Man's Fight To Fly: Famous World-Record Flights and a Chronology of Aviation (SIGNED COPY)
by: Heinmuller, John P.V.

Hardcover. New York , Funk & Wagnalls, Ltd. Ed., 1944, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, bright blue cloth stamped in gilt. Illustrated in b&w. One of a Collector's numbered limited edition, this copy #B133, inscribed on limitation page to Edward H. Mitchaw, Jr., SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR. Foreword by Eddie Rickenbacker. John P. V. Heinmuller (1892-1960), the Swiss president of Longines-Wittenauer Watch Company, was an aero-philatelist and historian of manned flight, a friend to zeppelin designers and captains and to Charles Lindbergh. "Man's Fight to Fly" was called "the foremost handbook of aviation records and aero-philatelic information."