| AERIAL TRANSPORT, Thomas, G. Holt, Hodder and Stoughton, 1920 vg (embossed name), see photo,
written by one of Britain's airline pioneers, complete with fold-out maps showing projected
Empire air routes all the way to Australia and Africa, its chapters suggest how service might
begin, the role of mails, meteorology in commercial flying, airships, the law, passenger carrying,
photos, 259 pgs + fold-out maps.
| $150.00 |
| AERONAUTICAL ANNUAL 1895, Means, James (editor), W.B. Clarke & Co., 1896, vg (original, rebound),
the Aeronautical Annuals were recommended to the Wrights when they wrote the Smithsonian in 1899
asking for reading material on the subject of human flight, the brothers then obtained & devoured the
books, giving them more incentive to investigate the problem of flying, these are books of vision compilations
of plans, dreams, & schemes written by some of aviation's greatest visionaries: Leonardo Da Vinci, Sir George Cayley,
Ben Franklin, Samuel P. Langley, Sir Hiram Maxim, Augustus Herring, Octave Chanute, & Otto Lilienthal, to name a few,
all share what they did to help advance aviation, these books provided the Wright brothers with a wealth of knowledge
about the thinking & experiments which had been done up until that time giving them a foundation on which to formulate
their own ideas, many drawings & photographs, 200 pgs. | $60.00 |
| AEROPLANS - #7, Anson, Andrew (editor), 1995, plans, 3-views & data for the modeler, Early Aviation,
: 1911 Flanders, 1911 Groupy Bi-plane, 1916 Rolane V1b Fighter, Halberstadt D-1 Fighter, 1912 Albatros Taub Bi-lane,
1916 Rex Stout protype, 1895 Lilienthal Doppeldekker Glider, 32 pgs.
| $10.95 |
| AEROPLANE SCRAP BOOK No.1, Hatfield, D.D., Northrop Institute of Technology, 1976, vg/vg (ex-library), see photo,
photographic history of early aviation in California + many ads of the period, 1910-1941,
282 pgs. | $10.00 |
| AEROPLANE SCRAP BOOK, 1911-1929, Hatfield, D.D., Northrop Institute of Technology, 1971, vg, soft cover,
see photo, photographic history of early aviation in California + many ads of the period, 1911-1929, 95 pgs. | $10.00 |
| AEROPLANE SCRAP BOOK No.2, Hatfield, D.D., Northrop Institute of Technology, 1971, vg, soft cover,
see photo, photographic history of early aviation in California + many ads of the period, 1911-1939,
280 pgs. | $10.00 |
| AIRCRAFT OF THE CHACO WAR 1928-1935, Hagedorn & Sapienza, Schiffer, 1997, new,
see photo, little known air war between Bolivia & Paraguay, both sides used motley
collection of imported aircraft, photos & drawings, 144 pgs.
| $36.00 |
| AIRMEN WITHOUT PORTFOLIO, Edwards, John, Praeger, 1997, f/f (as new),
see photo, U.S. Mercendaries in Civil War Spain, photos, 150 pgs.
| $45.00 |
| AIR WAR OVER SPAIN,
Permuy, Rafael, Ian Allan, 2009, new, soft cover, see photo, aircraft of the Republican and Nationalist Air Forces in the Spanish Civil War, 1936-1939,
many photos, 96 pgs.
| $32.95 |
| ALEXANDER EAGLEROCK, deVries, John Col, Century One Press, 1985, fine (as new) with embossed cover, see photo, limited edition #243 of 500, signed by author, history of Alexander Aircraft Company, photos & line drawings, 126 pgs.
| $56.50 |
| AMPHIBIAN, THE STORY OF THE LOENING BIPLANE, Loening, Grover, New York Graphic, 1973, f/f,
see photo, one of the early US aircraft companies, which developed one of the
most innovative and useful aircraft, first flown in 1924, in production for 10 years, served world-wide with
US forces, airlines & private owners, photos, illustrations & line drawings, 196 pgs.
| $35.00 |
| ANNUAL REPORT OF THE SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION, 1914 good, upper portion of cover water stained,
front hinge crack, covers evrerything Smithsonian, including 14 pages of reports by Orville Wright on the stability of aeroplanes and Zahm on the Langley Aerodrome,
photos, 729 pgs.
| $8.00 |
| ATLANTIC AIR CONQUEST, Ellis, F.H. & E., William Kimber, 1963, vg/vg, see photo, All of the Atlantic flights and attempts from 1910 to 1940, photos, 223 pgs.
| $30.00 |
| ATLANTIC WINGS, 1919-1939, McDonough, Kenneth, Model Aeronautical Press, 1966, vg (inked name)/vg, see photo, aeroplanes and the people who flew them across the North Atlantic from 1919 to 1939. Includes Charles Kingsford Smith and the "Southern Cross", color plates, drawings, photos & maps, 132 pgs.
| $35.00 |
| AVIATION, Almond, Peter, Konemann, 1997, new, see photo,
large format book of the roughly 450 photographs making up that part of the Hulton Getty photo
collection encompassing the late 1800s to the early 1930's, the earliest photograph of an
untested glider of 1868, important resource for the identification of early aircraft types,
aviators, airships, balloons, gliders, etc.,549 pgs.
| $25.00 |
| AVIATION CLASSICS FROM AVIATION QUARTERLY, Aviation Quartery, 1984, fine (issued w/o dj), see photo, collection of 14 articles from Aviation Quarterly, coverings antique aircraft, many photographs including color, 300 pgs.
| $25.00 |
| AVIATION, THE PIONEER YEARS, Macworth-Praed, Ben, Studio Editions, 1992, f/f (oversized), see photo,
over 850 b/w illustrations covering aviation from the 1800s to 1939, 320 pgs.
| $10.00 |
| BARONS OF THE SKY, Biddle, Wayne, Henry Holt & Co., 1991, fine (soft coverj, see photo,
growth of the American aircraft industry through the careers of Glenn Martin,
Donald Douglas, Jack Northrop and the Loughead brothers, photos, 366 pgs.
| $10.00 |
| BOOK OF WESTLAND AIRCRAFT, Lukins, A.H., Harborough Publishing, 1973, fine condition, see photo,
Westland Aircraft Works was founded in 1915. The company started with the Short "Two-two-five" seaplane for the British Navy, and it built 34 seaplanes before turning its hand to land planes. There followed the "Wagtail", the "Weasel", the "Limousine", the "Widgeon Mark III", the "Wapiti", the "Lysander", and others. They"re all here, complete with photos, specifications and 3-way views, incl. some fold-outs, 104 pgs.
| $45.00 |
| BOYS' BOOK OF MODEL AEROPLANES, Collins, Frances, Century Co., 1910, vg (inked inscription), see photo,
photos & illustrations, 308 pgs.
| $65.00 |
| BRITISH AIRCRAFT BEFORE THE GREAT WAR, Goodall & Tagg, Schiffer, 2001, new, see photo,
pre-WW I aircraft in one volume, manufacturers, airships, aircraft, over 900 illustrations, photos & drawings, 392 pgs.
| $43.00 |
