14 8x10 photos, a couple are duplicates. From June 19, 1922, to July 12, 1922, the First Aviation Group participated in maneuvers of the East Coast Expeditionary Force at Gettysburg. Three Martin bombers, 6 DH4 – B planes, 6 VE – 7 planes, and one type F kite balloon were.....
21 8x10 photos, probably printed in the 1980s, most have captions affixed to versos detailing what is being shown, from Marine Corps and Defense Department negatives. Pago Pago, Samoa, Milne Bay, Tuituila, includes two color ones showing artwork on balloon and lighter-than-air craft in WWII by Alexander Brook, majority appear.....
Washington DC: 1970s. 50 8x10 photos with stamps on verso from the Smithsonian / National Archives with typed captions taped on and handwritten notes on each balloon, etc, by aviation historian Russell Parkinson (his name-address sticker on the verso of each one). In very good overall condition, and probably not.....
Paris: Sirpa Air, 1984. First Printing. Wraps. Large 4to, 15 x 11 inches, softcover in stiff textured pale blue paper, light mellowing to spine color, contents fine. 157 pp, illustrated.
Dessau: Junkers Flugzeug- und- Motorenwerke, 1923. First Printing. Wraps. 9 x 6.25 inches, stiff wraps, very good, pages tanning, slight bumping & waviness to upper outer corner throughout. 128 pp, illustrated with maps and photoplates including folding color European map at rear. Library of Congress surplus-duplicate stamp on cover.
Washington DC: Smithsonian, 1934. First Printing. Wraps. 8vo, softcover, very good to fine copy with minimal wear and toning. 57 pp, 6 plates. Discusses Langley's contributions to astronomy, astrophysics and aeronautics.
Washington DC: Smithsonian, 1928. First Printing. Wraps. 8vo, softcover, very good minus, light wear and toning, light creasing and a couple short repaired tears to rear cover, 27 pp, contents very good and clean.
Washington DC: Smithsonian, 2002. First printing. Hardcover. First Printing. 2002. Hardcover. 230pp. Fine in Fine dustjacket. Only the tiniest bit of soil to rear panel of jacket. Contents unmarked.
New York: D. Van Nostrand, 1930. Hardcover. 647 pp. Hardcover, olive cloth, 8vo. A Good-, Ex-library copy: stamp and sticker remainder at foot of spine; withdrawn stamp at title page, perforated stamp there also, barcode sticker and bookplate at front pastedown. Illustrated, one fold-out map of the airways of America.....
Auckland, NZ: David Bateman, 1998. First edition. Hardcover. Signed by Anderson! Green cloth boards in dust jacket, octavo, illustrated in color and b&w. Book has wear to spine ends and corners, binding tight, previous owner's inscription to front flyleaf, otherwise text clean and unmarked. DJ has mild wear to spine.....
London: Methuen & Co., 1945. First printing. Hardcover. First edition, 1945. Cloth hardcover in dust jacket, 100 pp., clean unmarked text, Very Good copy in about a Good dust jacket, owner's signature on the front pastedown, some soil and discoloration to the covers and page-edges, soil and discoloration also to.....
London: John Long, 1907. First Printing. Hardcover. Publisher's blue cloth, fair copy with warping and discoloration to binding from dampstaining, loss of cloth to head of spine, contents also show some dampstaining to outermost pages, contents otherwise good, blindstamp of the Edison Institute in Dearborn MI on title page and.....
Philadelphia: Lippincott, 1901. First American Printing. Hardcover. Although this has the Isbister imprint on title page, this is the Lippincott binding (Lippincott down at bottom of spine and below the imprint on title page). Dark red cloth, very good, minor wear, toning to contents, foxing to endpapers. 275 pp, illustrated.....
London: Rich & Cowan. First printing. Hardcover. First edition, ca. 1943. Cloth hardcover in dust jacket, illustrated, 176 pp., clean unmarked text, Good copy in Fair dust jacket, soiling and age-toning to the pages and the page-edges, light wear to the edges of some of the pages, rubbing and wear.....
Fallbrook, CA: Aero Publishers, 1982. Third printing. Paperback. Third printing, 1982, paperback, small quarto, 272pp., illustrated in b&w. Book VG+ with mild soil and rubbing to wrap, small sticker to front panel, binding tight, text clean bright and unmarked. No DJ.
Paris: Aux Bureaux de l'Aerophile, 1898-1902. Hardcover. 5 bound volumes. Tall 8vo, 10.5 x 7 inches, bound in dark red buckram with gilt stamping, "Smithsonian Library" in gilt on covers, with surplus-duplicate stamps from the Library of Congress indicating legitimate deaccession, and occasional oval ink stamps of Bell: "Library of.....
England: Airlife, 1982. First edition. Hardcover. First edition, 1982, hardcover, octavo, 126pp., illustrated in b&w. Book near fine with hint of wear to spine ends and corners, binding tight, text clean bright and unmarked. DJ near fine with hint of rubbing.
Paris: Lecene, Oudin et Cie. 1894. Hardcover. Later printing (first published 1889). Small 4to, 10.75 x 7.5 inches, publishers elaborately decorated red cloth gilt, very good, contents a bit tanned. 319 pp, illustrated.
Destin: Aviation Heritage Inc., 1999. First printing. Paperback. First edition, 1999. Quarto, softcover, 148 pp., heavily illustrated, clean unmarked text, Near Fine copy.
Shrewsbury, England: Airlife Publishing, 1993. Hardcover. Blue cloth boards in dust jacket, octavo, illustrated in b&w. Book has hint of edgewear to boards and spine, binding tight, text clean and unmarked, with faint spotting to top edge of block. DJ gently shelfworn.
London: Patrick Stephens, 1969. First edition. Hardcover. 1969 Hardcover, with Dust Jacket. In Very Good condition, with light edge wear, and with the previous seller notation to the front end papers. The price clipped Dust Jacket is also in Very Good condition, with light edge wear.
Fort Worth: Convair, 1959. First printing. Hardcover. First edition, 1959. Softcover, 97 pp., clean unmarked text, Very Good+ copy, light soiling and edgewear to the covers.
Sao Paulo: Editora Aero. First printing. Paperback. First edition, no date--ca. 1984. Oblong quarto, softcover, illustrated in color, 247 pp., clean unmarked text, Very Good copy, light creasing to the tips of some pages, rubbing and wear to the edges of the book's covers. Bilingual text with half the text.....
London: Sir Isaac Pitman & Sons, 1943. First printing. Hardcover. First edition, 1943. Cloth hardcover with gilt titles in dust jacket, illustrated, 199 pp., clean unmarked text, Very Good copy in Fair dust jacket, owner's namestamp on the front flyleaf, age-toning to the pages and page-edges, light rubbing or wear.....
New York: Street & Smith, 1940. First Printing. Wraps. 11.25 x 9 inches, wraps, 95 pp, illustrated including 8 color plates. Light wear including a couple very short edge-tears to covers.