They Made Their Home

Bombeck, Erma: A MARRIAGE MADE IN HEAVEN: OR TOO TIRED FOR AN AFFAIR, VOL. 2, New York HarperCollins Publishers 1993
ISBN: 1-55994-741-1 Very Good Condition

From the Publisher I now pronounce you husband and wife. There are few phrases as sobering, with the possible exceptions of "We have lift-off" and "This country is at war." Yet as they have done for centuries, millions of courageous men and women continue to walk down the aisle every year, without so much as a job description. Now, in her most autobiographical book, Erma Bombeck puts it all in loving and laughing perspective, as she looks back on her own forty-three-year-but-who's-counting marriage and the timeless passages that make the honorable estate of matrimony the highest-risk, highest-reward profession of all. A Marriage Made in Heaven...or Too Tired for an Affair is Erma's personal story as well as a resonant evocation of the decades that have shaped modern American matrimony - for better, for worse, and for laughs. Since the sunny day in 1949 when Erma and Bill Bombeck first plighted their troth, their marriage has weathered the advent of televised football and the dark side of Donna Reed. They've grappled with teenagers and technology, the women's movement and the sexual revolution, and have patented their own course in Creative Arguing. They've survived both the dream house from hell and the empty nest, and have been there for each other through maternity, miscarriage, and mortality. From the nervous newlywed, to the supermom who elevated guilt to a sacrament, to the steadfast partner, to the shy author on the road, here is an Erma Bombeck readers have never seen before, in a book for all those who are married, who were married, who are thinking about getting married, or who have hesitated (until now!) to take the plunge. From The Critics Library Journal This program, read by the author, is classic Bombeck. She begins with recollections about her wedding and continues through the marriage of one of her children. She enlarges on various aspects of marriage with humor, sarcasm, and innuendo. Ranging from struggling beginnings to changes wrought by the arrival (or non arrival) of children, Bombeck meanders through changes in residence, career moves, to the inevitable aging process, all the while successfully evoking the fitful essence of marriage. She describes scenarios common to many couples, which will likely elicit ''I know what you mean'' from listeners. Bombeck's narration is a definite plus. She delivers the lines as only one who wrote them can, successfully providing the inflection, emphasis, and speed that best convey her meaning. Recommended for general collections.-- Joanna M. Burkhardt, Univ. of Rhode Island Coll. of Continuing Education Lib., Providence Kirkus Reviews Bombeck (When You Look Like Your Passport Photo, It's Time to Go Home, 1991, etc.) is in top form here, detonating snappy one- liners throughout this account of her 40-plus years of marriage. And there are some unusually serious moments as well: the death, at age 33, of a close friend-the first intimation for Bombeck and her husband that life is finite and for real; a late-life and much- wanted pregnancy that ended in miscarriage; the pathos of reversing roles as the author cared for her aging, ailing mother; Bombeck's breast cancer and mastectomy. The author married Bill Bombeck in the 50's. They had three children, and family life was both satisfying and something of a letdown: "I hid my dreams in the back of my mind. It was the only safe place in the house." The dreams were of writing, and a lecture in the 60's by Betty Friedan galvanized Bombeck to ask her local newspaper if she could write a column. Syndication followed, then bestselling books, and, suddenly, the equilibrium of the Bombeck marriage shifted, as Bill, a teacher, held down the home front and Erma jetted off to talk shows, book tours, and speeches. How did the couple survive such a shift? Bill, in his 50s, found something (marathon running) to excel at independent of his wife, while Erma found that "when the applause died down....I had someone real to go home to." The trials of raising teenagers; of grown kids coming home to freeload in order to afford a fancy Audio 7.09x4.58x.83 in. .35 lbs.

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AUDUBON, John James (1785-1851): The Birds of America,

New York & Amsterdam: printed in Holland for the Johnson Reprint Corporation and Theatrum Orbis Terrarum, 1971-1972. 4 volumes, double-elephant folio. (39 1/2 x 26 1/2 inches). Limitation leaf printed recto only in black, 4 general titles, 4 volume titles, 4 printed facsimiles of the original titles. 435 plates, printed in up to eight colours, after John James Audubon. Original brown half calf over green cloth-covered boards, upper covers with inset brown in calf panel lettered in gilt with author and title, the flat spines lettered in gilt with author, title and volume number. [With:] John James AUDUBON. A Synopsis of the Birds of America. New York & Amsterdam: 1972. 1 volume, octavo (8 11/16 x 5 1/4 inches). 2 titles. Original brown cloth, upper cover and spine blocked in gilt. The 'Amsterdam Audubon': limited to only 250 copies, this number 176. A viable alternative to the original Havell edition, and one of only two full-size facsimile editions of the complete work ever published. In October 1971, employing the most faithful printing method available, the best materials and the ablest craftsmen of their age, the Amsterdam firm of Theatrum Orbis Terrarum Ltd., in conjunction with the Johnson Reprint Corporation of New York, set out to produce the finest possible limited edition facsimile of the greatest bird book ever printed: the Havell edition of John James Audubon's well-loved Birds of America. The Teyler Museum in Haarlem, Holland made their copy of the original work available for use as a model. The Museum had bought their copy through Audubon's son as part of the original subscription in 1839. After long deliberation, the extremely complex but highly accurate process of colour photo-lithography was chosen as the most appropriate printing method. The best exponents of this art were the renowned Dutch printing firm of NV Fotolitho Inrichting Drommel at Zandvoort who were willing to undertake the task of printing each plate in up to eight different colours. The original Havell edition was published on hand-made rag paper and the publishers were determined that the paper of their edition should match the original. Unhappy with the commercially available papers, they turned to the traditional paper manufacturers G. Schut & Zonen (founded in 1625), who, using 100% unbleached cotton rags, were able to produce a wove paper of the highest quality, with each sheet bearing a watermark unique to the edition: G. Schut & Zonen [JR monogram] Audubon [OT monogram]. The publishers and their dedicated team completed their task late in 1972 and the results of these labours were affectionately known as the "Amsterdam Audubon." 250 copies were published and sold by subscription, with the plates available bound or unbound. Given all this careful preparation, it is not surprising that the prints have the look and feel of the original Havell edition. As a bonus a careful type facsimile of the octavo Synopsis was also produced: this rare work was originally issued by Audubon as 'a systematic index ... a methodical catalogue of all the species' depicted in the plate volumes. The Havell edition was expensive at the time of publication and this has not changed. The last complete copy to appear on the market sold for a staggering $8,802,500 in a sale in New York in March 2000. Currently, the increasingly rare individual plates from this edition, when they do appear, generally sell for between $2,500 and $150,000 depending on the image. The quality of the Amsterdam Audubon plates is apparent to any discerning collector and it is becoming ever clearer that they offer the most attractive alternative to the Havell edition plates, given the latter's spiraling prices. The idea for his great work came to Audubon after his meeting with the distinguished ornithologist Alexander Wilson at Louisville in 1810, but it was not until 1826 that he felt ready to set sail for England in search of a publisher. In the intervening 16 years he had time both to perfect his style of drawing from specimens mounted on wires as an aid to composition, to assemble a remarkable portfolio of drawings, and, perhaps most importantly, to develop the single-minded determination that was to be so essential in his efforts to realize his ambition. John James Audubon, the illegitimate son of French sea captain Jean Audubon and Mlle Jeannne Rabin, his Creole mistress, was born in Les Cayes, Santo Domingo on April 26 1785. His mother died soon after his birth and in 1791, Audubon was brought back to France to live at Nantes under the care of his father's wife, Anne Moynet. The arrangement was evidently a happy one, and both Audubon and his half-sister (Jean's illegitimate daughter by another mistress) were legally adopted in 1794. Audubon later wrote that he quickly came to both love and admire his adopted mother, though her indulgence of his preference for exploring the surrounding countryside to attending to his schoolwork, was perhaps largely responsible for his lack of formal education. Audubon's first arrival in America was in 1803, when, following the loss of the family's fortune in Santo Domingo, his father dispatched him to eastern Pennsylvania. He was to stay with a Quaker lawyer, Miers Fisher, who had been acting as Audubon senior's business agent, and represent the family's interests in the development of the lead deposits which had been found on Mill Grove (a farm near Philadelphia, which had been bought, sight unseen, by Audubon's father). It was here that his early interest in drawing bird specimens grew, and here that he met and married (in 1808) Lucy Bakewell, the daughter of a neighbor. They set up home firstly in Louisville, and later Henderson, Kentucky. The new species of birds to be found in the virgin wilderness of Kentucky supplied Audubon with a large number of subjects to both draw and hunt, and allowed him to develop the lifelike action-packed ornithological images that were to become the hall-mark of his work. Following his bankruptcy in 1820, Audubon decided to concentrate on his painting, and he set out for Louisiana with the intention of adding to the tally of species captured in his portfolio. During this period he worked as a traveling artist and drawing instructor, drawing birds from Mississippi as well as Louisiana and eventually settling with Lucy near New Orleans at a plantation called Bayou Sara. By 1824 Audubon's plans for The Birds of America were coalescing. The work was to be issued in eighty parts of five plates per part, for a total of 400 plates (this was finally expanded to 435 showing some 1,065 different species in 87 parts) on large format paper: this was dictated by Audubon's determination that all the known species were to be shown, and that they should all be life-size. After unsuccessful attempts to get the work published in both Philadelphia and New York, in became clear that the only hope of publication lay in Europe, and Audubon sailed for England in 1826. In England Audubon arranged a number of successful exhibitions of his drawings, where the "dramatic impact of his ambitious, complex pictures and a romantic image as 'the American woodsman' secured Audubon entry into a scientific community much preoccupied with little-known lands." Amongst the friends he made from this community, were William Swainson, a gifted ornithologist, who taught Audubon the niceties of technical ornithology, William MacGillivray, a brilliant Scottish naturalist-anatomist, who, later, was to contribute to and edit Audubon's Ornithological Biography, and Patrick Neill, printer and zoologist, who recommended William Home Lizars of Edinburgh as an engraver who would do justice to Audubon's work.. Lizars was so impressed with Audubon's work that he agreed to put aside the work he was doing for Prideaux John Selby and Sir William Jardine, Britain's foremost ornithologists of the time, and concentrate on the engraving and printing of Audubon's subjects. Lizars' involvement in the project began in 1827, but turned out to be short-lived: after producing only ten plates, all of which are represented in the present selection, Lizars' colourists went on strike and Audubon was forced to find another engraver. This set-back proved to be only temporary, however, and Audubon quickly established an excellent working and personal relationship with both Robert Havell, senior, and his son, Robert Havell, junior. Havell senior died in 1832, but between 1828 and 1838 Havell junior was involved as engraver (or in the case of the Havell plates as re-toucher) of all 425 of the images that go to make up the highest achievement of ornithological art and the greatest of all bird books. Cf. Anker 17; cf. Fine Bird Books (1990) p.73; cf. Fries The Double Elephant Folio (Chicago, 1973); cf. Nissen IVB 49; cf. Zimmer pp.18-20.

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Air Trails Military Aircraft Magazine (Four Issues) and Four Issues of AirSpace Model Magazine (Four Issues) 1969 Through 1972 Privately Bound in One Hardcover Volume, USA Conde Nast/OLR 1969
Very Good

Features: Fling-Wing Soliders and their Rotary-Wing Birds; New Designs for America's Military; The Mach 2 Aerial Militia; The Rotary - rough on fighter pilots; Freeze or fry at Eglin; The Fabulous FAC's of Vietnam; Mike's Eight Hundred Dollar Warhawk; Military Aircraft 'Round the World; Military Pilot Requirements; United States Navy's First Fighters at Sea; Swing-Wing - the final leap forward?; The great load lifters; Fokker designs on foreign fronts; Leaves from a 'Lead-Sledders' logbook; A.F.'s Secret Electronic War; Recce Drone - The inside story; The RPV's are Coming!; Where did they all go?; Mediterranean Montage; Korean War Three-way ace; Big Eye in the Sky; The Emperor's Famous Phonix Fighters; World's fastest flying command post; Down the Drain?; Want an ancient air force?; Naval aviation's historical HQ; Convoluted quest for fighter engines; Can Kelly's Tigers contain foxbat?; Chopper warfare in Indochina; Marines New VTOL Harrier; Old USAF Planes in New Home; We fly the F-111; Mr. Mac's fantastic, formidible F-4; World Champ Airliner; 'The' Combat aircraft of World War Two; Serene Victor at 600 mph; The 'Spirit' - an individual creation; Destined for Immortality; Aeronautical History Sketchbook; Cutaway drawings of Wright biplane, Bleriot Cross-channel, Curtiss JN-4D Jenny, Ryan N-Y-P 'Spirit of St. Louis", Luftwaffe Messerschmitt 109E; Evolution of the Superfort; Pictorials of the Joint-Effort Jaguar and great planes at Ottawa; Cover photo of Sepecat Jaguar in Aerobatic dress; Sikorsky Grant; Boeing 747; The Guppies; Sorceress, Hot Canary, Shark; North American F-86D; Pitts Special; Stampe SV-4; Thorp T-18; North American B-25; Grumman F3F-2; Spitfire; Grumman Avenger; XB-70; Seadart, Seamaster; CF-105, TSR-2; Designers and pilots speak their minds - Curtis Pitts, Ed Granville and Pete Miller, Jimmy Doolittle, Jimmy Haizlip, Igor Sikorsky; Biplanes 'n' Things - Caudron G.3, Morane Parasol, Fleetwings Seabird, Vultee V-1A; How to build the Fokker D-7; How to make a model old-four monoplane; how to build and detail the magnificent jug; A 'copter goes to school; Model rocketry is serious business; how to build the icarus model rocket; how the airplane flies; fly power - power a model plane with a housefly!; The Hovercraft; Breaking into Balsa; How to build a Star Trek Diorama; How to camouflage and detail the supermarine spitfire Mk-1; How to customize the Lear Jet; How to build a ticket counter special Boeing 707; Monogram/AsM B-52 contest; how to paint camouflage with a brush; how to build and detail the Spad XIII; Hunting down the wolf pack; How to make the Battle of Britain Diorama; How to get an Aluminum finish that looks real; How to give decals that hand-painted look; how to build the Guillow Cessna; How to get the best from the Airbrush; Aerospace Symposium; How to build and display the Messerschmitt Bf 109F; Converting a Mosquito to a Hornet; How to build and detail the Apollo/Saturn; All the new models from the 32nd hobby trade show; 12 ways to better model building; Hunting down those rare birds; How to build a diorama; how to build and detail the confederate air force Mustang; how to draw aircraft, part I; How to simulate battle damage; how to superdetail the Hawker Typhoon; Baron Manfred von Richtoven's Fokker DR-1; How to build and detail the Tora Val type 99 - made in Hollywood!; how to build and superdetail major Lanoe Hawker's De Havilland DH 2; Here come de Judge; how to draw aircraft - part 2; the bombers that blitzed the monogram/AsM B-52 contest; how to build and detail the Black Bolt; how to build and detail the Mitsubishi 1MT in Torpedo Bomber; how to construct a 2$ rocket tracking device; how to detail the OV-1 A/C Mohawk - a Vietnam observer. Moderate wear. Binding sound. A quality copy. Hard Cover 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall

[SW: Air Trails Military Aircraft Magazine (Four Issues) and Four Issues of AirSpace Model Magazine (Four Issues) 1969 Through 1972 Privately Bound in One Hardcover Volume Fling-Wing Soliders and their Rotary-Wing Birds; New Designs for America's Military; The Mach 2 Aerial Militia; The Rotary - rough on fighter pilots; Freeze or fry at Eglin; The Fabulous FAC's of Vietnam; Mike's Eight Hundred Dollar Warhawk; Military Aircraft 'Round the World; Military Pilot Requirements; United States Navy's First Fighters at Sea; Swing-Wing - the final leap forward?; The great load lifters; Fokker designs on foreign fronts; Leaves from a 'Lead-Sledders' logbook; A.F.'s Secret Electronic War; Recce Drone - The inside story; The RPV's are Coming!; Where did they all go?; Mediterranean Montage; Korean War Three-way ace; Big Eye in the Sky; The Emperor's Famous Phonix Fighters; World's fastest flying command post; Down the Drain?; Want an ancient air force?; Naval aviation's historical HQ; Convoluted quest for fighter engines; Can Kelly's Tigers contain foxbat?; Chopper warfare in Indochina; Marines New VTOL Harrier; Old USAF Planes in New Home; We fly the F-111; Mr. Mac's fantastic, formidible F-4; World Champ Airliner; 'The' Combat aircraft of World War Two; Serene Victor at 600 mph; The 'Spirit' - an individual creation; Destined for Immortality; Aeronautical History Sketchbook; Cutaway drawings of Wright biplane, Bleriot Cross-channel, Curtiss JN-4D Jenny, Ryan N-Y-P 'Spirit of St. Louis", Luftwaffe Messerschmitt 109E; Evolution of the Superfort; Pictorials of the Joint-Effort Jaguar and great planes at Ottawa; Cover photo of Sepecat Jaguar in Aerobatic dress; Sikorsky Grant; Boeing 747; The Guppies; Sorceress, Hot Canary, Shark; North American F-86D; Pitts Special; Stampe SV-4; Thorp T-18; North American B-25; Grumman F3F-2; Spitfire; Grumman Avenger; XB-70; Seadart, Seamaster; CF-105, TSR-2; Designers and pilots speak their minds - Curtis Pitts, Ed Granville and Pete Miller, Jimmy Doolittle, Jimmy Haizlip, Igor Sikorsky; Biplanes 'n' Things - Caudron G.3, Morane Parasol, Fleetwings Seabird, Vultee V-1A; How to build the Fokker D-7; How to make a model old-four monoplane; how to build and detail the magnificent jug; A 'copter goes to school; Model rocketry is serious business; how to build the icarus model rocket; how the airplane flies; fly power - power a model plane with a housefly!; The Hovercraft; Breaking into Balsa; How to build a Star Trek Diorama; How to camouflage and detail the supermarine spitfire Mk-1; How to customize the Lear Jet; How to build a ticket counter special Boeing 707; Monogram/AsM B-52 contest; how to paint camouflage with a brush; how to build and detail the Spad XIII; Hunting down the wolf pack; How to make the Battle of Britain Diorama; How to get an Aluminum finish that looks real; How to give decals that hand-painted look; how to build the Guillow Cessna; How to get the best from the Airbrush; Aerospace Symposium; How to build and display the Messerschmitt Bf 109F; Converting a Mosquito to a Hornet; How to build and detail the Apollo/Saturn; All the new models from the 32nd hobby trade show; 12 ways to better model building; Hunting down those rare birds; How to build a diorama; how to build and detail the confederate air force Mustang; how to draw aircraft, part I; How to simulate battle damage; how to superdetail the Hawker Typhoon; Baron Manfred von Richtoven's Fokker DR-1; How to build and detail the Tora Val type 99 - made in Hollywood!; how to build and superdetail major Lanoe Hawker's De Havilland DH 2; Here come de Judge; how to draw aircraft - part 2; the bombers that blitzed the monogram/AsM B-52 contest; how to build and detail the Black Bolt; how to build and detail the Mitsubishi 1MT in Torpedo Bomber; how to construct a 2$ rocket tracking device; how to detail the OV-1 A/C Mohawk - a Vietnam Observer Aviation Magazine Back Issues]

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McCormick, Edgar L. THEY ALSO SERVED, Shippensburg, PA White Mane Publishing Company, Incorporated 1993
ISBN: 0-942597-60-5 As New Condition

Early in 1944, with North Africa secure, Sicily taken, and the struggle for Southern Europe underway, bombardment and fighter groups of the Twelfth Air Force moved from Algeria and Tunisia into Italy. Accompanying them were the Air Service Technicians who made the major repairs and stocked the supplies that kept the bombers and fighters flying. In this book, Edgar L. McCormick of the 318th Air Service Squadron (Sp) reveals the human side of the behind-the-scenes effort that kept American combat aircraft in the air. Staff Sergeant McCormick's subject is the life of non-professional soldiers in the Air Force training and service commands, the army experiences of men who left their careers and their families to serve their country. Their self-sufficiency, their frustrations and successes, and the system they had to accept are re-created here from letters, diaries, and memory. Combining accounts of friendships made while in the service with knowledge of change and problems at home, McCormick depicts the good and the bad of life in the rear echelons of the Air Force in World War II. Synopsis Early in 1944, with North Africa secure, Sicily taken, and the struggle for Southern Europe underway, bombardment and fighter groups of the Twelfth Air Force moved from Algeria and Tunisia into Italy. Accompanying them were the Air Service Technicians who made the major repairs and stocked the supplies that kept the bombers and fighters flying. In this book, Edgar L. McCormick of the 318th Air Service Squadron (Sp) reveals the human side of the behind-the-scenes effort that kept American combat aircraft in the air. Staff Sergeant McCormick's subject is the life of non-professional soldiers in the Air Force training and service commands, the army experiences of men who left their careers and their families to serve their country. Their self-sufficiency, their frustrations and successes, and the system they had to accept are re-created here from letters, diaries, and memory. Combining accounts of friendships made while in the service with knowledge of change and problems at home, McCormick depicts the good and the bad of life in the rear echelons of the Air Force in World War II. Hardcover 24 cm.

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