Lot 3918

Description

The First Aeroplane Voyage from England to Australia, by Sir Ross Smith, KBE, MC, DFC, AFC, New South Wales Edition, 1920 (First edition), 32pp, board cover with grey dust jacket, ribbon-tied as issued, features portraits of Sir Ross Smith & Sir Keith Smith, as well as text-illustrations and 27 full-page aeroviews of Sydney, its suburbs, and some NSW country towns by Capt Frank Hurley; another identical but second edition (1921) with different print layout on dust jacket which omits the words 'New South Wales Edition' and is manilla coloured. Some staining and a few tears along top back edge of dust jacket of first and some foxing on both, otherwise fine and scarce. (2)