Half off the price of their books, plus free shipping. Woo! So if you have any money left over after you buy suspiciously large numbers of copies of “SR-71” and “B-47/B-52,” go get you some books about ships and such.
And if you end up saving some cash on a haul of books, why not show your boundless appreciation…
I have fifteen five three zero remaining copies from the original fifty. They are all signed and dated and numbered, and come with two 18X24 poster-sized prints. Yours for a flat $25, shipped via Media Mail within the US. If you are non-US, the price is sadly rather a lot higher… an extra $20, even if you are just a few feet across the Canadian border because the price of international postage really is that high these days.
When they’re gone, they’re gone.
Update: they’re gone.
This is of course still available on Amazon. Currently nine reviews, all five-star!
I’m currently running a sale on downloadable aerospace items that I had planned on either not releasing or not releasing yet. Twenty-eight pretty nifty items of considerable interest to aerospace aficionados. The sale is open to APR Patrons and Monthly Historical Documents Program subscribers for one week only. If any of these look interesting, consider signing up.
OK, the sale is over. Most items did *not* sell out, but I am now no longer in a position to package and mail stuff off. Perhaps sometime in the future I will try again with what I have left, but for now consider this an archive post.
UPDATE: AUCTION HAS ENDED.
Here are some things that I think *should* be of considerable interest. If you are indeed interested in making a bid, send it via email to: 
Buyer is responsible for postage, which for most of these can be Media Mail for low cost. Auction will end 48 hours after I put this post online. Items and photos after the break…
OK, the sale is over. Most items did *not* sell out, but I am now no longer in a position to package and mail stuff off. Consider this an archive post.
UPDATE: AUCTION HAS ENDED.
For sale to the highest bidder… a lot of 1/40 scale (same as the vintage Topping display model) X-15’s, mostly X-5A-3 stretched delta-winged configurations. These are solid-cast resin models that I worked on a number of years ago. From left to right:
1: An incomplete model with the Marquardt SERJ airbreathing engine
2: An incomplete X-15A-3 with upward-swept wingtip fins
3: An incomplete X-15A-3, missing fins.
4 & 5: Completed, painted and decaled X-15A-3 models
6: A vintage Topping X-15 model.One of the horizontal stabilizers had broken off, and repairs were underway.
These are, again, incomplete (except for #4&5), but a decently skilled modeler could finish the job. What you see in the photos is what you get. Except the dust. I’ll blow that off. The level of dustiness might give an indication of how long these have been sitting abandoned. Buyer also pays postage by whatever means desired. If you’d like to bid, send an email to: Bidding ends 48 hours after this is posted. There won’t be any more of these, at least not from me: the molds are not only old, they are now in a landfill.
As previously mentioned, I have a *lot* of National Geographics. I’d once hoped to have a complete collection, but now it is time for them to go. My collection is pretty complete back into the 1960’s, with scattered issues back to the 40’s. Since 2010 or so the collection is pretty scattered.
Rather than trying to sell the issues individually, I’m boxing them into lots by year. On ebay, issues from the seventies seem to be priced anywhere from a buck each to five or even more bucks each… so… call it a$12 for a years worth of Nat Geos, plus postage. A years worth of these magazines weighs about 10.5 pounds. Media mail would run $8, so $20 for a single year. Four years would fit in a larger box for $24 postage… call it $70 total for four years.
If interested in a year or more’s National Geographics, send me an email letting me know which.
OK, here we go on getting rid of books. A *lot* of books. Starting off with paperbacks, the great majority of which are sci-fi novels. Rather than trying to sell them individually, I’ve packed them into boxes, roughly 12 to 14 per. Eight bucks per box plus postage, which seems to work out to about six bucks media mail… so, $14 per box. If you want four boxes of books, postage drops to$15, so call it $45 for four boxes of books. As always first come, first served, but going after four boxes will put you at the top of the line. Any left by mid week will be disposed of. Each box is carefully and artistically numbered with the very finest calligraphy (off to the left). If interested, send me an email:
Sold: 5,9, 14,16, 17,18,19,21
Spoken for:
Available: 1,2,3,4,6,7,8,10,11,12,13,15,20
Added a few more:
I have two lots of Trek books. The first is a collection of old-school books, including “Spock must Die” (the first published Trek novel), “The World of Star Trek” and “The Making of Star Trek,” two good books on the making for the original series, from back when people didn’t really write many books about the making of TV shows; “Star Trek Logs One through Five” by Alan Dean Foster, which had the stories from the Animated Series turned into literature; and “Star Treks One through Twelve,” which included original series episodes written as long stories (from when that was just about the only way people could experience Trek unless they were lucky enough that the local UHF station broadcast scratchy re-runs). All are in decent enough shape. Twenty books for… let’s call it $60 (a mere $3 per book) plus postage to be determined at buyers request.
Also: a collection of “technical stuff.” Included are twelve Eaglemoss magazines, each covering one Star Trek spacecraft (“Krenim Temporal Weapon Ship,” “Nausicaan Fighter,” “Vulcan Surak class,” Andorian Battle cruiser,” “Romulan Drone,” “Xindi Aquatic cruiser,” “Goroth’s Klingon Transport Ship,” “Baxial,” “Xindi Reptilian Ship,” “Vahklas,” “Orion Scout Ship,” “Starfleet Academy Flight Training Craft”). Each magazine provides many illustrations of the ship, an in-universe description of the ship and its history, a description of how the ship was designed and, where relevant, the phyical model was made; how it was used in what episode of which Trek series. Also included in this lot is a set of “General Plans” for the “Joshua Class Starship.” This ship class was fan produced and is thus non-canonical (or is it?), but it well produced and a fine example of the sort of plans that used to be produced back in the day (and which I’d like to produce myself). The magazines seem to have an asking price of $12 on ebay, but I’m doing $6 each, with $10 for the Joshua class, for a total of $82… let’s call it $80 plus postage.
As always, if you want one or both of these lots, either comment below or end me an email. First come, first served… unless someone asks for both lots within the next day or so.
