Updated: 14 SEP 11 

BOOK and LITERATURE SALE

This is a collection of various types of literature of interest to modelers: scale information, old timer plane and engine info, aviation history, model magazines, and general aviation/model aviation types. These items are one-of-a-kind gems, not reprints, and once sold, they are gone.  Don't look for these items on the catalog pages except for the Don Ross book and the Posters which are there. All but the Don Ross book and the posters are original publications, used, but in at least very good condition, except as noted. The exception is the Famous Free Flight Model Posters which are new engineering Xerox copies which were scanned from exceptional originals. 

If you have questions or need additional detail about any of these items, please email me at  aalmps@aol.com . In some cases, prices are negotiable - contact me.

U.S. shipping: Books and magazines, in comparison to their dollar value, are kind of heavy for mailing. Books will be sent as "Media Mail" for the listed postage amounts. If you want faster service, please add $6.00 for each book, which will provide for Priority Mail. 

Magazines cannot be sent as media mail, and must go as First Class [or Priority if heavy enough]. Only bound books, 8 mm movies [wonder how many of those get mailed nowadays!], and a few more items - but no magazines.

Overseas shipping: Please email me at  aalmps@aol.com and I'll send a quote for shipping costs to your location.

Prices:

Prices are shown at each item or type of item. Quantity discounts are possible and prices are, to some extent, negotiable.

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Model Engines and Race Cars:

John Pond Engine features from Model Builder magazine

This is a collection of about 150 engine features from John Pond's MB columns. It comes as two 3 ring 1" notebooks [Volume 1 and 2] containing 305  pages of 8 1/2" X 11" printed card stock which is much thicker than ordinary paper  - each page has an engine drawing with text that describes each engine on the back of the page, often including information on the designer. The 3 views contain scale bars, and they are presented at or near full size - in MB, the engine drawings were published in a much smaller size

 The 'Contents' links below take you to listings of all the engines included.

Price: $50 plus $10 postage

Art Suhr's  Miniature Race Cars

This is a collection of magazine features and ads for cable and rail cars from 1939-1949. Excellent condition except that this 68 page booklet has been cut from its binding to make loose pages for copying.

Price: $20 plus $4 postage

Art Suhr's  "Model Engine Reviews"

These reviews are excerpts from model magazines which appeared from 1936 through 1949. It's a staple-bound 9" X 12" paper back book of 213 pages. The articles are illustrated with a  variety of photos, 3 views and isometric drawings of the engines, in addition to text. Unless you have a very extensive magazine collection, you probably haven't seen this much old engine information, ever! Condition: the cover has pulled loose. Overall, the condition is very good.

Art Suhr's  "The Glow Plug Model Engine 1950-1965"

This booklet is similar to Suhr's 'Reviews' book in that it contains excerpts from model magazines - in this case, mostly pictures from ads and engine features. The booklet is 8 1/2" X 11" and runs to 84 pages. Must repeat the comment shown above: Unless you have a very extensive magazine collection, you probably haven't seen this much old [glow] engine information, ever! Condition: excellent.

Price: $25 plus $5 postage

Model Plane Related

Air Age Gas Models

This is the booklet of gas model plans from Model Airplane News. It contains 144 pages and is staple bound. It was first copyrighted in 1938. Here is where you'll find Sal Taibi represented by the Winged Yankee, the Pacer, the Powerhouse and the Hornet! The sample plan is for Shulman's "Skyscraper". Condition: the cover has pulled loose. Overall, the condition is very good. I would trade this booklet for a copy of Bill Winter's Plan book.

Price: $20 plus $3 postage

Famous Free Flight Model Posters

Paul Plecan did these posters in 1974. They show 77 notable free flight gas models, all the way back to the very beginnings. Each model is drawn as a profile. At the bottom of each page is a brief paragraph about each of the planes. They're a great reminder of our history and may help you recognize a few of the lesser known models. The posters will look great on your shop wall! They measure 24" X 36"

Here's a sample of the first poster, showing a portion of 32 models [#22: Mystery Man, 27: Zipper, 28: Powerhouse, 29: Molecule, 30: Pacemaker, 31: KGS, 32: Playboy]:

Here's a sample of the second poster which has 45 models [#33: Go Getter, 34: New Ruler, 35: Thermalier, 43: Buzzard Bombshell, 44: Arrow, 50: Nomad]:

The printed images on the posters look much better than the scanned samples. Not sure why that is, but I believe you'll be happy with the posters.

Both posters, shipped in a mailing tube: $14.00 plus 15% postage. Order them by going to the catalog page and looking for 'Famous..'

Don Ross Book

Don Ross has written a monthly column in Flying Models magazine for about as long as I can remember. He accumulated a lot of information about rubber powered models and assembled it into a comprehensive paperback book "Rubber Powered Model Airplanes". You will get a lot of good, very useful information from this book. If you have wondered about how to get started building that model, how to use a winding tube or a dethermalizer - it's all in there! Get your copy here for $14.95 plus 15% postage. It is listed in the AALmps catalog 3 times, under: 'B' for Book, 'D' for Don, and 'R' for Rubber.

Scale Reference and Full Scale History

Juptner

The Joseph P. Juptner books are really amazing. This is the definitive source of information [Pictures and text] on all Approved Type Certificate [ATC] aircraft. There are 9 hardbound books in the series covering ATC 1 through 817. The books occupy about 8 1/2" of shelf space, and they, including the dust jackets, are in excellent condition. TAB Books, 1994. Sold only as the set of 9. 

Price $90.00 plus $15 postage

Miscellaneous Books: If you'd like more details on any of these, I can scan the covers and contents pages for you. You may find a review for some of these on-line..

AHC - America's Hobby Center 1984 catalog, Average condition. $2.00 plus $2 postage

Air Enthusiast Quarterly, Number 1, hardbound, Excellent condition. $3.00 plus $5 postage

"Aircraft Design Sketch Book", Lockheed Aircraft Corp, 1940, a compilation of detailed sketches from around the world, apparently produced as a style book for their own staff, excellent, $5.00 plus $5 postage

"Contact!, The Story of the Early Birds, Man's first decade of flight from Kitty Hawk to World War I", 1968, Henry Serrano Villard, Excellent condition. $10.00 plus $5 postage

"German Aircraft of World War 2 in Colour", Excellent, $5.00 plus $5 postage

SOLD: "Model Builder Darned Good Airfoils Jan. '74-Sep.'82" compiled by Bob Stalick, many good model airfoils with plotting tables and a drawn outline, stapled copies. $3.00 plus postage

Osprey/Airwar 24 "Luftwaffe Fighter Units Europe 1942-45", Paperback, Excellent, $5.00 plus $3 postage

"Race With the Wind, How Air Racing Advanced Aviation", Birch Matthews, 2001, Excellent including the dust cover. $15.00 plus $7 postage

SOLD: SAM 35 Yearbooks from the U.K.  Numbers 10, 12, and 13, Excellent condition, all 3 for $10.00 plus postage

"Taking Flight, Inventing the Aerial Age From Antiquity Through the First World War", Richard P. Hallion, Excellent condition with plastic cover over the dust jacket, $15.00 plus $10 postage

"The Age of the Airship" [newly added Oct 15], Excellent $5 plus $5 postage

"The Aircraft of the World" 1957, William Green and Gerald Pollinger, dust cover is torn, book is Excellent, $10.00 plus $8 postage

"The American Fighter, The definitive guide to American fighter aircraft from 1917 to the present. 800 photographs and 1,300 schematic drawings", Angelucci with Bowers, 1985, Excellent condition. $20.00 plus $20 postage [BIG, heavy book: 480 pages!]

"The Official Monogram Painting Guide to German Aircraft 1935-1945", Kenneth A. Merrick & Thomas H. Hitchcock, 1980, Excellent condition and an excellent reference for scale models - with color chips!, $20.00 plus $15 postage

"The World's Strangest Aircraft" and "The World's Worst Aircraft", Excellent condition including dust covers, $5.00 each plus $5 postage

Time-Life Books:  "Barnstormers & Speed Kings", "Knights of the Air", and "The Luftwaffe", Excellent condition, $5.00 each plus $5 postage

ZAIC Yearbook !934, Excellent condition: $5 plus $3 postage

Aviation History in Magazines

This is a collection of significant magazines that I've accumulated over the years. These are to be sold as one lot, though if you have a specific one in mind, make me an offer. All are in excellent condition including covers. $50 plus $15 postage

Aviation History "Century of Flight".

Air & Space Centennial Edition: "100 Years of Flight"

Flying Magazine "50th Anniversary Issue" This one is 400 pages + !

Model Airplane News Collectors Edition "75th Anniversary"

"Naval Aviation in World War I"

Saturday Review "Fifty Years of Flight"

Soaring "50 Golden Anniversary Issue"