The Wonder Book of the Air (Introduction By Bernt Balchen, Admiral Byrd's Chief Pilot on His Flight to the South Pole)
Chicago; (1936): John C. Winston Company. First Edition. Large Octavo. Item #032154
Frontispiece, 340 pp. illustrated showing various devises used to attempt flight throughout time. Over 400 years ago, Leonardo da Vinci studied the flight of birds and drew a design for a flying machine much like those of today, but without the means to get into the air This book will give to every boy, and to all others interested in aviation, a very intimate knowledge of what it means to fly, a better understanding of the intricate works of the modern airplane, and a vivid picture of soaring over the skies of the world. A very nice bright copy bound in a blue pictorial gilt cloth depicting an airplane in flight in gilt, others in black, spine lettering gilt corners and spine ends only lightly rubbed, no names or book plates in a chipped and worn pictorial dust jacket.
Price: $65.00