Lyon Thoburn (75 results)

Soft cover. Condition: Good.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. Eleventh Edition. The standard in air navigation since 1935. Shelf wear to dust jacket. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

Paperback. Condition: Good. Good Condition. Repaired with book tape. Has a small amount of writing/highlighting. Five star seller - Buy with confidence.

Hard Cover. Condition: Very Good++. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good++. 11th Edition. Written to help students pass exams by providing a clear understanding of the principles involved in air navigation. 318 pages. Diagrams, charts, maps. Dust jacket has general light wear with a couple of small, mended tears and a chip along top edge at spine. Book is very nice. …

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fair. 11th Edition. worn and chipped dustjacket, prior owner's name inked on front end page.

Hard Cover. Condition: VG+. DJ VG-. Gilt titles on light blue cloth. 318pp. Dust jacket has minor rubs and is worn at top of spine, with a small tear on bottom front spine corner. Quite presentable within new Brodart sleeve. Size: Large Octavo.

Paperback. Condition: Good. U.S. Government Printing Office 1945 Good/ Some light creasing to cover, pages lightly tanned and unmarked. multi-page color map in envelope. illustrated throughout.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. Missing dust jacket; Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.

Soft Cover. Condition: Good. Cover is rubbed, lightly sunned with edgewear, has been signed by prior owner. Pages are clean, text has no markings, binding is sound. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Ex Libris.

Soft cover. Condition: Good. The Cover Is Moderately Worn. The Text Appears To Be Clean And Without Marks.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. No Jacket. Minimal shelfwear. Please note the image in this listing is a stock photo and may not match the covers of the actual item. Book.

Hardcover. Condition: Used - Acceptable. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. Dust jacket has shelf wear.

Soft cover. Soft Cover. Fair/No Jacket. Twelfth Edition 1975. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. 318 p. Charts; diagrams. Previous owner's name to inside front cover. Some highlighting to text. 1" stain to fore-edge. Soil to rear cover. Purpose of this book is to instruct pilots and navigators, and it has been prepared with full cooperation of the FAA, other government agencies, and many in the industry.…

Soft cover. Soft Cover. Fair/No Jacket. Fourth Edition. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. U. S. Department of Commerce Civil Aeronautics Administration Civil Aeronautics Bulletin No. 24. 245 p. Charts; diagrams. Stamps in ink to title page & front cover. Wear to cover, especially at spine; head & tail corners of front cover & first few pages dog-eared. Purpose of this book is to instruct pilots and navigators.…

Paperback. Condition: Fair. No Jacket. Readable copy. Pages may have considerable notes/highlighting. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.

HARDCOVER. Hardcover edition. 116pp, folded air traffic chart, smaller octavo in blue cloth. minor cover wear, light spine fade, tight binding, clean throughout, Very Good-.

Soft cover. Condition: Fair. No Jacket. Publication from the US Department of Commerce, Civil Aeronautics Administration. September 1940 publication. 245 pages, well illustrated. Cover has light edge wear/chips and is faded; spine edge is fragile; staples are rusted. Book.

Soft cover. Soft Cover. Fair/No Jacket. Third Edition. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. U. S. Department of Commerce Coast and Geodetic Survey Special Publication No. 197. 199 p. Charts; diagrams. Wear to cover, especially at spine; tears along rear joint 1" at head & 1/2" at tail. Previous owner's name to front cover. Purpose of this book is to instruct pilots and navigators.…

paperback. Condition: Fair. 12th Printing. 318 p., clean but with occasional underlining and a line of number is written on crumpled but not brittle t.p.; paper strong and only mildly age-toned; diagrams; binding firm; glossy yellow pictorial wrapper is rubbed corners with prominent crease across front panel; faint smudges on rear panel.…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. VG+, sound and clean save for previous owner's name inked to top of front fly leaf.

Softcover. Condition: Very Good+. September 1940, bulletin number 24. Supersedes publication number 197.; Octavo. Illustrated by Illustrated (illustrator).

Hardcover. Condition: VG. No Jacket. Third printing. 92 pp., Clean copy bound in blue boards. Minimal wear.

Cloth. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. Elementary Air Navigation (1944) — A Vital WWII Aviation Manual by Thoburn C. Lyon A Primary Artifact of World War II Pilot Training and Aerial Cartography Secure a fascinating piece of aviation history with this 1944 First Edition technical manual. Authored by Thoburn C. Lyon, a preeminent authority on cartography and navigation, this volume was a standard instructional text for the National Aeronautics Council during the height of the Allied flight training program in World War II. Collector Highlights: Authentic Wartime Manual: Published in New York in 1944, this book served as the literal "flight plan" for thousands of trainee pilots learning the high-stakes art of dead reckoning and celestial navigation. Expert Authorship: Thoburn C. Lyon's methods laid the groundwork for modern aerial navigation; his clear, practical approach made complex technical concepts accessible to the "citizen-soldiers" of the Greatest Generation. Historical Provenance: The front flyleaf and pastedown feature a previous owner's name stamp, providing a tangible link to the individuals who studied these pages during the 1940s. Condition & Binding: Binding: Housed in original Cloth boards. State: Very Good. The volume is remarkably well-preserved for a wartime technical text, maintaining a tight structure and clean interior. Format: 8vo (Octavo). An essential acquisition for collectors of WWII militaria, aviation history, or vintage technical manuals. [Store Loc. 2.3].…

Condition: Good. Good condition. Special Publication no. 197 (Reference, Manual, Navigation, Areronautics) A copy that has been read but remains intact. May contain markings such as bookplates, stamps, limited notes and highlighting, or a few light stains. Bundled media such as CDs, DVDs, floppy disks or access codes may not be included.…

Softcover. Condition: Very Good. Second edition. Softcover. Very good in wrappers. (Pages: 351) Spine browned.

Paperback. Condition: Good. First Thus. 128 pages, illustrated, appendix, bibliography, pages tanned, foxing to back cover, (Colportage Library 451).

Paperback. Condition: Very Good. 2nd Edition. B&W Illustrations; This is a trade paperback book with cloth covers and a glued spine. The book is in Very Good condition and was issued without a dust jacket. The spine ends and corners of the book covers have some light edge wear, bumping and nicking. The bottom front corner of the book cover has started to separate from the lining. There is one small nick / tear to the top front spine joint. The text pages are mostly clean and bright, but does have some light toning to the edges. The envelope at the rear of the book includes four maps and a key- all in clean, bright condition. "Air navigation is accomplished by various methods. The method or system that a pilot uses for navigating through today's airspace system will depend on the type of flight that will occur (VFR or IFR) , which navigation systems are installed on the aircraft, and which navigation systems are available in a certain area.". …

Softcover. Condition: Very Good. Later edition. Wrappers. 318pp. Very good with previous owner signature on the front pastedown, a slightly faded spine, and some minor rubbing on the rear panel.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Eleventh Edition of this clean and tight copy.

Soft Cover. Condition: Very Good ++. Trade paperback with stapled and glued binding, 199 pages including statistical Tables and 101 illustrative Figures (almost all black-and-white drawings), plus two coloured foldout maps;--- also includes a U. S. Department of Agriculture Weather Bureau Cloud Forms chart in fine condition (poster-sized chart of 20 black-and-white photographs of cloud formations with a description of each) in pocket envelope attached inside back cover;--- tiny bumps to corners, wear and fading along spine, ink signature dated "1940" on front cover, otherwise very clean and unmarked. See also our listings for Robert Buck's classic Weather Flying, and for T. Morris Longstreth's Understanding the Weather, or even John Hoyt's As the Pro Flies--- flying expertly, in a professional manner.…