[AVIATION] LOBECK, A.K.

Airways of America. Guidebook No. 1: The United Air Lines. A Geological and Geographical Description of the Route from New York to Chicago and San Francisco

New York: The Geograhpical Press / Columbia University, 1933. First Edition. Octavo. Brown, simulated leather over boards (hardcover); 207pp; illus; map endpapers; large folding map in rear pocket (as issued). Private (or non-circulating) library copy, with neat white ink shelf-number at base of spine and ink annotation to rear endpaper, no institutional markings. Light external wear, but still a sound, Very Good copy.

A fascinating work dating from the earliest years of American commercial aviation, utilizing aerial photography to identify prominent geological and geographical features visible to the trans-continental air traveller. The book's sub-title suggests that this was the first of a planned series of related studies, but we find no evidence that further works were published.

Price: $75.00

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