Calls to the Winds
Sidney: Angus and Robertson, 1939. Octavo, green cloth with front and spine lettering, 228 pp., frontispiece, 20 black and white plates. Bumped at corners, rubbed at spine ends, inscribed by the author on title lead "To R.M. Ansett- With regards and good wishes for Ansett Airways. From P. G Taylor Sydney October 1940", otherwise a good copy in dust jacket (piece of dust jacket missing on spine head with no loss of text). First edition. "This is the story of the last air-mail flight for New-Zealand of the Southern Cross, a brief reference to events which followed it, and which led me to forget for a time ideas of air development, and to go flying with a Gull for amusement, hire, and reward. P. G. T." Extract from the author's note. Item #4078
Price (AUD): $500.00