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Boston: Atlantic Monthly Press, 1918. First edition. Octavo (9" x 6"), 103 & [1] pages, with frontis portrait. Publisher's pictorial paper over boards depicting a light blue sky & clouds, the upper cover lettered in darker blue with the crest of the Royal Flying Corps below.
Covers & spine soiled & browned, upper joint beginning to split (still secure), corners bumped & rubbed, offsetting at title page from adjacent frontis, a good or so copy.
Briggs Kilburn Adams was born in Montclair, New Jersey in 1893. He volunteered as a driver with the American Ambulance Service in France in the summer of 1916 & returned to complete his education at Harvard University thereafter. In 1917 Adams presented himself at the Royal Flying Corps recruiting office in Toronto, Canada, as he wrote his mother in August, 1917, "I am now a British subject and will hold the commission when I get it until the end of the War."
On March 14, 1918, Adams was found dead in his plane, whether he was brought down by an enemy… Read More

New York: Random House, (1997). First edition, this copy signed in ink by Salter on a tipped in leaf following the ffep. Octavo (9.5" x 6.5"), x, [4], [1] - 365, & [4] pages. Publisher's black-lettered white paper over boards, in translucent, pictorial dust jacket.
A fine copy in very good or better dust jacket with slight edge wear & hint of creasing.
James Salter (born James Arnold Horowitz), who passed away in 2015, was awarded the PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction in 1989 & the PEN/Malamud Award for Excellence in the Short Story in 2012. His "Recollection" includes substantial treatment of his "second life" as a writer.
"Burning the Days captures a singular life, beginning with a Manhattan boyhood and then, satisfying his father's wishes, graduation from West Point, followed by service in the Air Force as a pilot. In some of the most evocative pages ever written about flying, Salter describes the exhilaration and terror of combat as a fighter pilot in the Korean War, scenes that are balanced by… Read More

New York & London: McGraw-Hill Book Company, (1945). First edition. 8vo, xiv & 161 pages plus numerous full page illustrations from photographs. Publisher's gilt-lettered blue cloth, in pictorial dust jacket.
Lightly soiled, brief wear at spine extremities & corners, modest foxing & occasional finger smudges mostly at pastedowns & endpapers, previous owner's name in pencil at first blank page, about Very Good in rubbed dust jacket with edge wear including small losses & tears, with a couple archival tissue repairs on the verso, Good or so. The author was chief test pilot for Sikorsky Aircraft during the most critical years of the helicopter's development

Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1943. First edition, review copy with slip & promotional photo laid in. 8vo, viii & 170 pp. plus 8 illustrations from photographs on 4 leaves. Publisher's black-lettered red cloth in pictorial dust jacket.
Binding lightly rubbed, text toned, otherwise very good in very good dust jacket with modest edge wear. "Suzy-Q Hardison, wife of Lt Col Felix Hardison, tells the story of her namesake, flagship of the Nineteenth Heavy Bombardment Group." (excerpted from the dust jacket).