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CARTIER VINTAGE AIRCRAFT EXHIBITION 1979 PROGRAM.
1979.
Paperback.
Presumed First.
9 pp. Tan pamphlet with sepia-toned photo ills. Back cover a bit soiled. Program from the Vintage Aircraft Exhibition March 15-20, 1979 at the Seventh Regiment, Armory, New York, N.Y. 15 vintage aircraft are shown and described in this pamphlet. Verso back cover states that the exhibition was also the occasion of the introduction in the U.S. of a new sport watch by Cartier inspired by a design created 75 years ago. According to a leaflet laid in, it was in 1904 when Louis Cartier designed the first wristwatch for his friend early aviator Alberto Santos-Dumont.
Very Good
[Book #9401]
Price: $25.00 Ask a Question
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Bridgman, Leonard, Editor.
JANE'S ALL THE WORLD'S AIRCRAFT 1941.
New York:
The MacMillan Company
1942.
Navy Cloth.
Erratically paged. B/w ills. Navy blue cover has blindstamped design on front cover and lower back cover, gilt lettering on spine. Lightest edgewear on bottom. Yellow dj with black lettering is chipped along flaps, has a small tear at upper back center and minimal creasing on front at top & bottom. DJ spine sunned. Fep has small bookstore stamp at bottom. The definitive book of its kind, this thirty-first Jane's gives a complete look at the civil aviation of every country in the world as well as "a complete record of aeronautical progress throughout the world during the past year.".
Near Fine / Good
[Book #3993]
Price: $245.00 Ask a Question
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de Saint Exupery, Antoine.
Wind, Sand and Stars.
Cosgrave, II, John O'H.
New York, NY:
Reynal & Hitchcock
1939.
Hard Cover.
Limited.
This is copy #4 of 500 copies signed by the author. Extremely rare for such a low number. Blue leather spine, paper covered boards with a small blue graphic that resembles stylized wings. Spine has nicking and small losses at top and base, minor sunning. Clean and crisp within. Decorated endpapers, signed by Antoine de Saint Exupery on the limitation page. Slipcase has some chipping at edges from shelf wear and sunning, but is intact and not split at edges like most others. Photographs gladly provided.
Very Good / No Jacket
[Book #17666]
Price: $3,500.00 Ask a Question
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Robertson, Major F.A. De V.
AIRCRAFT OF THE WORLD.
New York:
Oxford University Press
1929.
Tan Paper Over Boards.
Later Printing.
98 pp. Color & b/w ills. Front cover, titled in black, features a navy blue frame surrounding the pasted-on full-color picture of The Cubaroo, a coast-defense torpedo-carrier, as displayed at the Royal Air Force Pageant at Hendon in 1924. Tan cloth backstrip, lettered in black, has a small hole at front hinge about 1.5" from top of spine. Edges are worn and corners rubbed. Covers soiled. Rear paste-down has been stripped away from boards on top half. Contents are clean and tight, with only occasional touches of foxing. The first sentence of the intro reads "It is a privilege to live in the century in which man has learnt to fly through the air." Within that context, this is an interesting and useful book on the early history of aviation.
Near Very Good
[Book #9511]
Price: $60.00 Ask a Question
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