No Place: No Publisher, [April 4, 1947]. Silver Gelatin print on Kodak paper. 11 x 14 inches. Howard Hughes sitting in the cockpit of the FX-11 prototype. KD123-044. Fine. The XF-11 was a prototype military reconnaissance aircraft designed and flown by Howard Hughes (1905-1976), and built by Hughes Aircraft for the Unites State Army Air Forces. 100 F-11s were ordered in 1943 but the program was delayed beyond the end of World War II, rendering the aircraft surplus. The production contract was canceled, and only two prototypes and a static test mockup were completed. The first XF-11 flight took... View More...
(Mexico City: Libreria Anticuaria "Mexico en Libros" G. M. Echaniz, 1964). Miniature Book. 2 7/8 x 1 1/2 inches. [viii], vi, [iv], 40, [4] pp. Frontispiece portrait of Cabrera, introductory letter to Jose Domingo Lavin; text clean, unmarked. Gilt- and blind-stamped tan leather, decorative endpapers; binding square and tight. Glen Dawson's copy without distinguishing marks. RGKK819-044. Very Good. FIRST EDITION, thus. Text in Spanish. This volume contains a letter written in August 1950 by Luis Cabrera to Jose Domingo Lavin as an introduction to a magazine article published by Cabrera in August... View More...
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