A Killing for the Hawks.
New York: David McKay, (1967), First American Edition. octavo, red cloth in dust jacket. (256)pp. David McKay, A highly regarded World War One aviation novel. A fine, clean copy. Jacket not price clipped. More
New York: David McKay, (1967), First American Edition. octavo, red cloth in dust jacket. (256)pp. David McKay, A highly regarded World War One aviation novel. A fine, clean copy. Jacket not price clipped. More
New York: NAL, (1988), First Edition, Uncorrected Proof Copy. octavo, printed paper wrappers. NAL, Author's first novel. This copy is signed by Smith on title page and dated "3/19/88". A fine copy. More
Los Angeles: Heritage Book Shop, 2003, First Edition. quarto, green cloth in dust jacket. (xxiv), 301 pp. Heritage Book Shop, Contains 58 major entries, with illustrations. Very fine. More
Los Angeles: Heritage Book Shop, 1991, First Edition. quarto, rose cloth in dust jacket. xxviii, (184) pp. Heritage Book Shop, Designed and printed at The Castle Press. An excellent, detailed bibliography. With, as the title states, numerous illustrations. Very fine. More
New York: Farrar Straus Giroux, (2000), First American Edition. octavo, boards in dust jacket. Farrar Straus Giroux, Translated by Sonia Soto. Fine copy, jacket not price clipped. More
Columbia, SC: University of South Carolina Press, 2011, First Edition. octavo, boards in dust jacket. 392 pp. University of South Carolina Press, Ranked among the top five American flying aces of World War I, Elliott White Springs (1896–1959) was credited with shooting down twelve enemy aircraft during his tour in..... More
Kyoto: Kyoto University, 1970, First Edition. quarto, printed heavy paper wrappers. (xii), (332)pp. Kyoto University, Karl Wilhelm Bücher was an economist, one of the founders of non-market economics, and the founder of journalism as an academic discipline. Lower right corner of text block bumped, otherwise a near fine, clean copy..... More
(New York): Lenox Hill, (1970), First Edition. small 8vo, cloth in dust jacket. Lenox Hill, More
New York: New York Public Library, 1951, First printing of this edition. Limited to 1,000 copies. octavo, cloth. xxxvi, 188pp. New York Public Library, Revised and Elucidated by Victor Hugo Paltsits. The elucidations by Paltsits are annotations at the end of each chapter, further chronicling the formation of one of..... More
London: Hamish Hamilton, (1958), First Edition. octavo, red boards in pictorial dust jacket. (x), 166pp. Hamish Hamilton, Illustrated with photographs and line drawings. A short history written by an authority on aeronautics. Near fine copy. Jacket not price clipped. More
Missoula, MT: Pictorial Histories Publishing, 2013, First Edition. octavo, pictorial heavy paper wrappers. 253pp. Pictorial Histories Publishing, As a young man Harold Stine never traveled far from his home in Charleston, West Virginia, a place of forested mountains, deep valleys and muddy, lethargic rivers. Friends and family, church and school..... More
Boston: Baker Library Harvard Business School, 1984, First Edition. octavo, printed paper wrappers. (90)pp. Baker Library Harvard Business School, Frontispiece portrait plus other illustrations. Kress Library publication number 24. Very fine. More
(Secaucus, NJ): Chartwell Books, (1998), Reprint of the 1968 Edition. small folio, black boards in dust jacket. (123)pp. Chartwell Books, An illustrated history of metal type design, starting with the Roman and medieval letterforms and scripts which were the starting points for the alphabet designs we know today, and giving..... More
(New York): William Morrow, (2006), Reprint. quarto, Boards in dust jacket. 151 pp. William Morrow, This book resurrects the events of Abraham Lincoln's assassination by presenting an unprecedented visual record of almost 300 contemporary photographs, letters, documents, prints, woodcuts, newspapers, pamphlets, books, and artifacts, many hitherto unpublished. These rare materials..... More
(Elstree; Vista, CA): Greenhill; Aeolus, (1987), Reprint of the first edition of 1937. octavo, printed wrappers, perfect bound. 256 pp. Greenhill; Aeolus, Biographies of French aces during World War I such as Fonck, Guynemer, Nungesser, Navarre, de la Fregoliere, Brocard, and Garros along with facts of less famous airmen. Photographic..... More
New York: Macmillan, (1975), First Edition. octavo, cloth in dust jacket. (xvi), 428pp. Macmillan, Illustrated. An editor associated with the work of Puzo and other popular writers, Targ combines autobiography, memoir, expose and current gossip of the New York book world of the 1960s and 70s. Very minor scuffing to..... More
Boston: Godine, 1999, First Edition. octavo, cloth in dust jacket. 120pp. Godine, "Lankes worked exclusively in the East, and his woodcuts, mostly of scenery and structures, range from Northern Vermont to his adopted state, Virginia, with brief excursions into New York and Pennsylvania. He was commissioned on a regular basis..... More
Winterthur Library and Oak Knoll Press, 2003, First Edition. quarto, pictorial wrappers. xii, 112 pp. Winterthur Library and Oak Knoll Press, Accompanying an exhibition of the same name at the Grolier Club in New York and at Winterthur, this beautifully illustrated exhibition catalogue includes essays and entries largely from the..... More
London: Leo Cooper, (1968), First Edition. octavo, blue boards in pictorial dust jacker. (152) pp. Leo Cooper, Illustrated with photographs. Part of Leo Cooper's Famous Regiments series. Fine, clean copy, jacket price clipped, and with two tiny tears. More
Boston: Little, Brown, (1981), First Trade Edition. octavo, boards & cloth in dust jacket. Little, Brown, More
(New York): Abrams, (1999), First American Edition. quarto, cloth in dust jacket. 192 pp. Abrams, Using generous quotations from their diaries, letters, and recollections, Pamela Todd recreates life among the Bloomsbury group. It includes Bloomsbury Biographies, Bloomsbury Homes, a Chronology and Bibliography. 100 illustrations, including 80 plates in full color..... More
Falls Church: Ajay Enterprises, 1978, First Edition. octavo, pictorial wrappers. (116)pp. Ajay Enterprises, Footnotes by Marvin L. Skelton. Numerous photographic illustrations. In 1918, Todd became one of the original pilots of the 17th Aero Squadron formed in France. On 26 August 1918 he was shot down and became a prisoner..... More
(Gloucestershire, England): Tempus, (2002), First Edition. tall octavo, pictorial heavy wrappers. 192pp. Tempus, The story of the development of naval aviation from fledgling squadrons of 1914 to the major weapon in the armory of naval warfare in only five years. Illustrated with numerous black and white photographs. New... More
London: Brassey's, (1996), First Edition. quarto, dark blue boards in pictorial dust jacket. (viii), 152pp. Brassey's, 'The First Air War' covers the war from the first tentative acts of aggression in the air in 1914 to the employment of massive air power by the war's end. Subjects covered include the..... More