Aviation from Trench Books

Garden City, NY: Doubleday Doran, 1936. Orange Cloth. Very Good/No Jacket. Minimal wear, clean and unmarked in bright orange cloth. "Young Moderns Junior Books" edition. Forward by Alexander Klemin, prominent aeronautical engineer.

New York: Grosset & Dunlap, 1932. Green Cloth. Very Good/Very Good+. Light soiling to spine, minor edgewear, light foxing to first few pages, sound and unmarked. Jacket shows just a slight trace of wear at corners, superb specimen! Number two in the 'Air Combat Stories for Boys' series.

New York: Viking, 1971. Book Club (BCE/BOMC) . Blue Hardcover. Very Good+/Good. Byron Barton. Inscription on flyleaf, minimal wear, clean copy. Jacket soiled, edgewear, 2" chip to top right front. A thin volume that explains why paper airplanes fly, and how to make them. Every high school senior needs a copy.

Chicago: Goldsmith, 1933. Brown Cloth. Very Good/Good+. Clean and unmarked, pages quite yellowed, minimal wear. Jacket bright and colorful, neat cello tape repairs to edges.

Akron: Saalfield, 1927. Yellow Cloth. Very Good/Good+. Clean and unmarked, minimal wear, pages yellowed. Jacket bright and colorful, wear to edges, spine a bit faded. "Aviator Series Vol. 2".

Chicago: Wilcox & Follett, 1944. First Edition . Tan Cloth. Fair/No Jacket. Heavy foxing to covers, otherwise a sound, clean, and unmarked copy. The adventures of Ensign Jack Steel, US Navy pilot. A story for young people, published at the very dawn of the jet age.

New York: Grosset & Dunlap, 1929. Green Cloth. Very Good/No Jacket. Spine a bit faded, slight lean, minimal soiling to covers. Sound copy, unmarked. "An Andy Lane Story".

New York: Random House, 1946. Reprint . Illustrated Hardcover. Very Good/No Jacket. Dwight Logan. Light wear to covers, clean and unmarked. Library binding, but not ex-library, textured covers. "Streaking through the stratosphere in a giant Starwing, Barry Martin finds new adventures in South America". Later reprint, probably 1960s.

London: Chancellor Press, 2002. Illustrated Hardcover. Near Fine/Very Good+. Large volume, clean and unmarked. Jacket shows just a bit of wear. 235 pgs, over 500 detailed drawings, charts, diagrams, etc. Probably everything you ever wanted to know. Extra postage outside the US.

Chicago: Henry Regnery Co, 1972. First American Edition . Gray Hardcover. Very Good+/Good+. Minimal wear, clean and unmarked. Jacket shows light soiling. Very detailed history, hundreds of B&W photos.

New York: Grosset & Dunlap, 1927. Red Cloth. Good+/Good+. Walter S. Rogers. Light wear to covers, unmarked. Jacket has chipping at spine ends (affecting titles), cover art intact. Third title in the Ted Scott Series, lists to "Jungle Trails" on flap, to "Honolulu" inside.

New York: Grosset & Dunlap, 1929. Brown Cloth. Good+/Very Good+. Walter S. Rogers. Moderate wear/soiling to covers, sound unmarked copy. Jacket very nice, shows minimal rubbing/soiling. Number eight in the Ted Scott Series, lists to "Stratosphere" on flap, "Against Time" inside.

New York: Grosset & Dunlap, 1941. First Printing . Brown Cloth. Very Good/Good+. I.B. Hazleton. Minimal wear, light soiling, erasure on flyleaf. Jacket faded, some wear to edges, chip at top of spine affecting "..NG" in "Hunting". Number nineteen in the series; lists to "Castaways" on flyleaf, Air Combat Stories on back.

New York: D. Appleton-Century, 1943. First Edition . Yellow Cloth. Very Good+/Very Good. Manning de V. Lee. Exceptional copy showing just a trace of having been read; clean and unmarked. Jacket shows edgewear, light rubbing/soiling; not price clipped. A collection of eighteen aviation stories, some by well known authors. Edited by the Chief Scout Librarian of the BSA.… Read more about this item

Chicago: Goldsmith. Blue Cloth. Good/Fair. Wear to edges, inscriptions on flyleafs, sound. Jackets are quite ragged, well worn with chipping. Titles included are: "DD Wins Her Wings", "DD and the Double Cousin", "DD and the Mystery Plane", and "DD Solves the Conway Case". Four volumes in the Dorothy Dixon Air Mystery Series, published in the 1930s. Extra… Read more about this item

New York: Hawthorn, 1961. First Edition . Gray Cloth. Very Good+/Good+. Richard Potts. Clean and unmarked. Jacket shows light wear/soiling. A Popular Mechanics Career Book. "Randy Moore discovers how space scientists are training astronauts and readying them to go to the Moon - and beyond".

New York: Avon Books, 1997. First Edition . Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. Slight lean, minimal soiling to fore-edge. Jacket shows moderate wear/rubbing, orig price sticker on back (Borders). Inscribed on the title page by Major General Sweeney to the previous owner; also, a gift inscription on title page from daughter to Dad. "An Eyewitness Account of America's Last… Read more about this item

New York: Donald I. Fine Books, 1997. First Edition . Hardcover. Very Good/Good+. Inscription inside front cover, light wear to edges, soiling to fore-edge, Jacket shows wear/rubbing, orig price sticker on back (Borders), notation on front flap. "The Air War in Europe as Told by the Men Who Fought It". Several B&W photos.

New York: Grosset & Dunlap, 1929. Burgundy Cloth. Very Good/No Jacket. William Heaslip. Light wear/soiling to covers, interior clean and unmarked. Sound copy.

New York: Hyperion, 1994. Blue Cloth. Very Good+/Good+. Inscription on flyleaf, otherwise a nice copy, clean and unmarked. Jacket shows light soiling, wear and creases to edges. The true story of a flying squadron that crash landed on Greenland. The planes were entombed in the ice for decades. Thoroughly illus with photos, most in color. Extra postage… Read more about this item