Gunn Sheldon (2 results)

Stapled Softcover Wraps. Condition: Very Good. Baer, Freddie; Ferret; Schindler, Richard; Memmott, David; Ketterman-Feeney, D.S.; Zone, Joey; Ketterman, Kim; Reich, Arkady; Brown, S. Patrick (illustrator). First Edition. Includes 'Ballard's Anatomy,' an interview by Paul Di Filippo, 'Terminal Lunch' by Di Filippo, 'Synaptic Intrigue' by Richard Kadrey, 'Distant Fingers' by Elizabeth Hand, 'A Difference Dictionary' by Eileen Gunn and much else. Copiously illustrated. Light rusty marks around the staples and a four inch crease to the top corner of the back cover but otherwise unmarked.

Condition: Good. 2 vols.: [82]; [36] p. 18 x 34 and 17 x 34 cm. Mainly b&w photos, most labeled. Includes other items, such as correspondence, postcards, loose photos, news clippings, cartoons, air raid precautions, and two flying licences. One album black, the other brown. Moderate wear and soiling to covers. One page detached near end of second album. Another album with photocopies of what's contained in the others. Albums featuring the all-too-short career of pilot Sheldon H. F. Gunn before he was killed in an ariplane crash near Ville St. Laurent, Quebec, on May 20, 1942 at the age of 21. He and his wife Mary MacBride had been married only a few months. He had previously survived the sinking of the Athenia, a passenger liner of the Donaldson Atlantic Line, the first UK ship sunk by a German submarine in World War II. He is buried in his home town of North Bay. Photos and postcards include aircraft, aerial vews around North Bay and elsewhere, friends and family, airfields, scenes on board the Athenia and in "dear old England." Most aircraft identified, a boon to aviation buffs.