[Rarebooks] FS: Two titles on Air Power, both INSCRIBED to World War I Fighting Ace Eddie Rickenbacker, prices reduced

[Charles Agvent]

Price reduced:     Was $150,      Now $100

CALDWELL, Cy (RICKENBACKER, Eddie). AIR POWER AND TOTAL WAR. New York: 
Coward-McCann, Inc., (1943). First Edition. This copy INSCRIBED and 
SIGNED by the author to famous pilot Eddie Rickenbacker on the front 
endpaper: "To Rick with/appreciation of/your kindness./Sincerely/Cy." 
The book contains a one-page foreword by Medal of Honor-winning World 
War I aviator Eddie Rickenbacker who 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. Caldwell was a World War II pilot, a test pilot, 
and a commercial airline pilot. Near Fine, lacking the dustwrapper. 
(#013926)        $100.00

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Price reduced:     Was $250,      Now $150

WILSON, Eugene E. (RICKENBACKER, Eddie). AIR POWER FOR PEACE. New York: 
McGraw-Hill, (1945). First Edition. Decorated cloth. This copy INSCRIBED 
and SIGNED by the author to famous pilot Eddie Rickenbacker on the front 
endpaper: "To Eddie/In appreciation/of your vital role/in U.S. Air 
Power/and as an expression/of warm friendship/and high 
regard./Gene/Washington- April 1945." 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. 
According to a typed note by Rickenbacker's son laid into the book this 
title may have been the origin of a speech his father gave many times in 
the late 1940s titled "Air Power Is Peace Power," a slogan Curtis LeMay 
used on billboards on SAC bases. Fine, lacking the dustwrapper. 
(#013924)     $150.00

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