RAF_Louvert 101 Posted April 18, 2014 . Greetings All, It has been quite a while since last I posted an update on acquisitions for my WWI aviation library. I recently added several very hard-to-find first editions that came available from the private collection of a retired USAF pilot after his passing. First, a bit about this brave flyer who now soars with the angels: Richard A. Lucas was a member of the US Air Force where he served on active duty for 20+ years, retiring as a Lieutenant Colonel. He flew B-24s during World War II, and afterwards flew T-33s, F-94s, and F-86s in various theaters and operations. He was a member of the Quiet Birdmen, the Sabre Pilots' Association, the Retired Air Force Officers Association, and others. He retired from the USAF Reserves in 1984. He passed away on June 3rd of 2013. I never met the man but I certainly do wish I would have. I bet he had stories to tell. To several of his books which now proudly reside in my collection. They are as follows: "Above the French Lines: Letters of Stuart Walcott, American Aviator", Stuart Walcott, (1918 1st Edition) "Granville: Tales and Tail Spins from a Flyer’s Diary", Granville ‘Granny’ Gutterson, (1919 1st Edition) "Head Wind: The Story of Robert Loraine", Winifred Loraine, (1938 1st US Edition) "Norman Prince, A Volunteer Who Died for the Cause He Loved", George Babbitt, (1917 1st Edition) "The Red Battle Flyer", Manfred von Richthofen, English translation, (1918 1st Edition) "War Letters of Edmond Genet", Edmond Genet, (1918 1st Edition) All are in beautiful condition and each now has a prominent place on my shelves. With these latest gems my library has now grown to this: Personal Narratives, Biographies, and Novels "Above the French Lines: Letters of Stuart Walcott, American Aviator", Stuart Walcott, (1918 1st Edition) "Ace of the Iron Cross", Ernst Udet, (1970 English translation, 1st Edition) "Ace With One Eye: The Story of ‘Mick’ Mannock VC", Frederick Oughton, (1963 1st Edition) "Adventure's A Wench: The Autobiography of Charles Veil as told to Howard Marsh", (1934 1st Edition) "A Flying Fighter", E.M. Roberts, (1918 1st Edition) "Airmen O' War", Boyd Cable, (1918 1st Edition) "All Quiet on the Western Front", Erich Remarque, (1929 English Edition) "An Airman Marches", Harold Balfour, (Vintage Aviation Library Edition) "An Airman Remembers ", Hans Schröeder, English translation, (1936 1st Edition) "An Airman's Outings", Alan 'Contact' Bott, (1917 1st Edition) "An Aviator's Field-Book", Oswald Boelcke, English translation, (1917 1st Edition) "An Explorer in the Air Service", Hiram Bingham, (1920 1st Edition) "A Poet of the Air", Jack Morris Wright, (1918 1st Edition) "A Rattle of Pebbles: The First World War Diaries Of Two Canadian Airmen", Brereton Greenhous, (1987 1st Edition) "Beyond the Tumult", Barry Winchester, (1971 1st Edition) "Black Fokker Leader", Peter Kilduff, (2007 1st Edition) "Cavalry of the Clouds", Alan 'Contact' Bott, (1918 1st Edition) "Cloud Country", Jimmie Mattern, (1936 Pure Oil 1st Edition) 3-volume set "Days on the Wing", Willy Coppens, English translation, (1931 1st Edition) "Death in the Air", William Heinemann, (1933 Edition) (famous faked aerial photos) "Double-Decker C.666", Haupt Heydemarck, English translation, (1931 1st Edition) "Eastern Nights and Flights: A Record of Oriental Adventure", Alan 'Contact' Bott, (1920 1st Edition) "En L'air!", Bert Hall, (1918 1st Edition) "Extracts From the Letters of George Clark Moseley", (1923 1st Edition) "Fighting the Flying Circus", Edward Rickenbacker, (1919 1st Edition) "Five Years in the Royal Flying Corps", James McCudden, (1918 1st Edition) "Flying Corps Headquarters 1914-1918", Maurice Baring, (1968 1st Edition with supplementary notes) "Flying for France", James McConnell, (1917 1st Edition) "Flying Minnows", VEE Roger, (1935 1st Edition) "Flying Section 17", Haupt Heydemarck, English translation, (1934 1st Edition) "Flying With Chaucer", James Norman Hall, (1930 1st Edition) "Go Get 'Em!", William Wellman, (1918 1st Edition) "Granville: Tales and Tail Spins from a Flyer’s Diary", Granville ‘Granny’ Gutterson, (1919 1st Edition) "Guynemer, Knight of the Air", Henry Bordeaux, English translation, (1918 1st Edition) "Head Wind: The Story of Robert Loraine", Winifred Loraine, (1938 1st US Edition) "Heaven High, Hell Deep", Norman Archibald, (1935 Signed 1st Edition) "High Adventure", A.H. Cobby, (1981 Edition) "High Adventure", James Norman Hall, (1918 1st Edition) "Horses Don’t Fly: A Memoir of World War I", Frederick Libby, (2000 1st US Edition) "I Flew for the Lafayette Escadrille", Edwin C. Parsons, (1962 1st Edition) "Immelmann: The Eagle of Lille", Franz Immelmann, English translation, (1930 1st Edition) "In the Clouds Above Bagdad", J.E. Tennant, (1920 1st Edition) "In the Teeth of the Wind: The Story of a Naval Pilot on the Western Front 1916-1918", C.P.O. Bartlett, (1994 1st Edition) "Into The Blue", Norman MacMillan, (1929 1st Edition) "Jagdstaffel 356", M.E. Kahnert, (1939 1st English Edition) "Kitchener's Mob", James Norman Hall, (1916 1st Edition) "Letters From a Flying Officer", Rothsay Stuart Wortley, (1928 1st Edition) "Letters From a World War I Aviator", Josiah P. Rowe Jr., (1987 Edition) "Malaula! The Battle Cry of Jasta 17", Julius Buckler, (2007 1st Edition) "Memories of World War 1", William Mitchell, (1960 Edition) "My Experiences in the World War", John J. Pershing, (1931 1st Edition) 2-volume set "Night Bombing with the Bedouins", Robert Reece, (Battery Press Edition) "Night Raiders of the Air", A.R. Kingsford, (1939 Edition) "Nocturne Militaire", Elliot White Springs, (1934 Edition) "No Parachute", Arthur Gould Lee, (1970 1st US printing) "Norman Prince, A Volunteer Who Died for the Cause He Loved", George Babbitt, (1917 1st Edition) "Open Cockpit: A Pilot of the Royal Flying Corps", Arthur Gould Lee, (1969 1st Edition) "Rovers of the Night Sky", W.J. 'Night-Hawk' Harvey, (Vintage Aviation Library Edition) "Sagittarius Rising", Cecil Lewis, (1936 1st US Edition) "Sopwith Scout 7309", Sir Patrick Gordon Taylor, (1968 1st Edition) "Stepchild Pilot", Joseph Doerflinger, (1959 1st Edition) "That’s My Bloody Plane: The World War I experiences of Major Cecil Montgomery-Moore, as told to Peter Kilduff", (1975 1st Edition) "The Balloon Buster: Frank Luke of Arizona", Norman S. Hall, (1928 1st Edition) "The Diary of a P.B.O.* * poor bloody observer", Frank J. Shrive, (1981 1st Edition) "The Escaping Club", A.J. Evans, (1936 Edition) "The Flying Poilu", Marcel Nadaud, English translation (1918 1st Edition) "The Red Battle Flyer", Manfred von Richthofen, English translation, (1918 1st Edition) "The Red Knight of Germany", Floyd Gibbons, (1927 1st Edition) "The Spider Web", T.D. Hallam (P.I.X.), (1979 Edition) "The Way of the Eagle", Charles Biddle, (1919 1st Edition) "Up And At 'Em", Harold Hartney, (1940 1st Edition) "Victor Chapman’s Letters From France", John Jay Chapman, (1917 1st Edition, signed by his father) "War Birds; Diary of an Unknown Aviator", Elliot White Springs, (1926 1st Edition) "War Flying in Macedonia", Haupt Heydemarck, English translation, (1936 1st Edition) "War Letters of Edmond Genet", Edmond Genet, (1918 1st Edition) "Whom The Gods Love", Lewis C. Merrill, (1953 1st Edition) "Wind in the Wires", Duncan Grinnell-Milne, (1918 1st Edition) "Winged Peace", William Bishop, (1940 1st Edition) "Winged Victory", V.M. Yeates, (1934 1st US Edition) "Winged Warfare", William Bishop, (1918 1st Edition) "With the Earth Beneath", A.R. Kingsford, (1936 1st Edition) "With the Flying Squadron", Harold Rosher, (1916 1st Edition) History, Reference, and General Interest Books "A World Undone: The Story of the Great War 1914 to 1918", G.J. Meyer, (2006 Edition) "Air Aces of the 1914-1918 War", Bruce Robertson, (1964 Edition) "Aircraft of World War I, 1914-1918", Jack Herris & Bob Pearson, (2010 1st Edition) "Aircraft of Today", Charles Turner, (1917 1st Edition) "Aviation in Canada 1917-18", Alan Sullivan, (1919 1st Edition) "Bristol F2B Fighter: King of Two-Seaters", Chaz Bowyer, (1985 1st Edition) "Capronis, Farmans, and Sias: U.S. Army Aviation Training and Combat in Italy With Fiorello LaGuardia 1917-1918 ", Jack B. Hilliard, (2006 1st Edition) "Colliers New Photographic History of the World War", (1917 Edition) "Color Profiles of World War 1 Combat Planes", Giorgio Apostolo, (1974 1st Edition) "Decisive Air Battles of the First World War", Arch Whitehouse, (1963 1st Edition) "Fighter Aircraft of the 1914-1918 War", W.M. Lamberton, (1964 Edition) "Flying The Old Planes", Frank Tallman, (1973 Edition) "Fragments From France", Bruce Bairnsfather, (1917 1st Edition) (Great War cartoons by the master of the genre) "German Air Power in World War 1", John H. Morrow, Jr., (1982 1st Edition) "Heroes of Aviation", Laurence La Tourette Driggs, (1919 1st Edition) "High Flew the Falcons", Herbert Molloy Mason Jr., (1965 1st Edition) "High in the Empty Blue", Alex Revell, (1995 1st Edition with author's signature card) "Historic Airships", Rupert Holland, (1928 1st Edition) "History and Rhymes of the Lost Battalion", L.C. McCollum, (1929 Edition) "History of the World War", Francis March, (1918 1st Edition) "History of the Great World War", Rolt-Wheeler and Drinker, (1919 1st Edition) "Italian Aces of World War I and their Aircraft", Roberto Gentilli, Antonio Iozzi, Paolo Varriale, (2003 1st Edition) "Land and Water" Magazine, (entire April through September 1917 series, hard bound, ex-library copy) "Ludendorff's Own Story", Erich Ludendorff, (1919 1st Edition) 2-volume set "Marine Aircraft of the 1914-1918 War", Heinz J. Nowarra, (1960 Edition) "Naval Aviation in World War I", Naval Aviation News, (1969 1st Edition) "National Geographic" Magazine, (entire 1918 series, hard bound, ex-library copy) "New England Aviators 1914-1918: Their Portraits and Their Records", (1919-20 1st Edition) 2-volume set "Reconnaissance & Bomber Aircraft of the 1914-1918 War", W.M. Lamberton, (1962 Edition) "Rhymes of a Red Cross Man", Robert W. Service, (1916 1st Edition) "Schlachtflieger! Germany and the Origins of Air/Ground Support 1916-1918", Rick Duiven and Dan-San Abbott, (2006 1st Edition) "Source Records of the Great War", (1923 1st Edition) 7-volume set "The Air Defence of Britain 1914-1918", Christopher Cole and E.F. Cheeseman, (1984 1st Edition) "The Fighting Triplanes", Evan Hadingham, (1969 1st Edition) "The First War Planes", William Barrett, (1960 Edition) (the one that started it all for me) "The Great Air War", Aaron Norman, (1968 Edition) "The Great War", George H. Allen, (1919 1st Edition) 5-volume set "The Great War in the Air", Edgar Middleton, (1920 1st Edition) 4-volume set "The Imperial Russian Air Service, Famous Pilots and Aircraft of World War One", Alan Durkota, (1996 1st Edition) "The Lafayette Flying Corps", by James Hall and Charles Nordhoff, (1964 Kennikat Press limited edition two-volume set) "The People's War Book and Atlas", (1920 1st Edition, signed by Lt. Col. William A. Bishop) "The Sky On Fire: The First Battle of Britain", Raymond H. Fredette, (1966 1st Edition) "The Story of a North Sea Air Station", C.F. Snowden Gamble, (1967 Edition with supplementary notes) "The United States in the Great War", Willis Abbot, (1919 1st Edition) "The U.S. Air Service in World War I", Maurer Maurer, (1978 1st Edition) 4-volume set "The War in the Air", Raleigh and Jones, (1st Edition) 9-volume set including map cases, (originally in the military library at Whitehall; my personal Jewel of the Crown) "The Western Front from the Air", Nicholas C. Watkis, (1999 1st Edition) "Time-Life Epic of Flight", 23-volume set, (not old and not strictly WWI but still a lot of good info and photos) "True Stories of the Great War", (1918 1st Edition) 6-volume set "U.S. Official Pictures of the World War", Moore and Russell, (1924 1st Edition) 4-volume set "1920 World Book Encyclopedia", (entire set with addendums, great for cross-referencing in a contemporary context) Instructional Books "Aeroplane Construction and Operation", John Rathbun, (1918 1st Edition) "English-French War Guide for Americans in France", Eugene Maloubier, (1918 Edition) "Learning to Fly in the U.S. Army", E.N. Fales, (1917 1st Edition) "Lewis Machine Gun 'Airplane Type' Service and Operation Manual", (1918 Edition) "Manual Of Rigging Notes Technical Data", (1918, possible reprint) "Practical Flying", W.G. McMinnies, (1918 1st Edition) "The Art of Reconnaissance", David Henderson, (1916 1st Edition) "Technical Notes: Royal Flying Corps", (1916 1st Edition) "Science of Pre-Flight Aeronautics", (1942 Edition) "Self-Help for the Citizen Soldier", Moss and Stewart, (1915 1st Edition) So many books, so little time. Cheers! Lou . 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Hauksbee 103 Posted April 18, 2014 Your hometown should put up a building just for your collection! Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
hood 2 Posted April 18, 2014 I know envy is a vice but I am green with envy of your library RAF_Louvert Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Olham 164 Posted April 19, 2014 (edited) Gee! As slowly as I read, I wouldn't manage to read all these books in my lifetime! Let me recommend to you one book, which I'm about to finish reading, and which is possibly the best I have read from a German aviator: Otto Fuchs (translated by Adam Wait): "Flying Fox" http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0764342525/ref=s9_simh_gw_p14_d4_i1?pf_rd_m=ATVPDKIKX0DER&pf_rd_s=center-2&pf_rd_r=0PYRTMWHG5V59AAKT1MF&pf_rd_t=101&pf_rd_p=1688200382&pf_rd_i=507846 The English, modern version even has an advantage over the original. Fuchs had "disguised" all personal names as well as squadons in the German book - Adam Wait has carefully researched, which real pilots were behind these aliases. Heartly recommended - you won't regret it, Lou. Edited April 19, 2014 by Olham Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Mr_Dirt 1 Posted April 19, 2014 How much for a library card Lou? Nice collection enjoyed much on those cold winter days up north I'LL BET. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
JFM 18 Posted April 21, 2014 Nice, but noticed some significant gaps that need filling. I always recommend these to people because IMO they are that important to the serious and casual student of WW1 aviation history: http://www.schifferbooks.com/search/results.html?search_in_description=1&search-option=&keyword=imperial+german+eagles&x=0&y=0 The Imperial German Eagles in World War I: Their Postcards and Pictures. That links you to Vols 1, 2, and 3. These three books cast shadows over most if not all other German aviation books as Mt Everest casts a shadow on an anthill. http://www.amazon.com/Tumult-Clouds-British-Experience-1914-18/dp/034063846X/ref=sr_1_11?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1398112540&sr=1-11&keywords=Tumult+in+the+clouds There was SO much more to the air war than scout vs scout dogfighting. This book details it from the British perspective. :) Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
RAF_Louvert 101 Posted April 23, 2014 . Jim and Olham, thank you for your recommendations, I have them on my wish list. Another significant gap that exists in my library can be filled by the definitive work on the subject, "The Belgian Air Service in the First World War", and I am hoping to add this book to my shelves sometime this year. Mr_Dirt, library cards are free, but you will have to find your own way to Minnesota to take advantage of it. . Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
rjw 48 Posted April 23, 2014 . Greetings All, It has been quite a while since last I posted an update on acquisitions for my WWI aviation library. I recently added several very hard-to-find first editions that came available from the private collection of a retired USAF pilot after his passing. First, a bit about this brave flyer who now soars with the angels: Richard A. Lucas was a member of the US Air Force where he served on active duty for 20+ years, retiring as a Lieutenant Colonel. He flew B-24s during World War II, and afterwards flew T-33s, F-94s, and F-86s in various theaters and operations. He was a member of the Quiet Birdmen, the Sabre Pilots' Association, the Retired Air Force Officers Association, and others. He retired from the USAF Reserves in 1984. He passed away on June 3rd of 2013. So many books, so little time. Cheers! Lou . You sir should make those books available in an institution for preservation, as in institutionalizing them. For that matter some might say that your sir should be... oh lets not go there!! Like to have my fun! Cheers mate! Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
