Paladwr press mclean va (24 risultati)

Hardcover. Condizione: Very Good. Condizione sovraccoperta: Very Good. First Edition. VERY GOOD CONDITION IN VERY GOOD UNCLIPT. DUST JACKET.book has "June 1997 FJK-Santa Cruz, ca" tp.else CLEAN, SOLID, BRIGHT; GOLD SPINE TITLES ON DARK BLUE CLOTH HARD COVERS.WHITE ENDPAPERS.3X3" AUTHOR PHOTOS TO BOTH RICH BLUEDUST COVER PANELS.; 322pg pages; vivid chronology of how Juan Trippe fashioned a global network, starting with a 90-mile route; it is also a portrait of two people: an industry leader & his wife, companion & confidante.WAS FOR MANY DECADES OUR ONLY INTERNATIONAL COMMERCIAL AIRLINE.MOST POWERFUL COMPANIES IN THE U.S.". Illustrated by Photo Section (illustratore).…

Cloth. Condizione: Fine. Condizione sovraccoperta: Very Good. 1st Edition. Dark blue cloth, lettered in silver foil, oblong format. As issued. Dust jacket shows shallow loss along a portion of top front edge and small hole on upper spine panel, now in mylar. Inscribed (personalized) on title page, "With all good wishes," signed by author (full signature), dated 20 July 2010, Washington D.C. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Mike Machat (illustratore). Signed by Author(s). Book. …

Hardcover. Condizione: Near Fine. Condizione sovraccoperta: Very Good+. First Edition; First Printing. Color Photographs, maps, diagrams; Oblong 4to 11" - 13" tall; 64 pages; 1997 Paladwr Press. Oversize oblong format HC/DJ. 1st edition, 1st printing. Snugly bound in bright, crisp pictorial dust jacket. Light shelf wear to edges and corners of dust jacket. Contents clean and bright. Illustrated throughout with color photographs, maps, and diagrams. NF/VG+.…

Hardcover. Condizione: Near Fine. Near Fine. First Edition. B&W Photographs; Large 8vo 9" - 10" tall; 262 pages; 2000 Paladwr Press. HC/DJ. First edition. Bright tight and fresh in crisp edged and uniformly bright pictorial dust jacket. Contents clean and bright. Illustrated with b&w photographs. NF/NF. …

Hardcover. Condizione: Near Fine. Condizione sovraccoperta: Near Fine. 1st Edition. Stated First Edition. No additional printings indicated. Gift inscription on free end paper. No wear. T12.

Cloth Hardcover. Condizione: Near Fine. Condizione sovraccoperta: Near Fine. First Editon. Minor bump at top and bottom of spine, elsewise a fine, bright, clean, tight copy sans other flaws. INSCRIBED and SIGNED by the author on the title page: To Trudy Pacuy(?), Who is such an important player in the history of aviation. Best wishes Valerie Lester April, 1999". Also, LAID-IN: A handwritten May 18, 1999 letter to Trudy, signed by the author. 282 pages. "Fasten Your Seat Belts!" is the first history of an airline to be told from the viewpoint of the cabin crew.Through hundreds of interviews Valerie Lester has encouraged Pan Am's flight attendants to recount their personal, dramatic, tragic, comic, and heroic stories, many of which deserve to take an honored place in the annals of air transport history." PROLIFICALLY ILLUSTRATED in archival black-and-white photography with accompanying descriptive captions. LE6. Inscribed and Signed By Author.…

Hardcover. Condizione: Very Good. Condizione sovraccoperta: Very Good. 1st Edition. Signed and inscribed by the author. Book comes with two letters from the author and several newspaper clippings. Signed by Author(s).

Hardcover. Condizione: Very Good. Condizione sovraccoperta: Very Good. Second Printing. Bottom of spine very slightly bumped. Daly, Jerry (illustratore).

HC. 64pp ISBN 1888962011 NOTE - small closed tear on dustjacket. very good w/good dustjacket (hardcover) see note. B&W and color illustrations (illustratore).

Hardcover. Condizione: Very Good. Oversized hardcover with dust jacket. Bound with dark green cloth over boards, gold lettering on spine. Binding is tight and secure. Pictorial DJ is clean and free of wear, wrapped in protective mylar. Pages are clean, crisp, and bright. Printed in full-color. 64 pages. Illustrated by Mike Machat. Copyright page dated 1997. Stated First Printing. Signed by author and illustrator on half-title page, in blue and black ink respectively, inscribed to Chris Sterling. A very good copy. This is an oversized book, so extra shipping will be necessary for priority or international shipping. This volume comes from the Aviation collection of Prof. Chris Sterling. Sterling spent his lifetime teaching, writing, and collecting books on civil and military aviation. We are proud to house his Aviation collection, part of the extensive library which is his legacy. Please email with questions or to request photos. Note: if there is a photo beside this listing, it's a STOCK photo that ABE put there (for reasons that we cannot understand or control) and might not match this actual book. Signed by Author(s).…

Hardcover. Condizione: As New. Condizione sovraccoperta: Near Fine. First U.S. Edition, 1997. Hardcover in blue cloth with gilt spine lettering and Paladwr device, in the original pictorial dust jacket. xiv, 572 pp., extensively illustrated with historical photographs, route maps, charts, and airline genealogies; bibliography and index. The copyright page states that the work was first published in Great Britain in 1997 by Putnam Aeronautical Books and that this edition was published and distributed in the United States and Canada by Paladwr Press. Contemporary listings likewise identify the Paladwr issue as the First U.S. Edition, produced in the same year as the Putnam British first edition. An unusually substantial history of Asian commercial aviation, covering the development of airlines from the pioneering services of the 1920s through the jet age. Davies organizes the book geographically and historically across forty chapters, including Imperial and postwar India, Pakistan, Afghanistan, Nepal, Bhutan, Sri Lanka, Malaysia, Singapore, Indonesia, Thailand, Vietnam, Cambodia, Laos, Hong Kong and Macao, the Philippines, China, Japan, Korea and Mongolia. The numerous hand-drawn route maps are particularly useful, documenting changing networks such as Merpati Nusantara in 1977, successive Chinese airline systems, and Japan Air Lines' international network. The Smithsonian Libraries catalogue the work specifically under both commercial aeronautics history and airline history. Like New / Near Fine dust jacket. The book itself is exceptionally fresh: blue cloth clean and bright, gilt crisp, binding square and tight, and pages clean and unmarked, with virtually no evidence of use observed. The original dust jacket is Near Fine, bright and complete, with only very slight handling/edge wear and a small amount of creasing at the spine ends. Jacket is unclipped with the original $65 price. An especially attractive copy of a fairly hefty aviation reference work. R. E. G. (Ronald Edward George) Davies was particularly well positioned to produce this book: by the time it appeared he had spent decades researching commercial aviation and had served since 1983 as Air Transport Curator at the Smithsonian's National Air and Space Museum. Google Books describes Airlines of Asia as the third installment following his histories of U.S. and Latin American airlines, and the book's research reportedly involved travel throughout much of Asia and interviews with people involved in operating its airlines. There is also a nice visual-authorship detail here. Many of the maps are signed "REGD": Davies wasn't simply compiling text around commercially supplied graphics; his own hand-drawn maps form part of the book's historical documentation. The jacket takes a different approach. Its rear flap explicitly credits the cover illustration to Anthony Cowland, describing his original painting as a Boeing 777 of China Southern Airlines on final approach to runway 13 at Hong Kong. That image is especially evocative because Davies' foreword discusses the famously demanding approach to Hong Kong's then-current Kai Tak airport while anticipating its replacement by the new Chek Lap Kok airport. The jacket therefore captures the aviation world at almost exactly the moment documented by the book. Cover illustration by Anthony Cowland (illustratore).…

Hardcover. Condizione: As New. Condizione sovraccoperta: Near Fine. 1st Edition. Hardcover in bright red cloth with gilt spine lettering and Paladwr Press device, in the original pictorial dust jacket retaining the $30.00 printed price. Foreword and maps by noted airline historian R. E. G. Davies; edited by J. Scott-Mandeville; typesetting/layout by Spot Color. xi, 339 pp., extensively illustrated with historic photographs, advertisements, route maps, fleet information, statistics, and index. The Smithsonian Libraries catalogues the work at xi + 339 pages and specifically classifies it under Pacific Southwest Airlines history. Kissel was unusually well placed to write the story. As his jacket biography records, he joined PSA in 1968 as Director of Public Relations, six years after founder Kenneth Friedkin's death, and worked closely with subsequent senior management. The resulting history follows PSA from Friedkin's postwar beginnings through its colorful California growth, famous "smiling" aircraft and flight-attendant culture, expansion and deregulation, and eventual absorption into USAir. The book is much more substantial than a nostalgic pictorial: it includes eight specially prepared route maps, detailed fleet tables with registrations, manufacturer serial numbers, delivery dates and dispositions, financial/passenger statistics, and an extensive index. Its usefulness as a reference is borne out by the San Diego Air & Space Museum, which names Kissel's book among the published resources complementing its archival Pacific Southwest Airlines Collection. Like New / Near Fine dust jacket. Book is exceptionally fresh: bright, clean red cloth, crisp gilt, square boards, tight binding, and clean, bright pages with no observed ownership marks, writing, or significant wear. The original jacket remains bright and glossy with strong color and only very minor handling/edge wear, principally a small touch of wear/creasing at the upper rear corner; no significant chips or tears. An unusually attractive copy. The copyright page settles this very nicely: it explicitly states "Second Printing", copyright and publication 2002. There are two particularly nice collecting angles here. First, R. E. G. Davies (1921-2011) was considerably more than a contributor of a ceremonial foreword: he was one of the important historians of commercial aviation, and here he also supplied the route maps. The book's map section traces PSA's network from its 1949 pioneer route through the final 1988 network, while the appendices document individual aircraft down to registration and serial number. That makes this a useful reference work for airline and aircraft historians as well as a corporate history. Second, the book has become something of a source document for PSA history. The independent PSA History Page explicitly lists Kissel's book among its principal sources, while the San Diego Air & Space Museum cites it alongside its archival PSA collection. The Second Printing designation also tells us something useful bibliographically: Paladwr evidently returned the title to press, suggesting that the initial printing found enough of an audience among aviation enthusiasts to warrant another run. …

Hardcover. Condizione: Fine. Condizione sovraccoperta: Fine. First Edition. The aircraft are beautifully illustrated, with details for each individual craft. 108 pages + vi prelims. Illustrated throughout with colour & b/w photographs, drawings and maps. Colour maps to the endpapers. Blue cloth boards in jacket. Every book is sent in a rigid cardboard posting box. Size: 22 cm x 29 Cm. Ian Marshall and Edmund Miller (illustratore).…

Hardcover. Condizione: Very Good. Photos; illus., 9 x 11.25", cloth, 64pp with index, a nice, fresh copy in a lightly edge-worn dustjacket. FIRST EDITION. With printed letter from author/publisher, and photocopied catalogue from the publisher.

Hardcover. Condizione: Near Fine. Condizione sovraccoperta: Near Fine. 1st Edition. xi, 148pp., b/w illustrations, colour maps, appendix, bibliography, sources. Minor foxing to top and fore edge else Fine. Dustjacket lightly rubbed.(BH) 4/2026.

Hardcover. Condizione: Very Good. Oversized hardcover with dust jacket. Bound with dark blue cloth over boards, gold lettering on spine. Binding is tight and secure. DJ is clean with minimal wear, wrapped in protective mylar. Pages are clean, crisp, and bright. Printed in B&W. 572 pages. Copyright page dated 1997. Signed by author in blue ink on half-title page, inscribed "To: Chris Sterling, Who wrote the first pages of text in this book, and who, appropriately, receives the first copy off the press. In appreciation of much encouragement and support." A very good copy. This is an oversized book, so extra shipping will be necessary for priority or international shipping. This volume comes from the Aviation collection of Prof. Chris Sterling. Sterling spent his lifetime teaching, writing, and collecting books on civil and military aviation. We are proud to house his Aviation collection, part of the extensive library which is his legacy. Please email with questions or to request photos. Note: If there is a photo beside this listing, it is a STOCK photo that ABE put there (for reasons that we cannot understand or control) and might not match this actual book. Signed by Author(s).…

Hardcover. Condizione: Fine. Condizione sovraccoperta: Fine. Reprint of 1984. 698p. Photos. Maps. Heavy. Jacket priced. Fine/Fine copy. Book.

Hardcover. Condizione: Very Good. Condizione sovraccoperta: Very Good. First Edition. Burgundy cloth with gilt lettering to spine. Map endpapers. xxviii, 207 pp. Bibliography. Index. Signed by Warren. Minor bump to upper corners. Contents clean and tight.

Hardcover. Condizione: Near Fine. Near Fine. 1st Edition; 1st Printing. B&W Illustrations; SIGNED EDITION. This copy has been signed by the author on the half title page. This book is in Near Fine condition and has a Near Fine dust jacket. The book and its contents are in clean, bright condition. The text pages are clean and bright. The dust jacket is crisp and clean. "The story like the vital wartime link itself, stretches from the shores of the United States, down to South America, across the Atlantic, Africa, the Middle East, and on to India and finally across the forbidding, often deadly "roof of the world" the Himalayas to China. There was nothing commonplace about any of the adventures Culbert and Dawson so excellently document. There was certainly danger at times, but things to laugh at as well, as Pan American's secret wartime operations sent Americans around the world. The book is excellently illustrated with both rare photographs and publisher Ron Davies' superb maps. " (from PanAm) ; Signed by One Author. …

Hardcover. Condizione: Very Good. Hardcover in unclipped dust jacket with light wear to spine foot. Boards are bumped at spine foot. Pages are clean and text is clear. AD. Used.

Hardcover. Condizione: Fine. Condizione sovraccoperta: Near Fine. 1st. 199pp.; HB seagreen w/gilt; fine condition w/clean,tight pgs. DJ green w/white-photocover; slight rub. Pan America's building of the airport and hotel on Wake Island. illus. signed by editor/daughter. Signed by Author(s).

Hardcover. Condizione: Very Good. Oversized hardcover with dust jacket. Bound with blue cloth over boards, gold lettering on spine. Binding is tight and secure. Pictorial DJ is clean and free of wear, wrapped in protective mylar. Pages are clean, crisp, and bright. Printed in full-color. 90 pages. Copyright page dated 2008. Stated First Printing. Text in English and Spanish. The author, R.E.G. Davies, was writer who specialized in aviation history and this was his personal copy; it includes various related ephemera as well as some of his original artwork for the book. Signed by Davies in black ink on title page, inscribed "To: Chris Sterling who, as always, appreciates the work that goes into these pictorials. With the familiar wishes, Enjoy!" A very good copy. This is an oversized book, so extra shipping will be necessary for priority or international shipping. This volume comes from the Aviation collection of Prof. Chris Sterling. Sterling spent his lifetime teaching, writing, and collecting books on civil and military aviation. We are proud to house his Aviation collection, part of the extensive library which is his legacy. Please email with questions or to request photos. Note: if there is a photo beside this listing, it's a STOCK photo that ABE put there (for reasons that we cannot understand or control) and might not match this actual book. Signed by Author(s). …

1st Edition. Hb in Dw 90pp colour illustrations and maps A FINE/FINE Copy.

Hardcover. Condizione: Fine. Condizione sovraccoperta: Fine. Stated 1st Ed. First history of an airline to be told from the viewpoint of its cabin crew, from the heroism of the 1947 crash in the Syrian desert to the siege at Karachi as well as tales of the first stewards & their experiences during World War II. Illustrated with B&W photographs. SIGNED, inscribed & dated by the Author on title page. Aviation, Pan Am, Signed. Signed by Author(s).…