Claude Grahame-White
London: Putnam, 1960. Octavo, burgundy cloth, spine embossed with gilt lettering, x, 256 pp., frontispiece, illustrated with 16 double-sided black-and-white plates, three appendices included. Spine ends and corners slightly bumped, very light spotting on fore-edge of text block, dust-jacket a little worn and torn at top and tail edges without loss of text; otherwise a near-fine copy in a very good dust-jacket. First edition. A biography of Claude Grahame-White, arguably the world's first all-round aeronaut. Grahame-White's life reads as one of many firsts: he organised Britain's first air mail service, built and operated the world's first commercial air-liner, exhibited Britain's first military aircraft and flew in the first great air raid of the 1914-1918 war. In this volume, Graham Wallace offers an exhilarating account of a determined and forward thinking inventor and adventurer. Item #4865
From the library of Clare Marshall.
Price (AUD): $60.00