pilots Who Actually Ferried Aircraft at Pools; Ferrying Figures; Lists of All Types of Aircraft Ferried. Book clean and unmarked with average wear. Binding intact. Heavy wear to dust jacket, now preserved in archival Brodart, which is missing large chunk from top of backstrip, affecting front and back panels. Bonus: Laid-in is A.T.A. Association Newsletter No. VIII from 1955 which runs 16 pages, including a seven-page list of current members. Also, laid inside this newsletter is an obituary news clipping of the A.T.A.'s wartime second in command, Philip Wills, plus a letter signed by Lieutenant Colonel Anthony Mather, O.B.E., dated 10 May 1996, which concerns the wartime record and award of Mr. James Bain, MBE, who served as Superintendent, Flight Engineers, A.T.A. ENSER p.376. Book‎

‎Whittle, Sir Frank‎

‎Jet - The Story of a Pioneer‎

‎320 pages. Index. Black and white photographic plates. "This book is not an autobiography. It is primarily the history of my association with the development of the turbo-jet engine in Great Britain." - Preface. Prior owner's name and date atop front free endpaper. Spine leaning. Somewhat above-average wear to publisher's navy cloth which is partially sunned at spine. Dust jacket not included. A worthy reading copy of this fascinating history. Book‎

‎Gleave, Thomas Percy [R.A.F. Casualty]; Leigh-Mallory, T. [Foreword]‎

‎"I Had a Row With a German"‎

‎xiv, 108 pages. Black and white plates. "A story of gallantry and fortitude told by a fighter pilot who fought and was badly wounded in the Battle of Britain." - Foreword. Military library stamps to endpapers and title page. Above-average wear. Binding intact. Dust jacket not included. A worthy reference copy. [Not found in Enser] Book‎

‎Janic Geelen; James, O.G. [Introduction]‎

‎The Topdressers‎

‎367 pages. Generously illustrated with colour and black and white photos. Endpapers attractively illustrated with logos of aerial spraying companies. "Tells for the first time the remarkable story of aerial topdressing in New Zealand. It begins with Len Daniell, who tried to interest the Government in providing an aircraft for trials in 1926, and ends with an industry poised on the brink of change. Explains how aircraft and aviators flew out onto the farm and fertilised vast areas of unproductive land from the air, an achievement unparalleled in modern agriculture, and significant in the history of world aviation." - dust jacket. Book unmarked with average wear. Binding tight. Somewhat above-average wear to dust jacket which is now preserved in archival-grade brodart. A sound copy of this fascinating and informative history. Book‎

‎Myers, Gerald (Signed]‎

‎My Mother Worked at AVRO: The Story of AVRO (Yeadon) and Its Contribution the Britain's War Effort‎

‎Signed and inscribed by author atop half-title page. [8], 142 pages. Black and white photographic plates, maps, and reproductions of documents. "An outstanding history of one factory during WWII. It was the one I worked in. I salute the author's painstaking research, his sense of humour and his enthusiastic reporting of ordinary people in an extraordinary place during a very dangerous and difficult time." - B. Hepton. Chapters include: Beginnings; Overture to War; Build Up; Conscription; Production Begins in Earnest; Flight Testing and the A.T.A.; The Advent of the Lancaster; Visits from the Luftwaffe - and Further Development at the Factory; "Lighter Moments"; Onto Victory; Peace; Legacy; plus five appendices and a bibliography. Unmarked with above-average but not excessive wear to glossy white covers. Binding intact. A worthy copy of this informative work. Book‎