Books You Might Be Looking For?

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Jan,

Don't forget the 18% buyer's premium on top of the auction price for the LFC set. Based on the Gros signature, I'd guess it may go higher than the estimate. My set was in the library of John Monk Saunders of Wings fame.

The Doerflinger book is a good read. It's not rare, and often the copies you will find are inscribed. Doerflinger lived in Milwaukee for the latter part of his life, and signed a lot of books. I haven't read it in a while, bur recall it as a good read. I'll flip through it again tonight to refresh my memory.

I have Down in Flames but can't recall having read it. I'll try to page through it later, too.

RE: Double Decker C.666 and other Hamilton books, the catalogs in the back often had very nice, small pictures of other relevant Hamilton books, and are worth a look-through just to see some of the nice dust covers.

Dan

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Originally Posted by dpolglaze

Jan,

Don't forget the 18% buyer's premium on top of the auction price for the LFC set. Based on the Gros signature, I'd guess it may go higher than the estimate. My set was in the library of John Monk Saunders of Wings fame.

The Doerflinger book is a good read. It's not rare, and often the copies you will find are inscribed. Doerflinger lived in Milwaukee for the latter part of his life, and signed a lot of books. I haven't read it in a while, bur recall it as a good read. I'll flip through it again tonight to refresh my memory.

I have Down in Flames but can't recall having read it. I'll try to page through it later, too.

RE: Double Decker C.666 and other Hamilton books, the catalogs in the back often had very nice, small pictures of other relevant Hamilton books, and are worth a look-through just to see some of the nice dust covers.

Dan

I don't have any experience with these private auctions. Does that mean we won't get to see what this finally sells for? I'd sure be curious, that's for sure. I've never owned a copy of LFC but keep waiting to come upon a set at a yard sale or at the local flea market, ha ha ("...well, that's TWO books.. how about six dollars?"). Ah, a fellow can dream.

Yeah, I've seen the Doerflinger book come and go a few times on ebay now and assume I'll end up getting a copy eventually. it certainly looks good.

I've won a few books over the past couple weeks, but nothing too exotic:
Pure Luck (about Tommy Sopwith)
Another Whitehouse novel - Wings For The Chariots
Jon Guttman's Balloon Busting Aces (I put off buying the Ospreys for ages, but once I started realized that these are great)
The Aviator's Apprentice by Chris Davey - the first of a trilogy that looks to be a good read.

NEXT: Something that DOES look fairly exotic.....

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I believe I recently saw a more modern printing of this, but the original looks very cool. Bidding starts at $100


[B]SQUADRON 95, Harold Buckley, Obelisk Paris 1933, 1st ed[/b]
# Book Description: Paris: Obelisk Press, 1933. First edition. Royal 8vo. 227pp. A very unusual book for the Obelisk, being an intimate history of the 95th. Aero Squadron, The first American Flying Squadron to go to the front in the 1914-18 war and the unit with whom Quentin Roosevelt, the youngest son of President Theodor Roosevelt, lost his life. The 95th Squadron also has the distinction of being the first United States Military Aviation Unit ever to go into combat. The history also contains a facsimile of an amazing letter written by ERNST UDET, the former German Commander of the 4th Pursuit Squadron of the Pursuit Group led by Count Freiherr von Richthofen and his "Flying Circus". Udet's squadron engaged in several major air battles with the 95th Squadron. It would appear that Buckley was a friend of Kahane's and that Kahane printed the book as a favour. It includes a full list of all the members of the 95th. and the decorations they were awarded, but the book does not appear in Ford's bibliography of the Obelisk Press, 'Published in Paris'. Illustrated with photographs and five drawings by L.C. Holden, foreword by Captain Ernst Udet, a "former adversary". A Very good copy in original boards, with the front cover gilt embossed with the Squadrons unit symbol of a Kicking Mule. Five Very Good Illustrations by L. C. Holden and many pictures.

The auction listing is very nice, with lots of scans.

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Ok, there's nothing rare about this one, but if you haven't read it yet, you should. This is one of the better novels written on the subject. Starting at $2, it's very reasonable too!

In The Company of Eagles Book,Ernest Gann,WWI
In The Company of Eagles, by Ernest Gann. 247 pages, 5 3/4" x 8 1/2". Pub. Simon & Schuster. Light edge scuffing. Otherwise, very good condition. Shipping weight 1 lb. Can be shipped media.

Auctions for this one come up frequently, but I thought I'd post this one and remind you all what a fine read Gann's book is.

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Originally Posted by rainbase

I don't have any experience with these private auctions. Does that mean we won't get to see what this finally sells for? I'd sure be curious, that's for sure. I've never owned a copy of LFC but keep waiting to come upon a set at a yard sale or at the local flea market, ha ha ("...well, that's TWO books.. how about six dollars?"). Ah, a fellow can dream.

The final price should be up on eBay for 30 days. Philip Weiss does not publish prices realized, but you can inquire about a specific item and they will tell you.

I bought a set of LFC for $100 once, but $6 is going to be tough . Saw the bookseller listing, couldn't believe it wasn't a typo. 800 French Francs. I thought it was going to be 800 bucks, but it was correct.

Buckley signed a bunch of the original Obelisk release of Squadron 95. They come up on occasion.

Dan

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I would highly recommend this book, and i would think a range of 100-200 dollars is a fair price in my opinion. I bought my copy several years ago, on e of the signed copies , and have enjoyed picking it up and read sections from it even now.
Charles Woolley, who wrote a book on the 95th for Schiffer and whose father was in the 95th, had an interesting story about this book. Apparently, Harold Buckley convinced the other members of the 95th to give him a bunch of money, and he would write a memoir of the squadron. Whereupon, he took off and no one knew where he had gone and for awhile there was still no book,seems MR Buckley tok the money and lived a good life in a castle in Ireland for awhile: but was discovered and eventually made good on his promise to write a book.
THe book is a good one, and i find it interesting that the book was published in Paris, seems the city still had a draw to the American pilots/servicemen even after the war.
jim

[FliegerJG1]

Unsere Lufstreitkrafte 1914-1918

Another expensive item that occasionally appears on ebay. This listing ends Sept 14 and it does have a reserve.

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Here's another of the old ones. Decent starting bid: $9.99

1918 Book George Frederick Campbell WWI Pilot Avaition
Hard cover 232 page book "A Soldier of the Sky" by Captain George Frederick Campbell" of the Royal Flying Corps. His experieces during WWI, copyright 1918, Davis Printing Works. Several pages of photos of planes and other aviation related. Book has some light wear to cover, pages all good and clean with no rips, or abuse.

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Originally Posted by Bulldog90

I just came back from a trip to Canada and noticed several books in the stores that I had never seen before about WW1 aviation. A couple of them were by Billy Bishop's son, and while my girlfriend shopped I flipped through one of them about Canada's Air Hero's, and noticed a dozen mistaken claims right away. Like father like son they say!

Bulldog 90

Hey Bulldog; this is the book here. I'm not sure what they wanted in the bookstore, but this is offered at a $0.99 starting bid.

The Courage of the Early Morning: William Arthur Bishop
The Courage Of The Early Morning
A frank biography of Billy Bishop,
the great ace of World war I
By William Arthur Bishop

"William Avery Bishop survived more than one hundred and seventy air battles during World War I and was given official credit for shooting down seventy-two German aircraft. Experts on aerial warfare acknowledge that his relentless airfighting techniques and skills as a brilliant individualist and marksman were unique and his record unsurpassed. He was the first man in British military history to receive the Victoria Cross, the Distinguished Service Order, and the Military Cross in one ceremony."

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And while we're on the subject of Bishop; here are some more Canadians. I love this cover (and the illustrations inside. $5.99

1963 "KNIGHTS OF THE AIR" WWI CANADIAN ACES n DJ
Very good, very clean and structurally sound 1963 edition of "Knights of the Air: Canadian Aces of World War I" by John Norman Harris with illustrations by William Wheeler...."High above the mud and slaughter of the trenches, the little wood-and-fabric airplanes looped, rolled, banked , in mortal duel. Canadians never dreamt when they joined the army that they would ever leave the ground. Yet within 3 years Canadians had proved themselves masters of this new form of fighting. Some of the Canadian masters of the aerial dogfight included in this volume are "Barker" of Manitoba - incredibly daring hero who, with both legs and one arm shattered by enemy bullets, shot down 4 attackers, and "Collishaw" of Vancouver with his score of "60" and the most famous of all , Billy Bishop, with his score of 72. Book is 160 very clean tightly bound pages. Comes complete with bright and clean dust cover. Some edge wear. Published in 1963 by MacMillan, Toronto. Please see pictures. Thank you.