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Paris, France: Vuibert & Nony. Very Good+. ca. 1905. Second Edition. Hardcover. No date: Text narrative continues to 1905. Clean green pictorial covers, heavily decorated with gilt. All edges gilt. Text tight, clean & intact. Numerous photo and engraved illustrations. French text. ; Engravings; 4to 11" - 13" tall; 442 pages .
The AMERICAN AIRCRAFT ALBUM. "A Hobby for the Airminded". Contains Spaces for 360 "Plane Pix" ... With Complete Information on Each Type of Plane in the Series. This Collection Consists of the Most Popular Sport, Racing, Transport, Army, Navy, Marine and Coast Guard Type of Airplanes Built in the U.S.A. by [Aviation Scrap Book] - (n. d.)
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The AMERICAN AIRCRAFT ALBUM. "A Hobby for the Airminded". Contains Spaces for 360 "Plane Pix" ... With Complete Information on Each Type of Plane in the Series. This Collection Consists of the Most Popular Sport, Racing, Transport, Army, Navy, Marine and Coast Guard Type of Airplanes Built in the U.S.A.
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Mountainside, N.J.: International Aircraft Photo Service Inc, (n. d.). 1st edition. Ca 1930s. Screw-post binding with stiff stock paper covers. Norman Barker drawing of 3 planes to front cover [planes reminiscent of the T-28]. General binding wear. Title leaf detached. ~ 10 leaves with varying degrees of damping, with some associated adhesion damage to images [none ruined, per se, but noticable]; light scattered damp-spotting to images throughout. A Good set of an uncommon item.. Unpaginated, though 18 pages of text. 45 leaves with 8 tipped-in photographic style images [360 total] of the divers aircraft. Oblong format: 7-1/4" x 12"
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LA NAVIGATION AERIENNE Histoire Documentaire Et Anecdotique
by Lecornu, J.
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For Spacious Skies: The Uncommon Journey of a Mercury Astronaut.
by [Astronaut Memoir Signed] Carpenter, Scott; Stoever, Kris.
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San Diego:: Harcourt Brace,, 2002.. First Printing of the First Edition. A Fine tight unread copy in a Fine bright dust jacket. Signed by Astronaut Carpenter. Scott Carpenter was one of seven Project Mercury astronauts who took part in America's burgeoning space program in the 1960s. He writes candidly of the pioneering science, training, and biomedicine of early space flight and tells the heart-stopping tale of his famous spaceflight aboard Aurora 7. He shares stories from the earliest days of NASA and, for the first time ever, Carpenter's own account of his controversial flight and splashdown.
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Go, Get' Em!: The True Adventures of an American Aviator of the Lafayette Flying Corps who was the only Yankee Flyer Fighting over General Pershing's Boys of the Rainbow Division in Lorraine, when they First Went "Over the Top"
by Wellman, William A. & Elliot Harlow Robinson (Introduction and Notes)
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Boston: The Page Company. Very Good with no dust jacket. 1918. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. Green cloth cover with yellow lettering, yellow and blue illustration of aerial combat on front cover. There is wear at corners and head, tail of spine. Yellow on front has some scratches and chips. Binding sound. Gift note in pencil on ffep dated Nov. 1918. Pages otherwise unmarked. Lacking DJ. Author Wellman as an American joined the French Foreign Legion and flew fighter planes in WWI. After the war he was involved in the movie industry as an actor and director. This is his story of his experiences in WWI. ; Photographs. drawings; 12mo 7" - 7½" tall; 284 pages .
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The Last Man on the Moon: Astronaut Eugene Cernan and America's Race to Space.
by [Astronaut Signature] Cernan, Eugene with Don Davis.
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New York::: St. Martin's,,, 1999... First Printing of the First US Edition. A Fine tight copy in a Fine bright unclipped dust jacket. This copy is signed by Cernan. Eugene Cernan was the 12th and last man to walk on the moon as the commander of Apollo 17, the last scheduled manned mission to the moon. Cernan and fellow astronaut Jack Schmitt activated a base of operations on the moon from which they completed three highly successful excursions to nearby craters and the Taurus mountains, making the moon their home for over three days. This last mission to the moon established several new records for manned space flight.
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Aerial Transport
by Thomas, G. Holt
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First edition. xviii+259 pp.+65 B&W illustrations and 4 folding maps in two colours h.t. 25,2x19,5 cm. Hodder and Stoughton Limited, London, 1920.--- Blindstamped cloth gilt (publishers bindint). Occasional foxing, light edgewear.
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LA NAVIGATION AERIENNE Histoire Documentaire Et Anecdotique
by Lecornu, J.
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Paris, France: Vuibert & Nony. Very Good+. ca. 1905. Second Edition. Hardcover. No date: Text narrative continues to 1905. Clean green pictorial covers, heavily decorated with gilt. All edges gilt. Text tight, clean & intact. Numerous photo and engraved illustrations. French text. ; Engravings; 4to 11" - 13" tall; 442 pages .
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The All-American Boys: An Insider's Candid Look at the Space Program and the Myth of the Super Hero.
by [Signed Astronaut Memoir] Cunningham, Walter.
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New York:: Macmillan,, 1977.. First Printing of the First US Edition. A Very Good copy with a small scuff to the front board with the boards bound upside down in a Very Good unclipped dust jacket with one short tape-repaired edge tear. Cunningham was a member of the Apollo 7 crew that mapped future landing sites for the first moon landing in 1969. On October 11, 1968, he occupied the lunar module pilot seat for the eleven-day flight of Apollo 7 - the first manned flight test of the third generation United States spacecraft. With Walter M. Schirra, Jr., and Donn F. Eisele, Cunningham participated in and executed maneuvers enabling the crew to perform exercises in transposition and docking and lunar orbit rendezvous with the S-IVB stage of their Saturn IB launch vehicle; completed eight successful test and maneuvering ignitions of the service module propulsion engine; measured the accuracy of performance of all spacecraft systems; and provided the first effective television transmission of onboard…
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For Spacious Skies: The Uncommon Journey of a Mercury Astronaut.
by [Astronaut Memoir Signed] Carpenter, Scott; Stoever, Kris.
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San Diego:: Harcourt Brace,, 2002.. First Printing of the First Edition. A Fine tight unread copy in a Fine bright dust jacket. Signed by Astronaut Carpenter. Scott Carpenter was one of seven Project Mercury astronauts who took part in America's burgeoning space program in the 1960s. He writes candidly of the pioneering science, training, and biomedicine of early space flight and tells the heart-stopping tale of his famous spaceflight aboard Aurora 7. He shares stories from the earliest days of NASA and, for the first time ever, Carpenter's own account of his controversial flight and splashdown.
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Aerial Transport
by Thomas, G. Holt
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First edition. xviii+259 pp.+65 B&W illustrations and 4 folding maps in two colours h.t. 25,2x19,5 cm. Hodder and Stoughton Limited, London, 1920.--- Blindstamped cloth gilt (publishers bindint). Occasional foxing, light edgewear.
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Yukon Wings
by Cameron, Robert B.
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- 9781897181621 / 1897181620
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Calgary: Frontenac House 978-1-897181-62-1 [978-1-897181-62-1] 2012, 2nd printing. (4to) 353pp. Fine in fine dust jacket. Map endpapers, black & white and color photographs, list of airlines, cast of major characters, notes, indices. Locale: Yukon. (Transportation, Aircraft--Civil, Bush Pilots).
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THE BATTLE OF EASTLEIGH
by Bolle, Frederick N
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Los Angeles, California, United States
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Octavo (8 1/2 X 10 1/2 inches) New York: United States Naval Air Force, 1918. First Edition. oblong format, 144 pages illustrated with black and white halftone photographs, and a map, original gray cloth, hardcover, good condition (lower right corner of front cover slightly bumped, minor shelf wear to lower spine, not affecting contents which are clean and complete).This is a unit history, with many photos of the Eastleigh U. S. Navy repair base in England during World War I; its officers and men. There are many photos of early military aircraft, and an essay on "Liberty Twelves" and "DeHavilands."
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Sky High: The Story of Aviation
by Hodgins, Eric ; F[rederick] Alexander Magoun
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Boston: Little, Brown and Company, 1929. First edition. Hardcover. Very Good +/very good. 8vo. xx, 338 pp. Bound in full red cloth, title and decoration stamped in black on cover and spine, in illustrated dust jacket. Black and white frontispiece and illustrations throughout. Includes index. Hodgins would later write the novel Mr. Blandings Builds His Dream House and its sequel Blandings' Way. Near Fine, minor age-toning to pages, otherwise clean, hinges tight, binding bright and clean, faintest of rubbing to bottom edge, in Very Good+ dust jacket with age-darkening to spine, rubbing and chipping to extremities, light soiling. Beautiful copy.
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TWO HUNDRED YEARS OF FLIGHT IN AMERICA: A Bicentennial Survey
by Emme, Eugene M. (editor)
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San Diego, California: American Astronautical Society (AAS), 1981. xvi, 310 pages. Third printing of Volume 1 in the AAS History Series, that was first published in 1977. Laid in is a handwritten note from Gene Emme to NASA archivist Lee Saegesser, with whom Emme had worked closely for years in the NASA History Office. Emme was NASA's first official historian and the founder of the NASA History Office. Through national meetings, technical meetings, symposia and publications, the American Astronautical Society has provided the perspectives and expertise of the leading American space professionals in advancing all space activities. In this book 13 of those professionals provide important perspectives on the history of flight in the U. S. just after the opening of the National Air and Space Museum. The book offered here is from the personal collection of Lee Saegesser, NASA's chief archivist for 30 years. The book is in very good condition: clean, bright, and tight, with just a hint of…
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Some Milestones in Aviation
by W. E. Johns
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John Hamilton, London, England, No date. Hardcover. Good Condition/No Dust Jacket. Size: 12mo - over 6 3/4" - 7 3/4" tall. 232 pp. Pages are yellowed, but are tight and clean. Spine caps are fraying. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 pound. Category: Aviation; Pictures of this item not already displayed here available upon request. Inventory No: 001321. .
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Freddy and the Baseball Team From Mars
by Brooks, Walter R
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Freddy and the Baseball Team From Mars, Alfred A. Knopf 1st Ed. 1955. Hardcover. Illustrated by Kurt Wiese. Used. VG/ No DJ. Rose red boards. Spine lightly sunned. A nice copy of a scarce item.
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Freddy And The Men From Mars
by Brooks, Walter R
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Freddy And The Men From Mars. Brooks, Walter: Illustrated by Kurt Wiese. Hardcover. Alfred A. Knopf , 1956 First Edition 2nd Printing Thus. Used. Very Good Condition/ No dust jacket included. A nice copy.
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The Giant Anthology of Science Fiction
by Margulies, Leo
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LEO MARGULIES, EDITOR. The Giant Anthology of Science Fiction (1954, Merlin Press 1st Ed. w/dj)Please see our stock cover photo. Edited by Leo Margulies and Oscar J. Friend. Used. VG/G- original unclipped $3.95 DJ. 1954, Merlin Press, Inc. 580 pages. ANTHOLOGY.. 10 stories included in this volume are: Enchantress of Venus by Leigh Brackett; Gateway to darkness by Fredric Brown; The girl in the golden atom by Ray Cummings; Forgotten world by Edmond Hamilton; By his bootstraps by Robert A. Heinlein; Sword of tomorrow by Henry Kuttner; Things pass by, by Murray Leinster; Rogue Ship by A. E. Van Vogt; Island in the sky by Manly Wade Wellman; The Sun Maker by Jack Williamson.
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Pan American's Pacific Pioneers: The Rest of the Story A Pictorial History of Pan Am's Pacific First Flights 1935-1946
by Jon E. Krupnick
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Pictorial Histories Publishing Company, Missoula, 2000, Fine Hardcover / Near Fine Dustjacket, 696 pages, 9.5" x 12.25", slight edgewear on dustjacket, otherwise clean and tight. Cover art by Bob Jenny.
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Fatigue of Aircraft Structures
by Grover, Horace J
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Research and Technology, Naval Air Systems Command, Department of the Navy, U.S.A., 1966. First Edition. Softcover. Fine/--. 9 x 6 x 1. NON SMOKING STORE. My listing INCLUDES PHOTO OF ACTUAL BOOK for sale. Book FINE/ Covers NEAR FINE. NEVER OPENED. Covers are light blue, lettering black, Dept. of the Navy Air Systems Command logo on front. Spine is sunned so that the light blue is now grey but the black text of title is clear, spine has a few minor wrinkles, perhaps from age acting on the glue. The front and back covers are flat, clean, bright, no rips, very slightly bent corners, no spine creases, a bit of sunning around all edges. Spine is slightly rounded instead of sharply right angled. Pages edges very slightly sunned. Inside of book is tight, clean, bright, flat. One page dog eared about 1/2 inch, restored flat. Book is unread but may have gently fallen causing it to be slightly over-opened at page 14-15 but spine is not exposed and binding is not broken. No loose or missing…
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An Administrative History of NASA, 1958-1963
by Rosholt, Robert L
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Washington, D.C.: National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), 1966. NASA Press Release no: 66-158 laid in, an announcement for the publication of this book. Book is Near Fine, faint rub to rear board, from the library of James H. Capshew, Historian for the National Park Service "Man in Space" program, his signature front end page. . First Edition. Cloth. Near Fine/No Jacket, As Issued. Large 8vo. Review Copy.
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