Aviation from Mare Booksellers

New York: . Whitehead and Hoag, Producer, 1927. Unbound. Good. 1 ¼ inches in diameter. Goldish in color. A commemorative coin issued to celebrate Charles Lindbergh's nonstop transatlantic flight. With an image of the Spirit of St. Louis on one side and a bust of Lindbergh on the other. GOOD+ condition, not professionally graded. Minor scuffing and rubbing,… Read more about this item

No Place: No publisher. Unbound. Near Fine. F7U Cutlass Pinback. No producer, place or date. Presumed circa 1950s. Made in USA on the curl. Approximately 1 inch in diameter. Stickpin style back. A pinback button depicting the F7U Cutlass, a jet fighter, designed for the US Navy but beset with a variety of design flaws. Color illustration using… Read more about this item

St. Louis, MO: Metalcraft Co., Publisher. Unbound. Very Good. Lyonsport Cadet Aero Club Pinback. Metalcraft Co., Publisher. St. Louis, MO: no date, circa 1920s. ¾ inches in diameter. Stickpin style back. A pinback promoting both the Lyonsport Cadet Aero Club and the Metalcraft Company, with the reverse urging cadets who want to be pilots to write the company.… Read more about this item

No Place: No publisher. Unbound. Near Fine. No producer, place or date. Presumed circa 1950s. Made in USA on the curl. Approximately 1 inch in diameter. Stickpin style back. A pinback button depicting the B-57 Night Intruder used by the US armed forces. Color illustration using red, white and blue. In original cellophane wrap. NEAR FINE condition with… Read more about this item

No Place: No Publisher. Unbound. Near Fine. No producer, place or date. Presumed circa 1950s. Made in USA on the curl. Approximately 1 inch in diameter. Stickpin style back. A pinback button depicting the F-86D Sabre, the first swept wing, carrier based jet fighter used by the US Navy. Color illustration using red, white and blue. In original… Read more about this item

No Place: No publisher. Unbound. Near Fine. No producer, place or date. Presumed circa 1950s. Made in USA on the curl. Approximately 1 inch in diameter. Stickpin style back. A pinback button depicting the F-86D Sabre, a jet fighter used by the US armed forces. Color illustration using red, white and blue. In original cellophane wrap, which is… Read more about this item

New York: Burr Publishing Co, 1909. Wraps. Fair. Color illustrated wraps, with a string tied binding. Unpaginated. Black and white photos throughout as well as one apparent painted photo by Karl Moon. Single issue of this monthly magazine, this one relying heavily on photographs. Of note are a series of 14 Photographs by Carl moon, an American photographer… Read more about this item

London: The Amalgamated Press, 1930. Wraps. Good. Color illustrated wraps. Black and white photos and illustrations throughout. Single issue of this magazine featuring fiction and essays. This iteration of the magazine was started in 1898 and ended in 1933. Includes "The Shorn Lamb," by William John Locke; also present is an article on the making of the film… Read more about this item

No Place: No publisher. Hard Cover. Very Good. No publisher, place or date. Presumed circa 1986. Blue boards. No jacket. 128 pp., including ads. Black and white photos throughout. A history of the Squantum and South Weymouth Naval Air Stations in Massachusetts, with the first 32 pages providing brief sections on notable aspects of history of those two… Read more about this item

New York: The Macmillan Company, 1916. Cloth. Very Good. Blue cloth. 149 pp., plus ads in the rear. A few black and white photo plates of airplanes, etc., throughout. A collection of letters by Harold Rosher, a pilot in the Royal Naval Air Service in Britain. The letters, written between 1914 and 1916 recall action, fighting and missions… Read more about this item

New York: Hodder and Stoughton. Cloth. Fair. no date, perhaps circa 1916. Blue cloth with a large illustration of a pilot in front of a smaller illustration of a plane in a field. 208 pp. Black and white photos and illustrations throughout, as well as several color plates. A collection of stories and essays on a variety of… Read more about this item

Upton-upon-Severn, UK: Images Publishing, 1993. Cloth. Very Good/Very Good. Brown cloth in unclipped jacket. 218 pp. Black and white photos throughout. Signed by the author on the half title. A history of early women's aviation in the United States, as told through the memoir of Margaret Thomas Warren, a pioneering pilot. She recalls her experiences at various airfields… Read more about this item

New York: Grosset and Dunlap, 1946. Cloth. Good/Good. Green cloth in unclipped jacket. 216 pp. Illustrations by Gordon Dean Smith throughout. A story for a juvenile audience following the aviation adventures of Lucky Terrell, a Texas pilot tasked to test a new jet-propelled plane. GOOD condition. Some soiling and staining to the rear panel of the jacket. Minor… Read more about this item

London: Ducimus Books Limited. Wraps. Good. no date. Wraps. 194-215 pp. Black and white photos throughout. A short history of the various markings and camouflage paint schemes used on British aircraft and gliders used/purchased by the US Army Air Force in World War II during 1942 to 1945. GOOD+ condition. Moderate toning to the piece. Light edgewear. … Read more about this item

Chicago: Victor F. Lawson and Co, 1881. Tabloid. Good. Large format tabloid newspaper. Single sheet, four pages. Single issue of this Chicago based newspaper, featuring an account of a ballooning adventure undertaken by Samuel Archer King (noted in the article as an aeronaut), a noted balloonist in the US responsible for its growth in popularity. Also present is… Read more about this item

New York: The Flying Publishing Company, 1927. Wraps. Good. . Illustrated wraps. Unpaginated. Black and white photos throughout. First issue of this magazine devoted to aviation and flight, with this issue being a souvenir number celebrating the transatlantic flight of Charles Lindbergh. This includes Lindbergh's account of the flight, a look at the Spirit of St. Louis, photos… Read more about this item

Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1926. First Edition. Cloth. Good. First edition. Red cloth. No jacket. 276 pp. Black and white photo plates throughout. An account of the airplane journey around the world undertaken by Edward Evans, accompanied by the author, Linton Wells. Wells, a noted US foreign correspondent, documented their record setting time and their brief experiences in countries… Read more about this item

St. Annes on Sea, UK: Air Data Publications. Wraps. Good. no date. Illustrated wraps. 49 pp., plus 8 fold out illustrations in the rear. A reproduction of the second edition of this work originally published in November, 1943, discussing controls and features, handling, operating data, etc., for the various versions of the Catalina airplane. Includes as few reproduced… Read more about this item

New York: Grosset and Dunlap, 1933. Cloth. Good/Poor. Blue cloth with an Art Deco style illustrated dust jacket. 160 pp. Black and white illustrations throughout. An illustrated history and survey of aviation, looking at balloons, dirigibles, planes and other inventions, discussing pioneer inventors and aviators. This includes women pilots; the first polar flight; World War I, etc. POOR… Read more about this item

No Place: Reed and Associates, 1944. Wraps. Good. Red, blue and white illustrated wraps. Lower front wrapper a turning dial serving as a spotter for 16 famous American planes. Single sheet folded into fourths. A piece offering three press out paper models of World War II Allied airplanes, featuring the American Hellcat, the British Spitfire, and the Russian… Read more about this item