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Item 374079Dickson's Balloon Almanac, for the year of our Lord, 1806.

(Almanac).

Price: $500

Lancaster, PA: Printed and sold by William Dickson, [1805]. The Balloon Almanac seems to have been published in Philadelphia or Lancaster haphazardly between the years 1786 to 1806. Scarce. Read More Item Details for Dickson's Balloon Almanac, for the year of our Lord, 1806 Add to Wish List

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Item 53503Little America. Aerial Exploration in the Antarctic The Flight to the South Pole.

Byrd, Richard Evelyn.

Price: $300

New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1930. Author's Autograph Edition, No. 251 of 1000 copies signed by the Author and the Publisher printed on Ragleaf All Rag Paper. Read More Item Details for Little America. Aerial Exploration in the Antarctic The Flight to the South Pole Add to Wish List

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Item 223238L'Aeronavtica Italiana Nell'Immagine 1487-1875. Bibliografia di Giusepee Boffito, con aggiunte di Paolo Arrigoni.

Caproni, Donna Timina.

Price: $1,500

Milan: Museo Caproni, 1938. First edition, one of 600 copies (500 of which are hors commerce, 100 for sale). Read More Item Details for L'Aeronavtica Italiana Nell'Immagine 1487-1875. Bibliografia di Giusepee Boffito, con aggiunte di Paolo Arrigoni Add to Wish List

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Item 210784Wings for Per.

D'Aulaire, Ingri and Edgar Parin.

Price: $150

Garden City, N.Y: Doubleday, Doran, [1944]. First edition. Read More Item Details for Wings for Per Add to Wish List

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Item 247169Typed Letter, signed (“J.H. Doolittle”), to U.S. Congressman James M. Mead, explaining his flight in honor of the Bicentennial of...

Doolittle, James.

Price: $500

Dropped from plane “En Route”; envelope postmarked “Boston, Mass.”: July 25, 1932. Doolittle, the aviator who won the Congressional Medal of Honor for leading the bombing raids over Tokyo in World War II, writes: “I am making a flight over as many of the routes traveled by George Washington as..... Read More Item Details for Typed Letter, signed (“J.H. Doolittle”), to U.S. Congressman James M. Mead, explaining his flight in honor of the Bicentennial of the birth of George Washington, and in honor of the 157th Anniversary of the founding of the postal service Add to Wish List

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Item 303752Do You want to Fly?

Forman (1904-1978), Harrison.

Price: $1,000

Shanghai, China: The Comacrib Press, 1931. First edition. A lovely copy of this curious Shanghai imprint. Born in Milwaukee, Forman studied at the Layton School of Art and then the University of Wisconsin from where he graduated with a degree in Oriental Philosophy. He drew on both of these in..... Read More Item Details for Do You want to Fly? Add to Wish List

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Item 377856Poems.

Gates, Barrington.

Price: $2,000

London: Hogarth Press, 1925. First edition, inscribed by the author on the first free endpaper. The second, and last, collection of poems by Barrington "Barry" Gates, whose prodigious writing talent coexisted with an equally tremendous aptitude for mathematics, the latter of which led to a long, ground-breaking career in flight..... Read More Item Details for Poems Add to Wish List

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Item 314549Liquid-Propellant Rocket Development.

Goddard, Robert H. (1882-1945).

Price: $3,500

Washington, D.C: Smithsonian Instiution, March 16, 1936. First edition. An important marker in the development of rocketry and space flight, the pamphlet sums up Goddard's pioneering work in rocketry over the previous two decades. On March 16, 1926 Goddard launched the world's first liquid propellant rocket, from a site near..... Read More Item Details for Liquid-Propellant Rocket Development Add to Wish List

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Item 211411Autograph Letter signed ("Maurice Baring") to T.E. LAWRENCE.

(LAWRENCE, T.E) Baring, Maurice.

Price: $2,250

Half-Way House / Steyning Road, Rottingdean: 4 October 1933. Baring discusses the recent appearance of and furor over a new book on the WW I flying ace Albert Ball, [CAPTAIN ALBERT BALL VC DS, by RH Kiernan], which Baring considers "a noble tribute to a great boy. His father Sir..... Read More Item Details for Autograph Letter signed ("Maurice Baring") to T.E. LAWRENCE Add to Wish List

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Item 352519Another Catch: More Fugitive Notes on Sport and Other Things.

Newberry, Arthur St. John.

Price: $1,250

Cleveland, Ohio: Printed for the Writer by The Bryan Printing Company, n.d. [1914]. First edition, no. 56 of 75 copies for presentation; this copy for Mme and Mr. John Pelenyi. "The book was published posthumously by his widow [and sent to members of the St. Bernard Fish and Game Club..... Read More Item Details for Another Catch: More Fugitive Notes on Sport and Other Things Add to Wish List

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Item 40365Pencil Sketch of two airplanes on a landing field.

Pleissner, Ogden.

Price: $1,750

N.p: Dated “March 1945”. Pleissner, Ogden. Inscribed "To Alfred [Eisenstaedt] with best wishes / Ogden Pleissner." Read More Item Details for Pencil Sketch of two airplanes on a landing field Add to Wish List

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Item 322665Slide Rule. The Autobiography of an Engineer.

Shute, Nevil.

Price: $250

London: Heinemann, 1954. First edition. The engaging memoir of aviation engineer and author Nevil Shute, up to the year 1938. Read More Item Details for Slide Rule. The Autobiography of an Engineer Add to Wish List

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Item 322857Slide Rule. The Autobiography of an Engineer.

Shute, Nevil.

Price: $75

London: Heinemann, [1955]. First edition, fourth impression. The engaging memoir of aviation engineer and author Nevil Shute, up to the year 1938. Read More Item Details for Slide Rule. The Autobiography of an Engineer Add to Wish List

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