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Canadian Airlines International (CAI) Advertising Poster - Toronto (ADV105 7/87) - With Colour Illustration By Robet Genn

By: Canadian Airlines International (CAI), Robert Genn

Price: $149.95

Publisher: Canada, Canadian Airlines International: 1987

Seller ID: 359G4844

Binding: Paperback

Condition: Good

27.4" x 18.5" Vintage Canadian Airlines International advertising poster for their service to Toronto. Colour illustration by Robert Genn shows person in small sailboat in Lake Ontario with downtown Toronto in background. Illustration measures 17.6" x 17.8". Average wear. Pin hole in each corner. A lovely memento of Canadian Airlines and its Toronto service. Will be shipped in a sturdy mailing tube. Similar posters for other Canadian Airlines destinations available.
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Canadian Airlines International (CAI) Advertising Poster - Buenos Aires (Argentina) (ADV116 7/87) - With Colour Illustration By Stewart Sherwood

By: Canadian Airlines International (CAI), Stewart Sherwood

Price: $149.95

Publisher: Canada, Canadian Airlines International: 1987

Seller ID: 359G4843

Binding: Paperback

Condition: Good

27.4" x 18.5" Vintage Canadian Airlines International advertising poster for their service to Buenos Aires, Argentina. Colour illustration by Stewart Sherwood depicts charming (tango?) dance scene in park with capital building in background. Illustration measures 17.6" x 17.8". Average wear. Bits of clear tape at each top corner. Several short openings to periphery, the longest being 1.75" to left side of bottom edge. Possible faint doodling on female dancer's white dress and elsewhere - or perhaps it is the work of the artist? (additional photos available.) A lovely...
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Canadian Airlines International (CAI) Advertising Poster - Los Angeles (ADV122 6/87) - With Colour Illustration By Taka

By: Canadian Airlines International (CAI), Taka

Price: $149.95

Publisher: Canada, Canadian Airlines International: 1987

Seller ID: 359G4846

Binding: Paperback

Condition: Good

27.4" x 18.5" Vintage Canadian Airlines International advertising poster for their service to Los Angeles. Colour illustration by artist Taka shows female bicyclist passing fancy car and man in white cowboy hat. Illustration measures 17.6" x 17.8". Average wear. Small piece of clear tape to top and bottom left corners. Slight bit of loss to top edge at left corner. A lovely memento of Canadian Airlines and its Los Angeles service. Will be shipped in a sturdy mailing tube. Similar posters for other Canadian Airlines destinations available.
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Canadian Airlines International (CAI) Advertising Poster - Sao Paulo (Brazil) (ADV122 6/87) - With Colour Illustration By Jorge Veloso

By: Canadian Airlines International (CAI), Veloso, Jorge

Price: $199.95

Publisher: Canada, Canadian Airlines International: 1987

Seller ID: 359G4847

Binding: Paperback

Condition: Good

27.4" x 18.5" Vintage Canadian Airlines International advertising poster for their service to Sao Paulo, Brazil. Great colour illustration by artist Jorge Veloso features black man with cigarette and coffee playing acoustic guitar in coffee shop with high-rise office buildings and business people in background. Illustration measures 17.6" x 17.8". Average wear. Slight bit of loss to lower left corner. Pin holes at each corner and halfway down each side. Background colour may have originally been brown but appears to have mostly faded to pale green. A lovely memento of C...
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Banshees in the Royal Canadian Navy

By: Carl Mills; RCN Bansheeites

Price: $250.00

Publisher: Canada, Banshee Publication: 1991

Seller ID: 515H4327

ISBN: 096952000X

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good

096952000X Signed [Carl] and inscribed to a local military museum by author upon front free endpaper. 306, [14] pages. Index of Stories. General Index. Chronology. List of Abbreviations. Printed upon glossy stock. Profusely illustrated with colour and black and white photos. Author "took five years to research and produce this book. As most RCN photo negatives and files had been systematically destroyed, the majority of the 550 book stories evolved from interviews and correspondence with nearly 300 Bansheeites and the photos were borrowed from many personal collections." - dus...
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Collier's - The National Weekly (Magazine), September (Sept.) 3, 1927, Vol. 80, No. 10: Commander Richard E. Byrd on Aviaton Safety / John Erskine

By: Cary, Lucian; Byrd, Richard E.; Davenport, Walter; Perry, Lawrence; et al

Price: $299.95

Publisher: New York, P.F. Collier & Son Company: 1927

Seller ID: 417H2827

Binding: Single Issue Magazine

Condition: Good

46 pages. Features: Nice one-page illustrated ad for International Trucks; One-page Memeograph ad includes exquisitely detailed illustration of their machine; Follow the Swallow - fiction by Lucian Cary; It's Safe to Fly - photo illustrated article by Commander Richard E. Byrd, U.S.N.; The Private Life of novelist John Erskine; Big Business (fiction by Lawrence Perry); When They're Not Working - two pages of wonderful photos of notables recreating, including Bruce Barton, E. Phillips Oppenheim, H.C. Witwer, Charles M. Schwab, Sir Harry Lauder, Ty Cobb, H.I. Phillips, Mme. Schumann-Heink, Emil...
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The Saturday Evening Post, March 23, 1957 - Victor Borge / Operation Sharkbait / Preventing Premature Births

By: Case, Victoria; Ruhen, Olaf; Brimmer, Lenor & Kenneth; Mayse, Arthur; Yoder, Robert; Smith, Beverly; Hauser, Ernest; Libler, John; Borge, Victor; Blair, Col. Charles F. Jr.; Wolf, Bill; Von Rosenstiel, W.; Le May, Alan; Case, Robert

Price: $199.95

Publisher: USA, The Curtis Publishing Company: 1957

Seller ID: 357G2397

Binding: Paperback

Condition: Good

126 pages. Fiction: Problem Mother; The Face of Death; First Baby; The Forbidden Island; Kiowa Moon (part 2 of 7); The Golden Shadow (conclusion). Articles: How an Amblance Chaser Works - other people's accidents make him money; If a President Collapses - proposed solutions to the problem of what to do if/when a President falls ill; The Face of America - The Golden Triangle - large color photo of the Monongahela meeting the Allegheny River; We are on the Spot in Spain - Franco's dictatorship rests on a powder keg; Premature Births Can Be Prevented - Releasin is used to delay labor - with ph...
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Flying Empires: Short 'C' Class Empire Flying Boats

By: Cassidy, Brian

Price: $199.95

Publisher: Great Britain, Queens Parade P: 1996

Seller ID: 761H0171

ISBN: 0952929805

Binding: Paperback

Condition: Good

0952929805 210 pages. Index. Bibliography. Generously illustrated with detailed diagrams and reproductions of black and white photos. Chapters include: Ancestry; Names; Production; Operations; Maintenance; The Empire Air Mail Service; The Horseshoe Route. Clean and unmarked with light wear. A quality copy of this highly-informative work.
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River Boy at War

By: Chapman, J. K.

Price: $49.95

Publisher: Canada, Goose Lane Editions: 1985

Seller ID: 138A8911

ISBN: 0864920687

Binding: Paperback

Condition: Very Good

0864920687 103 pages. "Tells of the author's service as a navigator with the Royal Canadian Air Force, 415 Squadron, between 1940 and 1946. Clean, bright and unmarked with light wear. Nice copy.
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Pacific Aircraft Wrecks and Where to Find Them

By: Charles Darby

Price: $59.95

Publisher: Melbourne, Australia, Kookaburra Technical Publications: 1979

Seller ID: 517h4483

ISBN: 0858800357

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good

80 pages. Profusely illustrated with colour and black and white photos. Table of Aircraft Types and Locations. Map. Darby presents for the first time "the results of his first-hand inspection of nearly 2,000 aircraft wrecks and crash sites over a period of some 15 years, together with details of some of the many salvage operations in which he participated." - Dust jacket. Book clean, bright and unmarked with light wear. Light wear to dust jacket which is now preserved in archival-grade Brodart. A nice copy.
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Vertical Ascent: Adventures of a Helicopter Pilot

By: Charles Weir; Leonard Taylor

Price: $49.95

Publisher: Canada, Hancock House Pub Ltd: 1977

Seller ID: 761H0896

ISBN: 0919654762

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Good

0919654762 207 pages. Illustrated endpapers. Many reproductions of black and white photos. "Charles O. Weir's career has taken him to the Arctic lands of the Canadian North, to the outposts of Newfoundland and Labrador, to Strategic Air Command bases in Greenland, to New Zealand, and to the wonders of New Guinea." - from dust jacket. Average wear. Dust jacket now preserved in glossy new archival-grade Brodart. A sound copy.
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The Illustrated London News, May 16, 1936: Mussolini (Il Duce) Cover Photo

By: Chesterton, G. K.; Et al

Price: $295.00

Publisher: London, The Illustrated London News & Sketch Ltd.: 1936

Seller ID: 338H0999A

Binding: Single Issue Magazine

Condition: Good

Pages 843- 890. Features: Front cover photo portrait of Mussolini with King Victor Emmanuel of Italy, proclaimed Emperor of Abyssinia; Nice photo of Mrs. Amy Mollison, who made a record flight from Gravesend to the Cape of Good Hope; Photos of King Faruk returning to Cairo from England;M. Drouillet is arrested after gallant escapade in the impounded airplane of the Emperor of Abyssinia; Photo of first funeral service in an RAF plane, for aircraftman William Watkin; Photo of the car in which King Alexander and M. Barthou were assassinated being presented to Yugoslavia by France; Photo-illustrat...
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The Illustrated London News, June 24, 1933: Mysterious Royal Tomb of the Byzantine-Nubian Period

By: Chesterton, G.K.; Et al

Price: $199.95

Publisher: London, The Illustrated London News: 1933

Seller ID: 338H1007

Binding: Paperback

Condition: Good

Pages 919- 950. Features: Cover photo of magnificent jewel encrusted silver crown found in mysterious Royal tomb; Four pages of photos and text describe treasure from intact tombs of mysterious Nubian kings; One-page photo portrait of the Austrian Chancellor ("Little Napoleon") of his country, Dr. Dollfuss, sworn enemy of Nazis, in a London garden; photos of personalities of the week include Austrian diplomat Dr. Wasserbach, Miss Freya Stark, Dr. Habicht (Nazi state inspector for Austria), Sir Edward Grigg, Sir A. W. Renton, Prof. Raymond Moley, Sir Ernest Moir, and King Feisal of Iraq...
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Ocean Bridge: The History of Raf Ferry Command

By: Christie, Carl A.

Price: $99.95

Publisher: U.S.A., Univ of Toronto Pr: 1995

Seller ID: 665G3081

ISBN: 0802006388

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good

0802006388 458 pages. Footnotes. Index. Reproductions of black and white photos. "Chronicles an often overlooked contribution to Allied victory and aviation history. By war's end the ferry service, through its various incarnations, had created the basis for the network of international air routes and procedures that commercial travellers now take for granted." - from dust jacket. Unmarked with very light wear. Dust jacket now preserved in glossy new archival-grade cover. A lovely copy.
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BT 54 Basic Trainer Model Airplane

By: Chromatic Plastics Engineering Co.

Price: $49.95

Publisher: Eugene, OR, U.S.A., Double D Printing, Co.: 1954

Seller ID: 652H3914

Binding: Loose Leaf

Condition: Very Good

10 x 5.5 inches. Unopened/unassembled vintage model airplane kit which includes full directions. "Tough fiber, easy to build, rugged, realistic, safe, beautifully engineered." - front panel. Consists of cover page stapled over an inner sheet of blue material from which parts of the plane may be removed and assembled. Bears U.S.A.F. markings. Unmarked with moderate external wear. A delightful find for any vintage paper airplane aficionado.
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Helicopters: The British Columbia story

By: Corley-Smith, Peter

Price: $49.95

Publisher: British Columbia, Published in association with the British Columbia Provincial Museum: 1985

Seller ID: 647H0531

ISBN: 0969070357

Binding: Paperback

Condition: Good

0969070357 157 pages including index and bibliography. Illustrated in black and white and colour. "Many first-hand experiences bring this exciting and dramatic story to life. Extensively illustrated with vintage photographs." - from back cover of later printing. Average wear. Unmarked. Binding intact. A sound reading copy.
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10,000 hours: Reminiscences of a Helicopter Bush Pilot

By: Corley-Smith, Peter

Price: $149.95

Publisher: British Columbia, Sono Nis Press: 1985

Seller ID: 151H2156

ISBN: 0919203647

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Fair

0919203647 Signed and inscribed by author upon half-title page. 245 pages. "The warm, fascinating and humorous story of one man's career as a helicopter bush pilot in the Canadian North. From Northern Ontario to the Arctic Barrens to the misty fjords of the British Columbia coast, here is a flying adventure that is irresistible and enjoyable... Essential reading for those interested in the Canadian North and aviation history." - from dust jacket. Book unmarked with light wear. Several prominent coffee stains to fore-edge. Above-average wear to dust jacket which bears large coffee...
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Th Aeroplane (Magazine), Incorporating Aeronautical Engineering, September 2, 1949 - Special British Aircraft Industry Number (Vol. LXXVII. No. 1995)

By: Cowan, J.; Macdougall, Neil; Meacock, F.T.; Worcester, R.G.;

Price: $199.95

Publisher: London, Temple Press Ltd.: 1949

Seller ID: 301G3358

Binding: Paperback

Condition: Good

The special issue is extra large and contains 122 pages. Dozens of fantastic vintage photo-illustrated ads. Features: Fantastic Shorts one-page ad includes photos of their massive flying boats; Illustrated article on the first rocket motor built in Britain, the De Havilland Sprite; J.W. Dunne - Obituary; Rocket Fighters for Home Defense; Indian Ocean Survey - The first full story, told by J. Cowan, of a long-range survey flight from Australia to South Africa undertaiken by a Quantas Empire Airways' Lancastrian which left Sydney on November 14, 1948; Air Transport Affairs; Nice 4-page color a...
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Forgotten Pilots: A Story of the Air Transport Auxiliary

By: Curtis, Lettice

Price: $299.95

Publisher: U.K., Specialty Pr Pub & Wholesalers: 1985

Seller ID: 665G3704

ISBN: 0947750029

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good

0947750029 337 pages. Index. Reproductions of black and white photos. "The story of the Air Transport Auxilliary, a civilian organisation which, during the 1939-45 war, took over the task of ferrying RN and RAF aircraft from the factories to the airfields, thus releasing Service pilots for more active duties... The ATA employed men and a minority of women as pilots and flight engineers on an equal basis. Over a dozen nations including the United States were represented amonst its ranks." - from dust jacket. Clean, bright and unmarked with very light wear. Dust jacket now preserv...
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Canadian Pacific Air Lines: Its history and aircraft

By: D.M. Bain

Price: $69.95

Publisher: Canada, Kishorn: 1987

Seller ID: 761H1497

ISBN: 091948719X

Binding: Paperback

Condition: Good

091948719X 126 pages. Bibliography. Profusely illustrated with black and white reproductions of archival photos. Reproductions of historic maps and timetables. Oblong 11" x 8.5". "Details the history and aircraft of CP Air."- from Introduction. Unmarked with average wear. Binding intact. A sound copy of this informative reference.
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Category: Aviation