23 - AVIATION. Album signed by 75 aviators, including Saint-Exupéry.

AVIATION. Album signed by 75 aviators, including Saint-Exupéry. Memories and stories of aviation. The Great Aviation Conferences at the Petit Palais on the Champs-Élysées. Paris, Social Works Committee of the Ministry of Aviation, 1933–1934, large quarto, 30 pp.–35 pp.–29 pp.–35 pp.–37 pp.–31 pp.–35 pp.–29 pp.-29 pp.-33 pp.-20 pp.-32 pp.-36 pp.-1 folio- 6 plates of photographs & 7 sheets of autographs. Bronze half-chagrin, corners; ribbed spine, gilt head, untrimmed. (Contemporary binding). - Volume in good condition. An extremely rare publication, printed in a run of only 50 copies. 6 plates of photographic portraits as inserts, on Japan paper. The work consists of 13 separately paginated booklets, corresponding to the lectures held from November 28, 1933, to January 4, 1934. Each aviator or aircraft designer recounts a memory, a feat, or a record: “Impressions of Aerial Acrobatics” by Hélène Boucher; “An Adventure in Brazil” by Adrienne Bolland; Mr. Bellonte recounts a curious stopover in China; “The Deutsch Cup” by Géo. Détré; “Some War Heroes” by J. Mortane; “The Air Shows at Douai and Reims” by Louis Bréguet; “My Endurance Record” by Maryse Bastié; “How I Became an Aircraft Builder” by F. Lioré; “Leather Helmets” by R. Chambe; “Cinema from a Bird’s-Eye View” by M. Achard; “In the Sky of the Gods” by J. Tharaud; “The Century of Speed” by Farman; etc. A total of 75 stories. At the front of the volume is a bound 8-page booklet (one page is blank) on Japanese paper, containing 75 autographs from the most prestigious aviators and aviation experts, collected during the lectures: Saint-Exupéry (who did not contribute to the book; his signature, which is difficult to recognize, is placed at the top of the page, between Claude Farrère and Henry Bordeaux); Mermoz; Voisin; Bellont; H. Boucher; Codos; Rossi; H. Bordeaux; Sadi-Lecointe; Bossoutrot; Lioré; M. Bastié; A. Bolland; Count de Lambert; R. Chambe; L. Riotor; M. Hilz; Detroyat; Fonck; E. Blanc... (Sorbet, p. 104).