[Rarebooks] FS: ARNOLD ADAIR WITH THE ENGLISH ACES, 1922, Inscribed to "the rippingest top hole cheerio" Eddie Rickenbacker

[Charles Agvent]

 From our new Internet-only Catalogue which has just been posted on our 
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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.

DRIGGS, Laurence La Tourette (RICKENBACKER, Eddie). ARNOLD  ADAIR
WITH  THE  ENGLISH  ACES. BEING THE FURTHER FLYING  ADVENTURES  OF  AN
AMERICAN  AVIATOR.  Boston:  Little,  Brown   &  Company  1922.  First
Edition.  First  American  Edition in the  original  decorated  cloth.
Illustrated  with  photographs. This copy INSCRIBED and SIGNED by  the
author  on  the  front  free endpaper:  "Eddie  V.  Rickenbacker--/The
rippingest  -  top hole-/cheerio of the/all-for-one Squadron/with  the
affection  of/Laurence  L. Driggs/New York, Jany 19 - 1923." 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. Driggs was  a  war
correspondent  who was the ghostwriter for Rickenbacker's FIGHTING THE
FLYING  CIRCUS,  the aviator's account of aerial combat  during  World
War  I  based on the diary and original text prepared by  Rickenbacker
in 1918. Spine tanned. Very Good, lacking the dustwrapper.     $500.00

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