Title: Album of the Dole Air Race/Charles A. Lindbergh Author: ** Place: N.p. Publisher: Date: [n.d.] Description: Unpaginated. Numerous original photographs, postcards and newspaper clippings. 19½x13¾, full burgundy leather, both covers stamped and lettered in gilt; black album pages, some pages handlettered in white ink. Fascinating album documenting the Dole race from Oakland to Honolulu in August, 1927; dos-à-dos is material honoring Charles Lindbergh, who made the first trans-Atlantic flight in May, 1927. James P. Dole promised a purse of $25,000 for first place and $10,000 to the runner-up; an ill-fated assortment of flight crews signed up to compete, resulting in false starts, crashes, several fatalities and losses at sea. Of eight crews who took off, only two arrived safely in Hawaii. Extensive ephemeral material (newspaper clippings and postcards) about Lindbergh's flight, his engagement to Anne Morrow, the birth and kidnapping of their baby, meetings with presidents and other dignitaries, etc. Lot Amendments Condition: Covers rubbed and scuffed; yellowed clippings, with occasional damage; overall an extensive album of early aviation memorabilia, very good. Item number: 199399
Title: Album of the Dole Air Race/Charles A. Lindbergh Author: ** Place: N.p. Publisher: Date: [n.d.] Description: Unpaginated. Numerous original photographs, postcards and newspaper clippings. 19½x13¾, full burgundy leather, both covers stamped and lettered in gilt; black album pages, some pages handlettered in white ink. Fascinating album documenting the Dole race from Oakland to Honolulu in August, 1927; dos-à-dos is material honoring Charles Lindbergh, who made the first trans-Atlantic flight in May, 1927. James P. Dole promised a purse of $25,000 for first place and $10,000 to the runner-up; an ill-fated assortment of flight crews signed up to compete, resulting in false starts, crashes, several fatalities and losses at sea. Of eight crews who took off, only two arrived safely in Hawaii. Extensive ephemeral material (newspaper clippings and postcards) about Lindbergh's flight, his engagement to Anne Morrow, the birth and kidnapping of their baby, meetings with presidents and other dignitaries, etc. Lot Amendments Condition: Covers rubbed and scuffed; yellowed clippings, with occasional damage; overall an extensive album of early aviation memorabilia, very good. Item number: 199399
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