Signed book: The World in the Air by Francis Trevelyan Miller. First edition, limited issue, numbered 25/500. NY: G. P. Putnam’s Sons, 1930. Hardcover, 8.5 x 11.5, 315 pages. Signed by the author and publisher on the colophon, as well as by seven noted pioneers of aeronautics on the opening presentation pages, 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. In very good to fine condition, with wear and staining to the covers, and heavy toning and cracking to the spine; interior pages are clean and unaffected.
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