(London): Cross & Cockade, (2009), First Edition. quarto, pictorial card wrappers. 200 pp. Cross & Cockade, The history of Henry Folland's initial design, the FE2a through FE2b/c/d to h; details training, day operations, night bombing, home defence, experimental developments, marine operations; presentation and aircrew indexes and a full serials listing..... More
(London): Cross & Cockade, 2007, First Edition. quarto, pictorial card wrappers. 176 pp. Cross & Cockade, Chapters include Nieuport Monoplanes with the Air Battalion & RNAS; The Royal Naval Air Service In Flanders; The RNAS in the Dardanelles and the Eastern Mediterranean; The Nieuport two-seater in RFC service; The Nieuport..... More
(London): Cassell & Co., (2000), Second edition. quarto, pictorial card wrappers. 160 pp. Cassell & Co., Over two hundred photographs, many previously unpublished, illuminate the public and private lives of Baron von Richthofen and present an extensive insight into the dramatic world of early combat aviation. As new. More
Philadelphia: Macrae Smith Company, (1930), First Edition. octavo, blue cloth stamped in gilt and blue on front cover and spine, in pictorial dust jacket. (290)pp. Macrae Smith Company, Illustrated with photographs. Signed by Tomlinson on the front endpaper: "Yours in a gale of wind, Tommy Tomlinson". A fine copy with..... More
Boston: Little, Brown, 1937, First Edition. octavo, rust brown cloth in pictorial dust jacket. (412)pp. Little, Brown, With four maps, one of which is folding. A very fine, clean copy. A fine, clean jacket with slight bump and scuff at the top of the spine. Jacket is not price-clipped... More
Boulder: Flying Machines Press, First Edition. octavo, pictorial heavy wrappers. 112pp. Flying Machines Press, The story in words, photos, and color profiles of the 8 aviation recipients of the Medal of Honor in World War I and their aircraft that figured in the actions. Among those included are Eddie Rickenbacker..... More
New York: Doubleday, Doran, 1938, First Edition. octavo, grey cloth in dust jacket. 340 pp. Doubleday, Doran, "This young Englishman's vivid and sensitive story of his experiences in Loyalist Spain is an honest record of what war does to a man, rather than a man's record of a war." From..... More
New York: Harper & Brothers, 1937, First Edition. octavo, blue cloth in dust jacket. (xiv), 350 pp. Harper & Brothers, "The true story of the making of a flier." In 1948 Lay authored 12 O'Clock High which was made into the highly regarded movie starring Gregory Peck. Illustrated with photographs..... More
Harrisburg, PA: The Military Service Publishing Co, (1940), First Edition. octavo, yellow cloth in dust jacket. xii, 201 pp. The Military Service Publishing Co, Marine Colonel del Valle was the official U.S. military observer with Italian forces during the Italo-Ethiopia War of 1936-1937. In 1940 he published his experiences and..... More
Fallbrook, CA: Aero Publishers, (1977), First Edition. quarto, pictorial heavy paper wrappers. (208)pp. Aero Publishers, A fine history of the evolution of Japanese naval air camouflage, including factory and field application of colors, naval unit markings, their origin and application. Well illustrated in black and white and in color. Original..... More
(Indio, CA: Aeronaut Books, 2010), First Edition. large quarto, pictorial heavy paper wrappers. 104 pp. Aeronaut Books, With aviation’s rapid growth in the Great War came air combat and the beginning of fighter aviation. Jean Navarre became the archetypal fighter pilot, the first French ace of aces, who, together with..... More
London: William Kimber, (1967), First Edition. octavo, grey boards in dust jacket. 224pp. William Kimber, With a Foreword by Air Vice Marshal "Johnnie" Johnson. With 16pp. of photographs and two maps. With appendix of McCudden's Air Combat Victories, Flying Hours and Aircraft types flown, Aircraft rates of climb, British serial..... More
Dallas: The University of Texas at Dallas, (1998), First Edition. octavo, white pictorial heavy paper wrappers. (iv), 204pp. The University of Texas at Dallas, Part of the History of Aviation Collection at the University. Account of Clay's service with the 148th Aero Squadron on the northern portion of the Western..... More
Munchen: J. F. Lehmanns Verlag, 1959, First Edition. octavo, flexible boards stamped in gilt. (144)pp. J. F. Lehmanns Verlag, With 145 photographs of each principal type of aircraft used in World War I by Germany, France, Great Britain, Italy, Austria, Japan, Turkey, Russia, and the USA. Tables are in German..... More
Atglen, PA: Schiffer, (1996), First Edition. quarto, tan cloth in pictorial dust jacket. (160)pp. Schiffer, The 17th Aero Squadron flew Sopwith Camels under British command along the Western Front during the summer of 1918. This definitive work on the 17th Aero Squadron in World War I is drawn from a...... More
Atglen, PA: Schiffer, (1998), First Edition. quarto, dark red cloth in pictorial dust jacket. 368pp. Schiffer, With Forewods by Gunther Rall and Vitalij Popkov. The most complete and detailed book ever published on the Soviet aces. Extensively illustrated with photographs and side views in full color. As new condition, jacket..... More
New York: Galahad Books, (1979), Fourth edition, American printing. quarto, black boards in pictorial dust jacket. 672pp. Galahad Books, Each warplane developed in Germany in the years from 1933 to 1945, experimental prototype or the most ubiquitous of combat aircraft is described in immense depth of detail along with individuals..... More
London: Macdonald, (1971), First Edition. octavo, brown boards in pictorial dust jacket. 256pp. Macdonald, Illustrated with photographs. Initially flying Nieuports, they later flew SE 5a's in Flanders. very fine copy, in near fine price-clipped jacket. More
Garden City: Doubleday, 1967, First Printing of this Edition. octavo, grey cloth in pictorial dust jacket. (288)pp. Doubleday, Part of the Air Combat Classics series, edited by Stanley M. Ulanoff. Bishop enlisted in the Canadian Mounted Rifles in 1914 but transferred to the RFC in 1915. He served with Nos..... More
(Ramsbottom): Springwater Books, 2004, First Edition. octavo, pictorial card wrappers. xii, 228 pp. Springwater Books, Winged Victor is a biography of Victor M. Yeates, a World War I Sopwith Camel Pilot with No. 46 and 80 Squadrons, whose novel, Winged Victory, is widely considered to be one of the classics..... More
New York: Funk & Wagnalls, (1968), Second American Edition. octavo, blue cloth in pictorial dust jacket. (468)pp. Funk & Wagnalls, The publication of this book coincided with the 50th anniversary of Boeing. It traces the development of the families of aircraft, single-engine marine types, trainers, early transports, fighters, multi-engined bombers..... More
(Stoney Creek): Fortress Publications, (1990), First Canadian Edition. quarto, blue paper boards in pictorial dust jacket. (400)pp. Fortress Publications, Extensively illustrated. The great bulk of the book is devoted to over 800 biographies of individual scout pilots,with introductory notes providing, in the majority of case, place and date of birth..... More
New York: E. P. Dutton, 1943, First Edition. octavo, brown cloth in pictorial dust jacket. 160pp. E. P. Dutton, Illustrated with photographs. Marine Corps fighter pilot Joe Foss is credited with 26 victories. He is the recipient of the Medal of Honor. A fine, clean copy in jacket with slight..... More
Fallbrook, CA: Aero Publishers, (1967), (1967), (1967), (1968), First Edition. quarto, pictorial heavy paper wrappers. 96, 96, 96, 112pp. Aero Publishers, Extensively illustrated with photographs, drawings anf side views. A fine, clean set. Volume III is inscribed by Kinert. More
Garden City: Doubleday, Doran, 1944, First Edition. octavo, green cloth in pictorial dust jacket. (xiv), (226)pp. Doubleday, Doran, Illustrated with photographs. A near fine, clean copy. Light wear and scuffing to edges of jacket with a few tiny closed tears. Jacket not price clipped. More