No Edition Or Printing Stated (Presumed First). Includes Photo Index, Main Index And Bibliographical References. The Book Is Bound In Black Cloth Over Boards With Gilt Lettering On The Front And Spine. Map Endpapers. The Book Has A Minor Bump To The Lower Back Corner, Else Fine.

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Bibliographic Details

Title

Steel Rails and Silver Wings: The Lindbergh Line to the Birth of TWA

Publisher

Weekend Chief Publishing Co., Hicksville, New York

Publication Date

2006

Language

English

ISBN 10

0961281499

ISBN 13

9780961281496

Binding

Hardcover

Edition

1st Edition

Condition

Near Fine

Dust Jacket Condition

Fine

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Hardbound; 8.5 x 11; 144 pages; printed endpapers wiith color map; color dustjacket with painting by Grif Teller; many illustrations and period advertisements; color ephemera section. "This is the history of the brief collaboration between the Pennsylvania, the Santa Fe, and even the Norfolk and Western Railroads on transcontinental air transport. "Harken back to the period of the development of the Ford Trimotor airplane. In this earlier and less sophisticated era of airliner technology existed an unlikely partnership among competititve modes of transportation. "Rediscover Charles Lindbergh and Amelia Earhart in their roles as public relations icons. This is a rail and air journey across America in the early part of the twenthieth century."

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