Item #110520 How We Invented the Airplane. With an Introduction and Commentary by Fred C. Kelly. Orville WRIGHT.
How We Invented the Airplane. With an Introduction and Commentary by Fred C. Kelly
How We Invented the Airplane. With an Introduction and Commentary by Fred C. Kelly

How We Invented the Airplane. With an Introduction and Commentary by Fred C. Kelly

New York, David McKay Company, 1953.

Small octavo, 78 pages drawings by James McDonald.

Red cloth; top edge very lightly foxed; flyleaves a little offset; essentially a fine copy with the very good dustwrapper lightly sunned on the spine, slightly chipped, rubbed and creased, with a few very short closed tears to the edges.

Inscribed 'With best wishes from "Hawthorn Hill", NCR Guest House, October 19, 1958'. After the death of his brother Wilbur in 1912, 'in 1914 Hawthorn Hill became the residence of Orville, Katharine, and their elderly father, Bishop Milton Wright. Over the next 34 years, the mansion welcomed Charles Lindbergh, Henry Ford, Thomas Edison, and other luminaries. When Orville died [in] 1948, Hawthorn Hill was purchased by National Cash Register (NCR) for use as a corporate guest house. For 58 years, the historic home was wonderfully preserved, but only open intermittently' (Dayton history website). Fred Kelly was the authorized biographer of the Wright brothers.

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