DWIGGINS, DON

Famous Flyers and the Ships They Flew

NY: Grosset & Dunlap, 1969. 1. Hard Cover. White boards with color photograph on cover, various black and white photos within. Ex-Library copy, pages yellowed with some underlining and notations. Unclipped dust jacket has few marks, in protective plastic cover. Adventures in Flight Series. Ex-Library. B&W Photographs. Large 8vo 9" - 10" tall. 149 pp. Good in Good dust jacket .

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Book number: 18541

Catalogue: Aviation

Keywords: Flight History Photographs Illustrated Books History Science, Medicine & Technology

LINDBERGH, ANNE MORROW

North to the Orient

NY: Harcourt, Brace & Company, 1935. 1. Hard Cover. Illustrated by Charles A. Lindbergh (maps). Seventh Printing (stated). Publisher's full blue cloth, gilt (silver) lettering on spine, airplane medallion, gilt (silver) on cover, maps on endpapers. 8vo. 255 pp. Illustrated with maps drawn by Charles A. Lindbergh and frontispiece photograph of the Sirius on Lotus Lake. Former owner's bookplate on fep, otherwise unmarked. Seemingly unopened. Spine lightly faded, else fine. NEAR FINE. This is Anne Morrow Lindbergh's story of the flight which she and Charles Lindbergh made to the Orient in the summer of 1931, by the Great Circle route, over Alaska and the Arctic Circle. Mrs. Lindbergh describes her experiences as the radio operator and, occasionally, the co-pilot.. NEAR FINE.. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Near Fine with no dust jacket .

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Book number: 6097

Catalogue: Aviation

Keywords: Airplanes; Aviation; Exploration; Flight; Memoir; Lindbergh; Biography & Memoir Science, Medicine & Technology Travel & Adventure

ROLFE, DOUGLAS; ALEXIS DAWYDOFF AND WILLIAM WINTER

Airplanes of the World 1490-1962

NY: Simon and Schuster, 1962. Revised Edition. 1. Hard Cover. Illustrated by Douglas Rolfe. Quarter bound in publisher's white cloth over red boards with black embossed airplanes on the front cover, black lettering on a spine decorated with yellow arrows, dark gray top-stain, yellow endpapers illustrated in the front with the genealogy of the military airplane and in the rear with the geneaology of the transport airplane. Head of spine has light dust soiling, top edge has a faint droplet mark, else unmarked, tight, square and clean. Unclipped dust jacket has light creasing and some short tears at the edges, chipping at the top of the spine. VERY GOOD+/ FAIR. B&W drawings. 8vo 8" - 9" tall. 354 pp. Very Good+ in Fair dust jacket .

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Book number: 22469

Catalogue: Aviation

Keywords: Airplanes Aviation Military Aircraft Transportation Reference

TAYLOR, JOHN W. R.; KENNETH MUNSON

History of Aviation: The Full Story of Flight

NY: Crown Publishers, Inc, 1972. 1st Edition. First Printing. Hard Cover. Publisher's full black cloth, gilt lettering on spine, gilt aitcraft medallion on cover. Profusely illustrated with 1500 illustrations, most in color, as well as drawings and diagrams. "There have been many histories of human flight, but never one like this. An unrivaled team of international writers, photographers and artists, many of them pilots, aircraft designers and technicians, have recorded every aspect of the most exciting technical achievement of our century in over 500 pages of highly factual narrative and full-color illustration." Flaps of the otherwise mangled dust jacket laid in. The volume is in virtually perfect, pristine condition, unmarked, tight, square, and clean. FINE.. Color and B&W Illustrations. Folio 13" - 23" tall. 511 pp. Fine with no dust jacket .

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Book number: 28052

Catalogue: Aviation

Keywords: Aviation; Transportation; Airplanes; Military History; Flight; Science; Technology; Science, Medicine & Technology Travel & Adventure Transportation

VILLARD, HENRY SERRANO

Contact! the Story of the Early Birds Man's First Decade of Flight from Kitty Hawk to World War I

New York: Thomas Crowell, 1968. 1. Hard Cover. Illustrated by Various. Terra cotta colored cloth cover, gold lettering on spine, black endpapers, black and white photographs of early flight; frontispiece shows photograph of the author preparing for his first flight in 1912. Hinge slightly pulled, very little shelf-wear, tight, square and clean. Price clipped dust jacket has some wear to head and heel of spine and corners, rear flap slightly creased, else fine. B & W photographs . Large 8vo 9" - 10" tall. 263 pp. Fine in Very Good dust jacket .

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Book number: 18269

Catalogue: Aviation

Keywords: Aviation History Biography; Illustrated Books; Illustrated Books History Biography & Memoir Science, Medicine & Technology Travel & Adventure