WWI U. S. Army Air Service pilot (1897–1938) known during the 1920s and 1930s as a record breaking aviator who used a series of Texaco-sponsored aircraft, setting 214 point-to-point records in the United States and Europe. In the 1937 The Mysterious Pilot movie serial, Hawks was billed as the ‘fastest airman in the world.’ Signed book: Speed!. First edition. NY: Brewer, Warren & Putnam, 1931. Hardcover, 5.25 x 7.5, 314 pages. Signed and inscribed on the first free end page in fountain pen, "To Mrs. & Mrs. Sherman Ford, Happy landings! and best wishes, Sincerely, Frank Hawks, (the butcher), July 14, 1931." In very good to fine condition, with a small tear to the lightly sunned spine, and a crease to the lower right corner of the signed page.
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