Colonel C V Glines (5 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. 1st Edition. Franklin Watts, Inc., NY. Glines selected numerous writings by various authors documenting polar flight. He covers both North and South Pole aviation with writings from 1909 through 1962. Glines includes authors such as Richard E. Byrd, John Toland, Captain Robert Scott, C.B. Eielson and Anne Morrow Lindbergh. Part of the Watts Aerospace Library. Very good copy of the first edition in a good dust jacket. The dust jacket has edge wear and partially sun stained spine. 289 pages.…

Cloth. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First Printing of New and Revised Ed. "The Story of the American Airman and the Force in Which He Serves." THE COMPACT HISTORY OF THE UNITED STATES AIR FORCE by Lt. Col. Carroll V. Glines, Jr., USAF. Hawthorn Books, copyright May 1973, New and Revised Edition. Hardcover with dustjacket (protected by plastic sleeve), 366 pages, solid good plus condition, dustjacket has tape closed tear. "Comprehensive and up-to-date, this compact history is an authoritative account of the rise of the United States Air Force . . . The excitement of the challenging years that brought men mastery of the air and our nation supremacy in war and peace is renewed by eyewitness reports of the great moments in aviation, from the first successful balloon ascension in 1783 to the latest developments on space exploration.". Colonel Glines, autdhor of numerous books on aviation, writes with the authority born of knowledge and experience. Now retired from the Air Force, and editor of Air Line Pilot magazine, his is former professor of air science and veteran of 6,000 hours of flying time in 35 different types of aircraft. …

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. New and Revised Edition. Solid tight binding. Very slight wear. Bookstore price stamp on front end paper, no other markings or blemishes. DJ has slight edge wear and is in a plastic sleeve.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. Private library liquidation. Gil Walker (illustrator).

1st edition chipped dust jacket Nice Copy octavo xi + 306pp., b/w plates, index, Foulois was instrumental in the making of US aviation. He cultivated Hermann Goering & Ernst Udet in post-WWI Berlin for espionage purposes. No man was ever more admired byn the pilots who served under him; no man was ever more roundly criticised by Washington bureaucrats. Nice copy in bright blue boards in a slightly chipped dust jacket. Scarce.…