Pictorial History of the R.A.F.
New York: Arco Publishing Co., 1970. Hardcover. Volume Three. Small 4to. Blue cloth, pictorial dust jacket. 208pp. Heavily illustrated. Very good/near fine. First edition. Volume Three, covering 1945-1969. More
New York: Arco Publishing Co., 1970. Hardcover. Volume Three. Small 4to. Blue cloth, pictorial dust jacket. 208pp. Heavily illustrated. Very good/near fine. First edition. Volume Three, covering 1945-1969. More
Secaucus, NJ: Chartwell Books, 1977. Hardcover. 4to. Blue paper over boards. 152pp. Numerous illustrations and diagrams (most color), color pictorial endpapers. Very good. Spine slightly sunned. Obliterated ownership signature on front flyleaf and rear pastedown. First U.S. edition. More
New Hope, PA: Enola Gay Remembered, Inc., [2004]. Hardcover. Small 4to. Black cloth with silver spine lettering, pictorial dust jacket. 339pp. Frontispiece, illustrations. Fine/fine. A handsome and tight "60th Anniversary Restoration Edition" observing the restoration of the iconic airplane. Inner flyleaf WW2 image shows Tibbets together with his navigator (Theodore..... More
New York: NAL Caliber, [2005]. Hardcover. Foreword by Stephen Coonts. 8vo. Black paper over boards with gilt spine lettering, pictorial dust jacket. xv, 348pp. Illustrations, map. Near fine/near fine. Tight, near pristine book club edition of this account of the brutal American/Japanese aerial encounter in the Philippine Sea. More
New York: Dover Publications, [1972]. Paperback. 8vo. Stiff brown glazed pictorial wrappers. 352pp, (13pp ads). Illustrations. Near fine. First paperback edition of Toland's 1957 "Ships in the Sky: The Story of the Great Dirigibles" -- tight and attractive. More
Racine, WI: Whitman Publishing Company, 1940. Paperback. Wide 48mo. Stiff glossy pictorial wrappers. 64pp. Numerous color illustrations. Very good. Faint edgewear only. A tight and nice copy of this World War Two-era guide to identifying (to cite front wrapper) "60 Airplanes Illustrated in Full Color." Each full-page image bears explanatory..... More
New York: Prentice-Hall Inc., 1940. Hardcover. Small 4to. Blue cloth with silver lettering and decoration. x, 171. Frontispiece, illustrations, tables, maps. Very good. Faint mottling to cloth, el;se tight and internally fine. Attractive first edition of this eve-of-WW2 aviation cheerleading item. More
New York: The Platt & Munk Co., [1940]. Hardcover. Illustrations by Irvin L. Holcombe. Wide 8vo. Burgundy cloth with large color plate to front board, pictorial dust jacket. Numerous full-page color plates, with text entirely in blue. Near fine/very good. Mild jacket edgewear; front flyleaf ownership signature. Tight and quite..... More
N.p. Naval Institute Press, [1991]. Hardcover. 8vo. Blue cloth with silver spine lettering, pictorial dust jacket. 182pp. Illustrations. Fine/fine. Tight, nice second printing. More
New York: Random House, [1962]. Hardcover. 8vo. Blue cloth with gilt spine lettering, pictorial dust jacket. 269pp. Illustrations. Near fine/very good. Mild jacket edgewear. A tight and handsome first edition of this "remarkable story behind the most explosive espionage case of the twentieth century," the Gary Francis Powers incident... More
Washington, DC: Smithsonian Books, [2011]. Hardcover. Small 4to. Black and grey paper over boards with silver spine lettering, pictorial dust jacket. xii, 300pp. Illustrations. Fine/fine. Absolutely pristine, choice 5th printing of the Apollo 15 command module pilot's memoir, inscribed and signed by him large and bold in black marker on..... More
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1987. Hardcover. Small 4to. Blue cloth spine and blue paper over boards, dust jacket. viii, 337pp. Illustrations, map endpapers. Near fine/near fine. First edition, tight and nice, of this chronicle of the first-ever flight that circled the globe without refueling. Handsomely inscribed by both authors..... More
New York: Crown Publishers, [1989]. Hardcover. 8vo. Blue cloth spine with gilt lettering and cream paper over boards, pictorial dust jacket. x, 243pp. Illustrations. Near fine/near fine. Superb, tight reprint edition of the 1988 Orion Books edition of the renowned WW2 ace's memoir. More
New York: Harcourt, Brace and Company, [1942]. Hardcover. Drawings by James MacDonald.8vo. Black cloth with yellow lettering and graphic. xii, 252pp. Frontispiece, illustrations, line drawings. Very good. Binding lightly edgeworn; faint floral mustiness. A tight and decent early printing of this thorough, well-illustrated account and how-to. More