[Rarebooks] FS: FORTY YEARS OF AUTOMOBILE HISTORY, 1940, Inscribed to Eddie Rickenbacker

[Charles Agvent]

Price reduced to $125 NET

SINSABAUGH, Chris (RICKENBACKER, Eddie). WHO, ME? FORTY YEARS OF 
AUTOMOBILE HISTORY. Detroit: Arnold-Powers, Inc., 1940. First Edition. 
Illustrated with photographs. Copy #92 of an unknown SIGNED limitation. 
This copy INSCRIBED and SIGNED by the author on the frontispiece 
photograph to an early automobile pioneer: "To E. V. Rickenbacker/In 
appreciation of/30 years of friendship/Chris Sinsabaugh/Dec. 17, 1940." 
Medal of Honor-winning aviator Eddie Rickenbacker served as Pershing's 
staff driver before he became a combat pilot. He 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. He is cited a number of times in this important 
automotive history. Near Fine, without dustwrapper, likely as issued. 
(#013937) $250.00

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