HELENE BOUCHER PILOTE DE FRANCE [Editions Baudiniere]

Chambe, Rene [1889-1983]

Verlag: Editions Baudiniere, 1937

Beschreibung

12mo. (19 cm.) 253[1]p. Illustrated with 16 full-page black and white captioned photos of Helene Boucher at various stages in her life. Cream-colored pictorial wrappers printed in white with a vignette by Q. Lenzelle [?] in blue, black and white on the front cover of 4 planes flying in a circle behind a torch in the foreground. Just touches of wear to extremities, wrappers ever so lightly soiled, one inch split up rear wrapper at bottom but not affecting integrity of book, corners square and flat, all photos in find condition, many pages uncut, else near fine to fine with no internal markings. Hélène Boucher [1908 - 1934] was a well-known French pilot in the early 1930s, when she set several women's world speed records, including one which was also a world record for either sex. She was killed in an aviation accident in 1934. Rene Chambe [1889-1983] was also a pilot, a writer and the author of Historie de L'Aviation (1958). Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers 009006

Bibliografische Details

Titel: HELENE BOUCHER PILOTE DE FRANCE [Editions ...

Verlag: Editions Baudiniere

Erscheinungsdatum: 1937

Einband: Soft cover

Zustand: Near Fine