Aviation, Gliding, Space Flight & Exploration

Anderegg, C. R. Sierra Hotel: Flying Air Force Fighters in the Decade after Vietnam. Washington, D.C.: Air Force History and Museums Program, United States Air Force, 2001. 210 pages. Index. Bibliography. Photographs. Illustrations. Good stiff pictorial wrappers (soft cover). #26129. $25
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Atkinson, Joseph D., and Jay M. Shafritz. The Real Stuff: A History of NASA's Astronaut Recruitment Program. Foreword by Alan B. Shepard and Guion S. Bluford, Jr. New York: Praeger Publishers, 1985. 1st printing. ix, 227 pages. Index. Bibliography. Photographs. Praeger Special Studies. Praeger Scientific. Very good hardcover. ISBN 0030051876. #22211. $30
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Bender, Albert K. Flying Saucers and The Three Men. Annotated, Introduction and Epilogue by Gray Barker. Clarksburg, West Virginia: Saucerian Books, 1962. 1st edition. 194 pages. Illustrations. 'Some of the revelations at last made by Bender are: The identity of 'the three men in black,' Where the flying saucers come from, Their strange purpose here on Earth, How they frightened him into silence, and Why sightings have recently decreased in number.' - Front jacket panel. Very good hardcover in slightly worn dust jacket. #25798. $20
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Berget, Alphonse. The Conquest of the Air: Aeronautics, Aviation. History, Theory, Practice. New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons; London: William Heinemann, 1909. 1st edition. xxiv, 295 pages. Photographs. Illustrations. Frontispiece. Fair pictorial hardcover. Exlibrary: spine label, stamp on top edge, stamps inside front cover, barcode and label on rear flyleaf; top of backstrip missing, but most of the title is still legible, small hole in middle of backstrip, and bottom of backstrip frayed. #26353. $75
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Birdsall, Steve. Log of The Liberators: An Illustrated History of the B-24 Liberator. New York: Doubleday, 1973. 1st edition. 4to (large book). vii, 340 pages. Index. Bibliography. 250 photographs. 4 pages of full-color illustrations. 'The illustrated combat record of the B-24 Liberator and of the men and units that flew them in the Second World War.' - Front jacket. Good hardcover in slightly torn and frayed dust jacket. Former owner's name on front flyleaf. ISBN 0385038704. #26109. $17.50
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Black, Archibald. Civil Airports and Airways. New York: Simmons-Boardman Publishing Company, 1929. v, 238 pages. Index. Photographs. Diagrams. Frontispiece. Inscribed, dated and signed by the author on front flyleaf. Prepared with the collaboration of a group of 19 specialists in the different angles of airport construction and equipment. - Title page. Good hardcover. Spine title faded. #22209. $50
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Boeing Commercial Airplane Company. Boeing 767 Component Locator Guide, American Airlines, Inc. No place: Boeing Commercial Airplane Company, 1982 (pages dated May and August 1982) Small 8vo (regular size). iv, then paginated by chapter. Diagrams. For Training Use Only. Stiff paper wrappers with plastic spiral binding. Very good. #18325. $60
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Bowers, Peter M., Selection and Data. America's Outstanding Aircraft of World War II. New York: Hobby Helpers Library, 1961. 1st printing. Oblong small 4to (medium-large book). 68 pages. Photographs. Hobby Helpers Library, 150-C. Very good pictorial stiff wrappers in spiral binding. #21469. $17.50
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Carlberg, D. L., Assistant Project Engineer. Attitude Inlet Condition Tables. East Hartford, Connecticut: Pratt & Whitney, Division of United Aircraft Corporation, 1963. 4to (large book). 135 pages. Date of Report: June 25, 1963. 'Object: To present a revision of Mr-901 based on: (1) inlet recovery as defined by MIL-E-5008B, and (2) the latest non-standard days currently in use.' - Page 3. Good stiff wrappers (soft cover) with plastic comb binding. Some stains on front cover and title page, former owner's name on title page, lower right-hand corner of front cover chipped, some pages dog-eared. #25226. $30
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Collier, Richard. Bridge across the Sky: The Berlin Blockade and Airlift: 1948-1949. New York: McGraw-Hill, 1978. 1st printing. 239 pages. Photographs. Map. Very good hardcover in Good dust jacket. ISBN 0070117969. #16354. $15
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Farley, Edward J. U.S. Army - Air Force Fighter Planes, P-1 to F-107. Paintings by Richard Groh. Los Angeles, California: Aero Publishers, 1961. 3d ed. Small 4to (medium-large book). No pagination. Index. Illustrations. 'This book presents in scale drawings and original paintings the fighter planes that have made history and marked the progress from the Curtiss P1 Hawk pursuit biplane of 1925 to the supersonic fighters of today.'- Foreword. Very good hardcover in slightly worn dust jacket. #21459. $20
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Gossamer Albatross. The Dream, the Technology, the Creation, the Achievement. Wilmington?: DuPont, 1980. 8 pages. Folded leaflet. Very good. #14071. $15
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Hubbard, T. O'B., J. H. Ledeboer, and C. C. Turner. The Aeroplane: An Elementary Text-Book of the Principles of Dynamic Flight. London: Longmans, Green, 1911. 1st edition. xi, 127 pages. Photographs. Illustrations. Frontispiece. Good pictorial hardcover. Exlibrary: spine label, stamps on top, fore and bottom edges, stamps inside front cover, barcode and label on rear flyleaf; former owner's signature on front flyleaf, marginal tear page 113/14. #26352. $55
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Jane's Spaceflight Directory. Jane's Spaceflight Directory, 1988-89. Edited by Reginald Turnill. Surrey, U.K.: Jane's Information Group, 1988. 4th edition. 4to (large book). 643 pages. Index. Photographs. Illustrations. Very good hardcover in very good dust jacket. ISBN 0710608608. #22214. $55
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Johnston, S. Paul. Flying Squadrons: A Graphic History of the U.S. Army Air Forces. New York: Duell, Sloan and Pearce, 1942. Small 4to (medium-large book). xii, 85 pages of text and 250 pages of photographs. Good hardcover in complete, but torn and chipped dust jacket. Small gift inscription on blank front flyleaf. #21492. $12.50
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Kodak Albuquerque International Balloon Fiesta. The 1996 Kodak Albuquerque International Balloon Fiesta. Official Souvenir Program. Bradenton, Florida: Watson Publications, 1996. Small 4to (medium-large book). 175 pages, plus advertising. Index. Photographs. Very good pictorial stiff wrappers. #20800. $20
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Lent, Constantin Paul. Rocket Research: History and Handbook. First Issue, July 11, 1944. New York: Pen-Ink Publishing Company, 1944. [2], 102, [5] pages. Index. Photographs. Illustrations. Fair hardcover. Paper-covered boards, backstrip slightly chipped and loose in places. Internally good. #24212. $70
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Macmillan, Norman. Tales of Two Air Wars. London: G. Bell, 1963. 272 pages. Maps. Wartime aviation in World War I and II. Very good hardcover in slightly worn dust jacket. #21433. $15
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Moll, Nigel. Reno: Air Racing Unlimited. London: Osprey / Distributed by Motorbooks International, Osceola, Wisconsin, 1983. 1st printing. 128 pages. Color photographs. Signed on the half-title page by the author. Very good stiff pictorial wrappers (soft cover). ISBN 0850455316. #25832. $20
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NASA Manned Spacecraft Center. Apollo 15: Preliminary Science Report. Washington, D.C.: National Aeronautics and Space Administration, Scientific and Technical Information Office, 1972. Small 4to (medium-large book). xii, separately paginated in 25 sections and 3 appendices. 21 folding plates of Lunar-Surface Panoramic Views. Photographs. Illustrations. Charts. Diagrams. NASA SP-289. U.S. Government Printing Office: 1971 O-457-991. Very good pictorial softcover. #22185. $145
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Newkirk, Dennis. Almanac of Soviet Manned Space Flight. Foreword by James Oberg. Houston, Texas: Gulf Publishing Company, 1990. xv, 391 pages. Index. Bibliographical references. Photographs. Illustrations. Subtitled: A revealing launch-by-launch account of the red star in orbit. A look at Soviet Astronautics. Very good hardcover in very good dust jacket. ISBN 0872018482. #22188. $30
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Santos-Dumont, Alberto. My Air-ships. New York: Century, 1904. 1st edition, 1st printing. ix, 356 pages. Photographs. Illustrations. Frontispiece portrait. Good pictorial hardcover. Exlibrary: spine label, stamps on top, fore and bottom edges, stamps inside front cover, small blindstamp on lower edge of front flyleaf, barcode label on rear flyleaf, pocket inside rear cover. #26351. $70
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Sayer, Les, and Vernon Ball. Tag on a Stringbag. Foreword by Laurie Farrington. Wales: Aspen Publications, 1994. xi, 340 pages. Index. Bibliography. Photographs. A collection of reminiscences written by those Telegraphist Air Gunners who survived to tell the tale. The Fairey Swordfish, christened from the multiplicity of stay wires holding it together for its amazing capacity to carry everything in the way of surplus luggage, was, despite its leisurely progress through the air, the most popular aircraft with the crews. - Rear cover. Very good pictorial hardcover. ISBN 1899386009. #26118. $25
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United States Army. Headquarters. Aircrew Training Manual Utility Helicopter, UH-1. Washington, D.C.: U.S. Government Printing Office, 1992. 4to (medium-large book). ix, and individually number chapters. Index. Training Circular, TC 1-211. PIN 064853-000. Very good stiff pictorial wrappers (soft cover), stapled spine. Former owner's name on front cover. #23611. $17.50
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Wilson, Eugene E. Air Power for Peace. New York: McGraw-Hill, 1945. 1st printing. vii, 184 pages. Bibliography. Laid in are 3 items relating to the same author's privately published book, 'Wings of the Dawn': a one-page form letter signed inviting subscriptions, a one-page printed acknowledgment letter, and a one-page personal typed letter signed. Very good pictorial hardcover, with some light newspaper stains. Presentation copy signed and dated by the author. #25244. $20
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