T H E C O L O P H O N B O O K S H O P Robert and Christine Liska P. O. B O X 1 0 5 2 E X E T E R N E W H A M P S H I R E 0 3 8 3 3 ( 6 0 3 ) 7 7 2 8 4 4 3 World War I Aviation All items listed have been carefully described and are in fine collector’s condition unless otherwise noted. All are sold on an approval basis and any purchase may be returned within two weeks for any reason. Member ABAA and ILAB. All items are offered subject to prior sale. Please add $4.00 shipping for the first book, $1.00 for each additional volume. New clients are requested to send remittance with order. All shipments outside the United States will be charged shipping at cost. We accept VISA, MASTERCARD and AMERICAN EXPRESS. (603) 772-8443; FAX (603) 772-3384; e-mail: [email protected] Additional images for many of these items can be seen at our website. http://www.colophonbooks.com/aviation-military.php 1. (1 SQUADRON RNAS). VINEY, Flight Lieutenant Taunton Elliot, DSO. Autograph air letter written "30.VII. 15" to his mother. A very early RNAS letter in Viney's holograph "No. I Squadron R.N.A.S." "My very dear Mother, Had a very nice crossing to Boulogne, where a Rolss Royce met us, or rather another man in the boat, and brought us here. Had a joy-ride of 40 minutes this morning...Dunkirk is very deserted. The bombardments did a lot of damage....you might as well send all the soft white collars you can find...remember me to all. Your dear loving son. Taunton E. Viney." With red "Passed by Censor" stamp on address side. Flight Lieutenant Taunton Elliot Viney, DSO, was born in Johannes burg, South Africa and raised in Fronton, Essex, England. He flew for No. 1 Wing, St. Pol, and later for No. 5 Wing's "A" Flight. He was killed 21 May, 1916, while flying a Sopwith 1 1/2 Strutter and crashed his aircraft into the sea off Ostend, Belgium. Exterior side soiled, interior clean. Two very small holes at fold, else without wear. (24298) $150.00 2. (24 SQUADRON). Four Programmes for musical presentations presented by "The Monos" of No. 24 Squadron, R.F.C. Included are two postcard style photographs of the personnel who participated in this choral group. Ten of the fourteen men are in costume. The programmes are 8" x 13" printed on recto only describing the musical numbers. The programmes are dated "1/8/1917", "August 29th, 1917", "15/9/1917", and "May 1st, 1917". Each has been folded three times and some have minor dust soiling. There is a fifth programme for a "Musical Extravaganza" performed by "The Joysticks" of No. 24 Squadron R. F. C. complete with orchestra "under the direction of Cliffe Ellis" and "Switch Off: A Review in two scenes introducing a galaxy of talent and a Bevy of Beauties" [one can only imagine]. This programme is also 8" x 13" but is lacking 4" x 3" in the lower right corner. (21029) $175.00 3. (48 SQUADRON). RYCROFT, W. Stanley. Memoirs of Life in Three Worlds. Cranbury, NJ: J B Business Services, 1976, octavo, special publisher's binding of textured full leatherette, author and title stamped in gilt, with original wrappers bound in. (x), 118pp. First Edition, Privately Printed. Rycroft was born and raised in England. During World War I he served as a pilot in the Royal Air Force. He was shot down twice and suffered injuries in a third plane crash following a mid-air collision in September, 1918. His war-time near death experiences and his long recuperation in a military hospital influenced his decision to become a missionary which he did following his graduation from the University of Liverpool in 1922. Although only one chapter of this book covers service with 48 Squadron, it remains of interest because so little has been written about this Sqaudron and its service during World War One. Presentation copy, inscribed and signed by Rycroft on the title page , "To Steve St. Martin, Distinguished World War I historian, with appreciation. W. Stanley Rycroft 2/Lt. Flight "A" 48 Squadron R.A.F. August-September 1918." Page 22 has a correction made to the month and year of the formation of the Royal Air Force. The first 20 pp. has a very, very tiny bit of the upper corner nicked, else a very fine, clean copy in this very scarce presentation binding. (24441) $250.00 4. (50th Aero Squadron). Roll Call. 50th Aero Squadron A.E.F. [Akron OH]: 50th Aero Squadron Association, 1938, octavo, red cloth . 84 pp. First Edition. Privately printed. This book commemorates the 20th reunion in 1938 in Washington, DC of the 50th Aero Squadron. It is a list of those living and deceased, and their families, at the time including their two Medal of Honor winners. Includes "The Rescue of the Lost Battalion. An Epic of the War" by James M. Richardson, reprinted from the May, 1931, issue of Popular Aviation. With short history of the Ladies' Auxiliary and Society of the Sons and Daughters of the 50th Aero Squadron. This copy is signed by 30 members of the Squadron , including Daniel Morse who authored the history of the 50th Aero Squadron. Light scuffing to cloth at corners. A clean copy. (23120) $175.00 5. (6 SQUADRON RFC). Original Final Dinner Menu for "C" Flight, 6 Squadron, RFC. One sheet of heavy paper, 6 1/4 x 8 1/4 inches, mimeographed on both sides, folded once to form four pages. RFC Wing on front. "Menu. "C" Flight Final Dinner November 15th, 1917." This is followed by a list of wines available and the dinner menu. There is a poem on the back of the menu by "Mud": "VAle Abeele" / When weather's dud. we rag ad laugh / We even count the Huns well / strafe / But, these hard days, we hope, are past / They think we want a rest at last / So now, as a farewell to Abeele, / We're going to have a real good meal / -9perhaps) / Remember, one & all, to-night, / You will not have the early flight. / So do not waver on the brink, / But do full justice to the drink."Outer two pages dust soiled, inner two pages clean. No tears or wear. (24887) $150.00 6. ADAMS, Briggs Kilburn. The American Spirit. The Letters of Briggs Kilburn Adams. Lieutenant of the Royal Flying Corps. Boston: The Atlantic Monthly Press, Inc., 1918, small octavo, patterned boards . 104pp. First Edition. With a Preface by Arthur Stanwood Pier. Several of these letters were printed in the Harvard Alumni Bulletin after his death. Adams' very descriptive letters to family while he was at Harvard and then in the many areas of service during World War I. He graduated from Harvard in 1917 after returning from France where he served with the American Ambulance Service. He enlisted in the Royal Flying Corps, trained in Canada, and was then sent to the School of Aerial Gunnery at Forth Worth, Texas. Sent to England in December, 1917 and then training in Scotland through February 1918. On March 1, 1918 he was attached to No. 18 Squadron, RFC and two weeks later was killed at the front. A photo of Adams as frontispiece. Boards slightly foxed and with shelf wear to extremities. Spine with light wear and a tint mend to back outer hinge. Internally a fine, clean copy. (22799) $150.00 7. (AUSTRALIAN FLYING CORPS). Australian Flying Corps. 3 Squadron, A.F.C., Officers' Mess booklet containing four ten cents paper chits. The chits are 3.25" x 1.75" in a perforated booklet 4" x 1.75" The plain grey covers simply have the number "10" printed on them. Printed by Mark & Lee, Aylesbury. A few very small spots of foxing along top edge, else very fine. One single chit sold at an auction in Australia in December, 2013 for $200. (24435) $295.00 8. (AUSTRALIAN FLYING CORPS). CUTLACK, F. M. The Australian Flying Corps in the Western and Eastern Theatres of War 1914-1918. Sydney: Angus and Robertson, 1953, thick octavo, maroon cloth stamped in gilt on spine. (xxx), 494pp. Thirteenth Edition. Extensively illustrated with photographs. A fine writing achievement, and a virtual biographical dictionary of Australian Flying Corps pilots. A virtually as new copy, enclosed in original plain, cream paper dust wrapper and original mailing box with printed paper label on back. Box is slightly worn. (23581) $175.00 9. (AUSTRO-HUNGARIAN AIRCRAFT). GROSZ, Peter M., George Haddow, and Peter Schiemer. Austro- Hungarian Army Aircraft of World War One. Boulder: Flying Machines Press, (1993), large quarto, red and black cloth in dust jacket. (566)pp. First Edition. The most detailed account of these aircraft ever written covers all manufacturers and their aircraft. Lavishly illustrated with 925 black and white photographs and 100 three-view aircraft drawings to standard international modeling scales (1/48 and 1/72), by George Haddow. Color section by Martin O'Connor. Color illustrations by Alan Durkota. This copy is signed by Durkota on the copyright page : "Alan Durkota Best Wishes 1994". A very fine, nearly as new copy. Jacket not clipped. (24162) $275.00 In Dust Jacket 10. (BALSLEY, H. Clyde). DUNBAR, Ruth. The Swallow. A novel based upon the actual experiences of one of the survivors of the famous Lafayette Escadrille. New York: Boni and Liveright, 1919, octavo, ocher cloth in dust jacket.