Description
Large format hardcover, black cloth lettered in silver on spine, in publisher’s pictorial, non-clipped dust-jacket. 240 pages. Bibliography, Subject Index, General Index. Illustrated with rare black and white archival photographs and color pictures by aviation photographer Dan Patterson. First edition, first printing with full number line. A history of the nascent years of the aviation industry, from the experimental flights of the Wright brothers and other early pioneers up through the rise of commercial aviation in the 1920’s and 1930’s. No previous ownership marks. A clean, tight, fresh and unmarked copy. Fine in a fine dust-jacket. Priority and International orders will require additional postage, charged at actual cost.