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n.p.: International Association of Machinists, Airline Division, 1958. 64p. booklet in staplebound wraps, light handling wear, owner's name penned at top edge of front cover, staples rusted, front wrap lightly foxed.

Berkeley: Creative Arts Book Company, 2000. Paperback. 215p., wraps, very good condition. Novel of life in the Air Force by the Filipino American author.

Chicago: America First Committee, 1941. 14p., staplebound pamphlet, very good. Inside of front cover has a red pencil note that it was obtained from the AFC in Chicago. Lindbergh argues against going to war with Germany, stating that such a war would be unwinnable, whereas no nation would ever succeed at attacking the United States. He calls for the isolationist pursuit of an "independent American destiny." The America First Committee was the largest isolationist group in the run-up to US participation in the war; critics lambasted the repackaging of German propaganda and anti-Semitic tropes by some of its representatives.

Chicago: America First Committee, 1941. Pamphlet. 14p., staplebound pamphlet, mild edgewear and a couple of faint rust marks to the rear cover. Lindbergh argues against going to war with Germany, stating that such a war would be unwinnable, whereas no nation would ever succeed at attacking the United States. He calls for the isolationist pursuit of an "independent American destiny." The America First Committee was the largest isolationist group in the run-up to US participation in the war; critics lambasted the repackaging of German propaganda and anti-Semitic tropes by some of its representatives.

New York: Human Sciences Press, 1986. Paperback. 274p., foreword, preface, appendices, reference notes, index, illustrated with a photo, tables, facsimile documents, chronology, very good first edition trade paperback in pictorial wraps.

New York: Star Dist, 1990. Paperback. 155p., price sticker on cover else a very good first printing PBO in original explicit, camp pictorial wraps. Gay pulp fiction. Hung Studs HD-111.

Buffalo, NY: The Aircraft, 1941. Newsletter. 4p., 8.5x11 inch newsletter, very good but for penned note at the end stating "Curtiss Aeroplane employees in dependent union." Issued by a union more cooperative with management than the CIO, which this issue harshly attacks. Discusses the expulsion of two members who had "slandered and libeled the Officers, the Council and the attorney of the Union... For six months these two members had kept both The Aircraft and the plant in constant turmoil. Out to rule or ruin, they had caused The Aircraft to lose over 10,000 man hours in meetings at which they did little but obstruct its orderly proceedings." Goes on to say that "They have announced they have gone over to the CIO because it is a democratic organization. The Aircraft wishes to congratulate them and the CIO on finding each other. With their untruthfulness, their revolutionary ideas, their simon-pure Russian democracy, the CIO will find them a wonderful addition to its membership!" States that "The CIO… Read More

Buffalo, NY: World's Dispensary Medical Association, 1927. Staplebound. 32 pp., illustrations, color printed wraps. 4 x 5.5 in. Oblong pamphlet. Surface scratched on rear cover. A booklet with a very abridged history of aviation, emphasizing the then-recent solo flight of Charles Lindbergh from New York to Paris and the emerging possibilities of aviation in both war and commerce. The majority of the booklet is in fact a series of advertisements and testimonials for various medical products produced by V.M. Pierce, such as the "Golden Medical Discovery," "Anuric Tablets," and "Pleasant Pellets." Also includes ads for a publication, Medical Adviser, and Dr. Pierce's Invalids Hotel and Surgical Institute. A blank form questionnaire (unused) and instructions for a free consultation are appended.

State College PA: The Journal of the American Philatelic Society, 1970. Entire issue; professionally cased into titled buckram boards with utilitarian titling, marbled endsheets over cloth hinges, a nice job. Cover titling promotes an article by Malcolm MacGregor, "South Polar expoloration and explorers" rather than the featured story. Pp. 569-664, original wraps present, a very good copy. Also: Nicaraguan earthquake of 1931 ("Nicaragua cover tells story"); one-cent stamp of 1851; handstamped 'Ghana' on aerogrammes.

New York: The Witkin Gallery, Inc, 1991. Pamphlet. [24]p., introduction, vita and 14 captioned plates on high-gloss paperstock. Softbound in oblong 8.5x11 inch stapled grey wraps with slight external hints of handling, no ownership or other marks, a very good copy. Lots of aerial pix; he had much support from pilots and others, says he exposed about 6,000 negatives. In this period Crawford was dba "Polar Fine Arts" in Baltimore.

Toledo, OH: Self-published by the author, 1895. Hardcover. vi, 90p., cloth-covered boards, 6x9 inches, frontis. portrait of Caulkins, diagrams, boards edgeworn and frayed at corners, endpapers and fore-edge lightly foxed, pencil scribble on front pastedown endpaper, else very good condition with author's rubberstamp on front pastedown endpaper. Caulkins, who identifies himself on the title page as "discoverer of the circulation of the nerves and inventor of the electro-magnetic circular power," was an Ohio physician. He writes in the preface that this work is "a concise description of a new air-ship which the author believes will be the finally accepted plan of successful aërial navigation.

Boston: constructed by the author, 1919. Ephemera. Pp.1-92 are covered with neatly clipped and laid-down news stories from The Boston Traveller daily, in which Brown had a regular column --or plenty of exposure at any rate. Pieces run consecutively January into June. The album is of quality manufacture with a leather spine tooled gilt, alphabetical tabs preceeding the numbered pages (140 all told), and a careful owner with a pot of good glue and considerable dexterity. The backstrip leather is mildly abraded along joints, a handwritten label is taped to cover, and front endsheet is very foxed. A generally sound clean item that could have been put together clumsily. Several columns are devoted to the question of trans-Atlantic flight; "shouldn't be more dangerous than wartime combat" is Brown's summation. Contents a melange of post-war advances in aerial weaponry, grim aerial photos (of damage at Verdun, etc.), increase of speed, passenger carriage, on & on. Transatlantic flight imagined. Aircraft… Read More

San Francisco: International Association of Machinists and Aerosace Workers, 1990. 8.5x11 inch handbill, printed both sides. Issued during the Machinists' strike against the airlines, asking the reader to join a picket line at San Francisco International Airport.

[Albany, NY]: Chamber Commerce, New York State, 1946. Pamphlet. [4]p., wraps. 8.5 x 5.5 in. Very Good. Brief statement opposing monopolies on international air travel.

New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1974. Hardcover. xvii, 298p., 5.75x8.5 inches, illus. with glossy b&w photo section, very good first edition in like dust jacket.

Detroit: UAW-CIO, 1998. Paperback. 152p., wraps, 4x8 inches, four page "Amendments to Article 16, initiation fees and dues" laid in, very good condition.

Biella: Eventi & Progetti Editore, 2005. Paperback. 83p., profuse b&w aerial photos of sizeable cities, taken at various altitudes, with a few pages of prefatory material; text entirely in the Italian language. Softbound in 8.5 inch square wraps decorated with one of the pictures. A bit edgeworn, with a remnant sticker on back cover, a very good copy. Fondazione, Cassa Risparmio di Biella.

Konstanz: Verlag Friedr. Stadler, 1966. 100p., fullpage captioned aerial photos on coated paperstock throughout, oblong 10.5x12.5 inch photo-decorated paper over boards, a very good copy.

New York: Training Aids Division; Headquarters Army Air Forces, 1944. Pamphlet. 16p. staplebound booklet, minor toning and handling. Air Forces Manual no. 5. "Dope" is used here in the sense of "information." This booklet, based on the RCAF publication "Ditching Gen," discusses how to ditch an aircraft in the event of an emergency.

n.p.: Mfr'd. for Ms. Magazine, 1974. Pinback Button. 1.25 inch pin, manufacturing info and union bug on the curl, very good, minor fading. Issued in retort to the National Airlines ad campaign of the early 1970s that featured stewardesses saying "Fly me.