Aeronautical English-Japanese Glossary

Tokyo: Shukyosha, 1942. Hardcover. Near Fine. 3 preliminary leaves, 326 pages, 1 leaf 18 x 10 cm. 16mo. Hardcover. Publisher's original deep wine red cloth over boards, lettering to front cover. Book Condition: faint signs of handling, else fine. A clever, nicely preserved copy. We have a fondness for the Dictionaries & Grammars category, especially since out of all the printed book categories their days would seem to among the most desperately numbered. We'd never heard of an Aeronautical glossary per se so we were delighted when we tumbled onto a few. That is until we really started pondering who these little pocket guides were actually for. English is the lingua franca of civilian aviation, they had to pick one and English seemed to do nicely. America does make most of the planes, so there's that. So leafing through the pages and coming across the Japanese translation for, say, "emergency alighting area", or "amount of gas leakage", in 7 point type casts the urgency of need for something exactly like this. Title in Japanese and English; author's name in Japanese on t.p. Reproduction of the 1936 reprint of the 1934 edition. cf. Colophon (in Japanese). [note: regardless of the Worldcat biblio take on the orgins of this book, there is a U.S. Gov. Printing Office, 1942 line on the otherwise packed with Japanese colophon page and the ffep is stamped as Navy property and signed by a serviceman promising it's safe return.