anthony h g fokker bruce gould (6 résultats)

Hardcover. Etat : Very Good. Hardcover. Red cloth over boards with gold lettering on spine. Covers toned, especially spine; lettering rubbed off almost entirely. Red topstain, deckled fore-edge. Binding sturdy. No date on title page. Copyright page dated 1931. 282 pages. Black and white plates throughout. Pages uniformly lightly toned; clean with no marks or tears. Overall very good condition. 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.

1st ed. thus card covers Very Good octavo 246pp., A rather worn copy. Ownership stamp & signature, & piece torn from half-title. A very good reading/reference copy only.

Hardcover. Etat : Very Good. Etat de la jaquette : Good. Dust jacket illustration by Carroll Shell / glossy B&W plates (illustrateur). 1st Edition. "Good" original jacket shows some chipping to top of spine and is missing a small, 5/8ths inch X inch-and-a-half (16 X 38 mm.) horizontal strip from top of jacket rear panel near the spine (just touching the "R" of "Fokker.") Not price clipped; original $3.00 price showing. Oddly, a preliminary page here, stating "Two hundred and fifteen copies of this special edition of 'Flying Dutchman' have been printed and bound and have been signed by Anthony H.G. Fokker. Of these, none is for sale," is hand-numbered "124" -- yet we can find NO author signature in this copy. Fokker's synchronized machine gun allowed pilots to shoot safely between their own propeller blades. Before the World War Russia, Italy, Holland and England all turned down his "inherently stable" monoplane. Two years later, England offered 2 million pounds to anyone who could come up with something to defeat Fokker's deadly triplane, his speedy D-7 biplane, and finally his sleek D-8 monoplane, called by English pilots "the flying razor." They should have listened. "It was not until I had invented the synchronized machine gun shooting through the propeller that war in the air became the deadly combat which developed the race of heroic airmen the world knows and honors," writes Mr. Fokker. It's sobering to note that, in Europe and North America a full century later, no private designer would likely be able to legally lay hands on a machine gun with which to develop any equivalent innovation. In the event, Fokker's welded steel airplanes were so far ahead of their time that the German government ordered his competitors to manufacture Fokker's designs on a royalty basis, while the British started calling their own plummeting planes "Fokker fodder," with Parliament asking why their own forces had not contracted to buy this Dutchman's designs. In 1926, when Commander Byrd overflew the North Pole, he did so . . . in a Fokker Tri-motor. An uncommon first edition in original jacket. 282 pp. Now reduced from $700.

FIRST EDITION. 8vo., tan clothbound hardback gilt; 282pp. b/w portrait frontis plus many other b/w illustrations. Previous owner's bookplate to front pastedown and ink inscription to ffep, library stamps to endpapers and occaionally to margins. Lacking ffep. First gather a little loose, pp255-258 detached but present. Foxing to edges, endpapers and lightly throughout, some wear to page edges, light wear to boards, spine faded and gilt letters dulled. A Good, Sound copy overall. No dust jacket. (Shelf 200) PLEASE NOTE: Buyer is responsible for any additional duties, taxes, or fees required by recipient's country.** Pictures available upon request.** Visit our homepage for our shop opening hours. Over 20,000 books in stock - come and browse. PayPal, credit and most debit cards welcome. Books posted worldwide. For any queries please contact us direct.

First Edition. First Edition. large octavo, red boards in pictorial dust jacket. (292)pp. Henry Holt and Company, Illustrated with 27 black and white photograps. Introduction by Col. E.V. Rickenbacker. Fokker's own account of his career from pioneer days to the post-war period. He built an airplane before ever seeing one and taught himself to fly. Before WWI was declared, Russia, Italy, Holland and England turned down his monoplane and Fokker sold the plane to Germany. He invented the synchronized machine gun which revolutionized aerial warfare. Fokker's designs for aircraft were consistently successful and his account of technical difficulties and German contracts dealings makes this an unusual story [Noffsinger 861]. World War I is covered in two chapters. An appendix lists Fokker's outstanding flights. Deckle edge. A very fine, clean copy with some small bites and tiny tears at the edge of dust jacket, mostly at the spine. One of the finest copies we have seen in over 50 years. large octavo, red boards in pictorial dust jacket.

Cloth. Etat : Collectible; Very Good. Etat de la jaquette : Fine. 1st. An unusually well-preserved copy of the uncommon 1931 1st edition --and in its striking, art deco-ish dustjacket. Solid and VG (with light rubbing to the spine's gilt-lettering) in a bright, price-intact, Near Fine dustjacket, with very light scuffing to the spine. Thick octavo, 282 pgs. Foreword by Col. Eddie Rickenbacker. Dramatic, fast-paced biography of the great German aviator and military pioneer.