[Rarebooks] FS: THE WORLD IN THE AIR, 1930, SIGNED by 7 Pioneers of Aeronautics

[Charles Agvent]

Available this week for $2500:

MILLER, Francis Trevelyan. THE WORLD IN THE AIR. THE STORY OF FLYING IN 
PICTURES. New York & London: G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1930. First Edition. 
Two quarto (8-1/4" x 11-1/2") volumes bound in half parchment with 
parchment corners over marbled light-purple paper boards--other copies 
we have handled had copper- or blue-colored paper--and printed on 
Ragleaf all-rag paper. Copy #112 of 500 of the Pioneers Edition SIGNED 
by the author and publisher as well as by seven noted pioneers of 
aeronautics, all two per page except for Curtiss, including Glenn 
Curtiss who made the first public flight in America; Dr. Hugo Eckener, 
commander of the "Graf Zeppelin," who made the first airship flight 
around the world; Louis Bleriot who made the first airplane flight 
across the English Channel; Dr. Claude Dornier, German designer and 
builder of multi-engined aircraft; Henri Farman who made the first 
distance flight in Europe; Major G. H. Scott, commander of the first 
Trans-Atlantic voyage in an airship in 1919; and Lieut. Arthur Whitten 
Brown, co-commander of the first nonstop airplane flight across the 
Atlantic in 1919. An impressive collection of important aviation 
signatures as well as a wonderfully illustrated history of flight. Minor 
soiling and wear; leather spine label on the second volume chipped with 
loss of the word "The" from the title. Still Near Fine. (#013916)        
$3,000.00

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