[Rarebooks] FS: WORLD IN THE AIR, 1/500 Signed by author, Curtiss, Bleriot, & 5 other aviation pioneers, price reduced
Charles Agvent
charles at charlesagvent.com
Tue Dec 8 15:59:57 EST 2015
Price reduced to $1950 NET
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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