Search Results: Aviation from Catron Grant Books

Washington , DC: Center for Air Force History, 1992 60 pps. Text clean, tight, bright and unmarked. Paper cover clean with no signs of wear. This is a "Wings at War" commemorative edition; an imprint of a 1945 AAF document regarding an Allied invasion of German Forces in Occupied France towards the end of WWII.. Commemorative Edition - Imprint. Soft Cover. Near Fine. 6" x9". Pamphlet.

England: Airlife Publishing, Ltd., 1985 167 pps. Profusely illustrated with b/w photographs. Text clean tight and unmarked. blue boards with gilt stamping on spine near fine apart from minor bumping on bottom corners. Interior near fine. DJ clean, and bright with one closed tear on the upper spine.Now in protective mylar.. 1st Edition in English. Very Good/Very Good. 8.25" x 11.5".

London: His Majesty's Stationery Office, 1944 95 pp with one map and B&W photos on every page. Text is clean, tight and unmarked. Covers are undamaged save for very slight shelfwear. Size: 7" x 9" #001569. Stapled Soft Cover. Very Good Plus.

Crescent Books, 1992 144 pps. Profusely illustrated with full-color photographs. Text as new and unmarked. White cloth boards with gold printing on spine spotless. Blue DJ with red type and full-colr photograph as new.. 1st Ed.. Hardcover. As New/As New. 10.5" X 11.25".

Japan: Kantosha, 1961 Japan: Kantosha, 1961 Three volumes consisting of a quarto photo album of the airplanes, text in Japanese. Plus two smaller 6"x8.5" volumes in English. All fitted into a tan cardboard case. Texts are clean, tight and unmarked. Larger book has a DJ in VG condition, two smaller volumes have to DJ's. Case is strong and intact with some bumping to extremities. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. 9" x 13".. 1st Edition.. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good.

Washington D.C.: United States Naval Observatory, 1950 PP 487 -730. "The object of this volume is to provide in convenient form the astronomical data required for arial navagation," Text is clean and unmarked, final page loose from spiral binding. Paper boards have a pencil notation.. Spiral-bound Paper. Good/No Jacket as Published. 7.5" x 10".

London: Salamander Books, 1997 216 pps. Profusely illustrated with full color photographs, and diagrams. Endpapers have both illustrations and text. Front gutter has a partial split. Text is clean, tight, bright, and unmarked -Blue cloth boards with gold-stamping on spine . DJ with full page, full-color photograph and red and white type clean, tight and bright. one small closed tear on back corner. In protective mylar.. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. 8 5/8" X 12".

Toronto, Canada: James Lorimer & Co., 1979 160 pp with 8 B&W plates. A short history of A.V. Roe, manfacturer of the Avro Canada CF-105 Arrow, a delta-winged interceptor aircraft designed and built by Avro Canada. from its wartime origins to the cancellation of the plane. Text is clean, tight and unmarked. Bluecloth boards are clean, intact, a little sun-lightened along spine.. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

Rand McNally, 1931 20 pps. with b/w photofraphs, charts, maps throughout. Text waterstained but intact and legible. Upper and lower corners dog-eared. Orange paper cover with dark grey-blue printing with illustration on front and Gulf Oil advertising inside and outside back cover shows wear and water staining but is intact. One closed tear. Additional vintage newspaper clippings attached... Re: Amelia Earhart (1962) and Re:Charles Lindbergh (1960).. 2nd Editon. Stapled Soft Cover. Good. 10" x 13.25".

U.K.: Photographer's Institute Press, 2005 176 pps. with 1 or more full-color photographs on every page. Text clean, tight, bright, unmarked and AN. Black cloth boards with gold stamping AN. DJ with full colr photograph and white type is tight and bright with no damage beyond minor surface wear.. 1st Edition. Hardcover. As New/Very Good. 7.5" x 10".

Wing & Anchor Press, 1982 56 pp with color and B&W illustrations on every page.with 4 oversized fold-out illustrations of the plane. Text is clean, tight and unmarked. DJ is bright and intact save for two short closed tears. Now in protective mylar.. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. Folio - over 12" - 15" tall.

Bison Books, 1990 105 pp plus index, B&W photo illustrations on every page.Text is clean, tight and unmarked. Previous owner's name sticker on first free page. Special Feature " With a Canadian Squadron" by Douglas Bader added to this printing. DJ is clean and bright with a small chip miissing along bottom edge. . Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. 10" x 14".

Auckland, NZ: Reed Publishing, 2002 96 glossy pps. fully illustrated with full-color photographs. Text clean, tight,and unmarked and Glossy softcover with full-color photographs and black type tight and bright; has a crease in the upper corner downgrading it to NF. This book is a record of the airshows - Warbirds Over Wanaka - taking place in New Zealand since 1988.. 1st Edition. Softcover. Near Fine. Illus. by Brodie, Ian and Phil Makanna. 10.25" x 8.25".

Ottawa, Canada: Queen's Printer and Comptroller of Stationary, 1982 47 pp plus 5 pp on landing gear and 5 pp on anti-skid unit . 20 plus pp of schematics bound in and loose page schematics. The Canadair CP-107 Argus was a marine reconnaissance aircraft designed and manufactured by Canadair for the Royal Canadian Air Force In its early years, the Argus was reputedly the finest anti-submarine patrol bomber in the world. The Argus which served from 1957 to 1982 throughout the Cold War in the RCAF's Maritime Air Command and later the CF's Maritime Air Group and Air Command. One of the most effective anti-submarine warfare (ASW) aircraft of its day, the Argus was a mainstay for the RCAF.A total of 33 planes were built and aA large amount of equipment was carried, including: search radar, sonobuoys, electronic counter measures explosive echo ranging and magnetic anomaly detector. Up to 8,000 lbs of weapons could be carried in the bomb bays, including torpedoes and depth charges. The CL-28 had… Read More

The Pure Oil Company, 1936 Published for listeners of the radio show, "The Diary of Jimmie Mattern." Texts are clean, tight and unmarked. Blue paper boards with a sillouette of a plane traveling through clouds in silver. are VG, with spines slightly lightened.. Hardcover. Good/No Jacket. 5" x 7".

Simon & Schuster, 2010 314 pps. plus 8 b/w plates and one map. Features vintage b/w comic panels by "Jake" Shuffert. Text as new. Black paper-covered boards with silver stamping on spine as new. DJ clean and bright with minor wear. Quote: "The Berlin Airlift changed the world. It ended when Stalin backed down and lifted the blockade, but only after the bravery and sense of duty of those young heros had bought the Allies enough time to create a new West Germany and sign the mutual defense agreement that created NATO...". Book Club Edition. Hardcover. As New/Near Fine. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Book Club Edition.

Arco Publishing, 1984 xii, 226 pp with B&Wphoto illustrations throughout. Personnel list after text. Text is clean, tight and unmarked. DJ is intact with some edgewear, now in protective mylar.. Hardcover. Very Good/Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

New York: Platt & Munk, 1943 Unpaginated. Handsome color illustration of airplanes from the Wright brothers to the Boeing Flying Fortress. Text is clean, tight and unmarked. Red cloth boards with a a large pastedown on front cover are rubbed at corners, lightly soiled, shaken.. Hardcover. Good/No Jacket. Illus. by Holcombe, Irvin L..

Tokyo, Japan: Kantosha, 1961 Tokyo, Japan: Kantosha, 1961 Three volumes cased. Vol.1 ((9" x 12") contains the original text in Japanese and the illustrations. Vols 2 & 3 are the English translations. The threevolumes are clean, tight and unmarked. Vol. 1 has a VG dust jacket. All are housed in a tan heavy corregated cardboard case with some rubbing to extremities. Cased Hardcovers. Very Good/Good. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall.. Hardcover. Very Good/Good.

Macmillan, 1971 167 ppwith 80 color plates of fighter aircraft. Text is clean, tight and unmarked. DJ is bright and undamaged, spine slightly sunned.. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. 5' x 8".