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BACON Gertrude : Memories of Land and Sky

Methuen, London, 1928

12mo - over 6? - 7? tall. closed edges browned and slightly foxed, prize plate to fep awarded to Eva Cameron of the Technical High School Christchurch (New Zealand) in 1930, viii 244pp + plates + 8pp adverts, some scattered foxing to prelims, memoir of early aviation from about 1899. Book Condition: Very Good. Binding: Cloth. Jacket: No Jacket

First Edition

BACON, GERTRUDE: : MEMORIES OF LAND AND SKY

LONDON.METHUEN * CO. LTD.,1928

ISBN No ISBN.

UK,12mo HB,minus dw/dj,1st edn.VG+.Handwritten,childlike hand pencilled,familial gift presentation inscrptn: 'To Daddy from Rupert' and a further handwritten ink indecipherable name below,both examples to front free endpaper.Exceptionally bright and clean,unusually sharp-cornered,publisher's original,plain RAF blue cloth boards with bright, crisp,blocked back ink lettering to front board and spine/backstrip,and clean plain white endpapers - inscrptns excepted,both hinges solid and sound with no splits or cracking.Top edges with very light ageing and some minimal,faint and very sporadically foxed/spotted,fore-edges similarly affected; contents bright,tight,solid and sound with some sporadic foxing/spotting interspersed throughout the text and the book. UK,12mo HB,minus dw/dj,1st edn,v-viiipp+1-244pp [paginated] includes separate contents+ illustrations lists/tables both slightly foxed,XIV (14) chapters,15pp contemporary b/w photographs comprising 24 photographs which includes author's portrait frntis interspersed through the book,and an index.Plus [unpaginated] half-title,b/w photographic frntis,and title page. Gertrude Bacon (1874-1949) was the daughter of the scientist and balloonist Rev. John Maczenzie Bacon, and accompanied him on most of his expeditions. "Bacon became fascinated by flying and as a journalist reported on the various airships and planes being built." In August 1904 she became the first woman to fly in an airship, being a passenger in the near-disastrous first flight of an 84-foot-long ship designed by Stanley Spencer. "From 22 to 29 August, 1909, the world's first aviation meeting was held at Rheims, France. Bacon was determined to go for a ride in one of the new machines. On the last day she was taken up in a Farman plane, squeezed between the radiator and the pilot. She described the takeoff: 'The motion was wonderfully smooth - smoother yet - and then - ! Suddenly there had come into it a new indescribable quality - a lift - a lightness - a life!' Thus she became the first Englishwoman to fly.Bacon flew on several other occasions, and became the first ever hydroplane passenger at Lake Windermere in 1912. Includes a photograph of French aviator Roger Sommer at the controls of his Farman biplane. In August of 1909 Ms. Bacon became the first reported English woman to fly,as a passenger,at Rheims with Sommer piloting. Please contact seller,for correct shipping/P+p quotes - particularly ALL overseas customers - BEFORE ordering through the order page! ** N.B. ALL buyers please note,stocks' actual shipping/P+p costs are adjusted and any difference is refunded,after order's receipt and before the order's despatch,especially if the item(s) are offered either P+p included or FREE. That offer available UK only,unless indicated otherwise. ** This item offered P+p included. Available UK only. ** ** N.B. US customers please be aware: US Standard AIRMAIL postage from UK to USA can now cost more than the price of the book! If speed is not of the essence,then Economy rate is recommended - at approx. anything from a 1/3rd to 1/2 of the standard US AIR quote/rate - sometimes arriving sooner than the 42 days - but not always.

UK,12mo HB,minus dw/dj,1st edn.
Not SIGNED.

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