Frederick Mears (29 results)

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Trade Paperback. Condition: Good+. No Jacket. Karen Crittenden (illustrator). First Thus. Standard used condition. Reading copy or better. Pages 18-50 are inverted. Used Book.

Hard Cover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. Gloss pictorial boards are rubbed at corners and tips. Inside hinges weak. Pages are clean, text has no markings, binding is sound. Size: 4to - over 9¾" - 12" Tall.

Hardcover. Condition: UsedGood. Hardcover; fading and shelf wear to exterior; otherwise contents in good condition with clean text, firm binding.

Paperback. Condition: Good. No Jacket. Ex-Library copy with typical library marks and stamps. Shelf and handling wear to cover and binding, with general signs of previous use. Wear to covers. Secure packaging for safe delivery.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Very Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. Blue hardcover cloth binding is square and tight with minimal soiling to covers, Illustrated endpapers show map of Pacific and distances between major points. Clean and tight interior with no writing, tears or marks. 156 pages followed by publisher's note that states that shortly after completion of the book, the publishers were informed that Lieutenant Mears had been killed in the line of duty and had been posthumously awarded the Distinguished Flying Cross, which had been issued prior to his death but not received by him before he died. Size: 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall 1st Printing Language: ENG.

Hardcover 26x21. Condition: Gut. 545 Seiten altersentsprechend gebrauchtes gutes Exemplar, Einband leicht berieben/angestoßen, Inhalt ist gut erhalten ha1009643 Sprache: Englisch Gewicht in Gramm: 1500.

12Mo Softcover. Condition: Fair. 158pp. Text is clean on unmarked, uncreased natural pages. Spine is unbroken, textblock is square with bumped corners. Considerable overall shelf/timewear, coverwear, cover edgewear, foxing and spottage on covers, inside covers, textblock edges, full pageblush.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First Edition. Stated first edition, with wartime printing statement on d/j flap and copyright page. 8vo, xviii + 156pp. Illustrated with mapped endpapers. "Buy War Bonds" ad to rear panel of dustjacket. Hardcover, bound in original green cloth with pictorial dustjacket. Book is in very good plus condition. Firm binding and crisp, clean, interior. Slight evidence of small price ;label removed from front endpaper, otherwise no markings or signs of prior ownership. Minor shelf-wear or rubbing to extremities, otherwise fine. The d/j is price-clipped and in very good condition with some mild wear to edges. Now protected in a new clear Mylar wrapper.

hardback. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. 1st Edition. hardback, octavo, green cloth lettered blue to spine, published in the year following the authors death at Guadalcanal, this remains one of the most highly regarded accounts of naval life on board an American aircraft carrier where he served as a Torpedo Plane pilot. A tightly bound copy in a pictorial dust wrapper that has some loss at head and foot of spine, repaired to the reverse with cellotape and is now protected in a non-adhesive archival film sleeve, bookplate of previous ownership to the front free endpaper obscuring part of map and a small address label of a later owner to bottom leading corner of front pastedown else the text is clean and free of markings, maps to endpapers, xvi + 156pp, Scarce.

Mass Market Paperback. Condition: Good. Copyright 1944. First Bal-Hi printing: March 1967. Book is complete and intact with minor defects. Previous owners name written on the inside of the front cover in pencil. Page edges are orange. Light, very thin crease on backside of spine. Has some shelf wear and rubbing.

Mass Market Paperback. Condition: Used Very Good. Very old mass-market paperback, lots of wear and aging to covers and paper, damp stain on rear, text is entirely legible, no marks or writing, still tight and square.

Hardcover. Condition: Near fine. First Edition, First Printing. Octavo. 6.25 x 9.25 in. 86 pp. Profusely illustrated with reproductions of black & white photographs, diagrams, charts, etc. Near fine in original dark blue cloth, titles in gilt, with some minor discolorations and the foot of the interior hinge has cracked slightly. Published as part of "American Society of Civil Engineers Papers".

Mass market paperback. Condition: Good. First Bal-Hi Printing [stated]. 158, [2] pages. Stamp on top of the first page indication that this is from the library of John F. Lyman, noted naval historian and technical authority. In the firsthand story of a young American pilot who flew with the famous Torpedo Squadron Eight from the deck of the carrier USS Hornet (CV-8) in some of the great battles of the Pacific in World War II. This is how it was to fly and fight with the U. S. Navy's elite attack group, to strike at Japanese ships and planes in pitch battles, and to find your way back across hundreds of miles of open sea to the deck of your own carrier. Lieutenant Mears wrote this book immediately after the events he describes, and it remains the best book by any Navy pilot about the carrier war. Commissioned in October 1941, just two months before the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor (December 1941) the Hornet had a short but legendary career. In April of 1942 she delivered sixteen B-25 bombers, under the command of Lieutenant Colonel James H. Doolittle, for the first air strike on Japan. In May of 1942, Hornet took part in the Battle of the Coral Sea. One month later the carrier was in the Battle for Midway. Her luck ran out in Battle of the Santa Cruz Islands on October 26, 1942. Hornet was attacked by a Japanese planes who dropped three bombs on the carrier; she was the last American fleet carrier to be lost in action. On June 28, 1943, shortly after Lieutenant Mears had completed this book, his publishers were informed that he had been killed in the line of duty. Word was also received at that time that Lieutenant Frederick Mears had been posthumously awarded the Distinguished Flying Cross, which had been issued to him prior to his death but which had not been received by him before he died. From a review posted on-line: This book is a treasure that anyone wishing to know about carrier warfare in the Pacific during WW2 must have. The author was an actual pilot and member of the well-known Torpedo Squadron 8 from the Carrier Hornet. The fact that he was a relatively green, unknown pilot to Commander Waldron, the leader of that ill-fated group, undoubtedly saved his life at the Battle of Midway. Waldron would not allow him to make the first attack with the squadron. Anyone familiar with the battle knows that the first attack was also the last attack made by Waldron's group. His insight into Waldron and the other members of Torpedo 8 as well as his personal views on life aboard an aircraft carrier at war makes for stirring, emotional reading. Unfortunately for the author, Lt. Frederick Mears, he survived Midway only to lose his life in the fighting around Guadalcanal. May their memories never be forgotten.

HARDCOVER. Condition: Very Good. 1st edition. Stated First Edition. 156pp, map endpapers, small octavo in green cloth. light wear to boards yet clean, light spine fade, tight binding, owner to title page, text clean.

Mass Market Paperback. Condition: Near Fine. 1st Thus. Ballantine U2848.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. No Jacket. 1st. 1st ed. stated. 157p. "Battle action with an American torpedo plane pilot". Green cloth. Period gift inscription. Fine Copy.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. 1st. 1st ed. 157p. "Battle action with an American torpedo plane pilot". Price clipped. Fine/Near Fine Copy.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. NAP. 157p. "Battle action with an American torpedo plane pilot". In mylar. Owner's name on flyleaf. Jacket priced. Fine/Near Fine Copy.

Cloth. Condition: Near fine. Dust Jacket Condition: near fine. First edition of Carrier Combat by Lieutenant Frederick Mears. (illustrator). First Edition, First Printing. Octavo, xvi, 156pp. Green cloth, title in blue on spine. Illustrated endpapers. Stated "First Edition" on copyright page. Covers slightly bowed, a near fine example. In the publisher's dust jacket, $2.00 retail price on front flap, sunning to spine, a touch of wear to corners. A vibrant example.

4to. 86 silver print photographs, sized 6.25 x 8.25 in., nearly all w/ photographer's imprint w/in negative at lower fore-edge, as well as caption, negative number, and AEC, some w/ occasional pencil annotations on verso, all preserved in mylar sleeves (occasional creasing at corners, a couple w/ slight loss at corners in the small blank margin). Recent 3-ring clamshell binder, an excellent set of photos, with all retaining bright strong contrast. This outstanding photo archive provides not only some of the earliest photographs of Anchorage, Alaska Territory, but also this immense railroad project first authorized by the US Congress in 1912. The few existing privately-run railroads operating in Alaska at the time, including the Alaska Northern Railway, and the Tanana Valley Railroad primarily fulfilled the needs of the mining companies carrying resources to sea ports, and very little allowance was made for passenger traffic, and it was impossible to travel by rail from Ship's Creek at the Cook Inlet north to Fairbanks. Through an April, 1915 executive order, President Wilson directed that the newly created Alaska Engineering Commission construct a railroad along the surveyed "Western Route" from Seward, or Portage Bay, along the Turnagain & Knik Arms of Cook Inlet, North through the Suitna Valley, and then follow the Nenana River until it joined the Tanana, with the intent it would connect eventually to Fairbanks. Employing discarded surplus railroad equipment from the Panama Canal Railroad project, and under the direction of engineer Mears, who had worked on both the Panama Canal and Great Northern Railroads, the tiny tent city of Ship's Creek swelled to 5500 people within two years and was officially labeled by the Post Office as "Anchorage." Photos included here reveal the barren original landscape of Ship's Creek with one of the photos showing the steam launches "Alaska" & "Seagull" who carried cargo and passengers from ships offshore. In addition, there are views of the construction of the immense AEC Railway machine shop by Sept., 1916, as well as the newly completed first Railroad Depot in Anchorage, with the progression of buildings erected beyond. These early views of the fast developing project portray the Commissary, Hospital, Bunkhouses, finished machine shop, interiors of the powder house for blasting, along with a view of the AEC's photo studio, and the completed electrical power house. Early street views of the nascent city are quite scarce, and one of particular interest shows Fourth Ave. looking East, with newly built stores and homes, built along both sides of the roadway stretching into the distance. Brutal working conditions continually interfered with the pace of the project, with one of the images showing the AEC's "Electric Thawing Machine," on a sled, whie others depict piles of snow, work camps in snow, and even sternwheeler and docks trapped in an ice flow in March, 1917. A couple of the photographs feature the sternwheeler SS Omineca underway, which had been originally constructed in 1909 for the Grand Trunk Railway, running the Skeena River from 1909-1912, and powered by the original SS Caledonia's engines. By the end of 1916, 60 miles of track had been laid, 100 miles were graded, and right-of-way cleared for 230 miles, with photos in this archive showing AEC Construction camps at various mile markers, blasting activity, and track laying. At the same time they rehabilitated the bankrupt Alaska Northern Railroad tracks, and by Oct. 24, 1917 the first AEC Railway train reached the Chickaloon coal mines 74 miles North of Anchorage. The railroad would actually not be finished until 1923 when the Tanana River Bridge was completed, and last 57 miles of track to Fairbank converted to standard gauge. Photos also show the Anchorage Baseball Field, which featured games for the Cook Inlet Baseball League, composed at the time of Matanuska, Anchorage, and Turnagain Arm teams. There's also a very fine series of the Decoration Day parade held May 30, 1917 depicting many of the main streets and businesses in the background. In addition, several photographs show the ocean docks completed which allowed ships to directly dock at Anchorage, rather than lightering passengers and cargo to shore prior to 1917. Hunt (1866-1917) originally worked as a California optician, before trekking to Valdez, Alaska as a gold rush prospector, but quickly established himself as a photographer, opening his studio, and documenting Valdez, and development of the region. He would bring his wife and children to Alaska by 1907. He later secured work as one of the AEC's official photographers shooting some of the early survey work by 1914, and through the project until suffering a heart attack Oct. 14, 1917 in Seward, AK. Hunt's son, A.O. Hunt also worked as an assistant photographer for the AEC. A few of these images appear as negatives in the Alaska State Library Historical Collections, with a couple shown in their Digital Archives, and some appear in the Alaska Engineering Commission archive at the U of W, Collect. No. PH0495, but the bulk of that collection features photographs by James McPherson, H.G. Kaiser, and A.J. Johnson who were the other official photographers on the project; See: Phinney S. Hunt Photographs of Alaska, 1902-1909, Photographs in and around Valdez and Sitka, Alaska, University of Washington, Special Collections; Phinney S. Hunt Obituary, Alaska Railroad Record, Vol. I, No. 49 (Oct. 16, 1917), p. 389.

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no binding. Condition: good. First Edition. Original Printed patent disbound with printed front blue wrapper present but not the back wrapper (both often lacking in early patents) About 27cm by 18cm some wear and tear due to the disbinding.

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