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Lot 165

Sale 5024 - Books, Maps & Manuscripts
Jan 31, 2019 5:00AM ET
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[Aviation] Assorted books (3)

Grahame-White, Claude; Harper, Harry The Aeroplane in War London: T. Warner Laurie, [1912]. First edition. 8vo. Original gilt-paneled and gilt-lettered red cloth. With frontispiece portrait and 16 photo plates, 12 pp. publisher's advertisements at back. With Claude Grahame-White's book-plate on front paste-down. Frontispiece inscribed and signed by Claude Grahame-White in ink below image. And with 2 pp. Claude Grahame-White autograph letter signed on The London Aerodome letterhead, dated "Dec, 1923," laid-in. "When this book was first published my predictions... as to the use of aircraft in warfare of the future were universally ridiculed... The accuracy however of my foresight in this direction will be obvious to anyone who reads this book..." Mitchell, William Our Air Force, The Keystone of National Defense New York: E.P Dutton, (1921). 12mo. Original gilt-lettered blue cloth. Frontispiece and numerous other photo plates. Inscribed. Wells, Linton Around the World in Twenty-Eight Days Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1926. First edition. 12mo. Original gilt-pictorial and gilt-lettered red cloth. Photo plates. Inscribed.

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