[Rarebooks] FS: Eddie Rickenbacker and the Red Baron

[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.

FECHET,  Major  General James E. (RICKENBACKER,  Eddie).  FLYING.
Baltimore:  William  & Wilkins Company 1933. First Edition. A  history
of  aviation  by  a former Chief of the United States Army  Air  Corps
with  a  foreword by Eddie Rickenbacker. Illustrated with  a  portrait
frontispiece  of  Rickenbacker. This copy INSCRIBED and SIGNED by  the
author  on the front endpaper to the leading American ace of World War
I:  "To Eddie Rickenbacker/America's Greates [sic] Air Man/and my good
friend-/Jim    Fechet."   Medal  of    Honor-winning   aviator   Eddie
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.   Fechet  has  high  praise  of
Rickenbacker  in  the  chapter  on World War I:  "There  was  no  more
outstanding  character who emerged from the United States Army in  the
Great   War  than  the  leading   American  Ace,  Captain  Edward   V.
Rickenbacker.  As  an  air  fighter he matched  the  cool  calculating
discernment  of [Baron Von] Richtoffen," the Red Baron. Near Fine in a
Very Good dustwrapper.                                         $750.00
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