Pilots of the air mail : four complete flying stories for boys in one big volume

Date:

[1931?]

Author:

Wright, Philip Lee.

Collecting Area:

Mathes Childrens Literature

Call Number:

YH W952 P5 LOCAL

Publisher:

Grosset & Dunlap

Physical Description:

826 pages in various pagings; [4] leaves of plates : illustrations ; 22 cm

Notes:

"The 4 in one books"--Cover.

Curator Notes:

Grosset & Dunlap, c 1930, 1931, 1928 [by Barse, although claimed by G&D here]; includes all three volumes of The Air Pilot Series (The East Bound Air Mail, or Fighting Fog, Storm and Hard Luck; An Air Express Holdup, or How Pilot George Selkirk Carried Through; The Mail Pilot's Hunch,or A Crash in Death Valley) by Philip Lee Wright plus v3 (Masters of the Air-Lines, or Round the World in Fourteen Days) of The Aviation Series by John Prentice Langley [both authors' names are pseudonyms, the first probably by, and the second attributed to, St. George Rathborne the prolific author from dime novel days to the mid 1930's]; the main title page lists the Langley contribution erroneously as Trail Blazers of the Sky; the four frontispieces are signed 'JMF'; spine titles and title-field stamped in black on pebbled red cloth, front cover titles, title-field and vignette stamped in black

Subjects:

Transport planes Juvenile fiction, Air mail service Juvenile fiction, Airplanes Juvenile fiction, Aeronautics Juvenile fiction, Aeronautics, Air mail service, Airplanes, and Transport planes

Genres/Forms:

Fiction, Juvenile works, and Juvenile literature. rbgenr