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23 - AVIATION. Album signed by 75 aviators, including Saint-Exupé…
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AVIATION. Album signed by 75 aviators, including Saint-Exupéry. Memories and stories of aviation. The Great Aviation Conferences at the Petit Palais on the Champs-Élysées. Paris, Social Works Committee of the Ministry of Air, 1933–1934, large quarto, 30pp.–35pp.–29pp.–35pp.–37pp.–31pp.–35pp.–29pp.– 29 pp. – 33 pp. – 20 pp. – 32 pp. – 36 pp. – 1 folio – 6 plates of photographs & 7 sheets of autographs. Bronze half-chagrin, corners; ribbed spine, gilt head, untrimmed. (Contemporary binding). – Volume in good condition. An extremely rare publication, printed in a run of only 50 copies. 6 plates of photographic portraits as inserts, on Japon paper. The work comprises 13 separately paginated fascicles, corresponding to the lectures held from 28 November 1933 to 4 January 1934. Each aviator or aircraft designer recounts a memory, a feat or a record: ‘Impressions of Aerial Acrobatics’ by Hélène Boucher; ‘An Adventure in Brazil’ by Adrienne Bolland; Mr Bellonte recounts a curious stopover in China; ‘The Deutsch Cup’ by Géo. Détré; ‘Some War Heroes’ by J. Mortane; ‘The Douai and Reims Air Shows’ by Louis Bréguet; ‘My Endurance Record’ by Maryse Bastié; ‘How I Became an Aircraft Builder’ by F. Lioré; “Leather Helmets” by R. Chambe; “Cinema from a Bird’s-Eye View” by M. Achard; “In the Sky of the Gods” by J. Tharaud; “The Century of Speed” by Farman; etc. A total of 75 stories. At the front of the volume is bound an 8-page booklet (one page of which is blank) on Japanese paper, containing 75 autographs from the most prestigious aviators and aviation specialists, collected during the lectures: Saint-Exupéry (who did not contribute to the book; his signature, which is difficult to recognise, is placed at the top of the page, between Claude Farrère and Henry Bordeaux); Mermoz; Voisin; Bellont; H. Boucher; Codos; Rossi; H. Bordeaux; Sadi-Lecointe; Bossoutrot; Lioré; M. Bastié; A. Bolland; Count de Lambert; R. Chambe; L. Riotor; M. Hilz; Detroyat; Fonck; E. Blanc… (Sorbet, p. 104).
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