Edition: Sixth Edition
Published By: Verlag Reimar Hobbing
Bound in the publisher's original light blue cloth with bold, dark lettering to the front board. The exterior presents with wear commensurate with age, handling, and likely institutional use, including notable fraying and minor material loss to the cloth at the head of the spine, as well as general soiling and scattered spotting across the boards. Internally, the volume remains well-preserved and firmly bound. The title page notes the inclusion of forty-eight gravure photographic plates taken by the author herself, vividly documenting her extraordinary solo flight around the globe.?What truly distinguishes this particular copy is its exceptional aviation provenance. The front pastedown and endpaper feature a prominent, boxed institutional stamp from the Royal Aero Club Aviation Centre Library, strictly noted "Not To Be Taken Away." Immediately below this stamp is a highly significant handwritten ink inscription reading, "Presented by F. C. Chichester 1953." This outstanding association firmly links the celebrated German female aviation pioneer Elly Beinhorn with Sir Francis Chichester, the legendary British aviator and pioneering solo sailor who famously navigated the globe. A superb and highly desirable artifact of early twentieth-century aviation history. The book also carries a book plate, " A Gift of the German Reich" Part of an 11,000 book collection on aviation.
Book Condition: Good
Author: Elly Beinhorn
Binding: Hardback
Price £185.00
