Airborne / compiled by Alan C. Jenkins
1975, First Edition. Glasgow: Blackie. Good library cloth copy in a good if somewhat edge-torn (with some loss) and dust-toned dust-wrapper, now mylar-sleeved. Remains quite well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and strong. Library marks remain. Item #307419
Physical description; 252 p. ; 21 cm. Contents; Birdman / Gustav Lilienthal -- Recipe for an air balloon / Anon --Journey to the moon / Cyrano de Bergerac -- The devil disc / Elleston Trevor --Barnstormers / Don Dwiggins -- Bale-out / Charles A. Lindbergh -- Earthworm's first flight / F. Yeats-Brown -- Some were unlucky / Guy Gibson -- Moonshot number one / Jules Verne -- With the night mail / Rudyard Kipling -- Beginner's luck / Sheila Scott -- Storm over the Tasman Sea / Francis Chichester -- The death of Amundsen / Robert de la Croix -- A dissertation on the art of flying / Dr. Samuel Johnson -- Terror falls from the skies / Constantine Fitzgibbon --The airstrip at Konora / James A. Michener -- Mij airborne / Gavin Maxwell --Satellite passage / Theodore L. Thomas -- His first flight / Liam O'Flaherty. Subjects; Short stories, English. Aeronautics in literature. Aeronautics ; Popular works. Flight Fiction. Short stories in English, (1650-1970). Special subjects Aircraft Flying Anthologies. Genre; Short story.
Price: €10.95