Search Results: Titles starting with S from Yankeeflier

John J. Niles, Singing Soldiers, published by Charles Scribner's Sons in 1927. With illustrations by Margaret Thorniley Williamson. John Jacob Niles' wonderful account of his adventures flying around France in 1918 when he was in the US Air Service in WWI. He paid more attention to writing down song lyrics provided by African-American soldiers working in France than he did to his military flying duties. But that's okay; the result (this book) is really special. This copy has the bookplate of Janice Cleary, of Omaha, Nebraska. Cleary collected American folk music and specialized in the music of American ragtime, including African-American music. Hardback book in good condition; light general wear. Dust jacket in good- condition; wear and chips on edges and corners. Dust jacket in protective Mylar cover.

Hardcover book in good condition; light wear on edges, corners. Book now protected by imperfect reproduction dust jacket in Mylar cover.

Pictorial cover hardback book in very good condition. Signed by author on title page.

F. G. Tinker, Some Still Live, published by Funk & Wagnalls in May, 1938. One of the few accounts of aerial fighting during the Spanish Civil War. Well written, Includes an account of the meeting between Tinker and Ernest Hemingway in a Madrid elevator. Illustrative maps inside front and back covers. Hardcover book in very good condition; light wear; light pencil notes on pre-title page. Dust jacket in very good condition; light wear around edges; small piece missing, top of front cover. Dust jacket in protective Mylar cover.

Hardcover book and dust jacket in good/very good condition. An anthology of readings about early and modern aviation. Roberts and Briand were instructors at the newly established Air Force Academy.