Bernt Balchen (34 results)

Paperback. Condition: Good. No Jacket. Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.

Hard Cover -. Condition: Good. No Jacket. First edition / 1st Printing. First Edition / First Printing. Good, no dust jacket, slight darkening to gold on top part of front cover, slight over-all wear to covers. 18.5 x 24cm. hard cover. xi, 339pp. B1787 Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾". Book.

Hardback. Brown simulated leather, gilt lettering on spine, 8vo, 259 pp., patterned endpapers. Autobiography of the famed Norwegian-American pilot and explorer who was the first person to fly over the South Pole. He later served as a Colonel in the U.S. Air Force in World War II. Bookplate (possible x-library) on front pastedown, no other marks in book, binding tight. Old sticker top of spine, slight soiling to covers. This is the Norwegian edition, also published in the United States as "Come North With Me". Book condition VG. Binding: HB.

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. [52p.] Name on first page, cover corners lightly worn. Collection of Norwegian, Swedish, Finnish, and American recipes from the community of the Sons of Norway, Bernt Balchen Lodge No. 46 of Anchorage, Alaska for entrees, vegetables, soups, bread, cakes, and cookies. Some classic recipes include meatballs, lefse, and fattigman. Unfortunately, no recipes for limpa or lutefisk. Scarce, none located in trade or institutions. Cover and divider sketches by Jorumm Hofseth. Plastic comb binding. (9"x6-1/8").

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: No Dust Jacket. First Edition. Red cloth boards clean and bright. Book is firm in binding, b&w illustrations throughout, colored maps decorated endpapers- of vast aerial network for hemisphere defense, The U. S. Army Air Forces. Book free of any markings, not ex-library. 340 pages Includes index. ; B&W Illustrations; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 340 pages.

HARDCOVER. 1959. First UK edition. A very good copy in lightly rubbed blue cloth boards which are sunfaded to the spine. Light age tanning to the edges of the text block. The contents are fine and unmarked.

1944. (Hardcover) Very good, no dust jacket. 127pp. Map endpapers, photographs. A previous owner's stamps on the front endpapers. Locale: ; Greenland; Greenland. (Military--Canada, Air Transport Command, Military--Canada, World War 2).

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. First UK edition, no inscriptions etc. Light wear to the unclipped jacket (now in protective film).

Hardcover. Condition: Very good. Dust Jacket Condition: very good. first edition. 6 x 9 in. Cloth boards. Condition is VERY GOOD ; covers very clean with minimal shelf wear. Binding tight. Upper text edge foxed, text unmarked. DJ is VERY GOOD ; not clipped ($3.00) very clean, edges have a few chips. Av. Stax.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: None. 1st Edition. Covers & Spine: both front and back boards showing minor scuffing and handling marks otherwise undamaged, some minor wear at the edges and corners, spine is intact and solid with some bumping at ends, top end of spine is faded. Binding: firm throughout. Pages & Markings: unstained, only markings are previous owner's name on inside cover (crossed out with black marker) and again opposite title page. All B&W photos in back in fine condition. Dust Jacket is missing. PLEASE NOTE: Due to this item weighing less than 500g, postage cost for international orders (i.e. outside of Australia) will be less than what is shown here. All items are protectively packaged, and a postal tracking number will be sent to all customers whose current email address is registered with AbeBooks.

Soft cover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. Private Library Liquidation. Pocket Book. Cover shows wear and slight staining. faded Discard stamp on front cover.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Fair. xviii, 214 p. Includes: illustrations, index. Signed by author. Inscribed by Bergaust. DJ has some wear and soiling, edge tears and chips. As visualized by Bernt Balchen. Foreword by Lt. Gen. James H. Doolittle. This work predicted supersonic airliner (1960), rocket landing on the moon (1970), unmanned aerial vehicles (1990), and Mars landing (2005). Got some of them fairly close.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First Edition. Inscribed by both authors on the ffep. 8vo. - over 7¾ in. - 9¾ in., 214pp. Minor shelfwear, light foxing to page edges, tight binding, foxing to endpapers, interior text clean. Dust jacket mildly worn on rear, front and spine clean, mild chipping to edges, in mylar cover. Very Good copy in Very Good dust jacket.

Hardcover. Condition: Fair. No Jacket. Missing dust jacket; Readable copy. Pages may have considerable notes/highlighting. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. Missing dust jacket; Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.

Cloth. Condition: Good+. No Jacket. Foreword by General H. H. Arnold. Contents: Fascinating account of the Second World War in Greenland. Part 1,Greenland Adventure; Part 2, The Long Wait; Postscript, Flight East, Life In the Greenland Ice Cap. Light blue cloth cover with faded white lettering to spine. Endpapers illustrated with maps. 127 Pages + section of B&W Photographs at the back. 200g, 7 1/2" Tall. Small strip clipped from very top of ffep. Rear free endpaper removed. No inscriptions except a penciled price on title page. Size: 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. 127 pages in very good condition. Pages are clean and unmarked with a section of black and white plates. Page edges are darkened. Bound in light blue cloth with dark blue titles. Faded on the spine and around the edges. Lightly scuffed on the boards. 1ST EDITION. VG/- -. Book.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. private library liquidation faded very good.

First Edition. First Edition. octavo, blue boards and black cloth in dust jacket. (xx), 214 pp. Harper & Brothers, Speculation on space flight and aeronautics at the start of the Space era. Illustrated. Foreword by Lt. Gen. James H. Doolittle. Bernt Balchen was a Norwegian pioneer polar aviator, navigator, aircraft mechanical engineer and military leader. A Norwegian native, he later became an American citizen and was a recipient of the Distinguished Flying Cross. Presentation copy, inscribed and signed by Balchen on the front endpaper, "To Jock & Jimmy, with appreciation of your faith and interest in the future and safety of flying and convertiplanes. Bernt 27 Nov 54. Army 20 Navy 27." Edgewear to jacket. octavo, blue boards and black cloth in dust jacket.

1st edition dust jacket Nice Copy small octavo 127pp., b/w plates, ep maps, Story of the Army Air Forces' battle for the vital Far Northeas.

Allhem, Malmö 1945. 205 sidor, inbunden. Rikligt med foton. Gott skick.

Printed Wrappers. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: No Jacket, As Issued. First Edition. 35 pages with 10 simple tunes for beginners. Very Good, prior owner name sticker front wrapper, name in ink bottom edge rear wrapper, and small dampstain bottom and top corners, not affecting text. SCARCE. Size: 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. Book.

Octavo, two-tone cloth with black spine and pale-teal boards, spine embossed with gilt lettering, xviii, 214 pp., eight double-sided black,and-white plates, illustrated throughout with black-and-white drawings and watercolour paintings, some diagrams and maps included. Spine ends and corners very slightly bumped, foxing on endpapers, some browning on edges of text block, top right corner of front free endpaper clipped, light wear and tear on edges of dust-jacket without loss of text; otherwise a near-fine copy with a very good dust-jacket. First edition. This fascinating volume details the futuristic (at the time) vision of aviation by Norwegian flier and arctic explorer Bernt Balchen, as told to aviation journalist and flyer Erik Bergaust. Among other things, Balchen imagines that in the fifty years following 1954 aircraft will be noiseless, flying from New York to Tokyo will take three hours, Air Force fighters will be able to take off and land vertically, and space travel will be possible. While some of these predictions have come true, others remain elusive. Included is a foreword by famous aviation pioneer Lieutenant General James H. Doolittle.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. GIFT QUALITY FIRST EDITION price clipped , as pictured Very good condition hard cover nice dust jacket gently read clean,311 pages , many Polar photos. He was a Norwegian pioneer polar aviator, navigator, aircraft mechanical engineer and military leader.

Condition: very good. 8vo pp.127. book.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. FIRST UK EDITION. Autobiography of a modern day Viking. 8vo.318 pages ,all plates correct. A personal adventure story , of a man who played in many of the most extraordinary feats of exploration this century has known . From his Atlantic flight with Byrd in 1927 to his fantastic wartime air operations in Greenland and his support of the Norwegian Resistance ,Balchen's life has been one of adventure and achievement.

Hardback. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First Edition; First Printing. In dust jacket; Hardback. Original 1958 Edition. First Edition as stated on the copyright page. Book is a tight sound unmarked copy in Very Good condition. Price clipped Dustjacket is in Very Good condition with slight edgewear. The dustjacket has been placed in a Brodart protective cover by us to protect it and it looks much better than described. . This does not affect the dustjacket in any way, as all taping is done on the outside of the protector.

hard cover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. 5th or later printing. New York:E. P. Dutton and Co. Inc. (1961). 5th printing. 318pp. Illustrated. Hardcover with dust jacket.  Blue boards lightly soiled and shelfworn with edges worn, to boards at one point along top edge. Edge points are sharp and page edges foxed. Internally, end pages age toned with author inscription to 1st free endpage, signed and dated. Some foxing is scattered throughout, usually adjacent to plates. The binding is tight with hinges intact. The dustjacket is lightly soiled and shelfworn with wear along edges (including several small chips/tears) and  folds. It is not price clipped. . Inscribed by author.

hardcover. Condition: Good. First Edition. First edition. Hardback. With dust jacket. Photograph available on request.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. 1st Edition. Octavo, 318pp. Blue cloth binding with gilt text to spine, a little faded and a little shelf wear to edges and corners, page edges are tanned but otherwise internally immaculate, no marks or inscriptions. D/J is pictorial, well shelf worn especially top edge, unclipped. Very Good.