LOW-FLYING AIRCRAFT AND OTHER STORIES by Ballard, J[ames] G[raham] - 1976

1913. EIFFEL, G., transl. Jerome C. HUNSAKER. THE RESISTANCE OF THE AIR AND AVIATION: EXPERIMENTS CONDUCTED AT THE CHAMP-DE-MARS LABORATORY. London: Constable & Co./Boston: Houghton Mifflin & Co., 1913. 2nd edition, revised and enlarged. xvi + 242 pp. 4to., red cloth sunned to brown at spine, stamped in gilt and blind. Cloth soiled, corners bumped. B/w photo reproductions, diagrams in the text; large folding b/w charts at rear. A few of the charts have pencil notations. Binding sound and text clean, complete.

New York: McGraw-Hill Book Company. Good. 1944. 1st Edition [stated]. Flexible leatherette. Book is Good. First Edition [stated]. Clean and unmarked text with a faint page edge tanning. Rear paste-down has pencil stocking numbers. Very light surface spot on rear cover surface. Some wear to cover spine ends and faint wear cover corner tips. Single light bump front spine edge of cover. Top corner tips bent on pages 189-196. Binding error at false title page gutter - glue from binding had stuck pages together at gutter. Beautiful quality folding charts. ; Maps, Charts & Graphs; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 333 pages .

London: Harrap, 1943 price clipped DW, hole clipped from fold in flap, also to spine is an Australasian price label with hole clipped through it, head and tail of spine, and corners rubbed with some minor chipping loss, some mild edge creases, generally intact and complete, book has minor foxing to endpapers and closed edges, war era paper stock, 253pp an amazing aviation pioneer, DW by Y. Ellis. First Edition. Cloth. Very Good/Good. Illus. by Y. Ellis. 8vo - over 7? - 9? tall.

Norwalk, CT: Easton Press, 2003. Signed by Scott Carpenter and Kris Stoever on the colophon. First Limited edition / First printing. Navy leather. Very fine. Certificate of Authenticity laid in. Carpenter was one of the original Mercury 7, and our fourth man in space. Carpenter went on to be an Aquanaut for the SeaLab Project. He was the author of two science fiction novels. Kris Stoever is Carpenter's daughter.

New York:: Putnam,, 1996.. First Printing of the First Edition. A Fine copy in a Fine unclipped dust jacket. Inscribed by astronaut Mitchell on the half-title page. Apollo 14 astronaut Mitchell offers a vision in which technology and intuition are harmonized in pursuit of a more advanced consciousness. When Mitchell was hurtling back to earth after walking on the moon in 1971, he had a profound sense that all things are interconnected and that the universe is an intelligent process with which we need to link up. We hear how Mitchell began a career as a fighter pilot in the years following WW II, switched to NASA with the hope of being part of the new space program, and came to know the legendary Wernher von Braun, whom he believes was a true visionary rather than a Nazi opportunist. Mitchell tells how, while returning to earth, he carried out a private ESP experiment that seemed to yield positive results. Subsequently, he founded the Institute of Noetic Sciences, in order to test paranormal phenomena… Read More

New York:: Bantam Books,, 1989.. First Printing of the First US Edition. A Fine tight, copy in a Fine, unclipped dust jacket. Signed & inscribed by Aldrin on the half title page. Aldrin was the second man to walk on the Moon and in this memoir he tells the story of America's race with the Russians to the moon as seen from inside NASA.

San Diego:: Harcourt Brace,, 2002.. First Printing of the First Edition. A Fine tight unread copy in a Fine bright dust jacket. Signed by Astronaut Carpenter. Scott Carpenter was one of seven Project Mercury astronauts who took part in America's burgeoning space program in the 1960s. He writes candidly of the pioneering science, training, and biomedicine of early space flight and tells the heart-stopping tale of his famous spaceflight aboard Aurora 7. He shares stories from the earliest days of NASA and, for the first time ever, Carpenter's own account of his controversial flight and splashdown.

London: British Nation Films, 1942. Original British program for the 1942 film. A fascinating piece, in that it consists almost entirely of a long transcription by Pressburger of the true-life narrative by Sir George Corbett, which forms the basis for the film. Photo illustrations from the film throughout. Saddle-stapled illustrated self wrappers, 7 x 9 inches, 32 pages. Very Good, with some creasing to the wrappers but no loss or detachment.

12 issues (Volume 1 Numbers 1-12) of 'The Aero'. Scarce in original printed wrappers. All complete and in Very Good condition. The usual browning to the paper stock and occasional spotting / minor edge tears, with marks to the front cover of No.1, Rear cover of No.2, and minor loss to one corner of the front cover of No.12. 194 pp. B/W illustrations and diagrams throughout; some advertisements.

New York: Harcourt, 2002. Signed on the title page by Scott Carpenter. First edition / First printing. Blue paper spine, white paper-covered boards. Very fine in very fine dust jacket. Carpenter was one of the original Mercury 7, and our fourth man in space. Carpenter went on to be an Aquanaut for the SeaLab Project. He was the author of two science fiction novels.