Grünspecht wird ein Flieger.
BEINHORN Elly (1935.)
£90.00 [First Edition]
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Illustrations in the text and the dust jacket after Hanns Poeppel. First edition. 8vo., original red card wrappers, pictorial dust jacket, housed in a folding box. Leipzig, Breitkopf & Härtel.
Signed by the author on the front free endpaper.
Beinhorn was a national heroine in her native Germany, famous for her exploits as a long-distance pilot, setting many records, including the first flight over three continents in one day.
Rear hinge weak, dust jacket pasted to the spine, one small tear to the top panel, a large tear up the spine on the lower panel, spotted and lightly soiled.
Stock Code: 222447
