Category: Aviation

Intaglio of Zeppelin Hangar , Akron Ohio

Price: $800.00

Publisher: : Circa 1929

Seller ID: 6057

Condition: Very Good

Intaglio of the zeppelin hangar in Akron, Ohio which appears to depict the construction of the hangar with a dirigible flying in the distance. Plate 12 x 8 3/4 inches, paper 15 x 12 inches. First Edition.
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USS Falcon's 1933 recovery of Zeppelin/Dirigible USS Akron Photograph

Price: $100.00

Publisher: New York, International News Photos, Inc : 1933

Seller ID: 7287

News photograph with photographers added delineations. Approximately 6.5 x 8.5 inches; 16.5 x 21.4 cm First Edition.
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Image for Photographische Aufnahmen vom Ballon aus. Nach einer Serie von Vortragen, die im Auftrag des Berliner Vereins fur Luftschiffahrt gehalten worden sind. Mit einer Dreifarben-Aufnahme vom Ballon aus. Encyklopaedia der Photographie, Heft 68.

Photographische Aufnahmen vom Ballon aus. Nach einer Serie von Vortragen, die im Auftrag des Berliner Vereins fur Luftschiffahrt gehalten worden sind. Mit einer Dreifarben-Aufnahme vom Ballon aus. Encyklopaedia der Photographie, Heft 68.

By: A. (Adolf) Miethe

Price: $175.00

Publisher: Halle (Saale), Wilhelm Knapp : 1909

Seller ID: 1555

Binding: Wraps

Condition: Very Good

Paper wraps with text. Color frontispiece tipped-in. Entirely in German text. 5 1/2 x 8 1/2 inches. 3, 70 pp., 8 ad pages. First Edition.
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Scrapbook chronicling the rise and fall of the Zeppelin U.S.S. Akron

By: Anna M. Schafer (compiler)

Price: $3,000.00

Publisher: Akron, Anna M. Schafer (compiler) : 1929-1933

Seller ID: 4295

Binding: Scrapbook

Large oblong scrapbook chronicling the history of the USS Akron including Red First Award ribbon for Exhibition Cleveland, Ohio September 1932; ZRS-4 Ring Laying Duralumin Medal dated Oct. 31, 1929; 84 Covers most of which are signed by people associated (including Hugo Eckener, P.W. Litchfield, Dr. Karl Arnstein, W.C. Slate, F.M. Harphaun, Liet. George V. Whittle, Dewey and Blanche Noyes (one of the first ten women with a pilot's license), C.V.S. Knox, Charles W. "Speed Holman," William B. Stout and many other figures of the aviation history of this period; thirty 8x10 photographs of the air...
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Red Ball in the Sky

By: Charles F. Blair; Foreword by Lowell Thomas

Price: $150.00

Publisher: New York, Random House : 1969

Seller ID: 8343

Condition: Very Good

Inscribed by Blair to blank fly. Full yellow cloth with dustjacket. Slight wear to top of dustjacket (see image), but otherwise a clean copy with no previous owners' names. 6 x 8.5 in Dust jacket present. First Edition.
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Image for Una ojeada historica sobre la aviacion alemana desde 1909 hasta 1934: Junkers y la aviacion mundial (Una ojeada historica sobre la aviacion alemana desde 1909 hasta 1934 : Junkers y la aviacion mundial)

Una ojeada historica sobre la aviacion alemana desde 1909 hasta 1934: Junkers y la aviacion mundial (Una ojeada historica sobre la aviacion alemana desde 1909 hasta 1934 : Junkers y la aviacion mundial)

By: Hauptmann Fischer Von Poturzyn

Price: $180.00

Publisher: Munich, Richard Pflaum : 1935

Seller ID: 5618

Condition: Very Good

Black and white image to cover. Many photographs & diagrams. 9" - 10" tall; 160 pages; All shipments through USPS insured Priority Mail. First Edition.
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Image for Air Pioneering in the Arctic: The Two Polar Flights of Roald Amundsen and Lincoln Ellsworth Part I: The 1925 Flight from Spitzbergen to 88 Degrees North; Part II: The First Crossing of the Polar Sea, 1926

Air Pioneering in the Arctic: The Two Polar Flights of Roald Amundsen and Lincoln Ellsworth Part I: The 1925 Flight from Spitzbergen to 88 Degrees North; Part II: The First Crossing of the Polar Sea, 1926

By: Howard Eldred Kerschner; Roald Amundsen; Lincoln Ellsworth

Price: $2,200.00

Publisher: New York, National Americana Society : 1929

Seller ID: 1818

Condition: Very Good

Professionally rebound in bonded leather with gilt titling with original publisher's cloth title panel set in, in custom slipcase. With the bookplate of Daniel Guggenheim. [10], 126, [6] p., [72] leaves of plates : photogravure plates, ports., maps. A collection of articles reprinted from Amundsen and Ellsworth's "Our Polar Flight" and "First Crossing of the Polar Sea" as well as from other publications.; All shipments through USPS insured Priority Mail. First Edition.
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The Story of the Airship; with Accompanying Letters from Karl Arnstein

By: Hugh Allen

Price: $250.00

Publisher: The Goodyear Tire & Rubber Co. : 1931

Seller ID: 7747

Condition: Very Good

An accompanying letter from Karl Arnstein, the vice president of the Goodyear-Zeppelin Corporation, is included dated and signed in 1933 where he asks to withhold an article from being published. Also included is a note on comparing the blimp fleet to the German Zeppelin. Thirdly, an unanimous inquiry in pencil in present, with notable answers including "not much" and question marks regarding safety are added. The response to using diesel engines was "working on it" and in regards to Piccard's article on stratospheric travel the response was "fantastic". Signed by Karl Arnstein to front fly. B...
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La Guerre Arienne Illustre. Fascicule #2 (November 23rd 1916) -through #24 (April, 26th, 1917). 22 Issues

By: Illustre, La Guerre Arienne

Price: $100.00

Publisher: Paris, L'Edition Franaise Illustre, : 1917

Seller ID: 3476

Condition: Good

Paris: L'Edition Franaise Illustre,. Good. 1917. First Edition. Covers bound-in at rear. Please expect postage additional to ABE's default for overseas orders. Includes two original signed photographs of presentation. Lacks spine, some pages loose, signatures pulled; otherwise good. ; Quarto; Additional images and further information provided upon request. ; All shipments through USPS insured Priority Mail. . First Edition.
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Voyage Aeriens, Illustres par Eugene Ciceri, Adreine-Emmanuel Marie, and Albert Tissandier

By: J. (James) Glashier, C. (Camille) Flammarion, W. (Wilfred) de Fonvielle, and G. (Gaston) Tissandier

Price: $150.00

Publisher: Paris, L. Hachette & Cie : 1870

Seller ID: 6351

Condition: Fine

Half red morocco spine with textured cloth boards. 4 raised bands and gilt particulars to spine. All edges gilt; moire endpapers. 117 sur blanc woodcuts, 6 hors texte chromolithographs with tissue guards, and 15 hors texte diagrams and/or maps throughout. French text throughout. No previous owner's names or other markings. Some spotting and foxing to pages, primarily at beginning and end, whereas the middle is primarily bright and clean. 612 pp. 7 1/2 x 10 3/4 inches. Please expect additional postage for overseas orders. First Edition.
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La Navigation Aerienne, Histoire documentaire et enecdotique

By: Joseph-Louis Lecornu

Price: $180.00

Publisher: Paris, Vuibert & Nony Editeurs : 1910

Seller ID: 6352

Bright green percaline boards with intricate aerial images to boards and spine in gilt and black stamp. All edges gilt; decorative endpapers. French text throughout. Black and white illustrations, photographs and diagrams throughout. Occasional light spotting to pages. No previous owners' names or other markings. Bookseller's ticket to front pastedown: "Ancienne Librairie-- E. Flammarion & A. Vaillant, Ernest Martin Suc., 3 Faubourg St. Monore, Paris." viii, 486 pp. 8 1/2 x 12 inches.
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Devil at My Heels

By: Louis Zamperini with David Rensin

Price: $100.00

Publisher: Norwalk, Easton Press : 2015

Seller ID: 4352

As new full leather. All edges gilt.
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Trayectoria de la aviacion en Venezuela; prologo del doctor Diogenes Escalante

By: Luis M. Chafardet-Urbina

Price: $450.00

Publisher: Caracas, Taller : 1941

Seller ID: 3273

Condition: Very Good

Nicely bound in full polished red calf. Profusely illustrated with photographs, some folding. ; 8vo ; x, 301 pages; All shipments through USPS insured Priority Mail. .
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Owner's Operating Manual for 1948. Flying Station Wagon and Stinson Voyager

By: Stinson

Price: $75.00

Publisher: Wayne, MI, Stinson Division : 1948

Seller ID: 5838

Condition: Very Good

Stapled wraps. Organized into two parts: Design Features and Operating Instructions. Black and white photography, as well as diagrams and schematics throughout. Some discoloration at staples and to middle of back wrap (see image). 37 pp., [1] 5 x 8 inches. First Edition.
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Brief - Volume 2, No.s 6, 10-15, 27-32, 34, 36, 37, 39

By: U.S. Army Air Forces in the Pacific Ocean Areas (AAFPOA) (Sgt. Clive Howard, Maj. Kent Pritchard, Jack M Young, ed.)

Price: $240.00

Publisher: San Francisco, Information and Education Division of AAFPOA : January- August 1945

Seller ID: 5514

Condition: Very Good

Set of 17 issues of Brief all from 1945. Each issue includes a full page photo of a pin-up girl on the back cover. Models include: Marguerite Chapman, Virginia de Luce, Lana Turner, Belita, Dorothy Morris, Ava Gardner and many others. In addition to being a news and information publication, Brief also strives to acquaint the men with the accomplishments of the personnel of AAFPOA. Creasing and occasional fold lines down middle, a few have some water staining to back wrap (see images). 18 pp. 9 x 12 inches. Complete list of issue dates: 9 Jan, 6 Feb, 13 Feb, 20 Feb, 27 Feb, 6 March, 13 March, 5...
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Image for An Account of the First Aerial Voyage in England, in a Series of Letters to His Guardian, Chevalier Gherardo Compagni. Written under the Impressions of the various Events that affected the Undertaking. Signed by Lunardi.

An Account of the First Aerial Voyage in England, in a Series of Letters to His Guardian, Chevalier Gherardo Compagni. Written under the Impressions of the various Events that affected the Undertaking. Signed by Lunardi.

By: Vincent Lunardi

Price: $3,000.00

Publisher: London, J. Bell for the Author : 1784

Seller ID: 5400

Condition: Very Good

Frontispiece portrait of the author by Richard Cosway; two folding plates : "The English balloon and appendages in which Mr. Lunardi ascended into the Atmosphere..." and "Apparatus for filling Mr. Lunardi's balloon." Original sturdy full gilt ruled red morocco. Large gilt "A" to head of spine followed by title; gilt inner dentelles, gilt tooled edges. Tasteful bookplate of Revernd Richard Dickson to front pastedown together with small circular plate of Frances L. Dickson. Sixty-six oddly paginated pages (pp. 25-32 numbered 33-40, without loss & with proper catchwords) followed by Expla...
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America in the Skyways.

By: [Paul Litchfield & Hugo Eckener]

Price: $3,000.00

Publisher: Akron, Ohio, [Goodyear Zeppelin Corporation] : 1929

Seller ID: 1558

Binding: Blue Felt-Covered Boards

Condition: Very Good

Akron, Ohio: [Goodyear Zeppelin Corporation]. Very Good. 1929. Limited/Numbered Edition. Blue Felt-Covered Boards. Number 363 of an unspecified limitation. This copy belonging to Martin Davey of the Davey Tree Co. In original felt lined box and exotic-motif glassine jacket; bevelled boards inlaid with a 3 inch (7cm) "duralumin" (the modified aluminum from which the American Dirigibles were skeletonized) medal commemorating the book's etiology, i.e., the laying of the initial "ring" of the U.S. Navy's ZRS-4 (USS Akron) Zeppelin on November 7th, 1929. Housed in a modern quarter morocco si...
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Category: Aviation