Bobrow Carl J (24 results)

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Condition: VG+/VG- (see notes). 1st US. large 8vo. 223pp. Top edge soiled. Box cutter slice, 2" mid-front of DJ, interior tape. repaired.

HARDCOVER. 1st edition. 223pp, quarto. tight binding, clean throughout, clean boards and stamps, crisp pages, Near Fine clean and glossy with mild edge wear, Very Good+.

First Edition. Very good cloth copy in a good if somewhat edge-nicked and dust-dulled dust-wrapper, now mylar-sleeved. Remains quite well-preserved overall. Physical description: 225 p.; 26 cm. Notes: Includes bibliography and index. Translation of: Russkie vozdushnye bogatyri. Subjects: Sikorsky, Igor I. (Igor Ivan) 1889-1972; Aerospace engineering Soviet Union ; Biography History; Aeronautical engineers Soviet Union ; Biography; Ilia Muromets (Bomber); Bombers Soviet Union History; Biography; History - Post 1903; Aeronautical engineers Russia ; Biography; Soviet Union Aeronautical engineering Sikorsky Igor I. (Igor Ivan) 1889-1972. 1 Kg. …

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Signed by Sergei Sikorsky (Igor's son); Von Hardesty; and Bobrow. 223 pages, illustrated, orange boards, gilt printing to the spine. Former owner address label on the top edge of the front free endpaper. Otherwise, Very Good in a slightly edge chipped dust jacket. ; 223 pages. …

Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. Some light wear to covers and spine, mainly edges and corners, corners a little bumped and worn, top and bottom of spine bumped and a little worn, internally in good condition, pages crisp and clear.

First Edition. Very good cloth copy in a good if somewhat edge-nicked and dust-dulled dust-wrapper, now mylar-sleeved. Remains quite well-preserved overall. Physical description: 225 p.; 26 cm. Notes: Includes bibliography and index. Translation of: Russkie vozdushnye bogatyri. Subjects: Sikorsky, Igor I. (Igor Ivan) 1889-1972; Aerospace engineering Soviet Union ; Biography History; Aeronautical engineers Soviet Union ; Biography; Ilia Muromets (Bomber); Bombers Soviet Union History; Biography; History - Post 1903; Aeronautical engineers Russia ; Biography; Soviet Union Aeronautical engineering Sikorsky Igor I. (Igor Ivan) 1889-1972. 1 Kg. …

Translated edition. Fine cloth copy in a very good, slightly edge-nicked and dust-dulled dust-wrapper, now mylar-sleeved. Remains particularly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and strong. Physical description: 225p; 22cm; illus. Notes: Includes bibliography and index.Translation of: Russkie vozdushnye bogatyri.Subjects: Sikorsky, Igor I. (Igor Ivan) 1889-1972.Sikorsky, Igor Ivan 1889-1972. Sikorsky, Igor Ivan 1889-1972. Sikorsky, Igor.Aerospace engineering Soviet Union ; Biography History. Aeronautical engineers Soviet Union ; Biography. Ilia Muromets (Bomber). Bombers Soviet Union History. BiographyHistory - Post 1903Aeronautical engineers Russia ; Biography.Soviet Union Aeronautical engineering Sikorsky Igor I. (Igor Ivan) 1889-1972Soviet Union Aeronautical engineering Sikorsky Igor I (Igor Ivan) 1889-1972 Biographies 1 Kg. …

1st edition, hardback, 4to, 223pp, illustrated, clean and sound, no inscriptions, Very Good / Good dustwrapper. wrapper edges rubbed and spine faded. ISBN: 1853100129.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. First Edition. ISBN 9780874742749. Hardcover copy in near fine condition with near fine dustjacket. First Edition. Dustjacket included. M4-3 3.

Translated edition. Fine cloth copy in a very good, slightly edge-nicked and dust-dulled dust-wrapper, now mylar-sleeved. Remains particularly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and strong. Physical description: 225p; 22cm; illus. Notes: Includes bibliography and index.Translation of: Russkie vozdushnye bogatyri.Subjects: Sikorsky, Igor I. (Igor Ivan) 1889-1972.Sikorsky, Igor Ivan 1889-1972. Sikorsky, Igor Ivan 1889-1972. Sikorsky, Igor.Aerospace engineering Soviet Union ; Biography History. Aeronautical engineers Soviet Union ; Biography. Ilia Muromets (Bomber). Bombers Soviet Union History. BiographyHistory - Post 1903Aeronautical engineers Russia ; Biography.Soviet Union Aeronautical engineering Sikorsky Igor I. (Igor Ivan) 1889-1972Soviet Union Aeronautical engineering Sikorsky Igor I (Igor Ivan) 1889-1972 Biographies 1 Kg. …

First Printing in English. First Printing in English. small quarto, orange cloth in pictorial dust jacket. (224)pp. Smithsonian Institution, Translated by Von Hardesty. Profusely illustrated with photographs, maps and line drawings. An important volume of aviation history. Corners bumped, text blocked a bit warped, but still a very nice copy. Jacket not clipped. small quarto, orange cloth in pictorial dust jacket.…

Hardcover. Condition: New. Dust Jacket Condition: As New. 1st Edition. This copy is in new, unmarked condition bound in tan cloth covered boards with bright gilt titling to the spine. This copy is bright, tight, white and square. The price clipped dust wrapper is summed to the spine but still in as new condition. International postal rates are calculated on a book weighing 1 Kilo, in cases where the book weighs more than 1 Kilo increased postal rates will be quoted, where the book weighs less then postage will be reduced accordingly. Igor Sikorsky: The Russian Years by K. N. Finne is a richly detailed biography that chronicles the formative period of one of aviation's great pioneers—before his emigration to the United States and his legendary work with helicopters. The book centers on Sikorsky's early life and career in Imperial Russia, particularly his groundbreaking work in fixed-wing aircraft and multi-engine bombers during World War I. It highlights his development of the Il'ya Muromets, one of the world's first four-engine bombers, which became a symbol of Russian aeronautical ambition. Finne situates Sikorsky's achievements within the broader sweep of Russian aviation history, the technical challenges of the time, and the political upheaval that ultimately led to Sikorsky's departure following the Russian Revolution. Ref M 5.…

Cloth. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Poor. Sikorsky's giant aircraft. pp223. Illus. DW in archival sleeve, chip, and spine sunned.

Hardback. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First edition. 1st thus 1988. Slightly better than very good condition in an almost very good dustwrapper. Edited by Bobrow and Hardesty, translated and adapted by Hardesty. Brown cloth with gilt title to spine. B/w photos. Wrapper is edge-creased with 1" tear to top of spine; other smaller nicks. Packaged with care and promptly dispatched.…

hardcover. Condition: New. Brand new gift quality hardcover in pictorial boards. E42 Please email for photos. Larger books or sets may require additional shipping charges. Books sent via US Postal. Finnegan, Bridget (illustrator).

First Printing in English. First Printing in English. small quarto, orange cloth in pictorial dust jacket. (224)pp. Smithsonian Institution, Translated by Von Hardesty. Profusely illustrated with photographs, maps and line drawings. An important volume of aviation history. Fine copy. Jacket not clipped. small quarto, orange cloth in pictorial dust jacket.…

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Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. First English printing signed by Igor, Sergei and Nickolai (sons) Sikorsky as well as Carl J. Bobrow (editor. Book is clean tight and bright jacket shows light shelfwear. Please email for photos. Larger books or sets may require additional shipping charges. Books sent via US Postal. Signed by Other.…

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paperback. Condition: New. NEW. SHIPS FROM MULTIPLE LOCATIONS. Finnegan, Bridget (illustrator). book.

Much has been written about early aviation, and many are familiar with Igor Sikorsky's American-made seaplanes and helicopters. During the Golden Age of Flight, Sikorsky was a close friend of Charles Lindbergh and a pioneer aviation industrialist. He had a profound and enduring impact on the development of American aviation. Less familiar to us, however, are Sikorsky's Russian years, beginning in Kiev in 1910, when as a young inventor he designed his first airplane. For the next decade, spanning the turbulent years of World War I and the Russian Revolution, Sikorsky designed a series of aircraft. By the time he emigrated to the West in 1918, he had established himself as one of Europe's preeminent aircraft designers. K.N. Finne's memoir, available for the first time in English translation, provides the most comprehensive and authoritative documentation to date of this obscure period. Drawings, maps, original photographs, appendices, and an epilogue by Igor Sikorsky's son Sergei bring to light significant information about the development of the world's first heavy bomber - the Il'ya Muromets. This behemoth, with its enclosed cockpit and heated cabins, could stay aloft for hours, cruising at sixty-five miles per hour with as many as sixteen passengers. On the eve of World War I, the Il'ya Muromets made an epic sixteen-hundred-mile round-trip flight from St. Petersburg (now Leningrad) to Kiev. During the war, the Russians manufactured more than seventy of these multi-engined aircraft and deployed them in a special squadron at the front for bombing and reconnaissance missions. Finne, a friend and admirer of Sikorsky's prior to the Russian Revolution, wrote this firsthand account in 1930 from exile in Yugoslavia. As a flight surgeon with the squadron of Flying Ships in the Imperial Russian Air Force, Finne had been in a unique position to record Sikorsky's major aeronautical achievements. Although neither historian nor professional writer, Finne has produced a compelling record. This adapted English-language edition has not only made that record available to English-speaking aerohistorians, military historians, flying enthusiasts, and general readers, but has also filled an important gap in our knowledge of aviation history. Contents: Preface, by Carl J. Bobrow Introduction, by Von Hardesty Preface, by K. N. Finne One - The Early Years Two - An Epic Flight Three - The Great War Four - The Establishment of the EVK Five - The EVK in Action Six - The Expansion of the EVK Seven - A Cruel Fate Eight - The 1917 Revolution Epilogue, by Sergei Sikorsky Appendixes One - Three View Drawings Two - The Il'ya Muromets Three - The Finne Reports Four - Sikorsky Aircraft Data Tables Five - EVK and R-BVZ Personnel Six - IM and EVK Data Table Bibliography Index 223 p. many photos and maps book very good condition, dust jacket faded at spine and the edges Hardcover with dust jacket, large format.…

hardcover. Condition: New. In shrink wrap. Looks like an interesting title.