[AIR FRANCE]Livre Rare Book
Flight to Alaska - 1930: the journal of Flit an open cockpit biplane and two young men wo flew her from Boston to Alaska -- and back again -- for a holiday in the earlier days of aviation.
196662197Princeton NJ: Published by the Author assisted by Dow Jones Books 1966. 8vo. xiii 1 139 1 pp. Photo frontisp. numerous photo plates text illustrations. Red publisher’s cloth gilt lettering w/ d.j. cover art w/ headline clippings from the 1930 flight minor scuffing edgewear still NF/VG copy inscribed by the author on ffep. to Chief Justice Paul Cashman Reardon 1909-1988 of the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court from 1962 to 1972. Second printing inscribed presentation copy of this excellent first-hand account which was written contemporaneously by the author during his 12000 mile air trip in a Moth biplane across the country. The memoir details their stopovers in the desert of West Texas an Idaho farm field a frantic cross-wind takeoff from a California airport to avoid a lawman wanting to see the plane’s Federal registration and finally reaching Alaska where the author and his copilot “Pete†Blodgett both hunted and killed Alaska Brown Bears on Admiralty Island. Lombard 1895-1985 was a World War I veteran pilot navigated the yacht “Nina†to a Queen’s Cup Race off the Coast of Spain in 1928 flew the first plane to cross the Rocky Mountains in 1928 and would later serve as director of the Dow Jones & Co. for 30 years. [Published by the Author, assisted by Dow Jones Books], hardcover
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