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American Air Mail Catalogue, Sixth Edition, 1998
Published by the AAMS Since 1935, this series of five volumes is an extensive and comprehensive revision of all the aerophilatelic material contained in previous AAMC volumes. Also, all newly-discovered airmail items as well as all new material since the last edition have been included. Each volume is illustrated and nearly all items are valued or priced. Each contains a chronological index covering the contents of it and the preceding volumes; the final volume includes a complete index for the entire set.
- Volume One consists of 517 pages of listings of: U.S. Pioneer Covers - 1910-1916, U.S. Governmental Flight Covers, U.S. Air Express Covers, Crash Covers, Airport Dedication Covers & Mexico First Flight Covers - 1917-1939
Hardbound - $35.00
Special price to AAMS members (limited to one per member) - $28.00
- Volume Two consists of 588 pages of listings of:
- FFUS (First Flights of U.S. Airlines since deregulation in 1978)
- Glider Mail
- First Jet Flights
- Hardbound - $35.00
Special price to AAMS members (limited to one per member) - $28.00
- Volume Three consists of 486 pages of listings of:
- Foreign Contract Air Mail Routes (F.A.M.)
- Canal Zone
- Alaska
- Hardbound - $35.00
Special price to AAMS members (limited to one per member) - $28.00
American Air Mail Catalogue, Fifth Edition
- Volume One consists of 478 pages of listings of U.S. Pioneer Flights, U.S. Governmental Flights, Army Emergency Flights of 1934, Early Foreign Flights, Balloon Posts of the Siege of Paris, Interrupted Flights (Crash Covers), Zeppelin Posts, Philippines Flights, Aerial Propaganda Leaflets, and an index to this volume - Sold Out
- Volume Two has 528 pages, listing U.S. Air Mail Field Postmarks and U. S. Contract Air Mail Covers (CAM Routes 1-71). A new never before published, priced section listing U.S. Domestic Air Mail Rate Changes, leads off the book, and an Index to Volumes One & Two closes the book. - Sold Out
- Volume Three contains the balance of the U.S. Contract Air Mails (with more maps), U.S. Airport Dedication Covers, and an up-dated Lindberghiana Section (including 1977 anniversary material). The Index to Volumes One, Two & Three closes out the 519 page book - Sold Out
- Volume Four contains Trans-Oceanic Record Flights, a new section on Catapult Flights, Newfoundland, Canada, and the complete listing of U.S. Foreign Contract Air Mail Covers (FAMs), as well as Sections on N.Y. R. B. A and W. I A E. The Index to the first four volumes close out this book of over 600 pages - Sold Out
- Volume Five consists of 571 pages listing U.S. Air Mail Stamps, U.S. Jet Flights, U.S. Souvenir Historical Flights, Alaska, Ryukyu and Cuba Flights, DO-X Flights, U.S. Glider & Helicopter Flights, Supersonic Flights, and United Nations Air Stamps and Postal Stationery. Half of this book is new material in seven new sections. A complete 66-page index to the entire set of five Volumes ends this volume.
Hardbound - $18 00
MAX - I Didn’t Get to Know Him Very Well
by A.D. “Don” Jones
This publication chronicles the life of Max Miller, the first of the early U.S. airmail pilot. Mr. Miller’s brief two year service with the Air Mail Service, having joined after May 15, 1928, until his untimely death on September 1, 1920, is the story of the development of the transcontinental air mail service. Author Don Jones is a well known expert on the airmail flights of the Government Period. Don was the section editor of the Government Flight Section of the sixth edition of the American Air Mail Catalogue.
132 Pages, 8½” x 11” - $15
Collecting Air Mail
Edited by Cheryl Ganz.
- A twenty-six page booklet describing the joys of collecing Air Mail stamps and postal history.
Booklet - $2
1990 AAMC Pricing Supplement
Contains updated prices for all listed material in the five volumes of the American Air Mail Catalogue, with brief introductions to each AAMC Section
Hardbound - Sold out
O.A.T and A.V.2 Markings, by Murray Heifetz, 2007
This 167 page book is the third edition, which provides comprehensive coverage of the O.A.T. and A.V.2 markings. A.V.2 & OAT markings related exclusively to airmail items and are known recorded between 1938 and 1974. A number of new markings are recorded and some previous assumptions have been modified. The database of markings has almost doubled, resulting in changes to the order of rarity. Main additions are sections on forgeries and facing tags and labels, and modifications to places of marking origins. In marking types there is one new OAT and 10 new AV2s. The book is copiously illustrated with all varieties of O.A.T. and A.V.2 markings, including many covers with these airmail markings. 8½” x 11” - $15
Ellington - Zwisler Rocket Mail Catalog
- Volume I describes, prices, and illustrates items, as well as indicating number of pieces carried and varieties known to exist. It includes a11 known rocket mail flights from every country through the end of 1967 in its 245 pages, but is now out of print and no longer available. - Sold out
- Volume II updates Volume I, adding 168 pages of rocket mails from the beginning of 1968 through the end of 1972. Both volumes assign catalog numbers to listed flights, describe special rocket stamps, indicate values of any proofs or essays, list souvenirs, cards, and unflown items, and show postal stationery prepared by the post office involved.- Sold out
Rocket Mail Flights of the World to 1986
A 191 page compilation of over 60 individual articles by the late Dr. Max Kronstein. This profusely illustrated book has a chronological format. All of Dr. Kronstein's widely-scattered Airpost Journal articles on the postal rocket and related events are included. The period before World War II is broken down into groups of articles on rocket developments in Europe, the USA, and other countries. Various experiments during WWII are in a single chapter, while the postwar period concentrates on further progress in the USA, Europe and Germany. A detailed table of contents facilitates the locating of articles on particular countries, individuals, experiments, or years
Hardbound - $20.00
Special price to AAMS members (limited to one per member) - $16.00
Balloon Post of the Siege of Paris, 1870-71
by Louis Chaintrier, translated from the French by George W. Angers, Prof. Everett Thompson, and Joseph L. Eisendrath, and edited by Ernst Cohn.
This is a 163 page volume containing the series of articles which ran for many years in the Airpost Journal. Also included are many hitherto unpublished photographs, an account of the Pigeon Post of the same era by George Angers, and an updated French Balloon Post Section (excluding prices) from the Fifth Edition of the American Air Mail Catalogue.
Hardbound - $12.50
Special price to AAMS members (limited to one per member) - $10.00
Glider Mail: An Aerophilatelic Handbook
by Simine Short.
This 262 page descriptive catalogue is arranged in four sections to aid in the further study of glider mail. The most extensive section, a detailed compilation of glider mail flights in 220 pages, lists all reported glider mail events from 1922 through 1986, including historical flight accounts and philatelic treatment of mail. The listings cover 34 countries, with 25 outline maps showing the approximate locations of most events listed. More than 400 envelopes and cards, plus about 300 postmarks and vignettes, are reproduced throughout the more than 1,000 listings. The handbook's final pages are a chronological cross-index and checklist.
Hardbound - $20.00
Special price to AAMS members (limited to one per member) - $16.00
Newfoundland Air Mail, 1919 - 1939
This updated volume, first published in 1953, revises a work by the noted British philatelist Cyril H.C Harmer. It contains 181 pages dealing with the pioneering attempts to across the Atlantic from Newfoundland, starting with the 1919 attempt by Hawker and Mackenzie-Grieve, and continuing up to the start of World War 11. Both the successful flights and failures are chronicled in detail. There are ample illustrations documents, correspondence relating to the postal aspects of the flight and the flown mail. Newfoundland has been a most interesting area for aerophilatelic study for many years and this book provides a ready source of reference material about that small, but well known transatlantic "jumping-off" point.
Hardbound - $18.00
Special price to AAMS members (limited to one per member) - $14.50
The Pioneer Airplane Mails of the United States
by Thomas J. O'Sullivan.
This 346 page book is the most comprehensive study of U.S. Pioneer airmail flights and mail. It covers 99 different mail-carrying flights during the period between 1910 and 1916. four of which have not yet been included in the American Air Mail Catalogue. In its five chapters, the author provides details of the pioneer flights, their pilots and experiences, and the mail they carried. The book is replete with 273 illustrations of old news accounts, aircraft and covers.
Hardbound - $25.00
Special price to AAMS members (limited to one per member) - $20.00
Indexes to The Airpost Journal, Volumes 1-60, 1929-1989, & Aero Philatelist Annals, VOLUMES 1-25, 1953-1971 & 1975-1982
This volume of nearly 200 pages is the first comprehensive indexing of hundreds of topics of aerophilately, aviation, airlines and aeronautica. Nearly 900 subject heading covering over 150 pages are taken from the issues of The Airpost Journal, published monthly by the AAMS since 1929. Over 225 subject headings constitute an additional 22 pages from the Aero Philatelist Annals, a predominantly U.S. airmail journal published between 1953 and 1982.
Hardbound - $12.00
Special price to AAMS members (limited to one per member) - $10.00
Via Airmail
edited by Simine Short
Included are 16 articles - U.S. domestic air mail rates from 1918 to 1977, U.S. Zeppellin rates, German North Atlantic Catapult covers and rates, Chicago airport dedication covers, Canadian airmails from 1918-1934, the "Lindbergh Circle", the Jean Mermoz transatlantic flights of 1930, the Concorde SST, and much more. Dozens of photos of airmail covers and many tables of airmail rates round out the book. This first AAMS book with varied article content, provides a far-reaching introduction to aerophilately, with articles about topics from an 1870 Siege of Paris balloon flight to the world's first cosmograph.
Hardbound - $20.00
Special price to AAMS members (limited to one per member) - $16.00
Aerial Mail Service - A Chronology of the Early U.S. Governmental Air Mail, March - December 1918
by A D Jones.
This is a 128 page large-sized monograph on the history of the first year of the U.S. airmail service, replete with numerous photos of airmail covers, planes, and pilots, as well as charts, graphs, maps, and timetables. Many findings have never been published before. This is a history of "flying by the seat of your pants".
Softbound - $15.00
The Mass Flights of Italo Balbo - The Flights of 1928, 1929, 1930 & 1933 - A History & Catalog of their Postal Artifacts
by Robert E. Lana.
Written by an Italian philatelic specialist, this 144 page monograph records the history of Balbo's flights to various points between 1928 and 1933. Included are many photos of the aviators and aircraft, as well as listings and values for many of the stamps and covers flown by Balbo's aircraft. Includes a bibliography & index
Softbound - $15.00
The Pioneer Period of Hungarian Air Mail
by Victor C Berecz Jr.
This 200+ page monograph is the definitive English language history of the airmail stamps and covers of Hungary from the late 1800s through World War II. Heavily illustrated, the work has an emphasis on pioneer airmails during and just after World War I. Backed by years of wide-ranging and original discoveries, this is the epitome of a single country airmail handbook.
Softbound - $15.00
A History of the Development of Air Mail Service in Brazil
by William Victor Kriebel.
This 200+ page book provides comprehensive coverage of the development of the various airlines that have carried mail in and out of Brazil. The mail carrying flights of Aeropostal, Lufthansa, LATI, NYRBA. Pan Am, Varig. Condor and others are chronicled in detail. The book is copiously illustrated with the stamps and covers relevant to the various flights and airlines. 8 1/2 X 11 inch format.
Softbound - $15.00
Peruvian Civil Aviation
by Herbert H. Moll.
This 87 page monograph covers the early experimental flights made by Peruvians such as Jorge Chavez, the first person to fly over the Andes, and Juan Bielouvic whom the author knew personally. The early flights of the 1920's and 1930's are chronicled, and the development of the Faucett and PANAGRA airlines are discussed, with many illustrations of first flight covers. Inroads in Peruvian aviation service made by European carriers such as Air France and Lufthansa are covered in Chapter 4, and the book finishes with a discussion of postal rates. Mr. Moll is a well known international philatelist and judge, and published the first specialized catalog of Peru in 1957.
Softbound - $15.00
Canadian Air Mail Catalogue.
This is a 552 page catalogue covering all aspects of Canadian aerophilately. The topics covered are:Pioneer Flights, SCADTA, Semi-Officials, Airships, Government & other 1st Flight covers 1926-1997 (including historical flights, airport dedications & commemorative flights), Crash Covers, Balloon Flights, Helicopters, Anniversary covers, Canadian Forces & Canadian Warplane Heritage covers, Aerogrammes, Canadian Forces Air Letter Sheets, Airport & Air Mail Field Cancellations, Air Mail Rates, Air Mail Endorsements, Jusqu'a Markings, Astrophilately, Newfoundland Stamps & Covers, Listings of Air Mail Pilots, and a Bibliography.
Hardbound - $35.00
Special price to AAMS members (limited to one per member) - $28.00
Complete Supplement to Section 5 of THE AIR MAILS OF CANADA AND NEWFOUNDLAND (AMCN)
Recent issues of "The Canadian Aerophilatelist" have contained several Supplements to Section 5 of AMCN, which lists the GOVERNMENT AND OTHER AIR MAIL COVERS OF CANADA. These Supplements include changes to some of the listings in AMCN, additional flights (particularly in the period 1953 to 1997), and new flights since 1997. A complete set of the Supplements to Section 5 can be purchased from: Dick McIntosh, 47 Aidenham Cr., Don Mills, Ontario, Canada M3A I S3. Price, including postage, is CA$7 in Canada; US$5 for orders mailed to the USA; CA$l0 or US$7 for orders mailed overseas. Canadian Aerophilatelic Society members may deduct CA$1.50 or US$l from these prices.
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