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While there are articles in the Arizona Republican on February 9, 1910 about the aviation event at the Territorial Fairgrounds, there are no photographs of the event. Card #1 postmarked Phoenix Feb 13, 1910 is a cyanotype photo of Louis Paulman "Making his record breaking flight for altitude 4600 feet"..... More
measures 9" x 4" full color picture of the classic 1912 Luverne 60 touring car which included Mohair top, curtains, windshield, speedometer, clock, electric self-starter, electric horn and trunk. This model sold for $2500 which excluded the poor people. This was the car that was built to race at the..... More
Chevrolet, 1996. Pamphlet. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. These items were issued as a sales promotion to prospective customers with a seal in late 1996 with the warning they were not to be opened until 1997. Of course, most opened them but in this case the seal has..... More
N.p.: General Motors, 1934. First Edition. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Original Wraps. Oblong. Rare promotional booklet showing 9 different photographs of the `1934 Chevrolet [including cover photo]. The list of features in the back note Delco-Lovejoy shcock absorbers and Fisher No Draft Ventilation as well as the..... More
The 19 items reflect the age of the vintage automobile. Several things are evident from the letters: (1) Each corporation was both aggressive but attempting to emphasize public service even when the customer (as is evident from the correspondent Mr. Dorflinger) in their eagerness to promote sales; (2) Many of..... More
Berlin: Reichsbahnzentrale Fur Den Deustschen Reiseverkehr, 1934. Small Quarto. 32 pages. Page 31 proclaims: Germany, the land in which the government takes a personal interest in making motoring comfortable. It quotes an English motoring magazine The Motor in the December 19, 1933 issue that acclaims Dr. Todt "Inspector General" of..... More
A full page ad for the Franklin car measuring "18 x 22". George Hageman, Distributor of the Franklin for Arizona, 2nd Street and Adams, Phoenix. One of the great early races occurred in Arizona's first year as a state. An air-cooled Franklin, driven by the legendary Ralph Hamlin, covered a...... More
Boldly Signed by Tom Sopwith just after his 91st birthday. A fine first day cover produced in 1979 by Australia's Royal Air Force Museum as part of their test pilot series. It commemorates not only the great Australian aviation pioneer whose exploits as early as 1910 were evidence of how..... More
Detroit: Motor Times, 1911. quarto. 34p. No copies recorded in OCLC. The publisher, in 1911 advertised he was desperate for subscription salesmen. Articles on Road, Track, Hill with pictures of Ray Harroun, Winner of the Indianapolis 500, also his race at Indianapolis Fair where he finished one minute behind after..... More
Folio. 192p. Scarce in English translation. The air race in 1987 gained international attention and here is one of the seldom seen copies in English (most are in French). More
Amsterdam, [1936]: Patria. First Edition. 72p. Very scarce OCLC shows only the Library of Congress and the Smithsonian have copies in the U.S. (four in the Netherlands). Original light blue decorative cloth. Oblong Album format. All 114 color cards are present and hand mounted (these cards came with purchases of..... More
Baton Rouge: Army & Navy, 1956. Quarto. 250 pages, illustrations, portraits of the men and women of the 26th Air Division. The 26th was at its peak in the Cold War that specialized in defense. It was one of the first group to have women officers in the Air Force..... More
Chicago; (1936): John C. Winston Company. First Edition. Large Octavo. Frontispiece, 340 pp. illustrated showing various devises used to attempt flight throughout time. Over 400 years ago, Leonardo da Vinci studied the flight of birds and drew a design for a flying machine much like those of today, but without..... More
Mantova; nd: Editoriale Padus. Limited Edition. Folio. Limited to 600 copies, facsimile reprinted from the original 1783 edition and printed for the Circolo Bibliofilo Aeronautico.The present copy in number 306. Intoduction and bibliography by Luigi Pescasio. Two parts in one volume, part I: 19pp.Part II: pages 361-379; (1)pp illustration. (1)..... More
Republic Del Paraguay: Asuncion, 1942. Soft Cover. 16mo - over 5¾" - 6¾" tall. , iv, 187pp. Illustrated with period photographs of early Paraguayan aviation. This is a useful account of the founder of Paraguayan aviation, who was killed in an air crash in Buenos Aires. This copy has detached..... More
Houston, TX; (1986): Eichler Publishing Corp. First Edition. Octavo. 228 (2) pp. Translated by Lyndel Butler and photographs from the archives of Jakob Tiefenthaler with a photographic card of Hitler and Hans Bauer laid in signed by Bauer and inscribed on the back, again signed and dated by Baur. Baur..... More
Midland Counties Publications, 1984. Cloth Hard Cover. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. 296p. appendices, map, extensive technical information, many photographs. More
New York: Audel, 1915. Small Octavo. xvi, 17-476 pages, [6] 48 pages. Profusely illustrated. After publishing Audel's guide to the gasoline engine, this volume deal with virtually all aspects of automobiles in the period just before World War I. It explains not only many of the basics but also some..... More
(The Contractors Record, Ltd., [1928]. Large Octavo. xxxiipp. ads, 312pp., xxxiii-lxxxii pp. ads, illustrated including illustrations for some of the ads, handsomely bound in 3/4 green crushed morocco over green cloth, raised bands ruled in gilt, spine lettering and top edge gilt, some light fading to spine otherwise nearly fine..... More
New York; (1945): The John Day Co. First Edition. Octavo. 60 pages, Illustrated by George T. Hartman. An uncommon work of Pearl Buck's. This is the story of a small Chinese boy who saw air planes of the Japanese but one lucky day an American pilot made an emergency landing..... More
New York; (1981): Crown Publishers. First Edition. Quarto. Glenn Curtiss was the dominant personality in the pioneer era of American aviation. By 1913, he was the largest manufacturer of aircraft in the U.S. This book documents Curtiss's formative years from the first Aerial Experimental Association to the refined flying boats..... More
New York; (1943-1944): Dell Publishing. Quarto. 4 issues bound into one with 396 pages. These were the most detailed items on our aircraft that were allowed to be published during World War II. David C. Cooke was not only considered the best expert on military aviation but he was able..... More
Los Angeles; (1961): Ducommun. Thick Quarto. 960p. The Ducommun company was in the forefront of metal supplies in the area of that industry's greatest expansion during World War II and then following the war years its focus was one of the major suppliers for both the aircraft and fledgling space..... More
Chicago: Goodheart-Willcox Company, 1928. Large Octavo. 372p. index. Dyke's earlier publications were devoted to automobile engines with a 40 page chapters entitled "Airplane Supplement" but after Lindbergh, Commander Byrd and Chamberlin's transoceanic flights everyone interested in aviation from builders and enthusiasts to the general public wanted access to the technical..... More
Oklahoma City: Western Heritage Books, 1983. First Edition. Octavo-oblong. 112 pages, inscribed by her in the year of publication to Shirley and Dan Gruber who were new leaders of the Flying Farmers. Illustrated with black and white photographic images. The flying farmers took ranch management to a new level. Their..... More