Rare Aviation Books

The Mastery of the Air

CLAXTON, William J.

Glasgow: Blackie and Son, circa 1925. Octavo, illustrated cloth, viii, 264 pp., colour frontispiece and 12 plates. Front inner hinge split and tender, spine a bit rubbed and worn at the top-edge, an attractive book nonetheless. A lovely book in charming decorated cloth. The first section is on balloons and air-ships, while the second section recounts the history of flight to the earliest days through to the First World War. Item #1068

Price (AUD): $75.00