PILOT'S BOOK.
by U.S.ARMY, SIGNAL CORPS, AVIATION SECTION
- Used
- Hardcover
- Signed
- Condition
- Minor Edge Wear and Soiling.
- Seller
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Prairie Village, Kansas, United States
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
U.S. Army , 1918. Owner's name in ink top of front cover. Contains entries from 8/6/18 to 9/18/18 at Post Field, Ft. Sill, Oklahoma. While at Ft. Sill, this 2nd Lieutenant from Kansas worked on reconnaissance, infantry contact, puff target, sketching railroad yards, machine gun proficiency. He then transferred to the School of Aerial Gunnery at Selfride Field, Michigan from 9/30/18 to 10/19/18. All courses are listed, with hours spent, grading, signed by instructors. Laid-in are orders to report to Selfride Field and a letter dated October 19, 1918, naming the log's owner as being now rated as an Aerial Observer. A fine piece of aviation ephemera, from the Great War. We find only one other similar pilot's log for sale at this time.. Tan Cloth. Minor Edge Wear and Soiling.. Square Octavo.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Glenn Books (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 000220
- Title
- PILOT'S BOOK.
- Author
- U.S.ARMY, SIGNAL CORPS, AVIATION SECTION
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Minor Edge Wear and Soiling.
- Publisher
- U.S. Army
- Date Published
- 1918
- Size
- Square Octavo
- Keywords
- PILOT'S LOG BOOK MILITARY HISTORY AVIATION WORLD WAR ONE FORT SILL
Terms of Sale
Glenn Books
All books are subject to prior sale. Books are guaranteed as described and may be returned to us within 10 days with immediate notice of intent to return the item.
About the Seller
Glenn Books
Biblio member since 2005
Prairie Village, Kansas
About Glenn Books
We are an antiquarian bookshop established in 1933. We are members of ABAA and ILAB.
Glossary
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- Laid-in
- "Laid In" indicates that there is something which is included with, but not attached to the book, such as a sheet of paper. The...
- Cloth
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- Fine
- A book in fine condition exhibits no flaws. A fine condition book closely approaches As New condition, but may lack the...
- Octavo
- Another of the terms referring to page or book size, octavo refers to a standard printer's sheet folded four times, producing...