The Battle of Chatillon, "A Graphic History of the Second Corps Aeronautical School de Lt. Donald B. Wurzburg - 1919

1913. EIFFEL, G., transl. Jerome C. HUNSAKER. THE RESISTANCE OF THE AIR AND AVIATION: EXPERIMENTS CONDUCTED AT THE CHAMP-DE-MARS LABORATORY. London: Constable & Co./Boston: Houghton Mifflin & Co., 1913. 2nd edition, revised and enlarged. xvi + 242 pp. 4to., red cloth sunned to brown at spine, stamped in gilt and blind. Cloth soiled, corners bumped. B/w photo reproductions, diagrams in the text; large folding b/w charts at rear. A few of the charts have pencil notations. Binding sound and text clean, complete.

Washington, D. C.: Government Printing Office, 1933. Very Good condition. Light edge wear. SEE PHOTOS. Square and tight. A few pages have dog-eared corners. NOT a library discard. NO owner's name or bookplate. Pages are clean and unmarked. NO underlining. NO highlighting. NO margin notes. Softcover. 5.75" wide by 9" tall. Illustrated with photos of landing fields and numerous maps in color, a few folding. Detailed guide to air routes, distances, air traffic rules, airstrips, sea plane anchorages and landing fields in Mexico. Hydrographic Office Publication No. 193. Index. Bound in the original green wraps, stamped in black.. First printing of 1933 Revised Edition. Softcover. Very Good condition. v, 95pp.

Oxford University Press, 1924. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. 1st Edition. Limited to 1000 copies. The book is still firmly bound and has been carefully read. The hardcover is has some light edge wear & is slightly faded with a little spotting. Inside the pages are clean and free from foxing. No inscription or ownership markings. No torn, loose or missing pages. Many illustrations in b/w and some colour plates. A large & heavy volume which weighs about 2.5kg with packaging so special postage rates apply for shipping overseas.

New York:: Putnam,, 1996.. First Printing of the First Edition. A Fine copy in a Fine unclipped dust jacket. Inscribed by astronaut Mitchell on the half-title page. Apollo 14 astronaut Mitchell offers a vision in which technology and intuition are harmonized in pursuit of a more advanced consciousness. When Mitchell was hurtling back to earth after walking on the moon in 1971, he had a profound sense that all things are interconnected and that the universe is an intelligent process with which we need to link up. We hear how Mitchell began a career as a fighter pilot in the years following WW II, switched to NASA with the hope of being part of the new space program, and came to know the legendary Wernher von Braun, whom he believes was a true visionary rather than a Nazi opportunist. Mitchell tells how, while returning to earth, he carried out a private ESP experiment that seemed to yield positive results. Subsequently, he founded the Institute of Noetic Sciences, in order to test paranormal phenomena… Leer más

WILLIAM FAULKNER! Stated Second Issue, 2nd Printing Thus. NOBEL PRIZE WINNER. Faulkner, William: PYLON. Stated 2nd Issue, 2nd Printing 1935, Smith & Haas, NY. RARE IN THE ORIGINAL BLUE DUST JACKET. RARE SASCHA MAURER COVER ART. ART DECO. Used. Very Good-/ Very Good- Blue cloth, \ The second printing (stated). In second issue dust jacket (blank rear panel and flap. Faulkner's tale of the exciting, dangerous, and short-lived, sport of airplane "barnstorming". Set in New Orleans during Mardi Gras. Original source material for the 1958 film "Tarnished Angels" Starring Rock Hudson, Dorothy Malone, Robert Stack, and Jack Carson and directed by Douglas Sirk (born Hans Detlef Sierck; 26 April 1897 – 14 January 1987)."

Paris, France: Vuibert & Nony. Very Good+. ca. 1905. Second Edition. Hardcover. No date: Text narrative continues to 1905. Clean green pictorial covers, heavily decorated with gilt. All edges gilt. Text tight, clean & intact. Numerous photo and engraved illustrations. French text. ; Engravings; 4to 11" - 13" tall; 442 pages .

San Diego:: Harcourt Brace,, 2002.. First Printing of the First Edition. A Fine tight unread copy in a Fine bright dust jacket. Signed by Astronaut Carpenter. Scott Carpenter was one of seven Project Mercury astronauts who took part in America's burgeoning space program in the 1960s. He writes candidly of the pioneering science, training, and biomedicine of early space flight and tells the heart-stopping tale of his famous spaceflight aboard Aurora 7. He shares stories from the earliest days of NASA and, for the first time ever, Carpenter's own account of his controversial flight and splashdown.

New York::: St. Martin's,,, 1999... First Printing of the First US Edition. A Fine tight copy in a Fine bright unclipped dust jacket. This copy is signed by Cernan. Eugene Cernan was the 12th and last man to walk on the moon as the commander of Apollo 17, the last scheduled manned mission to the moon. Cernan and fellow astronaut Jack Schmitt activated a base of operations on the moon from which they completed three highly successful excursions to nearby craters and the Taurus mountains, making the moon their home for over three days. This last mission to the moon established several new records for manned space flight.

New York: Harcourt, 2002. Signed on the title page by Scott Carpenter. First edition / First printing. Blue paper spine, white paper-covered boards. Very fine in very fine dust jacket. Carpenter was one of the original Mercury 7, and our fourth man in space. Carpenter went on to be an Aquanaut for the SeaLab Project. He was the author of two science fiction novels.

Hinckley: Midland Publishing 978-1-85780-214-6 [978-1-85780-214-6] 2005. (4to) 368pp. Fine in fine dust jacket. Black & white and color photographs and illustrations. Locale: Russia. (Military, Military Aircraft--Russia, OkB Tupolev, Tupolev aircraft).