The book, Historical Aviation Album (Volume 1), is the first in a series of three volumes covering aircraft from pre-World War I, through the great war, the carefree 1920's, the great depression, World War II and into the jet age.  While the aircraft chronicled are not all well known or made newsworthy headlines, they did form a stepping stone in the advance of some phase of man's advance into mastering aerial navigation  Each chapter of this book is focused on one aircraft type and includes a history along with relevant black and white photographs and highly detailed line drawings.  The chapters in this book cover the following aircraft: 1) Curtis F boat; 2) Wright-Martin Flying Boat; 3) Packard-Lepere Lusac-11; 4) Waterman "Gosling" Racer; 5) Martin BM-1 and BM-2; 6) Curtiss-Wright T-32 Condor; 7) Bell P-39 "Airacobra"; 8) Curtis SC-1 and -2 "Seahawk"; 9) Cessna 120 and 140; 10) Lockheed P-80 "Shooting Star" and 11) Biography Of Glenn Curtiss.  This book is 166 pages and is in like new condition.  The author is Paul Matt.  Edition originally published in 1965.