Flight & Space Exploration from Hedgehog's Whimsey Books
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The Steep Ascent
by Anne Morrow Lindbergh
- Condition
- Used - Very Good+
- Jacket Condition
- Missing jacket.
- Edition
- [b.3.44] A Wartime Book (conserving paper).
- Published
- 1944
- Binding
- Navy blue cloth over boards. White spine titles.
- Quantity Available
- 1
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Newport, New Hampshire, USA
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A$12.14
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Skilled writer, poet, and early flight historian and pilot here has written her own history in flying airplanes during the decade before flight was not a wartime event. Fiction, not biography, she writes for the women. Opening in an old English farmhouse, from a young boy's viewpoint. A small, thin volume, the condition is near fine, marred only by minor… Read more about this item Item Price
A$12.14
The Fun of It
by Amelia Earhart
- Condition
- Used - Good-
- Jacket Condition
- Missing jacket.
- Edition
- 1st Edition.
- Published
- 1932
- Binding
- Hardcover.
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Seller
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Newport, New Hampshire, USA
- Item Price
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A$568.99
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Brown fabric over boards. White titles, front and spine. Jacket flaps detached and lightly glued inside each board; in back w/ makeshift library pocket. Other random ex-library markings. End paper foxing to a few other front pages. Age-toning to text pages. Photo borders have some foxing, not true of images alone. Book cover front: 3 nickel size white stains. Author… Read more about this item Item Price
A$568.99
Wilbur and Orville; A Biography of the Wright Brothers
by Howard, Fred
- Condition
- Used - Good in very good dust jacket. Ex-library. Sturdy, readable volume. Clean text pages.
- Edition
- 2nd printing July 1987 of 1st edition, June 5 1987.
- Published
- 1987
- Binding
- Hard cover
- ISBN
- 9780394542690
- Quantity Available
- 1
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Newport, New Hampshire, USA
- Item Price
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A$21.24
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New York.: Alfred A. Knopf., 1987. 2nd printing July 1987 of 1st edition, June 5 1987.. Hard cover. Good in very good dust jacket. Ex-library. Sturdy, readable volume. Clean text pages.. Archival photos.. 1 Gray Cloth, light blue paper over boards. Photo illustrated jacket, Kitty Hawk. 532 p. 24 cm. 2 B&W photo plate sections. Audience: General/trade. Invention… Read more about this item Item Price
A$21.24
Sky Freighter, A Story of Bush Pilots who Fly Freight to the Radium Mines of Arctic Canada
by Brier, Howard M.
- Condition
- Used - Good. No dust jacket. Ex-library. Light page block soiling.
- Edition
- 2nd printing.
- Published
- 1942
- Binding
- Hard cover
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Seller
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Newport, New Hampshire, USA
- Item Price
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A$27.31
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New York: Random house, 1942. 2nd printing.. Hard cover. Good. No dust jacket. Ex-library. Light page block soiling.. Rosenquist, Billiard (Illustrations by).. 1 Library professional rebind in sturdy decorated light blue cloth. 277 p. 21 cm. Black & White Illustrations, Maps incl pull-out map: Flight plan to Arctic Canada. Audience: Children/juvenile. Fiction based on authentic flight service"Wartime Book… Read more about this item Item Price
A$27.31
U.S. Navy Flight Training Manual; No. 1 C.A.A. -W.T.S. Elementary
- Condition
- Used - Very good. Minor spine fold wear; lower front corner short crease. Pages for Notes at back blank, save last, "You Up".
- Edition
- 2nd Printing, November 1943.
- Published
- 1943
- Binding
- Trade paperback
- Quantity Available
- 1
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Newport, New Hampshire, USA
- Item Price
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A$166.90
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Kansas City MO.: C.A.A. -W.T.S. U.S. Navy / LaRue Printers-Lithographers., 1943. 2nd Printing, November 1943.. Trade paperback. Very good. Minor spine fold wear; lower front corner short crease. Pages for Notes at back blank, save last, "You Up".. Numerous drawings, no credit given.. 1 108 p. Trade paperback. Glued binding. Black pseudo-leather paper covers. 21 cm. Front circle… Read more about this item Item Price
A$166.90
Mariner Mission to Venus. Prepared for the National Aeronautics and Space Administration.
by Jet Propulsion Laboratory (U.S. ), and Wheelock, Harold J., and Pickering, W.H. (Jet Propulsion Lab Foreword by)
- Condition
- Used - Very good. Front top corner cover 4-inch crease. Cover edges darkened, but not page blocks.
- Edition
- McGraw-Hill Paperbacks 32495.
- Published
- 1963
- Binding
- Trade paperback
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Seller
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Newport, New Hampshire, USA
- Item Price
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A$13.66
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New York / San Francisco / Toronto.: McGraw-Hill Book Company., 1963. McGraw-Hill Paperbacks 32495.. Trade paperback. Very good. Front top corner cover 4-inch crease. Cover edges darkened, but not page blocks.. 1 Trade paperback. 118 p. 21 cm. B&W photos, diagrams. Index. Early informative short history re: space exploration, its science, engineering, and organization. The Jet Propulsion Laboratory… Read more about this item Item Price
A$13.66
The Spirit of St. Louis
by Lindbergh, Charles A.
- Condition
- Used - Good in fair dust jacket. Signed by previous owner. Spine end wear to volume. Scuffed jacket holding together, barely, with clea
- Edition
- Possible 1st. No print line. Same date, title, copyright pages.
- Published
- 1953
- Binding
- Hard cover
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Seller
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Newport, New Hampshire, USA
- Item Price
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A$16.69
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New York.: Charles Scribner's Sons., 1953. Possible 1st. No print line. Same date, title, copyright pages.. Hard cover. Good in fair dust jacket. Signed by previous owner. Spine end wear to volume. Scuffed jacket holding together, barely, with clear tape repairs.. 1 561 p. Blue cloth over boards. Small single airplane line art, cover. Appendices: technical w/ diagrams,… Read more about this item Item Price
A$16.69
Students' Manual: Primary Flying
- Condition
- Used - Good. Cover soiling. Edge wear. Rusting to binding posts.
- Edition
- No date; circa 1942.
- Binding
- Trade paperback
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Seller
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Newport, New Hampshire, USA
- Item Price
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A$159.32
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Army Air Forces Training Command.. No date; circa 1942.. Trade paperback. Good. Cover soiling. Edge wear. Rusting to binding posts.. 1 123 p. Includes: illustrations, diagrams, index. Gray card stock paper covers; maroon and black titles. 8x11 in. Artwork light blue and black. Binding: 3 posts. Manual for AAF PT-17 and PT-19; PT-22 also illustrated. Prepared by Army… Read more about this item Item Price
A$159.32
First American into Space
by Silverberg, Robert
- Condition
- Used - Very good. Age-toning. Light inside water staining.
- Edition
- "A Monarch Books Non-fiction Special". "Collector
- Published
- 1961
- Binding
- Mass-market paperback
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Seller
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Newport, New Hampshire, USA
- Item Price
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A$9.10
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Derby CT.: Monarch Books, Inc., 1961. "A Monarch Books Non-fiction Special". "Collector's Edition".. Mass-market paperback. Very good. Age-toning. Light inside water staining.. 1 First edition. Mass-market paperback. 142 p. 18 cm. Cover art: Shepard, Glenn, Grissom, front. Non-fiction: The Mercury Astronauts was a dramatic tale leading up to who accepted that first challenge, an historic event for America… Read more about this item Item Price
A$9.10
Lindbergh (Pulitzer Prize Winning Biography)
by Berg, A Scott
- Condition
- Used - Very good. Single spine crease. Else clean.
- Edition
- First edition. 1st Berkley.
- Published
- 1999
- Binding
- Trade paperback
- ISBN
- 9780425170410
- Quantity Available
- 1
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Newport, New Hampshire, USA
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A$10.62
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New York.: Berkley Publishing Group., 1999. First edition. 1st Berkley.. Trade paperback. Very good. Single spine crease. Else clean.. 1 Trade paperback (US). Glued binding. B&W photos: frontispiece plus 3 plate sections. Audience: General/trade. In 1927, Charles Lindbergh's one-man flight New York to Paris was historic, catapulting him into hero status. Five years later, He and Anne Morrow… Read more about this item Item Price
A$10.62
Wings over England
by Snell, Roy J
- Condition
- Used - Good in fair dust jacket. Jacket: edge wear, chips, lower back dj missing 2 inches. Book spine ends damaged; corners bumped.
- Edition
- Copyright: M.A. Donohue & Co.
- Published
- 1941
- Binding
- Hard cover
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Seller
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Newport, New Hampshire, USA
- Item Price
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A$11.38
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Chicago / New York.: The Goldsmith Publishing Company., 1941. Copyright: M.A. Donohue & Co.. Hard cover. Good in fair dust jacket. Jacket: edge wear, chips, lower back dj missing 2 inches. Book spine ends damaged; corners bumped.. Sheffer, Glen (Illustrations by).. 1 241 p. Red textured paper over boards. Black titles, front line art diving airplanes. Color jacket… Read more about this item Item Price
A$11.38
Wind, Sand and Stars
by De Saint-Exupéry, Antoine, And Galantiere, Lewis (Translated By), And Clostermann, Pierre (New Introduction By)
- Condition
- Used - Very good. No dust jacket as issued. Lower half-inch tear to bottom spine. One penciled bracket found inside.
- Edition
- Book Club Edition. Special Edition.
- Published
- 1965
- Binding
- Trade paperback
- Quantity Available
- 1
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Newport, New Hampshire, USA
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A$11.38
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TIME Reading Program / Time Inc, 1965. Book Club Edition. Special Edition.. Trade paperback. Very good. No dust jacket as issued. Lower half-inch tear to bottom spine. One penciled bracket found inside.. Cellini, Joseph (Cover design by).. 0 222 p. Stiff flexible, plastic-coated black, blue, and white illustrated covers. Sticker residue, first endpaper. Author and pilot epitomized artist… Read more about this item Item Price
A$11.38
The Sound of Wings: The Life of Amelia Earhart (plus Weekly World News tabloid story, 1993, proclaiming Earhart found alive at 96, w/ pictures! )
by Lovell, Mary S
- Condition
- Very good in very good dust jacket. Light top page block soiling. Slight jacket edge wear. Newspaper clipping in fine condition.
- Edition
- First edition. 1st printing.
- Published
- 1989
- Binding
- Hard cover
- ISBN
- 9780312034313
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Seller
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Newport, New Hampshire, USA
- Item Price
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A$28.83
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St. Martin's Press., 1989. First edition. 1st printing.. Hard cover. Very good in very good dust jacket. Light top page block soiling. Slight jacket edge wear. Newspaper clipping in fine condition.. Carpenter, Andy (Jacket design by), and Borowsky, Doris (Hand-tinting to photo by).. 1 Brown cloth, tan paper over boards. Gold spine titles. Colorized portrait on jacket. 420… Read more about this item Item Price
A$28.83
The Adventures of a Bush Pilot
by Laporte, Richard H
- Condition
- Used - Fine. No dust jacket as issued. Signed by author.
- Edition
- 1st printing.
- Published
- 1997
- Binding
- Trade paperback
- ISBN
- 9780965837309
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Seller
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Newport, New Hampshire, USA
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A$15.17
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Newport NH.: Self-published., 1997. 1st printing.. Trade paperback. Fine. No dust jacket as issued. Signed by author.. 1 219 p. Includes illustrations. Color photo section; yellow sturdy, glossy wraps w/cover photo of light plane, water and mountains in background. Richard LaPorte's early years in Newport NH are described: skiing, hunting, fishing. There was a stint in the US… Read more about this item Item Price
A$15.17
The Aviators: A New Adventure in Brotherhood of War, Book VIII
by Griffin, W E B
- Condition
- Used - Very good in very good dust jacket. Slight spine tilt. Minor cover wear to DJ. Tight.
- Edition
- First edition. 1st printing.
- Published
- 1988
- Binding
- Hard cover
- ISBN
- 9780399133800
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Seller
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Newport, New Hampshire, USA
- Item Price
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A$11.38
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G P. Putnam's Sons, 1988. First edition. 1st printing.. Hard cover. Very good in very good dust jacket. Slight spine tilt. Minor cover wear to DJ. Tight.. 1 Black Paper over boards. Red DJ, white titles. 409 p. Audience: General/trade. Military fiction set in Vietnam and U.S., 1963-1965. Item Price
A$11.38
Sky Storming Yankee; The Life of Glenn Curtiss
by Studer, Clara, and Towers, Capt. John H, U.S.N. (Foreword by)
- Condition
- Used - Good. No dust jacket. Ex-library. Top spine end 1/8th-inch tear. Light bumps at corners. Clean interior. Library spine markings.
- Edition
- Presumed 1st, same date, title and copyright pages.
- Published
- 1937
- Binding
- Hard cover
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Seller
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Newport, New Hampshire, USA
- Item Price
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A$36.42
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New York.: Stackpole Sons., 1937. Presumed 1st, same date, title and copyright pages.. Hard cover. Good. No dust jacket. Ex-library. Top spine end 1/8th-inch tear. Light bumps at corners. Clean interior. Library spine markings.. 1 First edition. 437 p. Includes illustrations. Gray cloth over boards. Blue titles, front. Fading white titles, spine. Frontispiece: pasted-on B&W photo of Curtiss,… Read more about this item Item Price
A$36.42
First on the Moon
by Walters, Hugh
- Condition
- Used - Very good. No dust jacket as issued.
- Edition
- Tempo Books ed.
- Published
- 1962
- Binding
- Trade paperback
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Seller
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Newport, New Hampshire, USA
- Item Price
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A$9.86
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New York: Grosset & Dunlap, 1962. Tempo Books ed.. Trade paperback. Very good. No dust jacket as issued.. 0 192 p.; 18 cm. Tempo books. "T13. " Item Price
A$9.86
Realm of Flight: Presenting Practical Information About Weather in Relation to the Piloting of Private Aircraft
by Stanton, George Sidney
- Condition
- Used - Very good. No dust jacket as issued. Near fine. Two minor blemishes to front cover. Smooth and clean.
- Edition
- Date on p.41: 1945-648953. Price 60c, US Govt. Printing.
- Published
- 1945
- Binding
- Wraps
- ISBN
- 9781945648953
- Quantity Available
- 1
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Newport, New Hampshire, USA
- Item Price
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A$9.10
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Washington DC.: U S Government Printing Office., 1945. Date on p.41: 1945-648953. Price 60c, US Govt. Printing.. Wraps. Very good. No dust jacket as issued. Near fine. Two minor blemishes to front cover. Smooth and clean.. 1 41 p. Includes illustrations. Horizontal format, 10.25x7.75in. Stapled binding. Color illustrations not credited. Chart at back: Interpretation of Weather Reports sent… Read more about this item Item Price
A$9.10
Straight on Till Morning: the Biography of Beryl Markham
by Lovell, Mary S
- Condition
- Used - Very good in good dust jacket. Signed by previous owner. DJ has chips. lower edge, closed tear at lower edge fold. Interior clea
- Edition
- 3rd printing.
- Published
- 1987
- Binding
- Hard cover
- ISBN
- 9780312010966
- Quantity Available
- 1
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Newport, New Hampshire, USA
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A$12.14
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St. Martin's Press., 1987. 3rd printing.. Hard cover. Very good in good dust jacket. Signed by previous owner. DJ has chips. lower edge, closed tear at lower edge fold. Interior clean.. 1 Cloth & paper over boards. 408 p. B&W photo sections; frontispiece of Markham emerging smiling from plane. DJ Cover color portrait, a B&W on reverse. Biography:… Read more about this item Item Price
A$12.14
The Airship Boys in Finance Or the Flight of the Flying Cow
by Sayler, H. L.
- Condition
- Used - Very good. No dust jacket. VG-, minor soiling; slight slant to spine; minor page block edge soiling. Front beginning to separate
- Published
- 1911
- Binding
- Hard cover
- Quantity Available
- 1
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Newport, New Hampshire, USA
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A$33.38
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Chicago.: Reilly & Britton., 1911. Hard cover. Very good. No dust jacket. VG-, minor soiling; slight slant to spine; minor page block edge soiling. Front beginning to separate to gauze before frontispiece.. Riesenberg, S.H. Illustrated by).. 1 295 p. 5th in series of 6; Blue cloth covered boards w/airplane framed by ivory moon, ivory titles. Youth series, early… Read more about this item Item Price
A$33.38
