My Flying Life An Authentic Biography Prepared under the Personal Supervision of and from the Papers and Diaries of the Late Sir Charles Kingsford-Smith
London: Andrew Melrose, 1937. Octavo, blue boards with gold spine lettering, 284 pp., with 32 pp. publisher's advertisements bound in. With a frontispiece, 14 plates and two integral maps. Some flecking at edges of the boards and spine, page edges foxed, overall a very good copy in a heavily worn and taped dust-jacket. The autobiography of the great Australian airman, Sir Charles Kingsford-Smith, who narrated in great detail the story of his flying life - a life so full of adventure, romance, danger, thrill, and excitement, that it is an epic of the Air Age. This book, published posthumously, brings forth his early struggles, his first great flight across the Pacific Ocean, his numerous flights around the world and the startling series of flights across the Tasman Sea, when on several occasions he and his companions were very near to death. The illustrations were chosen by Lady Kingsford-Smith herself. Item #2447
Price (AUD): $250.00