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AVIATION

22. Hawks, Frank. SPEED!
New York, 1931. 314 pp., 21 plates.

First edition. Original cloth. A near fine copy. The author once held the Aviation Air Speed Record. Illustrated with 21 photographic plates. One is with Richard Byrd in front of Hawks' record-breaker "Texaco No. 13" and one showing Hawks' "Pride of San Diego," the sister ship of Lindbergh's " Spirit of St. Louis." An interesting narrative of early aviation adventures.
$ 45.00

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