[Rarebooks] FS: Margaret Bourke-White Inscribed 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.

BOURKE-WHITE,  Margaret  (RICKENBACKER,  Eddie).  THEY  CALLED  IT
"PURPLE  HEART  VALLEY": A COMBAT CHRONICLE OF THE WAR IN  ITALY.  New
York:   Simon  &  Schuster  1944.   First  Edition.  Illustrated  with
photographs  by  Bourke-White. This copy INSCRIBED and SIGNED  by  the
author  to  famous pilot Eddie Rickenbacker on a large piece of  paper
pasted    to   the  front  endpaper:   "For   my   good   friend/Eddie
Rickenbacker/with    all   best/Margaret   Bourke-White."   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. A gritty account  by
the  first female journalist to be attached to the U.S. Army in  World
War  II  of  her experiences with the Fifth Army  during  the  Italian
Campaign. Very Good, lacking the dustwrapper.                 $1000.00
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