The Glorious Flight: Across the Channel With Louis Bleriot July 25, 1909 Infant boys EXCEEDINGLY RARE # 000764

EXCEEDINGLY RARE # 000764

Daddy Jake the Runaway marks a significant continuation of Joel Chandler Harris's transmission of dialect-based African American folklore

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The Glorious Flight: Across the Channel With Louis Bleriot July 25, 1909 Infant boys EXCEEDINGLY RARE # 000764Provensen, Alice and Martin. THE GLORIOUS FLIGHT: ACROSS THE CHANNEL WITH LOUIS BLERIOT JULY 25, 1909. New York: The Viking Press, [1983], (1983). STATED FIRST EDITION. Oblong 4to 8 9 16" x 10 5 8". Pictorial paper covered boards with the front cover printed in sepia to mimic page one of The Daily Mail from 25 July, 1909 announcing Bleriot's flight across the English Channel; titles to spine in brown for what is a flawless, as new copy of the book.