Lot 376
Aviation Autobiographies, Biographies, & Memoirs.
An excellent collection of 31 8vo hardback volumes, mostly 1st eds, and mostly in good condition for their age, including: The Record of an Aeronaut: Being the Life of John M. Bacon, by Gertrude Bacon, 1907; My Airships: The Story of My Life, by A. Santos-Dumont, 1904; Flying Round The World, by Major W. T. Blake, 1923; One Man's War: The Story of the Lafayette Escadrille, by B. Hall & J. J. Niles, 1929 reprint; Wings, by H. C. Biard, c.1935; High Failure: Solo Along The Arctic Air Route, by John Grierson, 1936; Our Atlantic Attempt, by H. G. Hawker & K. Mackenzie Grieve, 1919; E. T. Busk, A Pioneer in Flight, with a Short Memoir of H. A. Busk, by M. Busk, 1925; 14,000 Miles Through the Air, by Ross Smith (The first flight from England to Australia), lacking front free endpaper, 1922. Plus 22 other volumes. (31)
