Matthews Birch (78 results)

Soft cover. Condition: Good. 6pp extract, printed in double columns, illustrated with 1 drawing, salvaged from a damaged issue of The Century Magazine, Volume 86, No. 2, June, 1913. Word-play and punning. From the text, "The art of punning has had few practitioners more accomplished than Charles Lamb and Oliver Wendell Holmes."…

hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very good. First. An interesting look at the sport of air racing from a historical and social perspective. As air racing became more competitive, companies worked to refine and improve everything from engoine horsepower to aerodynamics. Fine copy with slight bumping on bottom of…

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! Shipp…

Octavo, stapled wrappers, 46 pp. Very Good+ with former owner signiture. Contents: Introduction; Speech in the Kindergarten; First Grade; Speech Improvement in the Second Grade; Speech Development in the Third Grade; Speech Improvement in the Fourth, Fifth, and Sixth Grades; Speech Improvement in the Seventh, Eighth, and Ninth G…

Hardcover. Condition: new. Hardcover. The P-51 in its post-WWII racing capacity up to the present - emphasizing engine design, speed, modifications, and personalities. 180 b/w & colour photographs The P-51 in its post-WWII racing capacity up to the present emphasizing engine design, speed, modifications, and personalities. Shipp…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Hardcover. 4to. Schiffer Military History, Atglen, PA. 1997. 272 pgs. Illustrated. First Edition/First Printing. DJ has light shelf-wear present to the DJ extremities. Bound in cloth boards with titles present to the spine and front board. Boards have light shelf-wear present to the extremities.…

Hardcover. Condition: new. Hardcover. Here is a unique, revealing, one-of-a-kind book about many of the personalities, pilot, and aircraft involved in major transcontinental races across the United States from 1928-1970. Cross-country unlimited class events-including non-stop air derbies of the late 1920s, the famous Bendix Trop…

Hard Cover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. First Edition. 272pp. Over sized light brown cloth hardback, no DJ, slight crease in three pages, index, bibliography,appendices, b&w and color photos, one-of-a-kind book about many of the personalities, pilots, and aircraft involved in major transcontinental races across the United S…

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. 1st edition. 1st edition, 2001. A Near Fine book in a Near Fine dust jacket. 4to., 192 pp., bound in publishers blue cloth with illustrated dust jacket, $39.95. Minor signs of shelf wear to jacket. Text appears unmarked. Dust jacket now protected in mylar sleeve.…

Hardback. Condition: New. Here is a unique, revealing, one-of-a-kind book about many of the personalities, pilot, and aircraft involved in major transcontinental races across the United States from 1928-1970. Cross-country unlimited class events-including non-stop air derbies of the late 1920s, the famous Bendix Trophy Races of…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Fair. Dj has many indentation marks on front and more on the back and a closed tear. Here is a unique, revealing, one-of-a-kind book about many of the personalities, pilot, and aircraft involved in major transcontinental races across the United States from 1928-1970. Cross-…

Hardcover. Condition: new. Hardcover. Cobra! is a comprehensive, meticulously researched and fully documented history of Bell Aircraft Corporation and their piston engine fighters built during the Great Depression and through World War II. While the story centers on techincal aspects of the various fighters, significant attentio…