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Archive includes 17 early silver gelatin photographs and a book recovered from the crash site, including THE ONLY KNOWN IMAGE OF THIS RARE AIRCRAFT TAXING FOR TAKE-OFF. The photographs include four images of the Sikorsky S-35 before its ill-fated attempted transatlantic flight, one of the plane taxing on the runway, one of the Sikorsky hanger, ten of the wreckage, and one of an unidentified person with automobile. The wreckage photographs are quite detailed and graphic, showing the extent of the huge fire that engulfed the plane when it cracked during takeoff due to landing gear malfunction on 21 September 1926. The book recovered from the crash is PRACTICAL AVIATION INCLUDING CONSTRUCTION AND OPERATION by Andrew White, 1918, Wireless Press, 197pages with illustrations. Of the four members of the crew Capt. Rene Fonck and co-pilot Lt. Lawrence Curtin escaped. Veteran mechanic Jacob Islamoff and radio operator Charles Clavier were killed. The plane had been heavily modified to attempt to win the $25,000 Orteig price for the first non-stop flight from New York to Paris, won the following year by Charles Lindbergh in The Spirit of St. Louis. Most images slightly light, one torn in half and missing right side, book with heavy wear, as one would expect.
ARCHIVE OF SIKORSKY S-35 WRECK INCLUDING PHOTOGRAPHS AND A BOOK RECOVERED FROM THE CRASH SITE
[1926].
Price: $2,500.00
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Pictorial wraps; 4 pages. Sheet music celebrating the Ninety-Nines organization founded in 1929 when 99 of the 117 licensed women pilots came together. Amelia Earhart was the first president.
SONG OF THE NINETY-NINES
BALLOU, Dick [AVIATION SHEET MUSIC]
(Washington): (Ninety-Nines), (1941).
Price: $75.00
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APOLLO: AN EYEWITNESS ACCOUNT BY ASTRONAUT/EXPLORER ARTIST/ MOONWALKER ALAN BEAN
BEAN, Alan
Norwalk, CT: [Easton Press], (1998).
Price: $950.00
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CLIMATOLOGY OF THE UNITED STATES
BLODGET, Lorin
Philadelphia: Lippincott, 1857.
Price: $350.00
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THEY CALLED IT "PURPLE HEART VALLEY": A COMBAT CHRONICLE OF THE WAR IN ITALY
BOURKE-WHITE, Margaret (RICKENBACKER, Eddie)
New York: Simon & Schuster, 1944.
Price: $1,000.00
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AIR POWER AND TOTAL WAR
CALDWELL, Cy (RICKENBACKER, Eddie)
New York: Coward-McCann, Inc., (1943).
Price: $150.00
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THOSE WONDERFUL OLD AUTOMOBILES
CLYMER, Floyd (RICKENBACKER, Eddie)
New York: McGraw Hill, (1953).
Price: $400.00
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NOTES ON LIFE & LETTERS
CONRAD, Joseph
London & Toronto: J.M. Dent & Sons, 1921.
Price: $60.00
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Large octavo in original maroon cloth-backed paper-covered boards. Illustrated with numerous photographs. Copy #12 of only 150 SIGNED "Amelia M. Earhart" by the famous aviator as well as the publisher and containing, as issued by the publisher in a cellophane envelope mounted on the front pastedown, a miniature silk American flag carried by Earhart in her flight on the "Friendship" from Boston to Wales. Although Earhart was not the pilot of this flight, with it she made history by becoming the FIRST WOMAN TO TRAVEL BY AIR ACROSS THE ATLANTIC. Not only is this volume signed by this famous figure, but it contains an actual artifact from that historic flight. Earhart was lost at sea in her attempt, shortly before her fortieth birthday in 1937, to become the first woman to fly around the world. After her disappearance the most extensive air and sea search in naval history to date took place. After spending $4 million and scouring 250,000 square miles of ocean over a two-week period, the United States government reluctantly called off the operation. Bookplate of George H. Kirkman on the verso of the front free endpaper. Neatly repaired paper splits to front hinge. Tight and clean. Housed in a custom silk clamshell box with a gilt-lettered morocco label.
20 HRS. 40 MIN. 0UR FLIGHT IN THE FRIENDSHIP. THE AMERICAN GIRL, FIRST ACROSS THE ATLANTIC BY AIR, TELLS HER STORY
EARHART, Amelia
New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1928.
Price: $11,000.00
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Illustrated with 31 photographs. SIGNED by the famous aviator on the center of the front free endpaper. Ink name and 1932 date at the top of the front endpaper with a note at the bottom of that page in the same hand describing the circumstances that led to the purchase of this autographed book during an August 1932 appearance by Earhart at a department store in Los Angeles.
THE FUN OF IT. RANDOM RECORDS OF MY OWN FLYING AND OF WOMEN IN AVIATION
EARHART, Amelia
New York: Brewer, Warren & Putnam, 1932.
Price: $2,000.00
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Third Printing. Illustrated with 31 photographs. SIGNED by the famous aviator on the front free endpaper. With the original recording in the rear pocket of Earhart's internationally broadcast speech given the day she completed her solo transatlantic flight: "From Amelia Earhart's International Broadcast in London, May 22, 1932 as picked up in New York by Silvertone."
THE FUN OF IT. RANDOM RECORDS OF MY OWN FLYING AND OF WOMEN IN AVIATION
EARHART, Amelia
New York: Brewer, Warren & Putnam, 1932.
Price: $1,750.00
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COMMERCIAL AIR TRANSPORTATION
FREDERICK, John H. (RICKENBACKER, Eddie)
Chicago: Richard D. Irwin, Inc., 1942.
Price: $150.00
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GENERAL KENNEY REPORTS. A PERSONAL HISTORY OF THE PACIFIC WAR
KENNEY, George C. (RICKENBACKER, Eddie)
New York: Duell, Sloan & Pierce, (1949).
Price: $350.00
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MOTOR MEMORIES. A SAGA OF WHIRLING GEARS
LEWIS, Eugene W. (RICKENBACKER, Eddie)
Detroit: Alved, 1947.
Price: $350.00
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"WE": THE FAMOUS FLIER'S OWN STORY OF HIS LIFE & TRANSATLANTIC FLIGHT, TOGETHER WITH HIS VIEWS ON THE FUTURE OF AVIATION
LINDBERGH, Charles
New York: G. P. Putnam's & Sons, 1927.
Price: $3,000.00
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OF FLIGHT AND LIFE
LINDBERGH, Charles
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1948.
Price: $1,500.00
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THE SPIRIT OF ST. LOUIS
LINDBERGH, Charles
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1953.
Price: $3,500.00
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LOST MOON: THE PERILOUS VOYAGE OF APOLLO 13
LOVELL, Jim & KLUGER, Jeffrey
Norwalk, CT: Easton Press, (1994).
Price: $500.00
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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. Leather spine label on the second volume chipped with loss of the word "The" from the title.
THE WORLD IN THE AIR. THE STORY OF FLYING IN PICTURES
MILLER, Francis Trevelyan
New York & London: G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1930.
Price: $3,000.00
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Copy #293 of 500 numbered copies SIGNED by the author and the illustrator Bernard Lamotte. Usually found without the slipcase and with severe rubbing to the spine, this is a decent copy with some rubbing to the spine but not severe and an intact slipcase. Brief inscription in unknown hand from 1942 at the very top of the limitation page.
FLIGHT TO ARRAS
SAINT EXUPERY, Antoine de
New York: Reynal & Hitchcock, (1942).
Price: $1,500.00
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