roger hoyt (6 resultados)

Hardcover. Condición: Original red cloth, gilt. First Printing of the First Edition. Westport, Connecticut:: Meckler, 1992. As New condition. No remainder marks. No owner's name or bookplate. Bright, clean, square, tight, and unmarked. Fresh and crisp, obviously never read. Illustrated with a few photos. Compiled from interviews the author conducted in the 1970s with Roger Peckinpaugh, Waite Hoyt, Ed Wells, Eddie Onslow, Edd Roush, Carmen Hill, Ray Hayworth, Riggs Stephenson, and Walter Miller. Index. First Printing of the First Edition. Hardcover. Original red cloth, gilt/No Dust Jacket, as issued. 8vo. viii, 277pp.

Soft cover. Condición: Fine. Trade Sized Paperback. First Printing. First issue of a literary journal. Color Illustrated cover with some black/white interior illustrations. 123 pages. FINE. Not Read. Binding tight, without stress creases and square. No tears, creases or chips. Slight rubbing to covers. Not marked in any way and very clean, glossy and bright. All items carefully packaged and sent boxed.

Softcover. Condición: Very Good. Estado de la sobrecubierta: No Dust Jacket. This Scarce book is clean, solid and in great shape! This is a Signed softcover book with 229 pages including some illustrations. The binding is strong with all pages firmly attached. The author wrote a lengthy inscription and Signed the first end paper and copyright pages. The pages are clean with no soiling, writing, or tears. The copyright page shows 2012 as the published date. The green covers have a color illustration of The Lion, Dorothy and Toto. The covers are clean with some light curling of the front cover. This book looks and feels great! We always ship in a sturdy cardboard box!

SingleIssueMagazine. Condición: Very Good-. Vol. 1, no. 6. Pulp magazine. Short lived (6 issue) pulp of which this is the final issue. Edited by Robert O. Erisman. Cover art is uncredited. Includes "Blockbusters for Berlin" (novelette) by Norman A. Daniels; "When a fighting Yank Gets Silver Wings" (novelette) by Lieut. Jay D. Blaufox; "Make Every Bomb Count' (novelette) by Allan K. Echols; "Cockpit Cowboy" (novelette) by David Brandt; "The Black Ace" by James O. Godwin; "Jammed Gun Jinx" by Jerry Drake; "Crash-Land It, Coward!" by Roger Hoyt; "Wings of Hate" by Wayne Shipley; "Sky Terror" by Everett Meiklejohn; "Flying Workhorse" by Morse Chandler. Illustrated by George Dunsford Klein and D. Gantz. Tear p 18; tanning; standard wear and tear to wraps with mild stains and small losses; bane on front in pencil. Book.

Hardcover. Condición: Very Good. First Edition. 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 238 pages; [SIGNED] 1941 J. B. Lippincott Co. HC 1st edition. Snugly bound in original green cloth with titles stamped in relief to a yellow panel on spine. Contents clean and very neat, with no marks of any kind. Publisher's orange topstain remains bold and uniform. Illustrated with pictorial endpapers and numerous black-and-white photographs on glossy stock, documenting Toto's growth from a tiny infant to a powerful adult gorilla. Signed on the title page by Roger Conant, who contributes a substantial, nearly twenty-page introduction. At the time of publication, Conant was serving as Curator of the Philadelphia Zoo, and was already a leading figure in American herpetology and public zoological education. His extended Introduction lends not only scientific weight but institutional context to what is otherwise a quiet, personal accountdocumenting one of the more unusual episodes of primate domestication in mid-20th-century America. Uncommon. VG++.

Paperback. Condición: Good. First Edition. 126 pages. Many great black and white photos. Features: Stress Engineering; Jet-Assisted Takeoff; C-74 in full color; B-36; Air Power for Tomorrow; Dummies In! - Dummies Out! - wind tunnel research; The Curtiss Racers; Learn to Fly; Meet Your Equilibrium; The Inexhaustible Metal - Magnesium; Telemetering; Rocket Test Stands (by Willey Ley) - with photos; Li'l Cloud Sniffer; Many pages of great ads; and more. Moderate wear. Unmarked. Some age-toning to pages. A sound copy of this nice vintage issue.