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Waddington, David. [Winston S. Churchill]

Winston Churchill Signed Royal Air Force Portrait.

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Rare color transfer print of Winston Churchill in his Royal Air Force (RAF) uniform by David Waddington, one of five known examples produced. Boldly signed by Winston Churchill in the lower border in...

$28,000.00 Item Number: RRB-149619

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Greenlaw, Olga S

The Lady and the Tigers.

New York: E. P. Dutton, 1943.

First edition, early printing of this memoir from the official war diarist for the “Flying Tigers”. Octavo, original publisher’s orange cloth, cartographic endpapers, frontispiece of...

$975.00 Item Number: RRB-149143

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Chennault, Claire Lee; Robert Hotz [Editor]

Way of a Fighter: The Memoirs of Claire Lee Chennault.

Tucson, Arizona: James Thorvardson & Sons, 1991.

Limited edition of this autobiographical account of Chennault’s military career. Octavo, original green cloth, cartographic endpapers, illustrated with black and white photographs. Boldly signed on th...

$2,250.00 Item Number: RRB-149141

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Wolfe, Tom [Chuck Yeager and John Glenn]

The Right Stuff.

New York: Farrar, Straus, Giroux, 1979.

First edition of Wolfe’s classic work. Octavo, bound in full morocco by the Harcourt Bindery with gilt titles and tooling to the spine in five compartments within raised bands, gilt ruling to th...

Item Number: RRB-150389

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[Hill, Tex; Ken Jernstedt; Paul J. Greene; Robert T. Smith; Dick Rossi; Erik Shilling; Bob Layher; Ed Rector; Charlie Bond; Robert M. Smith; Edward F. Gallagher; Frank Losonsky; Rolland Richardson; Carl Quick; Al Kaelin]

Chennault’s Flying Tigers: A Commemorative History of the American Volunteer Group.

Minnesota: Flying Tigers 14th Air Force Association, Inc, 1982.

First edition of this detailed and richly illustrated tribute to American Volunteer Group’s pivotal role in early World War II air combat. Quarto, original blue boards with an inlay of a flying...

$2,800.00 Item Number: RRB-148756

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Sherrod, Robert

History of Marine Corps Aviation in World War II.

Washington: Combat Forces Press, 1952.

First edition of this authoritative account of U.S. Marine aviation in the Pacific Theater. Octavo, original publisher’s cloth with titles and the marine corps emblem stamped in blue on the spin...

$1,250.00 Item Number: RRB-148753

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Freeman, Roger A. [Gabby Gabreski; Robin Olds; Joseph Bennett; Walter Beckham; Steve Pisanos; William Allen; Lawrence Powell; Gerald Brown; Edwin Heller; Kit Carson; Urban Drew]

The Mighty Eighth: A History of the Units, Men and Machines of the US 8th Air Force.

London: Arms and Armour, 1991.

Early printing of this detailed and authoritative account of the Eighth Air Force in World War II. Quarto, original publisher’s cloth, illustrated with black and white photographs and maps. Bold...

Item Number: RRB-148757

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Saint-Exupery, Antoine de

Flight To Arras.

New York: Reynal & Hitchcock, 1942.

First edition of this classic memoir. Octavo, original cloth, illustrated endpapers. Boldly signed by Antoine de Saint-Exupery on the half-title page. Near fine in a near fine price-clipped dust jacke...

Item Number: RRB-150149

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Tibbets, Paul W

Return of the Enola Gay.

Columbus, Ohio: Mid Coast Marketing, 1998.

First edition of Tibbets’ account of the bombing of Hiroshima. Octavo, original cloth, illustrated with black and white photographs. Boldly signed beneath their respective image by Paul Tibbets,...

Item Number: RRB-148742

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Tibbets, Paul W

Paul Tibbets Signed B-29 Superfortress Enola Gay Model.

Philippines:, .

Rare limited edition B-29 Superfortress Enola Gay model on stand. Hand painted 1/72 scale model of the Enola Gay with a 23.5 inch wingspan and accompanied by four attachable propellors, each measuring...

$2,250.00 Item Number: RRB-148418

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Earhart, Amelia

The Fun of It.

New York: Brewer, Warren & Putnam, 1932.

First edition of Earhart’s account of her childhood, her fascination with aviation, and her life through her 1932 flight across the Atlantic. Octavo, original cloth, illustrated throughout, with...

$7,000.00 Item Number: RRB-149914

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Tibbets, Paul W

Paul Tibbets Signed Photograph.

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Rare black and white photograph of the pilot of the Enola Gay, Paul Tibbets. Signed and dated by Tibbets, “Paul Tibbets, Pilot 6 AUG 1945.” The entire piece measures 10 inches by 8 inches....

$750.00 Item Number: RRB-147884

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Sikorsky, Igor

The Story of the Winged-S: Late Developments and Recent Photographs of the Helicopter.

New York: Dodd, Meade & Company, 1958.

First edition, early printing of the autobiography of the Russian-American aviation pioneer and designer of the first viable American helicopter. Octavo, original cloth, frontispiece, illustrated with...

$975.00 Item Number: RRB-148067

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Lindbergh, Charles A

The Spirit of St. Louis.

New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, [1953].

Special slipcase edition of Lindbergh’s autobiographical account about the events leading up to and including his 1927 solo trans-Atlantic flight. Octavo, original gold half cloth, illustrated w...

Item Number: RRB-147646

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Lindbergh, Charles A

The Spirit of St. Louis.

New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1953.

First edition, early printing of Lindbergh’s autobiographical account about the events leading up to and including his 1927 solo trans-Atlantic flight. Octavo, original blue cloth, illustrated e...

Item Number: RRB-147812

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Sikorsky, Igor; Eddie Rickenbacker; James H. Doolittle; Alford J. Williams; Anthony Fokker; Charles E. Rosendahl; Sherman Fairchild; Roscoe Turner; Thomas Sopwith; George Stainforth; Richard Atcherley; Clyde Pangborn; Ruth Nichols; Glenn L. Martin; Hugh Herndon, Jr; Frank Hawks; William A. Bishop; Giuseppe Mario Bellanca

Aviator Autograph Collection.

:, 1935-36.

Autograph collection with signatures from eighteen of the world’s famous aviation pioneers and fighter pilots. Octodecimo, eighteen pages mounted on carbon paper, the collection includes: postca...

$2,800.00 Item Number: RRB-147210

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Earhart, Amelia

The Fun of It.

New York: Harcourt, Brace and Company, 1932.

Early printing of Earhart’s account of her childhood, her fascination with aviation, and her life through her 1932 flight across the Atlantic. Octavo, original cloth, illustrated throughout. Sig...

Item Number: RRB-147178

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Earhart, Amelia

20 Hrs. 40 Min. Our Flight in the Friendship: The American Girl, First Across the Atlantic by Air, Tells Her Story.

New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1928.

First edition of Earhart’s thrilling account of of her experience as a passenger aboard the Friendship, which made her the first woman to cross the Atlantic Ocean by air in 1928. Octavo, original publ...

Item Number: RRB-146638

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Lemon, Frank; [Orville Wright]

Orville Wright Signed Lithograph of The Wright Brothers ‘Strange Contraption’ Rises at Kitty Hawk, 1903.

:, 1928.

Lithograph of The Wright Brothers ‘Strange Contraption’ Rises at Kitty Hawk, 1903. Wright Aeronautical Corporation off-set color lithograph of a Frank Lemon watercolor painting honoring th...

$8,800.00 Item Number: RRB-146523

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The 56th Fighter Group In World War II.

Washington: Infantry Journal Press, 1948.

First edition of this authoritative record of the 56th Fighter Group’s achievements in the European Theater of Operations. Quarto, original publisher’s cloth, pictorial endpapers, illustra...

Item Number: RRB-146987

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