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The John Maitland Collection, Automobilia, Aeronautica & Cycling

15th December 2020 | 10:00AM | Crewkerne Salerooms

Lot 377

Further Aviation Autobiographies, Biographies, & Memoirs. Another selection of 30 mostly 8vo hardback volumes, generally later in date than the previous lot, the majority with their dust jackets, and mostly 1st Eds, including: Men, Women and 10,000 Kites, by Gabriel Voisin, 1963; Fighting the Flying Circus, by Capt. Edward V. Rickenbacker, 1919; Rickenbacker: An Autobiography, UK & U.S.A. editions, 1968 & 1967; Brackles: Memoirs of a Pioneer of Civil Aviation, Compiled by Frida H. Brackley, 1952; Design for Flight: The Kurt Tank Story, by Heinz Conradis, 1960; Flying Years: A British Airman's Overseas Tour, by C. H. Keith, c.1930 (Aviation Book Club edition); Santos-Dumont: A Study in Obsession, by Peter Wykeham, 1962; Death in the Air: The War Diary and Photographs of a Flying Corps Pilot, 1933; and The World of Wings and Things: Recollections of an Air Pioneer, by Sir Alliott Verdon-Roe, 1939. Plus 20 other volumes. (30)
£60 - £120
£100.00
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