Aviation



Our interest in aviation is mostly civil from the 20's up to the beginning of the jet age. We do stock some W.W.II military titles and art work, but not as much as the civilian side of things.
 

Some of the books in stock
Price
LINDBERGH - Berg - signed H/C by the author - H/C
$30.00

RIDE THE WIND USA TO AFRICA - by Anne Hillerman - Fascinating story of the Chrysler Transatlantic Challenge in 1992. This paperback book is hand signed by the author AND Richard Abruzzo and Troy Bradley, the Team USA pilots that flew their balloon for 6 days setting 25 world records.

$9.95
A WING AND A PRAYER - by Harry H. Crosby - Signed P/B Copies about the "Bloody 100th" Bomb Group. - Very hard to find book.
$25.00
THE MAN WHO FLEW THE MEMPHIS BELLE by Col. Robert Morgan. - Hand signed P/B copy.
SOLD
ALASKAN AVIATION HISTORY by Robert W. Stevens - 2 H/C volumes covering 1897 to 1930. Unbelievable history of Flying in Alaska with hundreds of photographs. Published at $150.00.
SOLD
BEECH AIRCRAFT AND THEIR PREDECESSORS - Pelletier
$49.95
FLYING WITH 40 HORSES - Peek - A nice look at Taylor Cubs!
$19.95
THE FORD AIR TOURS 1925-1931 - Forden
$19.95
NORTH AMERICAN AIRLINES HANDBOOK -
$19.95
US AIRWAYS - Jones
$12.95
BRITISH AIRWAYS - Mariott

$12.95

DELTA AIRLINES
$12.95
F-51 MUSTANG UNITS OVER KOREA
$9.95
F-84 THUNDERJET UNITS OVER KOREA
$9.95
F-86 SABRE FIGHTER-BOMBER UNITS OVER KOREA
$9.95
F-86 SABREs OF THE 4th FIGHTER INTERCEPTOR WING
$9.95
BELLANCA'S GOLDEN AGE
$24.95
RICHARD BACH - FLYING: THE AVIATION TRILOGY - Contains: Stranger to The Ground, Biplane and Nothing By Chance - Hardcover
$12.95
WINGED MARS VOL I & VOL II - 1942 by Cuneo
$150.00
WOOD AND CANVAS HEROS - Patrick
$24.95
FROM MAINE TO MEXICO - (WWII CAP) by Keefer
$32.95
Aeronca’s Golden Age By Alan Abel, etc. p/b
$24.95
The Corsair and Other Aeroplanes Vought Gerard P. Moran p/b
$
The Heath Story By Chet Peek - p/b
$19.95
Pilot’s Information File - The Authentic World War II Guidebook for Pilots and Flight Engineers Published by Schiffer Military History - p/b
$19.95
Aircraft Aircraft John W.R. Taylor - H/C
$10.95
From Jenny to Jet Compiled by Don C. Wigton - p/b
$9.95
War Bird Tech Series Volume Eight - McDonnell Douglas F-4 Gun Nosed Phantoms - Kris Hughes - p/b
$9.95
Warbird Tech Series Volume Six - Messerschmitt Me 262 Sturmvogel - Dennis R. Jenkins p/b
on hold
Bellanca’s Golden Age - 3 By Alan Abel p/b
$24.95

RYAN BROUGHAMS AND THEIR BUILDERS

$12.95
Fighter By Bryan Cooper p/b
$7.95
Remarkable Flying Machines By Henry R. Palmer Jr. - H/C
$20.00
Warbirds By John c. Fredriksen - H/C
$25.00
Aircraft of the Vietnam War By Lou Drendel H/C
$10.00
Incredible Flying Machines By Michael F. Jerram - H/C
$12.95
The Ford Story By William T. Larkins H/C - RARE
$
Your Flight Questions Answered By John Cronin p/b
$6.95
Design for Safety By David B. Thurston - H/C
$9.95
Cleared to Land! (The FAA Story) By Frank Burnham H/C
$10.00
The Spartan Story By Chet Peek p/b
$9.95
Air War Bosnia - By Tim Ripley p/b (2 copies available)
$9.95
The Fighters (The Men + Machines of the First Air War) By Thomas R. Funderburk - H/C
$10.00
Travel Air By Ed Phillips -H/C
$19.95
Wonders of the Universe Published By William H. Nault H/C
$9.95
Space Travel Published by William H. Nault H/C
$9.95
Collecting Toy Airplanes By Ron Smith p/b
$6.95
The Encyclopedia of German Military Aircraft By Bryan Philpott H/C
$9.95
Every Boy’s Book of Aircraft By Eric Sargent H/C
$6.95
The Saab-Scania Story Published by Strieffert And Co. H/C
$9.95
American Warplanes By Bill Gunston - H/C
$19.95
Lindbergh and Commercial Aviation - By Don Thomas p/b (
3 copies)
$9.95
Boeing KC-135 Stratotanker By Robert S. Hopkins III p/b
$9.95
The Lore of Flight Published by Thomas Nelson Ltd. - H/C
$24.95
Rearwin By Bill Wright Was $26.95 p/b
$24.95
Tiger Moth Super Profile By Michael F. Jerram - H/C
$9.95
The Advanced Pilot’s Flight Manual By William K. Kershner p/b
$7.95
Eagles in the Sky By Alan Carlaw - p/b
$9.95
Low Level Attack: The Pacific - By John W. Lambert p/b
$9.95
Bombs, Torpedoes And Kamikazes - By John W. Lambert (2 copies)
$9.95
Of Wings and Things Volume 1 1972-1979 By Peter M. Bowers sc
$9.95
B-17 in Blue By Scott A. Thompson p/b
$9.95
Warbird Tech Series Volume 16 - Lockheed U-2 Dragon Lady - By Dennis R. Jenkins p/b - Was $16.95
$9.95
Warbird Tech Series - Volume 9 - McDonnell Douglas F-15 Eagle - By Dennis R. Jenkins p/b - Was $16.95 2 copies
$9.95
The Taylorcraft Story - By Chet Peek Was $27.95 p/b (3 copies)
$24.95
The Royal Flying Corps in WWI By Raymond Laurence Rimell - p/b
$7.95
Luscombe’s Golden Age - By John C. Swick Was $29.95 p/b
$24.95

CESSNA'S GOLDEN AGE by Abel p/b

$24.95
The Spartan Story By Chet Peek - p/b
$22.95
The Vintage Airplane Coloring Book By Richard King p/b
$3.00
Gulf Stream A Tribute to the Ultimate Business Jet 1958-1991- By Fred J. Knight - H/C (3 copies)
$14.98
Free as a Running Fox By T.D. Calnan - H/C
$10.95
A Mighty Fortress By Charles Ailing -H/C
$20.00
Charles A. Lindbergh By Charles A. Lindbergh - H/C
$12.95
Getting Even Eventually - Novel By S. Featherstone - p/b (3 copies)
$13.95
Amelia Earhart By Doris L. Rich - p/b (2 copies)
$12.50
Donald W. Douglas - A Heart with Wings By Wilbur H. Morrison In Shrink Wrap Was $32.95 H/C
$25.00
The Story of the Airship (non rigid) By Hugh Allen H/C
$8.95
Wing to Wing By Carl Molesworth H/C
$12.95
Classic And Warbird Recognition By Peter R. March - p/b
$12.95
A Dream of Wings By Tom D. Crouch - H/C
$9.95
Oceans, Poles, and Airmen By Richard Montague - H/C
$8.95
Grebbelinie 1940 (text is in German) By E.H. Brongers - H/C
$19.95
Air Vagabonds - By Anthony J. Vallone H/C (4 copies)
$9.95
Skyward Ho! Published by The Boyscouts of America 1930 - H/C
$7.95
Fighting Aircraft of World War II Edited by Karen Leverington - H/C
$14.95
Wilbur and Orville By Fred Howard H/C
$12.00
Grumman American Owner’s Manuel p/b
$10.00
Cal Rodgers and the Vin Fiz The story of the First Atlantic to Pacific Flight By Smithsonian Institution - p/b
$1.95
Close Encounters of a Vagabond Ferry Pilot - By Bill Sparks - p/b
$12.50
Enemy in the Sky - By Sandy Johnstone - H/C (3 copies)
$12.95
Great American Fighter Pilots of WWII By Robert D. Loomis 1961 H/C
$4.50
Photojournalist - The Story of a Navy Combat Photographer By Art Giberson p/b
$14.95
The Magnificent Moisants By Doris L. Rich H/C
$13.95
Airport Engineering By Norman Ashford - H/C
$14.95
Flight Testing Homebuilt Aircraft By Vaughan Askue p/b
$5.95
Soaring Flight By Terence Horsley H/C
$10.00
The Wild Blue By Walter J. Boyne H/C
$10.00
Forever Flying By R. A. “Bob” Hoover (forward by Chuck Yeager) - p/b (3 copies)
$15.00
High Adventure: Air Fighting in France By James Norman hall H/C
$8.95
Smilin/ Jack and the Daredevil Girl Pilot By Zack Mosley H/C 1942
$20.00
Ladybirds II By Henry M. Holden H/C
$9.95
Villiage of Stars By Paul Stanton H/C
$6.95
Fool’s Errand By Marc Norman H/C
$5.95
Air Power for Peace By Eugene E. Wilson - H/C
$6.00
Log of the Liberators By Steve Birdsall H/C
$8.95
Segregated Skies - 2 By Stanley Sandler H/C
$8.95
Heroes of the Horizon By Gerry Bruder
$12.95
Signed with their Honour By James Aldridge - H/C 1942
$4.95
Anything a Horse Can Do: History of the Helicopter By H. F. Gregory H/C 1944
$20.00
From Maine to Mexico - By Louis E. Keefer H/C
$32.95
Farther and Faster: Aviation's Adventuring Years 1909-1939 - By Terry Gwynn-Jones - H/C (2 copies in shrinkwrap)
$15.00
The Tusckegee Airmen - By Charles E. Francis H/C
$12.95
Stunt Planes - By Rosemary Grimm H/C (2 copies)
$9.95
They Also Served: Citizen Soldiers 1942-1945 - By Edgar L. McCormick H/C (2 copies)
$12.95
The Measure of America’s WW Aeronautical Effort - By Edgar S. Correll p/b
$6.95
Famous Personalities of Flight Cookbook By Mary Henderson p/b
$6.95
The Wright Brothers and the Birth of Aviation Lester W. Garber H/C
$10.00
Collision with History the Search for John F. Kennedy’s PT109 By Robert D. Ballard - H/C
$30.00
Winged Defense By William Mitchell H/C 1925
$20.00
A Span of Wings By Sir Archibald Russell H/C
$8.95
The Search for Amelia Earhart Fred Goerner H/C UK 1st edition
$19.95
Wings of Man: The Legend of Captain Dick Merrill By Jack L. King - H/C; signed by both Merrill and King
$35.00
Famous American Flyers By Chelsea Fraser H/C
$8.95
The Air Weapon By John R. Cuneo H/C
$20.00
Flying Horse to Man in the Moon By Hendrik De Leeuw - H/C
$9.95
Great Aircraft of WWII - By Alfred Price H/C (3 copies)
$8.95
Aircraft Aircraft By John W.R. Taylor H/C
$5.00
Mustang at War By Roger A. Freeman H/C
$7.95
The Smithsonian Book of Flight By Walter J. Boyne H/C
$8.95
Strategic Bombing By John Pimlott - H/C
$9.95
WWII Day by Day By Donald Sommerville - H/C
$14.95
P-38 Lightning: Restoring a Classic American Warbird - By Jesse Alexander - H/C (3 copies)
$29.95
40 Years at Farnborough By John Blake Was $29.95 H/C
$19.95
The Concorde Story By Christopher Orlebar - H/C (2 copies)
$19.95
The Lore of Flight Published by Park Lane H/C Was $29.98
$19.95
Air News Yearbook Volume two Edited By Phillip Andrews - H/C
$21.95
America Airman Volume III By AA - H/C
$45.00
Airliners By Robert Wall - H/C
$20.00
The American Heritage History of Flight Published by James Parton 10.00 H/C
$10.00
Aerial Combat By Robert Jackson H/C
$10.00
Airwar By Edward Jablonski - H/C
$10.00
Messerschmitt Bf109 By Robert Grinsell - H/C
$15.95
Jane’s All the World’s Aircraft H/C 1969-70
$44.95
American Racing Planes And Historic Air Races By Reed Kinert Was $35.00 H/C
$20.00
The National Air and Space Museum By C.D.B. Bryan - H/C
$34.95
Helicopters at War By Bill Gunston H/C
$9.95
50 Glorious Years By Arthur Pearcy - H/C
$19.95
Air Force: A Pictoral History of American Air Power By Martin Caidin - H/C
$5.00
Wings over the Alaska Highway By Bruce McAllister - p/b
$34.95
Harrier By John Dibbs - H/C
$7.95
5th Army Air Force By James P. Gallagher - H/C
$34.95
Boeing 777 By Guy Norris - p/b
$12.95
Aviators’ Equiptment Catalog By George A Petersen p/b
$5.00
Wings over Denall By Bruce Mcallister 29.95 p/b
$29.95
Round the Clock: Allied Bombers of WWII By Phillip Kaplan Was $50.00 H/C
$35.00
The Conquest of the Air By Frank Howard H/C
$15.95
Foundations of Air Power By Airforce ROTC H/C
$7.95
P-38 Lightning By Michael O’Leary - p/b
$9.95
Amelia Earhart - By Doris L. Rich - p/b (2 copies)
$14.95
The Great Airships By Mike Flynn - h/C
$18.95
Soldiers of Fortune - By Sterling Seagrave By the Editors of Time Life Books H/C (2 copies)
$5.00
The Aeronauts - By Donald Dale Jackson By the Editors of Time Life Books H/C
$5.00
The First Aviators By Curtis Predergast H/C
$5.00
The Luftwaffe - By the Editors of Time Life Books H/C (3 copies)
$5.00
The Pathfinders - By David Nevin
$5.00
The Jet Age By Robert J. Serling H/C
$5.00
The Road to Kitty Hawk By Valerie Moolman H/C
$5.00
Architects of Air Power - By David Nevin H/C (2 copies)
$5.00
Fighter Jets - By Bryce Walker H/C (3 copies)
$5.00
Knights of the Air - By Ezra Bowen H/C (2 copies)
$5.00
America In the Air War - By Edward Jablonski H/C (3 copies)
$5.00
The RAF at War - By Ralph Barker H/C (2 copies)
$5.00
The Carrier War - By Clark G. Reynolds - H/C
$5.00
 

 



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