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POWDER PUFF DERBY THE RECORD 1947-1977,
Brick, Kay (editor), AWTAR Inc, 1988, fine (gold embossed blue faux leather cover), all women transcontinental air races with many photos, 80 pgs.
$175.00

WINGS FOR LIFE,
Nichols, Ruth, J.B. Lippincott, 1957, vg/vg, inscribed by Ruth Nichols<\, her first flight in 1919, Nichols went on to fly more than 140 different aircraft, including jets, flew with Rogers Airlines in 1922, established three new international records for women in 1931, (altitude, speed, and distance). In 1932 she flew from LA to NYC in thirteen hours and twenty-one minutes. photos, 317 pgs.
$500.00
AMELIA EARHART - MYSTERY SOLVED, Long, Elgin & Marie, Simon & Schuster, new with dj, see photo, An explanation of what happened to Earhart in July, 1937. photos, 220 pgs.$12.50
AMELIA EARHART - THE SKY IS THE LIMIT, Van Pelt, Lori, Tom Doherty, 2005, new (soft cover), see photo, biography, 239 pgs.$9.95
AMELIA EARHART'S DAUGHTERS, Haynsworth & Toomy, William Morrow & Co., 1998, new, see photo, American women aviatiors from WW II to space age, photos, 322 pgs.$13.50
BAREFOOT IN THE SKY, Scott, Shiela, Macmillan, 1973, f/f, see photo, autobiograhy, set several records 1965-71 in her Piper Commanche, photos, 256 pgs. $15.00
BEFORE AMELIA, Lebow, Eileen, Brassey, 2002, new, soft cover, see photo, women pioneer aviators, beginning with Raymonde de Laroche, who in 1910 became the first licensed female pilot, photos, 313 pgs. $15.00
LYRICAL AVIATORS, McClinton, Sandra, Whistling Swan Press, 2000, f/f (marked as a review copy), see photo, Her trip with herb husband around the US in a Cessna 172, photos, 221 pgs. $10.00
SISTERS IN THE SKY - Volume I, WAFS & Volume 2 WASPS, Scharr, Adela, Patrice Press, 1991, new, history of the Women's Auxilliary Ferrying Squadron, written by one of the country's first female commercial pilots and flight instructors who, in 1943, was to become the first woman to fly the P-39 Aircobra, photos, 1289 pgs.$60.00 (for the set)
STARS AT NOON, Cochran, Jacqueline, Little, Brown & Co., 1967, vg/vg, see photo, biography of Jackie Cockran, 274 pgs. $17.50
SKY MY KINGDOM, Reitsch, Hanna, Casemate, new with dj, see photo, memoirs of Hanna Reitsch, famous German WW II test pilot, photos, 265 pgs. $29.95
20 Hrs, 40 Min. , Earhart, Ameilia, National Geographic, 2003, new, soft cover, see photo, reprint of her early autobiography published in 1928, her flight across the Atlantic in the "Friendship", photos, 182 pgs. $14.00
UNITED STATES WOMEN IN AVIATION 1919-1929, Brooks-Pazmany, Kathleen, Smithsonian, 1983, vg (soft cover), see photo, women active in aviation, pilots, barnstormers, promoters, passengers & supporters, many photos, 57 pgs. $8.50
UNITED STATES WOMEN IN AVIATION THROUGH WORLD WAR I, Oakes, Claudia, Smithsonian, 1978, vg (soft cover), see photo, women active in aviation, pilots, barnstormers, promoters, passengers & supporters, many photos, 44 pgs. $8.50
WOMEN ALOFT, Moolman, Valerie, Time-Life, 1981, fine (issued w/o dj, review copy), accomplishments of female pilots to aviation history, photos, 176 pgs. $5.00
WOMEN WITH WINGS, Plnck, Charles, Harper & Brothers, 1942, good (worn copy, ex-library) biography of women in early aviation, photos, 333 pgs. $4.50





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