George Kauffman (126 results)

Hardback. Condition: Very Good. History will mark the twentieth century as the age that brought forth the revolution of air travel, and few played a more integral role in realizing its possibilities than Sanford B. Kauffman. For more than forty years, he served at the elbow of Juan Terry Trippe, Pan American World Airways' founder. Pan Am became Kauffman's life.An eyewitness to the growth of history's most famous airline, he saw it all. From his beginning as an assistant to Andre Priester, the crusty Dutch technical genius behind Pan Am's early rise, to his eventual vice-presidency for engineering, Kauffman's career spanned the great bulk of commercial aviation history. Though neither a pilot nor an engineer, he was precisely the sort of manager Juan Trippe was looking for: young, educated, urbane, knowledgeable in foreign languages and the wider world. Kauffman was, in short, an old-fashioned generalist among technical specialists. His invaluable broader view made Kauffman key to Pan Am's glamorous ascent from the romantic era of gracious flying boats with their elite passengers to the advent of no-nonsense jumbo jets and mass-market travel.This is the story of one exceptional man, his fascinating life, and the romance of a by-gone era that lives through his words.…

Hardcover. Condition: Fair. With dust jacket. The item might be beaten up but readable. May contain markings or highlighting, as well as stains, bent corners, or any other major defect, but the text is not obscured in any way.

Hardback. Condition: Very Good. History will mark the twentieth century as the age that brought forth the revolution of air travel, and few played a more integral role in realizing its possibilities than Sanford B. Kauffman. For more than forty years, he served at the elbow of Juan Terry Trippe, Pan American World Airways' founder. Pan Am became Kauffman's life.An eyewitness to the growth of history's most famous airline, he saw it all. From his beginning as an assistant to Andre Priester, the crusty Dutch technical genius behind Pan Am's early rise, to his eventual vice-presidency for engineering, Kauffman's career spanned the great bulk of commercial aviation history. Though neither a pilot nor an engineer, he was precisely the sort of manager Juan Trippe was looking for: young, educated, urbane, knowledgeable in foreign languages and the wider world. Kauffman was, in short, an old-fashioned generalist among technical specialists. His invaluable broader view made Kauffman key to Pan Am's glamorous ascent from the romantic era of gracious flying boats with their elite passengers to the advent of no-nonsense jumbo jets and mass-market travel.This is the story of one exceptional man, his fascinating life, and the romance of a by-gone era that lives through his words.…

Hard Cover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Hardcover; in very good condition.

Condition: Good. 1ST. Pages intact with minimal writing/highlighting. The binding may be loose and creased. Dust jackets/supplements are not included. Stock photo provided. Product includes identifying sticker. Better World Books: Buy Books. Do Good.

Condition: Very Good. 1ST. Former library copy. Pages intact with possible writing/highlighting. Binding strong with minor wear. Dust jackets/supplements may not be included. Includes library markings. Stock photo provided. Product includes identifying sticker. Better World Books: Buy Books. Do Good.…

Condition: good. A copy that has been read, remains in good condition. All pages are intact, and the cover is intact. The spine and cover show signs of wear. Pages can include notes and highlighting and show signs of wear, and the copy can include "From the library of" labels or previous owner inscriptions. 100% GUARANTEE! Shipped with delivery confirmation, if you're not satisfied with purchase please return item! Ships via media mail.…

Cloth. Condition: Like New. No Jacket. Color illustrations on orange paper. George Kauffman (illustrator).

Paperback. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. May have limited writing in cover pages. Pages are unmarked. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. 181 pp., Illus, Red Hardback, Fine & Crisp in VG DJ (in Protective Plastiic cover) 1st ed.

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Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. Scratch on jacket back. Kauffman, George (illustrator).

Hard Cover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Fair. Cover shows edgewear. Library pocket in back. DJ lightly soiled and edge tears. George Kauffman (illustrator).

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Near Fine dust. Third Printing. Book is in NF condition with owner's stamp to inner board, trace edge wear noted else a bright and solid copy. Dust jacket is in NF condition with small ding with light creasing to head of spine/rear cover else bright, intact and whole. ARN W.01; 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.…

Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Good glossy pictorial hard cover. A Hallmark Pop-Up Book. 1/2 inch tear lower spine back. Of eight spreads, only moveable missing is on Davy Crockett page, o/w all in working order. Unpaginated, undated. Juvenile. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Kauffman, George (illustrator). …

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Near Fine. First Thus. An excellent copy with light edgewear and owner's inscription on ffep. Contains numerous beautiful illustrations. Kauffman, George (illustrator). Book.

Hardcover. Condition: Fair. No Jacket. Color illustration on cover. Color illustrations. No publishing date indicated. Most pop-ups in good condition. Only two pull tabs don't work. Top part of the John Henry scene missing. Ends of spine slightly worn. George Kauffman (illustrator).

gebundene Ausgabe. Condition: Gut. 181 Seiten; Der Erhaltungszustand des hier angebotenen Werks ist trotz seiner Bibliotheksnutzung sehr sauber und kann entsprechende Merkmale aufweisen (Rückenschild, Instituts-Stempel.). In ENGLISCHER Sprache. Sprache: Englisch Gewicht in Gramm: 505.

Hardcover. Condition: As New. No Jacket. Pages are clean and are not marred by notes or folds of any kind. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.

Soft cover. Condition: Fine. No Jacket. 1st Edition. 18 pages, oversize, map, biblio. zerox copies by the author and stapled.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. 1st Edition. ix, 661 pp. Original cloth. Xlib: ghost of label removed from spine; ink stamp on front and rear flyleaves; remains of pouch removed from rear pastedown; remains of barcode remopved from rear pastedown (but there are not any library markings on the title page!). Asidfe from the library markings, Good. First Edition.…

Condition: As New. Unread book in perfect condition.

Softcover. Condition: Very Good-. First Edition. Some foxing on wrapper; otherwise very good.

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. 15 pages, Very good.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Near Fine. First Thus. An excellent copy with light edgewear and owner's inscription on ffep. Contains numerous beautiful illustrations. Kauffman, George (illustrator). Book.

Soft cover. Condition: Fine. No Jacket. 1st Edition. 8 pages, oversize, A handy listing of RECRUITING IN PENNSYLVANIA 1861 - 1865included. Stapled soft covers.

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. First Printing - First Thus. 608 pp. Trade paperback format. Edge and corner wear with minor creasing on the front hinge and spine; no interior markings. This anthology contains: Pretend Dinners by W. P. Kinsella; Levitation by Cynthia Ozick; Jean Rhys: A Remembrance by David Plante; The Otter by Seamus Heaney; Melancholy Divorcee by Sherod Santos; I Remember Galileo by Gerald Stern; Column Beda by Gerard Shyne; Institutional Control of Interpretation by Frank Kermode; Wish Book by Bo Ball; Young Women at Chartres by James Wright; Of Living Belfry and Rampart: On American Literary Magazines Since 1950 by Michael Anania; Marathon of Marmalade by George Hitchcock; Mennonite Farm Wife by Janet Kauffman; One Spring by David Bromige; Some Food We Could Not Eat: Gift Exchange and the Imagination by Lewis Hyde; A Suitcase Strapped with a Rope by Charles Simic; Temple Near Quang Tri Not, on the Map by Bruce Weigl; Sweet Talk by Stephanie Vaughn; Wrapped Minds by David Perkins; Heart of the Garfish by Kathy Callaway; By the Pool by Allen Grossman; Blue Wine by John Hollander; Tranquillity Base by Asa Baber; The Literature of Awe by David Bosworth; Trinc: Praises II by Thomas McGrath; Faith by Ellen Wilbur; The Caribbean Writer and Exile by Jan Carew; Portrait of the Artist with Li Po by Charles Wright; I Was Taught Three by Jorie Graham; Amsterdam Street Scene 1972 by Raphael Rudnik; The Girl Who Loved Horses by Elizabeth Spencer; Codex White Blizzard by Ed Sanders; Breath by Heather McHugh; Giant Steps by John Taggart; Michael at Sixteen Months by Al Young; My Vegetable Love by Barbara Grossman; The Shark and the Bureaucrat by Vlada Bulatovic-Vib; Stones by Michael Blumenthal; The Infinite Passion of Expectation by Gina Berriault; How St Peter Got Bald by Romulus Linney; The Chicago Odyssey by Jim Barnes; The Tortoise by Irving Feldman; On the Big Wind by David Madden; Song: So Often So Long I Have Thought by Hayden Carruth; Story by Patricia Zelver; Josefa Kankovska by Barbara Watkins; The Death of Love: A Satanic Essay in Mobius Form (excerpt) by Richard Vine; Idolatry by Carol Muske; The Poets' Encyclopedia (selections) by Andrei Codrescu and Marvin Bell; The Pears by Pamela Stewart; Scene from the Homefront by Sara Vogan; For Johannes Bobrowski by Sandra McPherson; Showdown by Michael Bondoli; Farming by Handsome Lake - transcribed by Joseph Bruchac; Out and Down Pattern by William Kloefkorn; Eiron Eyes by William Harmon; Whisper Song by David Wagoner; Two Lives by H. E. Francis; The Air Between Two Deserts by Marea Gordett; The Students of Snow by Jane Flanders; The Only Poem by Robert Penn Warren; and The Cold in Middle Latitudes by John Engels. Size: 8vo. Book.…

Condition: New.

Condition: Fine. Near Fine. 1st ed. in sl edge rubbed, dj. SIGNED BY ILLUSTRATOR on title page.; HB, sm octavo; 60 pages.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. Very good with very good dust jacket. Dust jacket is faded at spine tips and is bumped along top and bottom edges with a one inch tear at top back edge and a 1/2 inch tear at top front edge. Title page is creased. 242 pages with index and illustrations.…