Book Description

An excellent copy of the First Edition (limited to 1,000 copies) in a bespoke [home-made] dustwrapper. Large Quarto (11½" x 8"), [xxii], 436.pps. in Original publishers cloth. Top edge gilt with tissue guarded frontispiece and 150 illustrations 13 in colour. An invaluable chronological account recording the lives and characters of the pioneers of ballooning and flight. No ownership marks ( A heavy volume weighing around 2.5 kg. Please enquire for specific shipping costs.)
Author Hodgson J.E. [John Edmund Hodgson 1875 -1952]
Date 1924
Publisher LONDON : OXFORD University Press. 1924
Condition Very Good

Price: £135.00

Offered by John L Capes

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