Mesa, AZ: Champlin Fighter Museum Press, (1986), First Edition. large quarto, dark blue boards in pictorial dust jacket. 336pp. Champlin Fighter Museum Press, Extensively illustrated with photographs and with aircraft profiles in full color. A very fine, nearly as new copy. Jacket not clipped. More
Atglen, PA: Schiffer, (2006), First Edition. quarto, pictorial boards in pictorial dust jacket. 464pp. Schiffer, Volume Two of this monumental series. Sanke, Liersch and NPG postcards featuring German World War I aviators have been collected, traded, and reproduced in many publications over the years, but for the first time the..... More
Atglen, PA: Schiffer, (2006), First Edition. quarto, pictorial boards in pictorial dust jacket. (352)pp. Schiffer, Volume One of this monumental three volume series. Sanke, Liersch and NPG postcards featuring German World War I aviators have been collected, traded, and reproduced in many publications over the years, but no author until..... More
[Garden City: Country Life Press], (1920), First Edition. large octavo, brown cloth stamped with the Squadron's insignia in white on the front cover. T.e.g. (xii), (172)pp. Country Life Press], Brown cloth stamped on front cover with the Squadron's insignia of a diving great snow owl with barbell over a ribbon..... More
[San Antonio, TX: Alamo Printing Company, 1919], First Edition. oblong octavo, black wrappers stamped in red, tied with cord. unpaginated. Alamo Printing Company, A book to commemorate the work done by the men at the Balloon School at Camp John Wise. Illustrated with photographs of staff members, group photos of..... More
Minneapolis: Privately Printed, 1918, First Edition. octavo, grey-blue boards with buff boards spine and black leather spine label. (118)pp. Privately Printed, Chamberlain attended Princeton University and graduated in the class of 1910. In May of 1917 he sailed for France and upon arrival enlisted 3 June 1917 in the Lafayette..... More
London: Heath Cranton, (1920), First Edition. quarto, tan printed boards with pictorial printed lable on front board and cloth. not paginated, (64)pp. Heath Cranton, Wear to extremities, corners bumped, spine wear to head and foot. Front inner hinge cracking. Text clean. More
Garden City: Printed at The Country Life Press, 1925, First Edition. octavo, blue cloth. (xxx), 202pp. Printed at The Country Life Press, Kiffin Rockwell joined the Foreign Legion in France in 1914 and transferred to aviation in 1915 taking training at Avord and Pau. He joined the Escadrille Lafayette at..... More
Winona, MN: Printed by the Winona Labor News, Winona, MN, No date [c. 1920], First Edition. octavo, brown boards stamped in gilt and with unit logo on front cover. (110)pp. Printed by the Winona Labor News, Winona, MN, The U.S. Twentieth Aero Squadron was organized at Kelly Field, Texas on..... More
New York: The Macmillan Company, 1917, First Edition. octavo, blue boards and cloth with printed paper labels on front cover and spine. (216)pp. The Macmillan Company, Frontispiece photograph of Chapman and his mother. Chapman enlisted in the French Foreign Legion in August, 1914, transferred to aviation a year later, trained..... More
No place, no publisher or printer: [1919], First Edition. oblong octavo, green printed wrappers. (16)pp., stapled. A brief history of the squadron and the roster as of January 24, 1919. Signed on inner back wrapper by Rolfe P. Kennard, a member of the Squadron. Slight general wear and scuffs from..... More
(London): Neville Spearman, (1966), First Edition. octavo, blue boards in pictorial dust jacket. 220pp. Neville Spearman, Introduced and annotated by Frederick Oughton. This book is dedicated to 40 Squadron, 74 Squadron, and 85 Squadron. The diary is printed in its entirety with the pages reproduced in facsimile and a transcription..... More
Memphis: Davis Printing Company, (1933), First Edition. small octavo, embossed wrappers with photographic label of Grider on front cover. 111pp. Davis Printing Company, "Marse John" was John McGavock Grider, a 1st Lt. attached to No. 85 Squadron RFC. This work is largely based on letters collected by his aunt with..... More
London: John Hamilton Ltd., no date (c. 1934), First Edition. quarto, black cloth in pictorial dust jacket. unpaginated. John Hamilton Ltd., This book contains 48 black and white studies of the RFC, RNAS and RAF with accompanying text. Arranged in sequence the pictures are of incidents and phases of aviation..... More
London: William Kimber, (1974), First Edition. octavo, blue boards in dust jacket. 194 pp. William Kimber, Illustrated with photographs and map. William Fry was a fighter pilot on the Western Front from 1915 to 1918. His vivid memoirs cover the Battle of the Somme and Paschendaele, painting a portrait of..... More
Memphis: Davis Printing Company, (1933), First Edition. small octavo, embossed wrappers with photographic label of Grider on front cover. 111pp. Davis Printing Company, "Marse John" was John McGavock Grider, a 1st Lt. attached to No. 85 Squadron RFC. This work is largely based on letters collected by his aunt with..... More
Cambridge: Bowes and Bowes, 1918, Second Impression. small octavo, blue cloth. (32)pp. Bowes and Bowes, The lyrics to fifteen World War I aviator songs: "The Syncopated Fire Control," "We Haven't Got a Hope in the Morning," and more. With seven tipped-in collotype illustrations. Cloth very slightly scuffed, touch of scuffing..... More
Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1917, First Edition. large octavo, blue boards and cloth with printed paper labels on front cover and spine. (xii), 74, (vi)pp., top edges gilt, others untrimmed. Houghton Mifflin Company, Frontispiece portrait of Norman Prince and 12 pages of plates. With Memoir by George F. Babbitt. Prince..... More
(Grand Rapids, MI: The Dean-Hicks Company, 1919), First Edition. quarto, pictorial blue cloth. 136pp. The Dean-Hicks Company, The school, authorized in 1918, provided for the training of aerial observers and the training of units of line troops in liaison between ground and air, was located on the outskirts of Chatillon-sur-Seine..... More
Garden City: Doubleday, Doran & Company, Inc., 1928, First Edition, Limited to 150 numbered copies signed by Springs. large octavo, light green cloth (Fort Mill sheeting) with paper label on spine. (283)pp. Doubleday, Doran & Company, Inc., Fiction based upon Springs' wartime experiences. Overall dust and handling soiling to cloth..... More
Woking and London: Unwin Brothers, Ltd., 1919, First Edition. small octavo, green cloth stamped in gilt on front cover and spine. (130)pp., illustrations unpaginated. Unwin Brothers, Ltd., A monthly account of the formation of RFC 55 Squadron in England in April, 1916, its arrival in France in March, 1917, becoming..... More
Dallas, TX: The League of World War I Aviation Historians, (1992), First Edition. quarto, blue boards in pictorial dust jacket. (x), 162pp. The League of World War I Aviation Historians, The story of adaptation and innovation as the aviation element of the American Army attempted to overcome its extreme unpreparedness..... More
New York: The Macmillan Company, 1917, First Edition. octavo, blue boards and cloth with printed paper labels on front cover and spine. (216)pp. The Macmillan Company, Frontispiece photograph of Chapman and his mother. Chapman enlisted in the French Foreign Legion in August, 1914, transferred to aviation a year later, trained..... More
London: A. L. Humphreys for Private Circulation, 1918, First Edition. quarto, blue cloth. T.e.g. (viii), 253pp. A. L. Humphreys for Private Circulation, Lubbock entered the RFC as an observer in August 1915 and served with No. 5 Squadron, earning the M.C. He underwent flight training in February 1916 and served..... More
New York: The Macmillan Company, 1917, First Edition. octavo, blue boards and cloth with printed paper title labels on front cover and spine, that on the cover with a double-rule border in orange, in dust jacket. (x), 196, (viii)pp. The Macmillan Company, With memoir by John Jay Chapman. Illustrated with..... More