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| AERIAL TRANSPORT, Thomas, G. Holt, Hodder and Stoughton, 1920 vg (embossed name), see photo, written by one of Britain's airline pioneers, complete with fold-out maps showing projected Empire air routes all the way to Australia and Africa, its chapters suggest how service might begin, the role of mails, meteorology in commercial flying, airships, the law, passenger carrying, photos, 259 pgs + fold-out maps. | $200.00 |
| AERONAUTICAL ANNUAL 1895, Means, James (editor), W.B. Clarke & Co., 1896, vg (original, rebound), the Aeronautical Annuals were recommended to the Wrights when they wrote the Smithsonian in 1899 asking for reading material on the subject of human flight, the brothers then obtained & devoured the books, giving them more incentive to investigate the problem of flying, vision compilations of plans, dreams, & schemes written by some of aviation’s greatest visionaries: Leonardo Da Vinci, Sir George Cayley, Ben Franklin, Samuel P. Langley, Sir Hiram Maxim, Augustus Herring, Octave Chanute, & Otto Lilienthal, to name a few, all share what they did to help advance aviation, provided the Wright brothers with a wealth of knowledge about the thinking & experiments which had been done up until that time giving them a foundation on which to formulate their own ideas, many drawings & photographs, approximately 200 pgs. | $75.00 |
| AERONAUTICAL ANNUAL 1896, Means, James (editor), Aeronautical Publisher, 2003, new, soft cover, see photo, precise reprint of the Aeronautical Annuals of 1896 is one of the most important pre-aviation books ever published, the Wrights used this series to research human flight & each volume presents plans, dreams & schemes written by great aviation visionaries such as Leonardo da Vinci, Ben Franklin, Samuel P. Langley, Sir Hiram Maxim, Augustus Herring, Octave Chanute & Otto Lilienthal, photos, illustrations, 158 pgs. | $19.95 |
| AERONAUTICAL ANNUAL 1897, Means, James (editor), Aeronautical Publishers, 2003, new, soft cover, see photo, each volume is packed with incredible information, drawings & photographs, 178 pgs. | $19.95 |
| AEROPLANES OF THE ROYAL AIRCRAFT FACTORY, Hare, Paul, Crowood, 1999, new, see photo,in detail on the BE.2, RE.8, FE.2 and SE.5, many photos, 144 pgs | $44.95 |
| AVIATION, Almond, Peter, Konemann, 1997, new, see photo, large format book of the roughly 450 photographs making up that part of the Hulton Getty photo collection encompassing the late 1800s to the early 1930's, the earliest photograph of an untested glider of 1868, important resource for the identification of early aircraft types, aviators, airships, balloons, gliders, etc.,549 pgs. | $35.00 |
| BEFORE AMELIA, Lebow, Eileen, Brassey, 2002, new, soft cover, see photo, women pioneer aviators, beginning with Raymonde de Laroche, who in 1910 became the first licensed female pilot, photos, 313 pgs. | $15.00 |
| BIBLIOGRAPHY OF AERONAUTICS, Brockett, Paul, Smithsonian, 1910, vg (no dj), listing of all the publications on aeronautics published before & including 1910. 940 pgs. | $75.00 |
| BIRDFLIGHT AS THE BASIS OF AVIATION, Lilienthal, Otto, American Aeronautical Archives, 2001, new, soft cover, see photo, reprint of Lilienthal's observation, analysis, ingenuity and daring laid the foundation for the development of aviation. After a comprehensive scientific study of how birds fly, Lilienthal recognized the superiority of curved wing surfaces. He then developed a theory of flight and designed and built a series of gliders. From 1891 to 1896 he made over 2,000 glides, illustrations, 151 pgs. | $19.95 |
| BOYS' BOOK OF MODEL AEROPLANES, Collins, Frances, Century Co., 1910, vg (inked inscription), see photo, photos & illustrations, 308 pgs. | $65.00 |
| BRITISH AIRCRAFT BEFORE THE GREAT WAR, Goodall & Tagg, Schiffer, 2001, new, see photo, pre-WW I aircraft in one volume, manufacturers, airships, aircraft, over 900 illustrations, photos & drawings, 392 pgs. | $59.95 |
| CARGO FLIGHT, Lane, Foster, Ohio History of Flight, 1986, as new, soft cover, see photo, history of the 1910 flight from Dayton to Columbus, Ohio, by a Wright Brothers plane which carried the world's first air cargo shipment, many photos, 96 pgs. | $8.95 |
| COLONEL CODY AND THE FLYING CATHERDRAL, Jenkins, Garry, Picador, 2000, new, see photo, Sam Cody, flamboyant Texan, first to build and fly biplane in Britain, photos, 276 pgs. | $17.50 |
| CONTACT! STORY OF THE EARLY BIRDS, Villard, Henry, Thomas Y. Crowell, 1968, vg/vg, decade of flight from Kitty Hawk to World War I, photos, 263 pgs. | $12.50 |
| CURTISS AVIATION BOOK, THE, Curtiss, Glenn, Frederick A. Stokes, 1912, vg (inked inscription on fly page, spine fade), see photo, early experiments, first flights, future of the aeroplane, description of curtis aeoplane, photos, 307 pgs. | $350.00 |
| FIRST TO FLY, AVIATION'S PIONEER DAYS, Harris, Sherwood, McGraw-Hill, 1991, new (issued w/o dj) see photo, the mechanical ingenuity & perseverance that turned the dreams of the early aviators into reality, Wright brothers; Bleriot's cross-Channel flight; Samuel Langley & the first attempt at a carrier-based flight; Cal Rodgers; Blanche Scott, early female aviator & many more, based on diaries, letters, old newspaper stories & long-forgotten interviews, Harris provides a fascinating account of aviation's infancy, photos, 231 pgs. | $10.00 |
| FLIGHT OF EAGLES, Karolevitz & Fenn, Brevet Press, 1974, vg/vg, see photo, Kosciuszko Squadron of American volunteers who flew for Poland against Russia 1919-20, photos, 281 pgs. | $30.00 |
| FLYING, AN EPITOME AND A FORECAST , Grahame-White, Claude, Chatto and Windus, 1930, cover spotting (no dust jacket), has been professionally reinforced, two stamps from University of California, Santa Cruz library, see photo, chapters on early attempts to fly, first balloons & airships, war in its aerial aspects, review of aeroplane design & the problem of the giant airship. Twelve chapters, 40 b/w illustrations. Author urges more generous government spending to develop long-distance airways, is a firm believer in the future of the German type of large flying-boat, 263 pgs. | $25.00 |
| FLYERS IN SEARCH OF WILBUR & ORVILLE WRIGHT, Adams, Noah, Crown, 2003, new, see photo, Adams, cohost of NPR's All Things Considered, sets out to learn about the Wright Brothers, their family & why they loved to fly so much, he visits all the spots important to the brothers, from the Outer Banks, where they flew gliders, to France, Dayton, & New York, a personable guide into the Wright Brothers' world, offering a refreshing look at these aviation pioneers, photos, 221 pgs. | $15.00 |
| FLYING THE ATLANTIC IN SIXTEEN HOURS, Brown, Arthur Whitten, Frederick Stokes Co., 1920, vg (cover wear), see photo, first flight across the Atlantic by heavier than air aircraft in 1919, written by a co-pilot, photos, 178 pgs. | $45.00 |
| FRENCH AEROPLANES BEFORE THE GREAT WAR, Opdycke, Leonard,
Schiffer, 1999, new, see photo, log of nearly 700 French builders, many rare photos from Musee de l'Air, 288 pgs. | $59.95 |
| GLORIOUS FLIGHT, Provensen, Alice & Martin, Viking Press, 1987, vg with dust jacket, see photo, biography of Louis Bleriot, the man whose fascination with flying machines produced the the airplane which in 1909 became the first heavier-than-air machine to fly the English Channel, book written in prose & colorful illustrations, 39 pgs. | $5.95 |
| HISTORY OF BRITISH AVIATION 1908-1914, Brett, R. Dallas, John Hamillton, 1933, vg (cover wear, minor foxing), 1st edition, photos, 388 pgs | $65.00 |
| LOG OF H.M.A. R 34, JOURNEY TO AMERICA AND BACK, Maitland, E.M. Air -Commodore, Hodder & Stoughton, 1921, vg (original, rebound), the first double crossing of the Atlantic by air, a day by day account of the two flights, the outward from East Fortune, Scotland to Mineola, New York and the return to Pulham, Norfolk, the westbound flight was not without drama, over 97% of the ship's fuel supply was used up, the first aerial stowaway was discovered & a severe storm encountered, the commander Captain G.H. Scott commented that he wouldn't have wanted to be in a 23-class rigid in the conditions the R34 passed through, two observers were carried - LtCmdr Zachary Lansdowne westbound and Col. William Hensley on the return, Lansdowne unluckily lost his life in the SHENANDOAH breakup, Hensley became rather notorious for his secret negotiations with the Zeppelin Co. for a rigid airship for the US Army, photos (1 photo missing), fold-out map, 168 pgs. | $150.00 |
| LOG OF H.M.A. R34, Maitland, E.M., Air-Commodor, Lighter-Than-Air-Institute, 1997, new (issued w/o dj), see photo, new edition of Air Commodore Maitland's classic 1920 book on the first double crossing of the Atlantic by air, day by day account of the two flights - the outward from East Fortune, Scotland, to Mineola, New York, and the return to Pulham, Norfolk, westbound flight was not without drama, over 97% of the ship's fuel supply was used up, the first aerial stowaway was discovered & a severe storm encountered, photos, fold-out map, 88 pgs. | $28.95 |
| MAGNIFICENT MOISANTS, THE, Rich, Doris, Smithsonian, 1998, new, see photo, Illinois family performed pre-WW I air shows, taught Harriet Quimby to fly, photos, 248 pgs. | $24.95 |
| MARIO CALDERARA, AVIATOR AND INVENTOR,Calderara, Mario, translated by Calderar & Marchetti, LoGisma Editore, 2003, very good, soft cover, see photo,essay frist written by Calderara in 1911, the first Italian Pilot pupil of Wilbur Wright, many photos, copies of newspaper articles, 304 pgs. | $24.95 |
| MEN WHO CHANGED THE WORLD - AVIATION PIONEERS, Cooksley, Peter, Sutton, 2003, as new with dj, see photo, examination of the steps that led the Wright brothers to build & fly the worldÕs first powered aircraft exploring the development of flight by other aviation pioneers of the time & comparing the achievements of men like Cayley, Lilienthal, Cody and Berliot with the Wrights and with one another, photos, 179 pgs. | $35.00 |
| ON GREAT WHITE WINGS, Culick & Dunmore, Airlife, 2001, f/f, see photo, produced in anticipation of the 100th anniversary of their flight, is an in-depth examination of the Wrights' career, illustrated with more than 200 captioned photographs and drawings, including many images of their graceful machines in flight. It documents Orville and Wilbur's experimentation and their rigorous program of observation and refinement & compares the efforts of other aviators, 176 pgs. | $12.50 |
| THE PASSION THAT LEFT THE GROUND, King, Stephan H., Word Associations Publisher, 2007, new, soft cover, see photo,signed by author, Subject of this book are the machines dreamt up by Léon Levavasseur, a genius with eccentricities. He was the man who designed the Antoinette engines & the Antoinette monoplanes, his machines were really works of art. His aircraft were featured in the movie "Those Magnificent Men in Their Flying Machines". Levavasseur also evokes naturally the masterflyer Hubert Latham. This book gives a fine account of pre-1914 flying, lots of illustrations (some of the l'Aérophile collection now in the Library of Congress), 158 pgs. | $24.95 |
| PIONEER AVIATORS OF THE WORLD, Matthews, Hart, McFarland, 2003, new (issued w/o dj),see photo, the first pilots from each of a hundred countries have their stories told in this work, a brief biography & description of his or her attempts to fly are provided for each early aviator, except in a very few cases where facts are hard to find, photos, 208 pgs. | $39.95 |
| PIONEERS OF AVIATION, Chant, Christopher, Grange, 2001, vg/vg,see photo, photographic histor of early aviation - both commercial & military, 117 pgs. | $17.50 |
| PROGRESS IN FLYING MACHINES, Chanute, Octave, Lorenz & Herweg, 1976, f/f see photo, Chanute experimented with over 2,000 glider flights in the 1890s, design and testing of his gliders, & interest in problems of flight control, equilibrium resulted in the accumulation of a valuable data that proved crucial in the early designs of the Wright brothers, illustrations, 308 pgs. | $35.00 |
| RACE TO THE SKY,
Goddard, Stephen, McFarland, 2003, new (issued w/o dust jacket), see photo,
Everyone knows that the Wright brothers were the first to fly, but few people know that they were engaged in a David and Goliath struggle with their own Federal Government. President McKinley’s administration decided to dedicate an unprecedented amount of money and to tap such men as Thomas Edison, Alexander Graham Bell and Samuel P. Langley to make sure that the first flyers would be American. The Wright brothers refused financial support from the government for fear of the strings that might be attached to it, and resolved to go it alone. This book tells the story of the struggle between the Wright brothers and the Federal Government, and the raw ambition, high ideals, greed, and cloak and dagger tactics of each side. By 1903, the Federal venture was in its seventh year and the Wright brothers had been working nights and weekends often in secret for four years, but everything came to a head in eight tense days in December when the battle—and the fame and fortune that would follow—was decided and the Wright brothers emerged victorious, photos, notes, bibliography, 323 pgs. | $39.95 |
RECORD FLIGHTS, Chamberlin, Clarence, Dorrance, 1928, vg (cover shows signs of wear, spine ends are frayed, back cover has a spot where something was spilled), inscribed by author "To Abe Heller in appreciatioon of your assistance in arranging my films. Clarence D. Chamberlin, New York, Dec. 1st 1930", see photo, pioneering aviator - the first to cross the Atlantic with a passenger, two weeks after Lindberghs solo flight - and later aviation company executive tells the story of his pre-WWI, military, and post war flying exploits and the records he set, photos, 286 pgs. | $150.00 |
| SECOND BOYS' BOOK OF MODEL AEROPLANES, Collins, Frances, Century Co., 1911, vg (a minor stain on back fly page), see photo, photos & illustrations, 262 pgs. | $65.00 |
| TAKING FLIGHT, Hallion, Richard, Oxford Press, 2003, new, see photo, a ground-breaking & comprehensive new history of flight, stressing its global roots, follows its pre-history, early attempts by pioneers to invent the aeroplane, the impact of air power on the outcome of World War I & finally considers the effects of flight on world affairs, both military and civil, photos & diagrams, 531 pgs. | $35.00 |
| TWENTY THOUSAND MILES IN A FLYING-BOAT Cobham, Alan Sir, David McKay, 1930, vg (minor foxing, spine fade, no dj), Air-route development in Africa was a result of Sir Alan Cobham's flight through and round Africa in a flying-boat. Lady Cobham accompanied her husband throughout the journey, features Sir Alan Cobham's account of his journey, photos, map, 250 pgs. | $40.00 |
| UNLOCKING THE SKY, Shulman, Seth, Harper Collins, 2002, new, see photo, Glenn Curtiss and his race to invent the airplane, Wright brothers took to the courts to keep Curtiss & his airplanes out of the sky, photos, 258 pgs. | $19.95 |
| UNITED STATES NAVAL AVIATION, 1910-1918, Shirley, Noel C., Schiffer, 2000, new, see photo, comprehensive study, includes naval activities, lighter than air craft, Naval Air Stations (domestic and foreign), many photos, 336 pgs. | $59.95 |
| WINGLESS EAGLE, Johnson, Herbert, University of North Carolina, new, 2001, see photo, history of U.S. Army aviation, explores cutural, technical political & organization factors that stunted it's evolution, 298 pgs. | $34.95 |
| WITTGENSTEIN FLIES A KITE, Sterrett, Susan, Pi Press, 2006, new, see photo, demonstrates what Wittgenstein's experimental models were crucial to the Wright Brothers solving the problem of flight, 329 pgs. | $9.95 |
| WRIGHT BROTHERS AND THE BIRTH OF AVIATION, A, Garber, Lester, Crowood, 2005, vg with dust jacket, see photo, this thirteen-chapter book is written at the same intellectual level as was used by the Wright brothers, it is structured around three fundamental questions: What is the problem of flight? In 1899, what was known? How did the Wright brothers do it? illustrations, photos, formulae, 272 pgs. | $34.95 |
| WRIGHT BROTHERS FROM BICYCLE TO BIPLANE, Fisk & Todd, self-published, 2000, new, soft cover, see photo,covers flight of Wright brothers to celebrate 100th anniversary of flight 1903-2003, many photos, 136 pgs. | $14.95 |
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