Air Enthusiast, Volume 2, Numbers 1-6, January - June 1972
Garden City, NY: Doubleday & Company, Inc., 1972. 28 cm, 331, illus., index. More
Garden City, NY: Doubleday & Company, Inc., 1972. 28 cm, 331, illus., index. More
Place_Pub: London: Fine Scroll, 1979. 49, wraps, some wear and soiling to covers. More
Place_Pub: London: Fine Scroll, 1980. 52, wraps, some wear and soiling to covers. More
Place_Pub: London: Fine Scroll, 1980. 49, wraps, some wear and soiling to covers. More
Place_Pub: London: Fine Scroll, 1982. 51, wraps, some wear and soiling to covers. More
Munchen [Munich]: Dornier GmbH, 1983. presumed First Edition, First printing. Hardcover. Format is approximately 6 inches by 8.5 inches. 214 pages. Illustrations. Aircraft Type Index. Text is in German and English. Dornier Flugzeugwerke was a German aircraft manufacturer founded in Friedrichshafen in 1914 by Claude Dornier. The company produced many designs for both the civil and military markets. Dornier was well known between the two world wars as a manufacturer of large, all-metal flying boats and of land-based airliners. The record-breaking 1924 Wal was used on many long distance flights and the Do X set records for its immense size and weight. Dornier's airliners, including the Komet and Merkur that were used by Luft Hansa and other European carriers during the 1920s and early 30s. Dornier built its aircraft outside Germany during much of this period due to the restrictions placed on German aircraft manufacturers by the Treaty of Versailles. Once the Nazi government came to power and abandoned the treaty's restrictions, Dornier resumed production in Germany. More
Old Greenwich, CT: WE, Inc., 1967. Hardcover. viii, 227 p. 23 cm. Illustrations. Glossary. More
London: Frank Cass & Co., Ltd., 1990. 22 cm, 464, wraps, maps, tables, notes, red ink check marks in margin of table of contents. More
Fallbrook, CA: Aero Publishers, Inc., 1966. Presumed first edition/first printing. Trade paperback. Includes: illustrations, diagrams. Approximately 50 pages. Some illustrations in color. More
New York: Morrow, 1970. 23 cm, 299, illus. More
New York: Simon and Schuster, 1943. Quarto, 121, wraps, illus., maps, endpaper maps, glossary, pages darkened & some foxing, spine edges worn & lg tears, covers soiled & worn. More
London: HMSO, 1943. British Edition. Quarto, 121, wraps, illus., maps, endpaper maps, glossary, pages darkened and some foxing, spine edges worn, covers soiled and worn. More
New York: Grosset and Dunlap, 1941. 214, illus., illus. endpapers, some pg discolor, boards worn/soiled, spine edges frayed, somewhat shaken, stray marks to pgs/endpprs. More
Place_Pub: Garden City, NY: Doubleday & Company, Inc., 1974. 400, illus., endpaper illus., maps, appendices, bibliography, index, some darkening to text, some wear to DJ edges. More
Garden City, NY: Doubleday & Company, Inc., 1968. First U.S. Edition. 399, illus., maps, apps, bibliography, index, weakness to rear bd & tears ins rear hinge, DJ scuffed & soiled: small tears. More
Garden City, NY: Doubleday & Company, Inc., 1968. First U.S. Edition. 399, illus., maps, apps, bibliography, index, fore-edge stained, boards & spine scuffed, worn, & spotted, board corners worn. More
Mountain View, Calif. 1967. First edition. Stated. Presumed first printing. Hardcover. Volume I ONLY. 192 p. Illus. (part col. ) 24 cm. More
Atglen, PA: Schiffer Military History, 1993. Revised Edition. 319, profusely illus. (some in color), bibliography. More
Palo Alto, CA: D-D Associates, 1972. First Edition. Hardcover. 319 pages. Profusely illus. (some in color), bibliography, boards somewhat scuffed, some wear to board corners. Signed by the author. More
Berlin: VDI-Verlag GMBH, 1929. First? Edition. First? Printing. 99, illus., diagrams, ink notation on separated front flyleaf, front board weak, bookplate removed from inside front board. More
[New York]: Ballantine Books, 1968. First Printing. 21 cm, 160, wraps, illus., bookplate. Introduction by Barrie Pitt. More
New York, NY: Ballantine Books, 1977. Fourth Printing. Trade Paperback. 160 pages. Profusely illustrated with black and white photographs. Includes Introduction, France falls, Britain digs in, Into battle, the Eagle swoops, The fabled few, The miraculous mistake, London reels, Point of balance, Verdict of history, and Bibliography. Edward Bishop was the author of a series of popular historical books on the Royal Air Force. A Fleet Street journalist with an engaging shrewdness wrote The Wooden Wonder (1959), the story of the Mosquito, which had been dismissed as a hopeless anachronism by the air establishment because it had a wooden frame. The book's greatest admirer was Lord Beaverbrook, the newspaper proprietor. On hearing that Bishop was working next on the Battle of Britain he immediately summoned him to his penthouse flat at midnight. "Sit down on that sofa where many great men have sat," said "The Beaver". "Who?" asked his bemused guest. "Lloyd George, Churchill . . . and now Edward Bishop," came the reply. Beaverbrook, who had been Minister of Aircraft Production when the German invasion was threatened, offered Bishop a wide range of contacts; and later he paid the then large sum of £4,000 for the rights to serialize The Battle of Britain. Again and again the British fighters tore into the huge formations of heavily escorted German bombers. Six Hurricanes against seventy Dorniers; twelve Spitfires against one hundred Heinkels. It was summer, 1940, and "The Few," a dwindling, gallant company of Royal Air Force fighter pilots, were all that stood between Britain and defeat. More
Gretna, LA: Pelican Publishing Company [A Giniger Book], 2003. Presumed First Edition, First printing. Hardcover. 447, [1] pages. Notes. Bibliography. Index. Walter J. Boyne (born 1929) is a retired United States Air Force officer, Command Pilot, combat veteran, aviation historian, and author of more than 50 books and over 1,000 magazine articles. He is a former director of the National Air and Space Museum of the Smithsonian Institution and a former Chairman of the National Aeronautic Association. In May 1951 Boyne entered the U.S. Air Force's Aviation Cadet program. On December 19, 1952 he was commissioned as a Second Lieutenant in the United States Air Force. Boyne flew the B-50 Superfortress as a member of the 330th Bomb Squadron of the 93rd Bomb Wing. Boyne also flew the B-47 Stratojet for several years. Boyne was a nuclear test pilot with the 4925th Nuclear Test Group at Kirtland Air Force Base. Boyne served during the Vietnam War as commander of the 635th Services Squadron at U-Tapao Royal Thai Air Base where he flew 120 combat hours as a C-47 Skytrain instructor pilot. Colonel Boyne retired from the Air Force on June 1, 1974 with more than 5,000 hours in various military aircraft. More
New York: Harcourt, Brace & World, [1969]. Book Club? Edition. 22 cm, 268, illus., endpaper maps, footnotes, bibliography, index, pencil erasure on half-title. More
New York: Ballantine Books, 1972. Third Printing. 21 cm, 160, wraps, illus., slight wear and soiling to covers. More