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OBSERVER, Insall, A. J., Kimber, 1970, vg/vg , see photo, flew as an observer on the Western Front, meeting many of the leading aces of the day, became an acknowledged expert in aerial warfare, photos & maps, 208 pgs. $30.00
OBSERVERS AND NAVIGATORS, Jefford, C.G, Wing Commander, Airlife, 2001, new, see photo, traces the non-pilot aircrew, observers, aerial gunners/gunlayers & kite balloon observers who flew with the RFC, RNAS and RAF, photos, 274 pgs. $49.95
104TH AERO SQUADRON,THE, Gilchrist, John, privately printed, 1968, new, soft cover, see photo, f, author flew Salmsons with the squadron, it formed in August, 1917 at Kelly Field, Texas, 104th Aero Squadron reached the French Zone of Advance at Souilly on September 8, 1918, provided observation duties in the St. Michael & the Meuse-Argonne Campaigns, photos, 146 pgs. $75.00
ONE MAN'S WAR, Hall & Niles, Henry Holt, 1929, vg (no dj), story of the Lafayette Escadrille, material is from a diary that Hall kept during the war, photos, 353 pgs. $50.00
ONLY THE CLOUDS REMAIN, Walker, Dale, Alandle Press, 1980, new, soft cover, see photo, Ted Parsons of the Lafayette Escadrille, later a career in Hollywood, photos, 72 pgs. $20.00
OSPREY AIRCRAFT OF THE ACES (World War I)
OUTWITTING THE HUN, O'Brien, Pat Ltn., Harper & Brothers, 1918, vg (signs of cover wear, fraying at ends of spine, no dj),see photo, American pilot with RFC flew Sopwith Pup, shot down and captured, escapes from Germans, 284 pgs. $26.00
OVER THE BALKANS AND SOUTH RUSSIA, 1917-1919, Jones, H.A., Greenhill, 1987, new, soft cover, history of No. 47 Squadron, RAF, photos & maps, 176 pgs. $25.00
OVER THE BATTLEFRONTS, Kilduff, Peter, Arms & Armour, 1996, new, see photo, collection of accounts of WWI Air Combat. Inc. balloon crews in action, bombers across the Rhine, poet of the Air, yanks in the RAF & flying with the Lafayette, photos, 192 pgs. $29.95
OVER THE FRONT, Franks & Bailey, Grub Street, 1992, new, see photo, biographies of US and French aces w/detailed logs of their victories, photos, 230 pgs. $49.95
OVER THE FRONT IN AN AEROPLANE, Pulitzer, Ralph, Harper & Brothers, 1915, vg, Ralph Pulitzer (1879-1939) succeeded his father, as newspaper publisher of St. Louis Post-Dispatch &d N.Y. World, a year into World War I, he visited Europe to view `The Front,' & wrote this oddly detached, almost tourist-like commentary on what he saw and heard, including a chapter describing his flight in a French twin-engine `battle plane' over French & Flemish trenches, 159 pgs. $15.00
PAT CROWE, AVIATOR, Crowe, James R., Nicholas L. Brown, 1919, vg (cover ware, stamped duplicate on fly page), Crowe enlisted in 1917, went to various training schools and was killed in a flying accident at Issoudun, Sept. 1918, 220 pgs. $50.00
PENDULUM, Carpenter, Jack, Arsdalen, Bosch & Co., 1992, new, soft cover, see photo, signed by author, story of America's three aviation pioneers, Wilbur Wright, Orville Wright & Glenn Curtiss, how Alexander Graham Bell & Henry Ford helped Glenn Curtiss stop the Wright brothers from achieving their attempted monopoly of aviation, photos & illustrations, 409 pgs. $24.95
PEOPLE'S WAR BOOK & ATLAS, THE Foch, Baker, Persing, et al, F.B. Dickerson, 1920, vg (inked name, some yellowing of pages), see cover, signed W.A. Bishop under his photograph, see photo with signature,war maps, charts & diagrams, photos of WW I, complete "Pictorial Atlas & History of the World", 392 pgs. $100.00
PFALZ AIRCRAFT OF WORLD WAR I Herris, Jack, Flying Machine Press, 2001, new, soft cover, see photo, many photos, scale drawings, color plates,see examples 180 pgs. $49.95
PICTORIAL HISTORY OF THE GERMAN GERMAN ARMY AIR SERVICE, Imrie, Alex, Ian Allan, 1971, f/f, see photo, birth & death of the first Luftwaffe, 240 original photographs, + 72 pgs. of text $35.00
PICTORIAL HISTORY OF LUFTWAFFE 1910 to 1918,(3 VOLUME SET), Nowarra, Heinz, Aero Publisher, 1967, vg/vg (all with dust jackets), German & English text, photographs of German aircraft markings with commentary, heavily illustrated (31 pages of color drawings illustrating individual markings of specific flyers or flying units, name & photos of German pilots, victory list, losses, total of 665 pgs in all 3 volumes. $145.00
PICTORIAL HISTORY OF LUFTWAFFE - VOL. II, Nowarra, Heinz, Intercoair, 1964, vg/vg (tape repair), see photo, photographic coverage of the German Air Force, 1916 & 1917, English, German & Italian text, includes chronology, situation of units, military awards, killed in action list, dimensions & performace of German aircraft, 231 pgs. $40.00
PICTORIAL HISTORY OF LUFTWAFFE - VOL. III, Nowarra, Heinz, Intercoair, 1967, vg/vg (embossed name), see photo, photographic coverage of the German Air Force, 1918, English, German & Italian text, includes chronology, situation of units, military awards, killed in action list, dimensions & performace of German aircraft, 231 pgs. $40.00
PILOTS LUCK, Knight, Clayton (author & artist), David McKay Co., vg (pictorial cover, 1 color plate missing) see photo, stories by Elliott White Springs, Roy Brown, Floyd Gibbins & Norman Hall, Knight was a pilot in No. 206 Squadron RAF and short down Oct 1918, wounded and captured, illustrated by Knight, 72 pgs. $35.00
PLEIN VOL, EN (IN FULL FIGHT) Nadaud, Marcel, Librairie Hachette, 1916, vg, soft cover (yellowing of pages), French text, memories of the air war, 207 pgs.$20.00
POET OF THE AIR, Wright, Jack Morris, Houghton Mifflin, 1918, vg (rebound), letters of First Lieutenant Jack Morris Wright of the American Aviation in France, April 1917-1918, Wright's letters were long and detailed, he describes his training in France, killed in Jan. 1918, 246 pgs. $45.00
PLANE TALES FROM THE SKIES, "Wing Adjutant", Cassell & Company, 1918, vg (no dj), tales & sketches of flying which are all founded on fact, are the actual experiences of pilots & observers, chiefly on the Western Front in WW1, 182 pgs. $15.00
PRICE OF HONOR, Rossano, Geoffrey (editor), Naval Institute, 1991, new, see photo, war letters of Kenneth MacLeish, a member of the First Yale Unit, a collection of over 200 letters to his fiancee cover his entire flying career, from early training in 1917 until his death in combat just three weeks before the war's end, photos, 242 pgs. $29.95
QUENTIN ROOSEVELT: A SKETCH WITH LETTERS, Roosevelt, Kermit (editor), Charles Scribner's Sons, 1921, vg, tribute to Theodore Roosevelt's son Quentin who was killed in WW I, based on his letters, photos, 282 pgs. $60.00

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