Aeronautics & Aviation

London: His Majesty's Stationery Office 1928. First Edition. viii, 431, [2], ix-xxiii (index) pages. Blue-gray buckram cloth. 8vo. Ex-library from the Massachusetts Institite of Technology (MIT), properly discarded (periodic stamps, bookplate, spine label removed). Some pages and foldouts with taped folds, occasional edge tears, not collated but apparently complete. Good..... More

Torino, Italy: Libreria Fratelli Bocca 1920. First Edition. xliv, 43, [1-blank] pages. 8vo. Tan printed wrappers. Unopened, untrimmed copy. Red and black penciled notation on front wrapper. Front wrapper corner creased and approaching detached. Minor chipping. Scarce in the original wrappers. Text in Italian. Very Good. Wraps.

"Proceedings of..... More

Washington DC: Government Printing Office 1973. First Edition. 732 pages. Printed beige wrappers. Penned name, several stamps, a few paperclipped pages, etc. The copy of Arthur Obermayer, whose testimony as founder of Moleculon Research is contained within the report. Good. Wraps. More

Farmingdale and Wyandanch, Long Island, New York: [ Fairchild Engine and Airplane Corporation ] 1953. First Edition. 12 pages. Self wraps, stapled. 8 1/2 x 11 inches, photomechanically illustrated. The Christmas issue, a nice bright copy. Near Fine. Wraps.

An internal newsletter for Fairchild employees, covering social issues, moral..... More

New York: Simmons-Boardman Publishing Company 1931. First Edition. vii, 458 pages. 8vo. Blue cloth gilt. Spine faded. Pasted image of plane on front pastedown. Endpapers foxed, otherwise clean internally. Good. Cloth. More

D'Andre Helle. Tours: Maison Mame [1937]. 246, [1] pages. 4 3/4 x 7 inches. Tan boards with red and blue floral decorations. Previous owner inscription dated 1939. Table of Contents at bottom notes "45310-1937" given which we're attributing a 1937 printing date. Bright and clean internally, foxing to the endpapers..... More

Washington DC: National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) 1973. v, 148 pages. 8vo. Paper wrappers printed in green. Previous owner stamps on the front wrapper. Very Good. Wraps.

This is volume 2 ONLY. There were at least two other volumes printed that we are aware of... More

Cambridge, Massachusetts and London, England: The MIT Press 1992. First Edition. xiii, [1], 478 pages. 8vo. Publisher's black cloth binding with pictorial red and gray dust jacket. A nice clean example, noting some fading to the dust jacket spine panel and previous owner information stamped on front pastedown endpaper. Near..... More

Philadelphia: The Franklin Institute 1940. First Edition. [2], 806 pages. 8vo. Dark blue buckram with gilt title and volume numbers to spine panel. Journal of the Franklin Institute, Volume 230 (July-December 1940), entire volume offered. The Malina article is found on pages 433-54. Library bookplate to front pastedown, no other..... More

[ Ithaca, NY ]: Cornell University 1968. First Edition. [6] + v + [4] + 34 + [4] + 27 + [4] + 19 + [4] + 23 + [4] + 61 + [4] + 30 + [4] + 20 + [4] + 34 + [4] + 15 pages. Comb..... More

New York, New York: North American Maps & Autographs circa 1984. An offering of a major collection of aeronautica by firm North American Maps & Autographs (owners E. Forbes Smiley III and Lisa A. Benson). The offering includes: 1) Main catalog of the collection including: a) Reproduced cover sheet "A..... More

London: E.F. Spanner 1931. First Edition. 2 volumes complete. Vol I: xv, [1-(blank)], 327, [1-(blank)] pages + 3 folding plates (Figs 15-18) in rear. Vol II: xv, [1-(blank)], 344 pages + 9 folding plates in rear containing figures 3 through 14. 8vo (9 x 6 inches). Publisher's grey/blue boards with..... More