THE AIR-LINE TO INDEPENDENCE by Cantilever Aero Company - 1920

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 .

New York:: Macmillan,, 1977.. First Printing of the First US Edition. A Very Good copy with a small scuff to the front board with the boards bound upside down in a Very Good unclipped dust jacket with one short tape-repaired edge tear. Cunningham was a member of the Apollo 7 crew that mapped future landing sites for the first moon landing in 1969. On October 11, 1968, he occupied the lunar module pilot seat for the eleven-day flight of Apollo 7 - the first manned flight test of the third generation United States spacecraft. With Walter M. Schirra, Jr., and Donn F. Eisele, Cunningham participated in and executed maneuvers enabling the crew to perform exercises in transposition and docking and lunar orbit rendezvous with the S-IVB stage of their Saturn IB launch vehicle; completed eight successful test and maneuvering ignitions of the service module propulsion engine; measured the accuracy of performance of all spacecraft systems; and provided the first effective television transmission of onboard… Read More

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.

First edition. xviii+259 pp.+65 B&W illustrations and 4 folding maps in two colours h.t. 25,2x19,5 cm. Hodder and Stoughton Limited, London, 1920.
--- Blindstamped cloth gilt (publishers bindint). Occasional foxing, light edgewear.

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.

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… Read More

Fairchild Aerial Surveys, Los Angeles, 1950; Large circa 1950 Fairchild Aerial Surveys photo showing Cathedral City, Rancho Mirage, Palm Desert, and east toward Indio, California, plus the bygone Palm Desert Air Park, "Airport Of The Stars." From the office of Culver Nichols, legendary realtor who was instrumental in the movement to incorporate the city of Palm Springs in 1936, and who was a significant figure in the Palm Springs area real estate boom. Large scale, with image size of 21" long by 11 1/2" high corresponding to a land area of approximately 20 miles by 10 miles. Fairchild imprint and North indicator at upper right corner. Archivally hinged and matted with 100% museum board, ready for framing. Outside matte dimensions 16" x 26". Excellent condition, no chips or tears. Scarce.

Buderim, QLD, Australia: Self Published, 2003. Illustrated laminated boards. Volumes 1 and 3 are signed by the author on the title page. Volume One, Development of air transport 1903-1943, 414 pages (ISBN 0646426370, published 2003) : Volume Two, 1943 - Year of expansion and consolidation, 566 pages (ISBN 064645837x, published 2006) : Volume Three, 1943 - Air transport approaches full strength, 453 pages (ISBN9780646484143, published 2008) : Volume Four, 1944 - Supporting the Allied advances, 555 pages (ISBN 9780646926377, published 2013). All volumes with b/w illustrations. Heavy set, please ask for postage quote. . SIGNED. Hard Back. Near Fine/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

Funk & Wagnalls Co, 1909. Hardcover. Good. 1909 Funk & Wagnalls Co. history of aviation with a focus on airships and dirigibles. First title in a series of ten titles issued on various subjects. Includes a "dissectible" card stock, rigid Zeppelin type model mounted on back panel recto with layers that can be opened to reveal inner parts of the airship. Includes a list of parts on facing page. Illustration of M. Bleriot's French monoplane to front panel, the Wright aeroplane to title page and numerous addition photos of airships and dirigibles within. Topics include a history of early aviation, aeroplanes as a type, the airship in warfare, exploration by airship, the commercial aspect of the airship and the Zeppelin described. Scarce. 19 pp. 12 1/4" x 9 1/4". Tight, unmarked copy with minimal shelf wear and small upper right hand corner crease throughout. No tears to model. A presentable copy of a hard to find aviation collectible. Photographs of or additional… Read More