Applied Electronics - 1943 - by "Members of the Staff of the Department of Electrical Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology", 800p. Subtitle is "A FIRST COURSE IN ELECTRONICS, ELECTRON TUBES, AND ASSOCIATED CIRCUITS". Chapters include "Electrical Conduction through Vacuum, Gases and Vapors", "High Vacuum Electron Tubes", "Cascade Amplifiers, Class A2"
Arguimbau - Vacuum-Tube Circuits - 1948 - 670p - A course in building radios and televisions using vacuum tubes - includes video amplifiers, power amplifiers, oscillators, amplitude modulation, tuned amplifiers and more.
Arguimbau - Vacuum-Tube Circuits and Transistors - 1956 - 665p, same as above but introduces simple transistor circuits.
Brainerd Koehler Reich Woodruff - Ultra-High-Frequency Techniques - 1942 - 587p. In 1942, the idea of UHF vacuum-tube circuits would be very new and not entirely understood. This book appears to be hastily written by MIT engineers with their experience with these new circuit techniques.
Cauer - Synthesis of Linear Communication Networks 1958 - 900p - this is an English translation of Cauer's life work, which was the image parameter method of network synthesis.
Circular C-74 - 1924 - 340p - This is the fundamental publication by the National Bureau of Standards on calculations and measurements to help the new radio industry to understand how to build and test radio equipment from antennas to generators and receivers.
Cruft - Electronic Circuits and Tubes - 1947 - 1000p - by the "Electronics Training Staff of the Cruft Laboratory at Harvard University". Chapters include circuit elements, transients, filters, Fourier analysis, multielement tubes, amplifiers class A and class B and much more.
Dow - Fundamentals of Engineering Electronics - 1937 - 600p - chapters include Electron Ballistics, cathode rays, harmonics, class B and push-pull amplifiers and much more.
Eastman - Fundamentals of Vacuum Tubes - 1941 - 600p - this book is entirely on vacuum tubes. Chapters include high-vacuum thermionic tubes, phototubes, cathode-ray tubes, applications and circuits.
Edson - Vacuum-Tube Oscillators - 1953 - 490p - chapters include transient behavior of linear systems, nonlinear oscillations, feedback systems, resonators, linear oscillators, operation at high power-levels, relaxation oscillators, crystal-controlled oscillators.
Gewartowski Watson - Principles of Electron Tubes - 1945 - 670p - This is designed as a graduate-level course in tubes, both gaseous and vacuum - Gauss's Law, Poisson's and Laplace's equations, Richardson-Dushman Equation, Thermionic Emission Energies, Electric Lenses, magnetrons, Townsend discharge and breakdown.
Goldman - Frequency Analysis Modulation and Noise - 1948 - 450p - This is a graduate-level course in noise and frequency effects - Flicker effect, Fourier analysis, and much more.
Gray Graham - Radio Transmitters - 1961 - 480p - General review of the state of radio transmitters of the period, including FM and SSB.
Harper - Rhombic Antenna Design - 130p - This is the seminal work on Rhombic antennas. This book was responsible for ITT replacing all their transcontinental antenna farms with rhombic designs. These radio stations were the core of international communication until undersea cables and satellite communication took over those roles.
Henneberry - The Single Sideband Handbook - 1964 - 230p - Complete explanation of the new-fangled SSB modulation technique - transmitter and receiver techniques for SSB.
Henney - Electron Tubes in Industry - 1937 - 550p - review of tubes including gaseous, high-vacuum, cathode-ray and more
ITT Reference Data for Radio Engineers - Fourth Edition - 1949 - 1100p. This is a very complete compilation of data in the slide-rule era. These data were essential to any radio design in the era before computers. Chapters include modulation, waveguides, antennas, broadcasting, radar fundamentals, probability and statistics, mathematical formulas.
Johnson - Transmission Lines and Networks - 1960 - 380p - lines with reflections, two-conductor lines, radio-frequency lines, power lines.
King Mimno Wing - Transmission Lines Antennas and Wave Guides - 1945 - impedance matching, transmission-line equations, antennas, electromagnetic theory
Klystron Technical Manual - 90p by Sperry, Inc. This concise book is the first description that I actually understood klystron oscillators and the whole system of velocity-modulation. Brilliant.
Koller - The Physics of Electron Tubes - 1937 - 250p - this is probably the most technical of the tube books in this collection, including primary and secondary emmisions, the dynatron, getters and clean-up of gasses, and much more.
Langford-Smith - Radiotron Designer's Handbook - 1952 - 1500p - this is the "magnum opus" of radio electronics. It is a collection of articles by experts on each of the most important subjects in radio and vacuum-tube design. This one is unusual in that it goes beyond amplifiers and into microphones and loudspeakers as well. It is absolutely comprehensive in covering all aspects of radio communication and design in one (large) volume.
Lauer Brown - Radio Engineering Principles - 1928.pdf
Millman Seely - Electronics - 1941.pdf
Noise - Van der Ziel.pdf
Reich - Theory and Applications of Electron Tubes - 1939.pdf
Seely - Electron-Tube Circuits - 1950 - 540p - chapters include vacuum tubes as circuit elements, tuned power amplifiers, amplitude modulation
Seeley - Electron-Tube Circuits - Answers to Problems
Slurzberg Osterheld - Essentials of Radio - 1948.pdf
Spangenberg - Vacuum Tubes - 1948.pdf
Sturley - Radio Receiver Design Part I - 1953.pdf
Sturley - Radio Receiver Design Part II - 1949.pdf