Original Sanke-NPG Postcard #6256 of "Leutnant Hellmuth Goerz".
Berlin: W. Sanke, c. 1917, approx. 3 x 5 1/4 inches, W. Sanke, This card is in near mint condition with slight fading to verso. The card has not been postally used. More
Berlin: W. Sanke, c. 1917, approx. 3 x 5 1/4 inches, W. Sanke, This card is in near mint condition with slight fading to verso. The card has not been postally used. More
Boston: The Atlantic Monthly Press, Inc., 1918, First Edition. small octavo, patterned boards in original glassine wrapper. 104pp. The Atlantic Monthly Press, Inc., With a Preface by Arthur Stanwood Pier. Several of these letters were printed in the Harvard Alumni Bulletin after his death. Adams' very descriptive letters to family..... More
Garden City: Sun Dial Press, 1927, Sun Dial Press edition. octavo, red cloth stamped in black, in pictorial dust jacket. 383 pp. Sun Dial Press, Top edge stained red as issued. Drawings by Clayton Knight. The first complete account of Richthofen's war flying record containing translated copies of letters, official..... More
New York: National Travel Club, 1929, First American Edition. octavo, cloth in dust jacket. National Travel Club, The story, by the participants, of the greatest flight in the history of aviation. Dust jacket with over all dust soiling and a few tape repairs along edge. More
New York: Harper & Brothers, (1918), New and Enlarged Edition. small octavo, green cloth stamped in gilt on front cover and spine in pictorial dust jacket. (xvi), (244)pp. Harper & Brothers, Eighteen chapters covering Construction; The Care and Maintenance of Aeroplanes; Aero Engines; Aeroplane and Airship Instruments, etc. With four..... More
Detroit: Printed by Saturday Night Press, Inc., 1919, First Edition. octavo, tan cloth. T.e.g. (xx), (214)pp., illustrations not paginated. Printed by Saturday Night Press, Inc., A family memorial of Russel's letters home describing his training and experiences as an American aviator in the U.S. Air Service during World War I...... More
Privately Printed, 1920, First Edition. octavo, dark blue cloth with gilt decoration and stamping. (211)pp. Privately Printed, Taber was a volunteer ambulance driver in France in 1915, returned to Princeton University and learned to fly at the Princeton Aviation School in 1917. He was sent to the RFC ground school..... More
The typed note is on Headquarters, First United States Army, Office of the Chief of Staff, Fort Bragg, North Carolina, and is dated 25 October 1945. The photograph is boldly signed, "W. B. Kean, Major General, Chief of Staff, First U.S. Army." William Benjamin Kean (July 9, 1897 – March..... More
(Bucks, UK: C G Jefford, 1995), First Edition. large octavo, blue boards in pictorial dust jacket. (544)pp. C G Jefford, Printed list of corrections laid-in. Well illustrated. With list of personnel and aircraft used by the Squadron. Fine copy of this mammouth history. More
Berlin: Union Deutsche Verlagsgefellfschaft, no date [circa 1935], Sixth Printing. octavo, brown patterned paper boards with title and drawing stamped in red on front cover and spine. (100) pp. Union Deutsche Verlagsgefellfschaft, Although the author gave the Jagdstaffel a fictitious number and changed the names of the pilots composing it..... More
Maxwell AFB, AL: Aerospace Studies Institute, 1970, First Edition. octavo, printed wrappers. (xvi), 271pp. Aerospace Studies Institute, Born in 1877, Lahm was the first American military man to go aloft in an airplane, winner of the first James Gordon Bennett International Balloon Race, holder of Airplane License No. 2, Airship..... More
16" x 20" Limited to 250 numbered copies signed by the artist, Rick Bryant. Part of the "As de Guerre" series published by JRS Autographics, Indianapolis, IN. This example features Capt. Leonard H. Rochford, No. 3 Squadron, Royal Naval Air Service, No. 203 Squadron, Royal Air Force, 28 Victories. Signed..... More
London: William Kimber, (1973), First Edition. octavo, blue cloth in pictorial dust jacket. 224pp. William Kimber, Lambert enlisted in Canada for the RFC in 1917, was sent to England before joining No. 24 Squadron in France in 1918. He compiled a record of nearly 20 confirmed victories and was awarded..... More
(c. 1916), 5 1/2 x 3 1/2 inches, Original war-date German contact print photo/postcard of 5 Squadron, Royal Flying Corps BE2d No. 6254 downed after a combat with a Roland near Polygon Wood. Crew were 2Lt G. W. Pender and Lt H. J. Duncan. One very tiny nick along lower..... More
Indianapolis: E. C. Seale & Company, (1963), Reissue. octavo, brown cloth in dust jacket. (xvi), 335pp. E. C. Seale & Company, Originally published under the title "The Great Adventure." An historically accurate and factual adventure written by Parsons who flew for France during WWI as a member of the Layfayette..... More
(New York ): Privately Printed (The Trow Press), 1916, First Edition Limited to 100 numbered copies. large octavo, newly rebound in brown marbled boards and calf, t.e.g. 114pp. Privately Printed (The Trow Press), Walcott was a US Senator from Connecticut. During World War One he served with the US Food..... More
New York: Nicholas L. Brown, 1919, First Edition. octavo, blue cloth. (226)pp. Nicholas L. Brown, Pat Crowe enlisted in the U.S. Air Service early in 1917, attended various training schools, went to France and was commissioned a Second Lieutenant at Tours in July, 1918. He fell to his death from..... More
Artwork by Alan Durkota and Terry Waldron. Attractive full color poster on posterboard measuring approximately 27" x 36". Depicting three portraits of Sikorsky along with detailed profiles of 23 of his airplane designs. Signed by Durkota. Very fine condition. More
Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1934, First Edition. octavo, blue cloth in pictorial dust jacket. (viii), 163pp. Houghton Mifflin Company, A combination of fact, fiction and legend in verse of American fighter pilots in France during World War I. The names mentioned in this poem are those the author knew at..... More
Princeton, NJ: Foundation for Aviation World War I, (1995), First Edition. octavo, heavy pictorial wrappers. (viii), (280)pp. Foundation for Aviation World War I, An explanation of how military honors played their part in motivating and rewarding the young men in the Imperial German air service in World War I. Beginning..... More
Garden City: Doubleday, 1959, First Edition. octavo, grey cloth in pictorial dust jacket. 336pp. Doubleday, Illustrated with photographs. Presentation Copy, Inscribed and Signed by Whitehouse on the front endpaper: "Livingston, N.J. March 21, 1959 To - James Stacy - A good friend and a most interested reader of - Arch..... More
(Lille, France): circa 1915-1918, 3 1/2 x 5 1/2 inches, An "envelope" card with "I love you" sentiment slip tucked in. Excellent embroidery and vivid colors. In very fine condition. More
J. B. Hayward & Son, (1990), Third Edition. octavo, blue boards in dust jacket. 301, 157pp. J. B. Hayward & Son, A facsimile of the first official list of Royal Air Force officers (with their dates of seniority), published on the amalgamation of the Royal Flying Corps and the Royal..... More
Toronto: McClelland and Stewart Limited, (1965), First Edition. octavo, blue boards in pictorial dust jacket. (223)pp. McClelland and Stewart Limited, A detailed tribute to Billy Bishop, the Canadian air ace, by his son. Many exploits of Bishop's service in both World Wars I and II detailed. He achieved a record..... More
(Tampere): Apali Oy, (1999), First Edition. quarto, pictorial boards. 184pp. Apali Oy, Extensively illustrated with photographs. Man profiles and markings in full color. A very fine, nearly as new, clean, copy. Volume 3. Much on World War One. More