Collection of approximately 200 signed aviation- and space-related books, each signed by the subject or author (who is, in many cases, the same person). The books consist mainly of biographies and histories; many are related to military aviation. Both hardcover and softcover books are included, in both first and later editions. Many of the signatures are on affixed slips, labels, or bookplates, or on similar items (including a few photos) loosely laid in. Most are personally inscribed. The condition of the items is good to fine, with typical wear commensurate with age (the newer books therefore in generally better condition), owner’s names/ inscriptions, scattered toning, soiling, and staining (in some cases touching signatures), and a few defects such as loose pages, tape, etc. Most of the books are well-preserved and attractive. R&R COA.
“That’s My Bloody Plane” - Morton [Lester]
“Up”: A True Story of Aviation - “Jack” Stearns Gray
“Upside-Down” Pangborn - Carl M. Cleaveland
“Wildcats” Over Casablanca - M.T. Wordell and two others
‘Check Six’ - Boots Blesse
A Flying Tiger’s Diary - Charlie Bond
A Thousand Shall Fall - Murray Peden
A Thousand Springs - Anna Chennault (2 copies)
Ace! - R. Bruce Porter
Adventure in the Sky - Sandy Johnstone
Air Power: Key to Survival - Alexander P. de Seversky
Air Whaler - John Grierson (plus an ALS)
Alaska Bush Pilots - Lloyd Jarman and Peter Bryn
Alone in the Sky - Jean Batten
Always Another Dawn - A. Scott Crossfield
Amelia, My Courageous Sister - Muriel Earhart Morrissey
Apollo Expeditions to the Moon - James Lovell
Around the World in 20 Days - Bertrand Piccard
At Home in the Sky - Frank Wootton
Aviation & Space Records: World and United States - Clif van Kam (?)
Aviatrix - Elinor Smith
Baling Wire, Chewing Gum, and Guts - Bill Rhode
Between Earth and Sky - Auguste Piccard
Big Friend, Little Friend - Lt. Col. R.E. Turner
Biplane - Richard Bach
Blue Battlefields - Chuck O’Mahony
Boeing Trivia - Carl M. Cleaveland
Bush Pilot’s Log #2 - Lloyd Jarman
Bush Pilot’s Log - Lloyd Jarman
By The Seat of My Pants - Dean Smith
By the Seat of Thier Pants - Verne Jobst
Bye Bye Black Sheep - Mike Kawato
Capt. Arthur Ray Brooks: America’s Quiet Ace of WW1 - Raymond Brooks
Corsair - Barrett Tillman
Cover of Darkness - Roderick Chisholm
Curtiss: The Hammondsport Era 1907-1915 - Lou Casey
Days of Trial and Triumph - Hari Kristen
Days on the Wing - Willy Coppens De Houthulst
Decision Over Schweinfurt - Ira C. Eaker
Double Eagle - Larry Newman
Duel of Eagles - Peter Townsend
Eagles Must Fly - Jack Jaynes
Enemy in the Sky - Sandy Johnstone
Enola Gay - Paul W. Tibbets
Escort to Berlin - Oscar H. Coen
Espionage and Counterespionage - Arch Whitehouse
Everett R. Cook - Everett R. Cook
Fair-Weather Flying - Richard Taylor
Faith, Hope and Charity - George Burges
Fighter Pilot - William R. Dunn
First of the Many - Ira Eaker
Five Up - Laddie Lucas
Flying Fortress - Thomas Collison
Flying Girl - Elly Beinhorn
Flying Tiger: Chennault of China - Robert L. Scott, Jr.
Flying the Old Planes - Frank Tallman
Footprints - Jim Irwin (small accompanying pamphlet)
Forever Flying - Bob Hoover
Forgotten Eagle - Morton W. Lester
Fox Two - Randy Cunningham and Jeff Ethell
Gabby - Gabby Gabreski, Robert S. Johnson, Jerry Johnson, Bud Mahurin, Hub Zemke, and Leo Lester
Getting Off the Ground - George C. Dade
God is My Co-Pilot - Robert L. Scott
Good Evening Everybody - Lowell Thomas
Great Aircraft Collections of the World - Tom Poberezny and Paul H. Poberezny
Happy Jack’s Go-Buggy - Jack Ilfrey
Hitler At My Side - Hans Baur
Hollywood Pilot - Don Dwiggins
Honest John - Walker M. Mahurin
I Chose the Sky - Leonard H. Rochford
I Flew With the Lafayette Escadrille - Edwin C. Parsons
I Must Fly - Sheila Scott
Iron Eagle - Curtis E. LeMay
Iron Fist: The Lives of Carl Kiekhaefer - Jeffrey L. Rodengen
Jackie Cochran: An Autobiography - Jacqueline Cochran
Jennys to Jets - Clarence E. Page
Joe Foss, Flying Marine - Joe Foss
John Joseph Montgomery: Father of Basic Flying - Arthur D. Spearman S.J.
Jungmeister Junket - Sam Burgess
Just Plane Crazy - Bobbi Trout
Kelly - C.L. “Kelly” Johnson
Kill Devil Hill - Harry Combs
Knights of the Air - Lester J. Maitland
Laurels for Prinz Wittgenstein - Werner P. Roell, Friedrich Ostheimer, Herbert Kümmritz, Heinz Cramer, Hajo Herrmann, and two others
Let’s Go Where the Action Is! - Douglas Campbell and Jack R. Eder
Locklear: The Man Who Walked on Wings - Art Ronnie
Man’s Fight to Fly - John F. Forsyth
McCampbell’s Heroes - David McCampbell
Messerschmitt Me 262 - Walt Boyne
Messerschmitts Over Sicily - [unknown signer]
Mission with LeMay - Gen. Curtis E. LeMay
Mit Mächtigen zwischen Himmel und Erde - Hans Baur
My God! It’s a Woman - Nancy Bird
My Polar Flights - Umberto Nobile
My Twentieth Century in Retrospect - Douglas [Whitesell]
Nassau: Suburbia, U.S.A. - Edward Smits
Nine Lives - Alan Deere
No Passing Glory - Leonard Cheshire
Northrop: An Aeronautical History - John K. Northrop
Once To Every Pilot - Frank Hawks
Oshkosh: Gateway to Aviation - Tom Poberezny
Our Transatlantic Flight - Captain John Alcock and Anne Alcock
Pedigree of Champions - Carl M. Cleaveland
Pictorial History of the German Army Air Service: 1914-1918 - Morton L[ester]
Pilot - Tony Levier
Press On! - Chuck Yeager and CE ‘Bud’ Anderson
Reach For the Sky - Douglas Bader
Revolution in the Sky - Richard Sanders Allen
Roll Around a Point - Duane Cole
Ryan Broughams and Their Builders - Bill Wagner
Ryan, the Aviator - T. Claude Ryan
Saga of the U.S. Air Mail Service - Bur H. Winslow
Scott’s Book - Charles W. A. Scott
Scott’s Book - Eloise S.T. Dennis
Scramble - Dennis David and one other
September Champions - Cook Cleland and Steve Wittman
September Monkey - Induk Pahk
Sole Survivor - Verne Jobst, Shari Jobst, and George Gay
Sopwith Camel Fighter Ace - Bob Todd
Spitfire Command - Bobby Oxspring
Spitfire Into War - Sandy Johnstone (unattached slip)
Spitfire: A Test Pilot’s Story - Jeffrey Quill (unattached slip)
Staggerwing! - Robert T. Smith
Stepchild Pilot - Joseph Doerflinger
Straight On Till Morning - Mary S. Lovell
Takeoff Into Greatness - Grover Loening
Tale of a Guinea Pig - Geoffrey Page (unattached book plate)
Tale of a Tiger - R.T. Smith
Ten Miles High Two Miles Deep - Jean Piccard
Test Pilot - Neville Duke
The Air Battle for Malta - James Douglas-Hamilton
The Aviator - Ernest K. Gann
The Big Show - Pierre Clostermann
The Bird Aircraft History - Richard C. Hill
The Brabazon Story - Lord Brabazon of Tara (2 copies)
The Day I Owned the Sky - Robert Lee Scott, Jr.
The Destruction of Dresden - Ira [Eaker]
The Eagle Squadrons - Vern Haugland
The Eagles’ War - Oscar H. Coen
The Eighth Sea - Frank T. Courtney
The First Air Race - Morton W. Lester
The First and the Last - Adolf Galland (small photo attached to half title page)
The Flight of the Mew Gull - Alex Henshaw
The Flight of the T-2 - John A. Macready (limited edition 12/496)
The Flying Devils - Bill Rhode
The Flying Years - Lou Reichers
The Ford Air Tours 1925-1931 - Lesley Forden
The Hurricane Story - Paul Gallico
The Interrogator - Raymond F. Toliver
The Lonely Sea and the Sky - Francis Chichester
The Long, Lonely Leap - Joe Kittinger
The Memphis Belle - Col. Robert Morgan
The Odds Against Us - Peter Townshend
The Passing of the Night - Robbie Risner
The Phineas Pinkham Scrapbook - Bob Whittier
The Pictorial History of the Flying Tigers - Morton Bent, Carl Brown, Leo Clouthier, Jesse Crookshanks, Parker Du Perry, Emma J. Foster, Paul Greene, Jasper Harrington, Tex Hill, Edwin Janski, Ken Jernstadt, Albert Kaelin, Robert Keeton, Merlin Kemph, Steven Kustay, Robert Layher, Robert Locke, Ed McClure, Charles Older, Paul Perry, Joe Poshefko, Robert Raines, Ed Rector, Roland Richardson, Wayne Ricks, Don Rodewald, Dick Rossi, Wilford Schaper, R.M. Smith, R.T. Smith, Ed Stiles, Irving Stolet, L.J. Richards, Fritz Wolf, Eric Shilling, and “Red” Petach Hanks
The Saga of Pappy Gunn - General George C. Kenney
The Sky Is Falling - Arthur Weingarten
The Speed Seekers - T.G. Foxworth
The Spirit of St. Louis (commerative newspaper) - Claude Ryan
The Stinsons - John Underwood
The Yoxford Boys - Chuck Yeager and Merle Olmsted
Their Eyes on the Skies - Martin Cole
They Call Me Mr. Airshow - Bill Sweet
Thirty Seconds Over Tokyo - Ted W. Lawson
This Is EAA - Duane Cole
This Is EAA - Tom Poberezny
Thunderbolt! - Robert S. Johnson
Tiger Tales - L. J. Moldrem
Time and Chance - Peter Townsend
To the Moon and Halfway Back - Roger Q. Williams (#1 of a limited first edition)
Tumult in the Clouds - Jim Goodson (unattached signed paper photo)
United States Military Aircraft since 1909 - Peter M. Bowers
United States Women in Aviation 1930-1939 - Claudia M. Oakes
Voyager - Jeana Yeager and Dick Rutan
Voyager - Jeana Yeager and Dick Rutan
War Below Zero - Colonel Bernt Balchen
War Birds: Diary of an Unknown Aviator - Bud(?) Fay
War Eagles - Pete Peterson, Bill Dunn, Gus Daymond, Oscar Coen, and Steve Pisanos
What the Citizen Should Know About the Air Forces - Harold E. Hartney
When Hell was in Session - Jeremiah Denton
Where No Angels Dwell - Sandy Johnstone
Whittle: The True Story - Frank Whittle
Wiley Post, His Winnie Mae, and the World’s First Pressure Suit - Stan Mohler
Wing Leader - Johnnie Johnson
Winged Samurai - Saburo Sakai and Henry Sakaida
Winged Victory - Johnnie Johnson and Laddie Lucas
Wings of Man - Capt. H.T. “Dick” Merrill
Wingwalker - Bernice Lee Krippene
Witness to the Execution - Buddy Brennan
Women Pilots of World War II - Kay Gott, Charlyne Creger, Betty & Martin Riddle, Madge Leon Moore, Gene Shaffer Fitzpatrick, Betty Overman Brown, Nadine Harris, Mary Ann Dreker, and one other
WWII: Marine Fighting Squadron Nine (VF-9M) - Jess Barrow
Yeager - Chuck Yeager and Glennis Yeager
Zemke’s Wolf Pack - Robert S. Johnson, Hub Zemke, Jerry Johnson, and Gabby Gabreski
