4to. 64 pp. Over 100 text illustrations, photo illustrations. Colour-illustrated softcovers, cover art of Eclipse aviation engine starters and generators, colour advertisements on verso, and rear covers for Wright, Union, and Shell (slight scuffing, minor shelfwear, minor creasing), still VG- copy. First edition of this scarce issue of the famed California trade magazine intended for the fast growing aeronautical industry on the West Coast, detailing the National Air Races in Cleveland, including the Wasp Junior winner powered by a GeeBee which won the Thompson Trophy, the Weddell-Williams Special which placed second, and how Jimmie Doolittle in his Wasp Junior Laird Solution won the Bendix Trophy.

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Title

236 M.P.H. The National Air Races; The closed course events; The spectators' viewpoint; 379 miles per hour, The Schneider Cup Races. . . In: Western Flying, Air Race Report Issue, Vol. X, No. 4.

Publisher

Occidental Publishing Co., 145 S. Spring St., October, 1931., Los Angeles, CA:

Publication Date

1931

Binding

Soft cover

Edition

1st Edition

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Aviation

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We are a small Used & Rare Bookseller available by appointment through phone, or e-mail. We exhibit at 10-14 trade shows a year, including the Seattle Antiquarian Book Fair, Rose City Book Fair in Portland, Oregon, as well as many others. We specialize in History, Medicine, Science, Children's Literature, Photographs, Photography, Archives, Trade Catalogues with an emphasis on Salesman Sample Catalogues, and Nineteenth-century imprints.

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Zephyr Used & Rare Books
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