- First Edition
- Used
Seller: St Marys Books And Prints, Stamford, United KingdomSt Marys Books And Prints
AbeBooks seller since December 18, 1998
Condition: Used
£ 385.00
Quantity: 1 available
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Call To The Winds published in 1939 is an autobiographical memoir by pioneering Australian aviator Sir Patrick Gordon Taylor The book recounts Taylors legendary experience during the aborted May 1935 transTasman airmail flight aboard Sir Charles Kingsford Smiths famous aircraft the Southern Cross Midflight between Australia and New Zealand a piece of the starboard propeller broke off knocking out the engine Taylor heroically stepped out of the cockpit climbed along the open wings struts six separate times to manually transfer oil from the disabled engines tank to the operating port engine This copy is bound in green cloth with titles in silver to the front and spine Inside there is a small brown piece of paper attached to the front free endpaper with the writing From PGTaylor 141 York St Sydney Australia Together with an inscription to the title page To CG Grey from Bill Taylor and a hand written note inserted to the front of page one noting of an alteration that couldnt be included in the book there is also a handwritten note to one of the plates Overall a very good copy with just minimal wear to the binding and a scattering of foxing throughout pp xii 227 A scarce copy with the signatures and a must for any aviation enthusiastnbsp.…
Seller Inventory # 123306
Bibliographic details
- Title
- Call To The Winds Signed
- Author
- P.G. Taylor
- Publisher
- Angus and Robertson, Sydney
- Publication year
- 1939
- Dust jacket
- No Jacket
- Book Type
- book
- Edition
- First Edition.
St Marys Books And Prints
Stamford, United Kingdom
AbeBooks seller since December 18, 1998
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St Mary's Books 9 St Mary's Hill Stamford Lincolnshire PE9 2DP England
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