Buy this book on-line KINGSFORD-SMITH, Sir CHARLES: : MY FLYING LIFELONDON.AVIATION BOOK CLUB,1939. ISBN No ISBN.
UK,8vo HB minus dw/dj,1st edn thus. (Originally, first published Jan,1937,2nd impression Feb,1937 and then this Aviation Book Club edn,Feb 1939, so 1st thus.) VG+.No owner inscrptn,minus dw/dj. Recently rebound in unblemished,dark blue cloth boards with bright blocked gilt letters to spine/backstrip and immaculate (replaced),pale blue endpapers,with virtually no shelf-wear to edges or corners - no bumping to extremities or corners.Top edge patchily coloured (blue); fore-edges slightly aged and darkened with some sporadic foxing/spotting,contents bright,tight, solid,sound and generally clean with minimal, sporadic page-edge foxing/spotting.Last 10pp (pp275-284) centrally and lightly grubbed,
increasing in intensity towards the last 4pp which are the index,the last page of same,having a small tear towards it's vertical edge. Described hard,but honestly and fairly - book is much better than it actually sounds - because of the value of this item.UK,8vo HB minus dw/dj,1st edn thus,5-284pp [paginated] includes
acknowledgement,preface by Geoffrey Rawson,illus list/table,27 chapters,15pp, comprising of 23 contemporary b/w photographs (frntis included), with 5pp b/w map/diagram/facsimile log book entry etc.,in the text,an index; plus [unpaginated] half-title+title pages.
Sir Charles Edward Kingsford-Smith (February 9,1897-November,1935),often called Charles Kingsford-Smith,or by his nickname Smithy,was the best-known early Australian aviator, completing the first non-stop crossing of the Australian mainland,the first flight from Australia to New Zealand,and the first to complete the more difficult eastward Pacific crossing from Australia to the United States. Kingsford-Smith International Airport,located in Mascot,Australia,near Sydney,is named after him.
Authentic biography from Australian airman Kingford-Smith's own papers and diaries,who disappeared on a flight.
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