story southern cross trans pacific flight de kingsford smith c e ulm c t p (9 résultats)

Hardcover. Etat : Very Good. 1st Edition. Penlington & Somerville Sydney 1928 First Edition 227pp illus (bw photos w bw drawing on endpapers) VG (blue cloth w title and decoration in silver gilt, sl worn, head and foot of spine bumped, edges foxed, binding sl cocked, owners name on fep ).

228pp. 8vo. Original blue slightly flecked cloth with silver lettering. Some foxing to endpapers, a very good copy. First edition.

Hutchinson & Co, London. 1928. Hardback no DW. Red cloth boards. Illustrated with black and white photographs. Boards are worn and soiled with a sunned spine. Pages foxed, otherwise a nice copy.

Small octavo, original decorated cloth, 228pp., complete with 34 plates. Scattered stains affecting the front and rear boards, moderate foxing along edges. Overall, an attractive copy. That memorable feat of flying across the Pacific Ocean from California to Australia is vividly recorded in "Story of Southern Cross Trans-pacific Flight", which is illustrated with more than seventy photographs.

Hardcover. Etat : Very Good-. Spine bumped & faded, spotting on page tips, spotting and speckling on fep, rep, half title & title page, and on various pages of textg ; B&W Photographs; 8.8 x 5.65 x 1.8"; 286 pages; No official publication date, preface dated 1928, prize sticker dated 1931.

first edition; textblock in very good condition, albeit age toned and lightly foxed; cloth binding in very good condition, with some shelf wear, front inside hinge a bit tender; 286 pages, plus; photo plate illustrated; nice example for the collector's shelf;

Hard Cover. Etat : Very Good. No Jacket. First Edition. 227pp, bw ills, pictorial endpapers. Blue and silver pictorial cloth, no jacket. Several slightly lighter areas on cover. 2 prev owner names on title page, some foxing throughout, reviews (possibly from jacket?) affixed to front endpapers, loosely inserted clipping from 1935 (tribute on Kingsford-Smith's disappearance). SIGNED by Charles Kingsford-Smith on title page and scarce thus. Size: 8vo. Signed by Author.

Small octavo, original blue decorated cloth, 228 pp, with 35 double-sided photo plates. Some spotting throughout, 'Australia Kingsford Smith's World Flights' stamp pasted on title leaf (below the title), otherwise a well-preserved copy in dust-jacket (small loss on front panel top edge). First edition. That memorable feat of flying across the Pacific Ocean from California to Australia is vividly recorded in Story of Southern Cross Trans-pacific Flight, which is illustrated with more than seventy photographs. Charles Kingsford-Smith and Charles Ulm (along with two Americans Harry Lyon and James Warner) undertook to cross the Pacific Ocean by air on board a three engine Fokker aeroplane which they named the Southern Cross. Smithy and Ulm complemented each other. Indeed, while Charles Kingsford-Smith was a skilled pilot, Charles Ulm was a great planner and had the ability to raise funds which enabled them to make their transpacific flight a reality. On May 31st, 1928, the four men took off from Oakland airfield in California and journeyed to Brisbane. Although this book was widely distributed after the Australian landing, copies with the dust-jacket are scarce indeed.

8vo. pp.227 with black & white photographs. a couple of small spots to spine else a very good copy.