Boldness Be My Friend
Boston, MA: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1954. 309, illus., endpaper maps, lib stamps, due slip, pocket, & call # on spine, bds scuffed & soiled, edges of spine worn. More
Boston, MA: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1954. 309, illus., endpaper maps, lib stamps, due slip, pocket, & call # on spine, bds scuffed & soiled, edges of spine worn. More
New York: St. Martin's Press, 1984. Rev. 1st U.S. Edition. 433, maps, appendices, some soiling to fore-edge, DJ worn and scuffed: small tears, small pieces missing. More
New York: Macmillan, c1988. First Printing. 24 cm, 353, maps, index, minor soiling to rear DJ. More
Bethesda, MD: Adler & Adler, 1986. Second Edition. Presumed First Printing. Hardcover. 24 cm, 557 pages, illus., bibliography, index, former owner's embossed stamp on several pages, DJ in plastic sleeve, tear at rear DJ. The author was the founding publisher of American Heritage, the innovative magazine in hardcover book form that chronicled various periods of U.S. history and won a Pulitzer Prize for its "Picture History of the Civil War". Parton was also founding publisher of Horizon magazine and the 1940s newspaper the Los Angeles Independent. The eclectic publisher had a lifelong love affair with words. He wrote the annual musical comedy of the Hasty Pudding Club as a Harvard undergraduate, and he was a writer, editor and management assistant for 13 years with Time Inc. Parton later served as president of Encyclopaedia Britannica, head of the National Advertising Review Board, and assistant librarian of Congress. He was the author of the well-received 1986 book "Air Force Spoken Here." But Parton's greatest legacy remains American Heritage. More
Washington, DC: Office of Air Force History, 1986. 24 cm, 105, wraps, illus., maps, bibliography, index. More
Washington, DC: GPO, 1973. First? Edition. First? Printing. 24 cm, 245, wraps, illus., glossary, some wear and soiling to covers. More
Lincoln, NE: Writers Club Press, 2001. Presumed First Edition, First printing. Trade paperback. xi, [1], 317, [1] pages. Illustration facing title page. Inscribed by author on half-title. Cover has slight wear and soiling. The author has been an aerospace engineer, financial analyst, controller, marketing consultant, speechwriter, disk jockey, librarian, television produced, corporate officer, entertainment critic, cartoonist, stand-up comic, and college professor. He was a long time employee of Delta Air Lines. The book is about Aidan McInnis, a young, straight-laced pilot from Boston likes structure, so he is woefully unprepared when a series of personal upheavals deposits him in the heart of unconventional and uninhibited Key West, Florida. As his new life evolves to be increasingly bizarre and unpredictable, he finds an improbable mentor in the eccentric, self-styled Monarch of the Conch Republic, Louie Robideau. Over the course of a year, Louie and a colorful cast of locals help Aidan grow past the man he was raised to be and into the man he always wanted to be. More
New York: Duffield & Company, 1923. 22 cm, 251, illus., Mrs. Raynal Bolling's card pasted to flyleaf. More
Lawrence, KS: University Press of Kansas, 1984. First U.S.? Edition. First? Printing. 23 cm, 287, wraps, footnotes, some wear and soiling to covers. More
Metuchen, NJ: The Scarecrow Press, Inc., 1985. Hardcover. viii, 402, [4] pages. Illustrations. References. Bibliography. Index. Format is approximately 5.75 inches by 8.75 inches. This book deals with feature motion pictures, made-for-television films, and television series that feature some aspect of aviation. The story of the men who filmed, and sometimes died, in Hollywood skies is an exciting one. It is the equal of the story of any other film genre, although it has been long neglected by cinematic scholars. More
Charleston, SC: Arcadia Publishing, 2007. Presumed First Edition, First printing. Trade paperback. 127, [1] pages., Illustrations. Bibliography. Format is approximately 6.5 inches by 9.25 inches. This is one of the Images of Aviation series. Katrina Pescador has been the Director of the San Diego Air & Space Museum’s Library & Archives since 2005. She is responsible for managing all aspects of the Museum’s Library & Archives collection. Alan Renga is a Digital Archivist San Diego Air and Space Museum. San Diego Air & Space Museum (SDASM, formerly the San Diego Aerospace Museum) is an aviation and space exploration museum in San Diego, California, United States. The museum is located in Balboa Park and is housed in the former Ford Building, which is listed on the US National Register of Historic Places. SDASM opened to the public on February 15, 1963. In 2005 the museum became affiliated with the Smithsonian Institution. It is one of only ten aerospace museums in the country to have such an affiliation, and one of only two affiliated museums in San Diego. More
New York: Grosset & Dunlap, [1966]. First? Edition. First? Printing. 32 cm, 128, profusely illus. (some color), index, front DJ flap price clipped, DJ worn, soiled, torn, and pieces missing. More
Washington, DC: GPO, 1918. First? Edition. First? Printing. 27 cm, 202, library stamps, some wear and soiling to boards, corners bumped. The work describes maps & atlases published 1914-1917. More
New York: John Wiley & Sons, Inc., 1999. First Printing. Hardcover. 25 cm, 306 pages. Illus. (some color), maps, appendix, technical terms. Signed by both authors (signed bookplate showing balloon ins front bd). More
New York: John Wiley & Sons, Inc., 1999. First Printing. Hardcover. 25 cm, 306 pages. Illus. (some color), maps, appendix, technical terms. Signed by the co-author (Jones). More
New York: John Wiley & Sons, Inc., 1999. First Printing. Hardcover. 25 cm. 306 pages. Illus. (some color), maps, appendix, technical terms, Inscribed on the half-title page to Dr. J. Dennis O'Connor signed by both authors. This may be the same O'Connor who joined the Smithsonian Institution in December 1995 as the Institution's first Provost. He was responsible for planning, integration and oversight of research, exhibitions, and education for the 16 museums and 6 research centers. Bertrand Piccard FRSGS (born 1 March 1958) is a Swiss psychiatrist and balloonist. Along with Brian Jones, he was the first to complete a non-stop balloon flight around the globe, in a balloon named Breitling Orbiter 3. He was the initiator, chairman, and co-pilot, with André Borschberg, of Solar Impulse, the first successful round-the-world solar powered flight. Brian Jones (born 27 March 1947 in Bristol, England) is an English balloonist. Brian Jones, along with Bertrand Piccard, co-piloted the first successful uninterrupted circumnavigation of the world in the balloon Breitling Orbiter 3. More
New York: John Wiley & Sons, Inc., 1999. First Printing [Stated]. Hardcover. 25 cm. viii, [2], 306 pages. Illustrations (some color). Maps. Appendix on Round-the-World Attempts. Technical terms. Signed by both authors on title pages (each under their printed names). DJ has slight wear and soiling and is price clipped. Bertrand Piccard and Brian Jones, the pilots of the Breitling Orbiter 3 balloon, tell the remarkable story of their record-breaking, first-ever around the world balloon flight in March 1999. Bertrand Piccard was a medical doctor specializing in psychiatry. He came from an explorer family; his grandfather was the first man to reach the stratosphere in a balloon. His father set depth records in a bathyscaphe. Brian Jones was a veteran of the Royal Air Force and became the United Kingdom's chief flying instructor. More
Westport, Conn: Praeger, 1997. First Printing. 149, illus., map, bibliography, index, publisher's ephemera laid in. More
Portsmouth, NH: Peter E. Randall Publisher, 2000. Presumed First Edition, First printing. Trade paperback. [6], 144, [2] pages. 40 Illustrations. Signed by Dorothy Polando on title page. In 1931, just four years after Lindbergh flew the Atlantic, Polando and Russell Boardman left from Floyd Bennett airfield and flew their single engine Bellanca nonstop to Istanbul, Turkey. After 5,011 miles in the air, the duo landed with only 15 minutes fuel remaining in their tanks, but they set the record for long distance non-stop flight. Just two years after this record-breaking journey, Boardman was killed in a crash, but Polando flew for the rest of his life, mainly in New England. One highlight was his participation in the 1934 MacRobertson race, 11,123 miles from England to Australia. Polando and his fellow pilot only got as far as Calcutta. But earlier they landed in the Persian desert where Polando was briefly held captive by Arabs. Later, while in his 40s, he enlisted as a World War II pilot. In recognition of their contribution to aviation, Boardman-Polando field in Hyannis, Massachusetts, was named in their honor on the fiftieth anniversary of their flight. John Polando died in 1985, but the material for this book had been gathered by his wife, Dorothy, who had reviewed it with her husband. More
London: William Heinemann Ltd., 1949. First Edition. 402, illus. (some in color), appendix, index, library bookplate, stamps, & barcode, fr flylf discolored, bds scuffed & scratched. More
Annapolis, Md: Naval Institute Press, c1981. First? Edition. First? Printing. 26 cm, 370, illus., tears in front and rear DJ. More
Garden City, NY: Doubleday, 1976. Updated Edition. 27 cm, 373, illus., glossary, front DJ flap price clipped. More
Baltimore, MD: Nautical & Aviation Pub. 1990. Second Edition. 326, illus., glossary. More
New York: Vantage Press, 1991. First Edition. 183, slight wear to top and bottom edges of DJ. More