![Item #11610 [Liberty Twelve Aircraft Engine] Instructions for the Installation, Inspection and...](https://michaelpyron.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/11610.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1789595304)
Equipment Division, Signal Corps, c. 1918. Cloth. Octavo. 123, [5] pp., illus. As issued, backed in linen with flexible, heavy card stock covers. Light to moderate wear to the covers and spine, but generally a nice copy, clean throughout. The copies of this were stamp-numbered, this copy being 16415. Despite.....
Washington: Smithsonian Institution, 1916. Wrappers. Octavo. iii, [1], 92 pp., plates, illus. First edition. As issued, in printed wrappers; all five plates called for are present. The wrappers are quite worn including a crease to the bottom corner of the front wrapper that is threatening to separate; the spine is.....
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Princeton, NJ: U.S. School of Military Aeronautics at Princeton University, 1918. Wrappers. Octavo-sized. [1], 9; [1], 7 ll. Stapled along the top edge; printing on the recto only. Light wear to the booklets; Part I with some pencil notations and checkmarks to the numbers as they worked through the notes;.....
New York: Brentano's, 1918. Cloth. 12mo. 118 pp., frontis. First American edition. In publisher's cloth. Light rubbing to the edges; previous owner has clipped the front free endpaper; contemporary owner name on the front pastedown otherwise internally clean. Revised and enlarged English edition of "Exposé Élémentaire des Connaissances Générales Utiles.....
![Item #11606 Aeroplane Design [and] A Simple Explanation of Inherent Stability. F. S. Barnwell, W....](https://michaelpyron.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/11606.png?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1789595297)
New York: Robert M. McBride, 1917. Cloth. 12mo. 102 pp., illus. First edition, third impression. In publisher's cloth. Binding a bit rubbed and soiled; spine dulled; foxing to the textblock edges occasionally showing up on the pages; contents are evenly and lightly toned. Uncommon.
New York: Doubleday, Page & Company, 1907. Cloth. Octavo. [6], xli, [1], 259, [1] pp., frontis, plates, illus. First edition. In publisher's decorative cloth with pictorial pastedown on the front board; all plates present as called for. Binding a trifle soiled, particularly on the rear board; spine dulled with some.....
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1920. Cloth. Octavo. xx, [2], 277, [1] pp., frontis, illus. First edition. In original cloth, lacking the dust jacket. Light shelfwear; previous owner name otherwise a clean, bright copy. Profusely illustrated throughout.
Philadelphia: J. B. Lippincott Company, 1910. Cloth. Octavo. 326, [1] pp., frontis, plates, illus. First American edition. As issued, in cloth with title in gilt on the front cover and spine. Spine a trifle sunned; discoloration to the very bottom edge of both boards, otherwise only minor soiling; a price.....
New York: D. Appleton and Company, 1919. Cloth. Octavo. xxx, 384 pp., frontis, plates. First edition. As issued, in publisher's boards, backed in cloth. The spine gilt is dulled; rubbing to the top edge of the front board; light and scattered foxing, else clean. An uncommon book in commerce, this.....
[Government Printing Office?], 1917. Original Wrappers. Oblong octavo. 52 pp., illus. In printed wrappers. Relatively minor wear to the covers, including rolled corners; a rubber-stamped number on the front cover, otherwise clean. After a few pages of descriptions, the document is comprised of illustrations, both photographic and silhouettes of planes.....
Washington: Government Printing Office, 1919. Cloth. Octavo. 90 pp., plates, illus. As issued, in cloth over flexible covers. Light soiling to the covers, but generally, quite a nice copy with minimal foxing; contents clean. Two folding plates at the rear. Uncommon in commerce and institutionally. Only ten libraries report ownership.....
Washington: Government Printing Office, 1918. Cloth. Octavo. 47, [1] pp., plates, illus. As issued, in cloth over flexible covers; sixteen leaves of plates along with 10 large folding plates at the rear. Worn and soiled binding; evidence of moisture exposure that is minor except to the last few plates; each.....
Burlington, VT: Lane Press, Inc., 1940. Original Wrappers. Octavo. vi, 78, [2] pp. First edition. In printed wrappers. Wrappers are detached at the spine but present; minor dampstaining to the top corner of the textblock that extends only a 1/8" to 1/4" onto the leaves of the first half of.....
[New York]: Aeronautics Press, 1910. Original Wrappers. Octavo. [2], 145-188, [2] pp., illus, adverts. As issued, stapled in pictorial wrappers. Interleaved throughout with advertisements that are outside the pagination. Light wear to the covers, but generally a solid copy of this periodical.
[New York]: Naval Consulting Board, 1918. Original Wrappers. Octavo. 32 pp. As issued, in self-wrappers. Irregular toning to the covers; staples are removed with only rust stains remaining; spine reinforced with clear tape; some tape repairs to the rear wrapper otherwise a fairly nice copy of the early bulletin with.....
Dayton, OH: Airplane Engineering Department, 1918. Original Wrappers. Octavo. 121, [3] pp., folding plate, illus. First edition. As issued, stapled in printed wrappers with cloth backstrip. Light edgewear; small gouge in the rear cover that impacts the final several leaves--while it touches text, it does not impact comprehension; previous owner.....
![Item #11594 [cover title] First Heavier-than-Air Flying Machine: Hearing before Subcommittee No....](https://michaelpyron.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/11594.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1789594028)
Washington: Government Printing Office, 1928. Original Wrappers. Octavo. 56 pp., plates, Stapled in printed wrappers; 16 plates on 5 leaves. Light toning, but generally, a very nice copy without appreciable wear; contents clean. An uncommon pamphlet related to the Wright-Langley controversy, in which Samuel Langley, Secretary of the Smithsonian had.....
New York: Society of Automobile Engineers, 1916. Original Wrappers. Octavo. [461]-588, 48 (adverts) pp., illus. First edition. As issued, in printed wrappers. Light to moderate wear to the spine; rear wrapper is nearly detached; binding is solid; contents clean. While principally, an automobile periodical, this issue contains a substantive, 20-page.....
Minneaplis, MN: William Hood Dunwoody Industrial Institute, 1918. Original Wrappers. Octavo. [2], 7, [1] pp., folding plates. As issued, stapled into printed wrappers, with 3 scale diagrams of a biplane: front, top, and side view. Light wear to the extremities; contents clean with a couple of closed tears; generally, a......
Washington: Government Printing Office, 1920. Original Wrappers. Octavo. 37, [3] pp., illus. As issued, stapled in self-wrappers, slots in the inner margin to allow inclusion in a binder. Wrappers are rubbed and heavily silverfished which touches text on the final page without impacting comprehension; vertical crease from folding; an uncommon.....
American Institute of Electrical Engineers, 1919. Original Wrappers. Octavo. 64 pp., plates, illus. First edition. As issued, in printed wrappers. Wrappers are soiled and a bit worn with minor silverfishing to the top corner margin of the last several leaves; contents are a trifle toned throughout, but generally clean. 6.....
![Item #11589 [cover title] The Means of Communication between Aeroplanes and the Ground...](https://michaelpyron.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/11589.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1789594022)
Washington: Government Printing Office, 1917. Original Wrappers. Octavo. 39, [1] pp. As issued, stapled in self-wrappers. Minor staining to the wrappers at the top margin at the spine; this staining is visible but diminishing on the margins of the leaves; previous owner name on the top of the front wrapper;.....
London: Whittaker & Co., 1911. Cloth. Octavo. vii, [1], 126, [2] pp., illus. Publisher's advertisement tipped inside the front endpaper. As issued, in full cloth. Minor edgewear to the extremities; contents clean.
Chicago: American School of Correspondence, 1912. Cloth. Octavo. vii, [1], 142 pp., frontis, plates, illus. As issued, in decorated cloth. Only light edgewear; spine a trifle sunned; scant and scattered foxing and age-toning, but generally, a very clean copy of this early aviation handbook.
New York: Harper & Brothers, 1920. Pictorial Boards. Octavo. [16], 112, [1] pp., frontis. First edition. As issued, in pictorial boards with dust jacket. Binding is a bit worn at the edges; endpapers show some browning; previous owner name; contents generally clean but for occasional finger-soiling in the margins; a......