[Rarebooks] FS: Inscribed by WWI Pilot & Lockheed cofounder to Eddie Rickenbacker

[Charles Agvent]

 From our new Internet-only Catalogue which has just been posted on our 
website: http://www.erols.com/agvent
It contains 57 AVIATION & SPACE items including a selection of books 
from the library of leading World War I Ace Eddie Rickenbacker, as well 
as books signed by Neil Armstrong, Amelia Earhart, Charles Lindbergh, 
and Antoine Saint Exupery, and some interesting 19th century aviation 
material.

KENNEY, George C. (RICKENBACKER, Eddie). GENERAL KENNEY  REPORTS.
A  PERSONAL  HISTORY  OF  THE PACIFIC WAR. New  York:  Duell,  Sloan &
Pierce  (1949).  First  Edition.  The war as seen  by  the  commanding
general  of the Allied Air Forces in the Southwest Pacific. This  copy
INSCRIBED  and  SIGNED  by  one aviation pioneer  to  another  on  the
half-title  page: "To Capt. Eddie!/I am proud of/your  friendship./One
of  God's greatest/Americans and/Aviation's Apostle!/Oct. 26 - 49/Carl
Squier."    Medal  of  Honor-winning  World   War  I   aviator   Eddie
Rickenbacker  first gained fame in the formative years of auto  racing
as  a  driver.  Before  owning and operating  the  Indianapolis  Motor
Speedway,  he  participated in some of the first 500-mile  races  held
there  finishing in tenth place in 1914. Rickenbacker flew a total  of
300  combat hours, reportedly more than any other U.S. pilot in  World
War  I, and his 26 victories as a pilot constituted an American record
that  stood  until  World  War  II.  After  the  war,  he  started  an
unsuccessful  automobile  company,  but   his  most  lasting  business
endeavor  was  his  lifelong  leadership of Eastern  Air  Lines  which
Rickenbacker    transformed   from  a  small   airline  to   a   major
international  transportation company. Carl Squier--World War I  pilot
and  barnstormer  as well as co-founder and longtime Lockheed  Company
executive,  was  the 13th licensed pilot in the United  States  (there
are  now  over 600,000). His wife was killed in a crash of a  Lockheed
Super  Electra  Model 14 in 1939, the same type of plane  that  Howard
Hughes  just  a few months earlier flew around the world in  a  record
time. Very Good, lacking the dustwrapper.                      $350.00
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