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Published by Air Service Publishing Co., Washington, DC, 1926
Seller: Argyl Houser, Bookseller, Turlock, CA, U.S.A.
Magazine / Periodical
No Binding. Condition: Fair. No Jacket. Pages are clean and unmarked with very little toning. There is a chip in one page. Light soiling to the covers. The front cover is almost detached. Some chipping to the upper left corner of the front cover. Some light creases or bends in covers and pages. The magazine will be packed with a backing card, bubble-wrapped and shipped in a sturdy, flat box to ensure safe transit. This issue includes: "Airplane's Twenty-Second Birthday" (Tribute to the Wright Brothers, its inventors--A pleas for governmental recognition of their place in history" by Comdr. John Rodgers; "Anti-Aircraft Gunnery" (An Editorial) by C. deF. Chandler; "The Aerial Torpedo (Illustrated)" with an introduction by Co. William Mitchel by Lawrence Sperry; "The City that Would Fly" by Townsend Godsey; "The Sky of Europe is Alive with Planes (Illustrated)" (Of all civil aviation companies abroad, German Aero-Lloyd appears to be the largest and most successful) by Bettie Larimore; "Society Woman Makes Army Flying Suits (Illustrated)" (Mrs. Norman DeR. Whitehouse of New York has recently received her first contract from Army Air Service) by Howard E. Greene; "Colonial Air Transport Enters Commercial Field"; "Colonel William Mitchell Declared Guilty" by H. F. Ranney; "Flights of Fact and Fancy" (The First World Flight. A Review) by Thomas R. Reed; "New Engines for Light Airplanes to be Made in Quantities by the Wright Company Model Aeronautics (Illustrated)" by Paul Edward Garber; "Sole Damage--One Broken Prop (Illustrated)" by Robert McKnight; "President's Board Advocates Expansion of Civil Aviation" (Three Cabinet Assistants to deal with aeronautical problems, and two more brigadier generals are recommended by Morrow Committee--Air Unity Opposed--Mitchell Plan Rejected. This issue contains Committee's full report.); "Notes from the Air" (Including: Must be no competition between the Government and the industry, says President Calvin Coolidge: Burgess Field of Uniontown, Pa., now open, The Collier Trophy Committee will meet in January, Colonel Bouve addresses D. C. Chapter N.A.A., Schneider Cup Race to Norfolk in 1926, Personals, etc.).
Published by Catalyst,, Toronto,, 1968
Seller: Book Stage, Stratford, ON, Canada
Softcover. 40 pp, Plus: Michael Mitchell, Caleb Crabtree, Robert Joel Broda, Lawrence Gulston. Stapled illustrated card wraps. Marginal tanning, o/w v.g. copy.
Published by Bromer, Anne & David, Watertown, MA, 1979
Seller: Bromer Booksellers, Inc., ABAA, Boston, MA, U.S.A.
Signed
Hobbs, Janet (illustrator). 46pp. One of 150 copies. Signed by Darrell Hyder, the printer. With pen and ink illustrations by Janet Hobbs and an introduction by Herbert H. Hosmer, Jr. This is the text of the original manuscript, which was later shortened considerably. Bound by C. Allan Carpenter in marbled-paper boards with a paper label to the front cover. Some rubbing to exterior, else fine. (2 5/16 by 1 15/16 in.; 59 x 50 mm).
Published by Bromer, Anne & David, Watertown, MA, 1979
Seller: Bromer Booksellers, Inc., ABAA, Boston, MA, U.S.A.
Signed
Hobbs, Janet (illustrator). 46pp. One of 150 copies, signed by Darrell Hyder, the printer. With pen and ink illustrations by Janet Hobbs and an introduction by Herbert H. Hosmer, Jr. This is the text of the original manuscript, which was later shortened considerably. Bound by C. Allan Carpenter in marbled-paper boards with a paper label to the front cover. Some rubbing to exterior, else fine. (2 5/16 by 1 15/16; 59x50mm).
Published by Bromer, Anne & David, Watertown, Mass, 1979
Seller: Bromer Booksellers, Inc., ABAA, Boston, MA, U.S.A.
First Edition
Hobbs, Janet (illustrator). (20)pp. From an edition of 85 copies, only 50 of which were for sale, this is the publisher's copy. Printed by Darrell Hyder. This is the text of the first edition (1840), printed as a micro-miniature with a pictorial opening initial hand-calligraphed by Janet Hobbs. Bound by C. Allan Carpenter in marbled-paper boards with a paper label to the front cover. Fine. (Bradbury, p. 38; Bromer, pp. 28-35). (1 3/8 by 1; 34x25mm).
Published by Bromer, Anne & David, Watertown, MA, 1979
Seller: Bromer Booksellers, Inc., ABAA, Boston, MA, U.S.A.
First Edition
Hobbs, Janet (illustrator). (20)pp. One of 85 copies, only 50 of which were for sale. Printed by Darrell Hyder. This is the text of the first edition (1840), printed as a micro-miniature with a pictorial opening initial hand-calligraphed by Janet Hobbs. Bound by C. Allan Carpenter in marbled-paper boards with a paper label to the front cover. Fine. (Bradbury, p. 38; Bromer, pp. 28-35). (1 3/8 by 1; 34x25mm).
Published by The College Press, South Lancaster, MA, 1941
Seller: Brainerd Phillipson Rare Books, Holliston, MA, U.S.A.
Association Member: SNEAB
First Edition
A handsome little volume, in near-fine condition, measuring 7" x 5" and bound in finely woven blue cloth and stamped brightly in gilt on the front boards. With a gold braided rectangle around the title and author on the front boards. A splendid, crisp, clean copy with a line of drawings of blue Chicken Littles running across the bottom of the endpapers. Illustrated with drawings throughout the story of Chicken Little ; and with a chapter "All About John Greene Chandler" with plates illustrating Chandler's Paper Dolls and toys. With the stamped name and address of the previous owner, a Wellesley M.D. and some remnants of white paper to the front endpaper from the removal of a bookplate. In a fine original pictorial dust jacket with the price of $1.00 at the bottom of the rear inside flap. In addition there is the original waxy glassine over dust jacket which has some chipping and large pieces missing at the top of the spine ends and at the top right-hand edge of the front panel. With 15 lines of penclled notes on the rear endpaper about seeing an 1840 edition of Chicken Little in the rare book room of the Boston Public Library :"They seemed pleased to get it." and another original 1840 copy published by J. Reynolds in Roxbury, MA. A rather uncommon volume. Henny Penny, more commonly known in the United States asChicken Littleand sometimes asChicken Licken, is a Europeanfolk talewith a moral in the form of acumulative taleabout achickenwho believes that the world is coming to an end. The phrase"The sky is falling!"features prominently in the story, and has passed into the English language as a common idiom indicating ahystericalor mistaken belief that disaster is imminent. Similar stories go back more than 25 centuries;[1]it continues to be referred to in a variety of media. Once the story began to appear in the English language, the titles by which they went varied considerably and have continued to do so. John Greene Chandler (1815-1879), an illustrator and wood engraver fromPetersham, Massachusetts, published an illustrated children's book titledThe Remarkable Story of Chicken Littlein 1840.[11][12][13]In this American version of the story, the characters' names are Chicken Little, Hen-Pen, Duck-Luck, Goose-Loose, and Fox-Lox; Chicken Little is frightened by a leaf falling on her tail.[14] The first use of the name "Chicken Little" to "one who warns of or predicts calamity, especially without justification" recorded by theMerriam-WebsterDictionaryis in 1895,[19]but idiomatic use of the name significantly predates that attestation. In fact, this usage is recorded in the United States very soon after the publication of Chandler's illustrated children's book in 1840. Already, in 1842, a journal article about theGovernment of Haitireferred to "Chicken Little" in an offhand manner.[20]An "oration" delivered to the city of Boston onJuly 4, 1844, contains the passage:To hear their harangues on the eve of the election, one would suppose that the fable of Chicken Little was about to become a truth, and that the sky was actually falling. (Wikipedia) First edition with copyright date of 1941 by Herbert Hosmer; and no subsequent printings listed.