Flight to Arras - Limited edition by Antoine de Saint-Exupery - 1942

1926 - 1941 Imprinted cloth with clasp closures. 12mo. An unusual archive of one pilot's career from the Golden Age of Flight to the American entrance into the Second World War. Ensign Burdick joined the U.S. Naval Reserve as a Mechanic / Pilot in 1926. The following 15 years of his flying career are documented here in his Flight Log Books. Recounted are his notations of soloing, flying mail, machine deliveries, target towing, photographic, radio and armament training, torpedo recovery, crashes, cross-country flights, aircraft carrier take-off and landings and much more. Notations of machines flown include - N-9, NY-2, OL -6, OL-8, PS-3, PN-12, S-38, S-39, S-43, V-70 and many others. Flights in all areas of the U.S.A. are recorded as well as periods in Spain, Mexico, etc. Burdick also flew for the Sikorsky Corp. and many log pages bear their stamp. Also included with collection is Burdick's I.D. card w/ photo and Mechanic's license as well as a X-mas card from the Officers and Men at… Read More

Brunswick, West Germany: Georg Westermann (printer), 1945. (1st edition). Hardcover. GOOD-. Tight except for loosening of quire with foldout maps, interior is bright and clean, exterior is age soiled and stained, square. 1 page is crumpled and folded. Cloth on spine shows wear in 3 places on hinge. No dust jacket. Cream colored paper over board with cloth spine, black type and full color regimental symbols. 407 pages plus black and white photos, fold out campaign maps and a full roster of members of the 67th from November 1942 to May 1945 including awards received. Map endpapers showing regiment's transit from 1942 to 1945 3.6

1970 McGraw Hill first edition. Uncommon as a true first.The author was born in 1930, and tells the story of Japan in World War Two from a child's perspective. The book includes an account of the Hiroshima nuclear bomb, which injured the author, and killed her mother.Condition of the book is Very Good. The binding is straight and sound. Inside pages are complete and unmarked. The top edge of the text block shows some light soil.Condition of the dust jacket is Very Good. The DJ is complete, not price clipped. It is protected in a new mylar cover.Please message me with any questions

[World War II] Prime Minister Hubert Pierlot. Proclamation. Printed broadside. 50.5 x 52 cm. [London?]: [No publication information] 1944. Black printing on white paper. Old fold lines and small marginal tears, otherwise very good. Text repeated in French and Dutch.
Rare. OCLC lists no holdings. There are no copies at the Library of Congress or the Marshall Center, the Eisenhower Library or the National Archives online listings. The Prime Minister invokes the fight to come: "Alongside our Allies, Belgian Air, Land and Sea forces are taking part in the decisive battle for the independence of our country. Soon they will give the hand to the Fighters of the Inner Front and to all those who, braving the inhuman rigors of the occupier, have contributed to the use and destruction of his power." The date 9/44 is in the lower left corner. The liberation of Belgium began in September 1944, when the British Second Army liberated Antwerp, the US First Army liberated the region south of Brussels and… Read More

Seattle, Washington, [1943]: Published By Authority of Commanding General By the Material Command, Wright Field, Dayton, Ohio. First Edition. Octavo. 387pages and (35) page alphabetical index, fully illustrated with full page and folding pages showing every part of the B-29. Each page of text is marked Restricted. Copies are uncommon. When Paul Tibbets signed this, he told the manual's owner, he had not seen one in a very long time. He also signed it on August 6, 1945, Pilot though several decades after his ordering the drop of the first atom bomb. "This manual has been prepared in permanent binding rather than loose leaf form to make it more compact, easier to handle and of a size to be carried in the pocket." Manuals Collection/The Museum of Flight Library Collection has an online version. Page 350 shows the order to destroy the bomb site with the service revolver as well as all the plane's records to prevent it from falling into enemy hands. Bound in brown cloth lettered and ruled in gilt, spine… Read More

Buffalo. Curtiss Aeroplane and Motor Corporation. 1917. Bound in imprinted green cloth over boards. Thin 8vo (5"x8"). The First Edition. Illustrated with diagrams, 3 of which are fold-outs,detailing the specs and assembly instructions for the airplane.Laid-into volume are two Request for Transportation receipts issued by the U.S. War Department and a period Morse Code Pocket Signal Disk. The Curtiss JN-4 "Jenny" was one of a series of "JN" biplanes built by the Curtiss Aeroplane Company of Hammondsport, New York, later the Curtiss Aeroplane and Motor Company. Although the Curtiss JN series (the common nickname was derived from "JN") was originally produced as a training aircraft for the U.S. Army, the "Jenny" continued post-World War I as a civil aircraft as it became the "backbone of American post-war [civil] aviation.Thousands of surplus Jennys were sold at bargain prices to private owners in the years after the War and became central to the… Read More

Stevens Point, Wisconsin:: sailorBOYpress,, 2012.. Edition of 50. 11 x 9"; 28 pages. Letterpress printed with Plantin type. Printed on Barcham Green and other handmade papers. Sewn binding with matching paper covers. In 11.75 x 9" lidded aluminum box with embossed titles. Signed and dated by artist. This is the story of Rudolph Brazda, who when he died in 2011 was the last known survivor of the Nazi concentration camps who had been incarcerated because he was a homosexual. Forced wear a pink triangle, Brazda survived 3 years in Buchenwald. After his liberation, Brazda lived in Alsace until his death. Morin overlays Brazda's story with the German folktale of The White Maiden. Jeff Morin, Colophon: "The White Maiden is the tale of a hunter who wishes for the ancient wines of the cellars at Thurnberg in a moment of great thirst. His wish is granted by the White Maiden but, as a result of drinking his wine, she forever plagues him with a sense of wanting, an inability to take… Read More

London: Thornton Butterworth Limited, 1927. First edition, first printing. Hardcover. This is a jacketed British first edition, first printing of the fourth volume of Churchill's monumental history of the First World War. A quarter of a century before the Second World War endowed him with lasting fame, Winston Churchill played a uniquely critical, controversial, and varied role in the “War to end all wars”. The events of these 1916-1918 volumes, of which this is Part II, include Churchill's time at the Front following his political exile and his subsequent return to the Cabinet. hough the U.S. first edition of The World Crisis preceded the British, many consider the British edition aesthetically superior, with its larger volumes and shoulder notes summarizing the subject of each page. Unfortunately, the original dust jackets are quite scarce and the smooth navy cloth of the British first editions proved quite susceptible to wear, the contents prone to spotting and toning. Particularly scarce… Read More

1970 McGraw Hill first edition. Uncommon as a true first.The author was born in 1930, and tells the story of Japan in World War Two from a child's perspective. The book includes an account of the Hiroshima nuclear bomb, which injured the author, and killed her mother.Condition of the book is Very Good. The binding is straight and sound. Inside pages are complete and unmarked. The top edge of the text block shows some light soil.Condition of the dust jacket is Very Good. The DJ is complete, not price clipped. It is protected in a new mylar cover.Please message me with any questions

Complete bound Volume 1 (Numbers 1-12) of Popular Flying, preserving the original covers. Edited by W.E Johns, with significant contributions including illustrations and writing by him. Includes the first appearance of Biggles in the story "The White Fokker" (as well as a further short story as 'William Earle'). A total of 10 of these 12 issues contain Biggles stories, the early stories under the pen-name "William Earle". Very Good condition internally (protected by the binding), with bumping to lower corners of pages, and early cracking to front hinge. Externally, there is significant scraping to the boards and chipping/discolouration to the spine label. It is most uncommon for bound volumes to preserve the glorious original covers of these magazines.William Earl Johns (5 February 1893 – 21 June 1968) was an English pilot and writer of adventure stories, usually written under the pen name Captain W. E. Johns. He is best remembered as the creator of the ace pilot and adventurer Biggles.