The Glorious Flight: Across the Channel With Louis Bleriot July 25, 1909 Infant boys

The Glorious Flight: Across the Channel With Louis Bleriot July 25, 1909 Infant boysProvensen, Alice and Martin. THE GLORIOUS FLIGHT: ACROSS THE CHANNEL WITH LOUIS BLERIOT JULY 25, 1909. New York: The Viking Press, [1983], (1983). STATED FIRST EDITION. Oblong 4to 8 9 16" x 10 5 8". Pictorial paper covered boards with the front cover printed in sepia to mimic page one of The Daily Mail from 25 July, 1909 announcing Bleriot's flight across the English Channel; titles to spine in brown for what is a flawless, as new copy of the book.

original color pictorial boards

EXCEEDINGLY RARE # 000764

each four-line verse illustrated with an additional black

large capital printed in one of various bright colors

situated above the author's name

establishing a verified FIRST EDITION by the anonymous author of Paul Pry at a Party

Daddy Jake the Runaway marks a significant continuation of Joel Chandler Harris's transmission of dialect-based African American folklore

a wonderful group of frogs playing leap-frog(

and spotting to upper edge of rear flap

with shelf wear and an area of slight discoloration in the upper fore edge corner region of the back cover for what is a really nice copy of the book

New York: Crown Publishers

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