Lot 134
Lot 135
136 Cody (Samuel Franklin, 1867-1913). An archive of six items of ephemera, c. 1890s and later, including a twelve-page sales catalogue titled ‘The Cody Flyer’, c. 1913, b&w illusts. with prices ranging from 50 to £1800, stapled as issued in orig. red wrappers gilt, staples rusted and now detached from wrappers, but otherwise VG, plus original unaddressed catalogue envelope, plus two further Cody publications advertising his aeroplane and man lifting kite, plus two printed bills dated 1913, for mechanical parts for this aircraft, plus a printed pictorial ticket with stub perforation, relating to one of Cody’s wild west shows in France from the 1890s (6)
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£150-200
£150-200
137* The Dambusters. An original film script (copy No. 148) for ‘The Dam Busters’, 18 December 1953, 118 pages with typescript to rectos only, orig. blue wrappers with typescript label, tied on spine, some wear, folio, together with a programme for the ‘Repeat World Premiere, The Dam Busters, 17 May 1955’, 64 pp., numerous b & w illusts. and ads. (one coloured ad. for Yardley perfume), orig. laminated stiff wrappers, tied on spine with silk cord, plus a ring-bound notebook containing approx. twenty-five autographs, including Barnes Wallis, Mary Wallis, Johnny Johnson, Willie Tait, W.C. ‘Bill’ Townsend, Leonard Cheshire, Richard Todd, and others, plus twelve handwritten letters by Bill Townsend, addressed to E.J. Beale, c. 1960s-70s, mostly personal chit-chat with just occasional reference to his wartime experiences, plus a few other related items including an RAF 617 Squadron embroidered badge (-)
138 Early Air Travel. The International Aerial Time Table, pub. Brook Flowers & Co., No. 35, March 1929, 32 pp., a few contemp. pencil amendments and annotations, orig. pictorial wrappers, staples rusted, together with Aerial ABC and Commercial Airline Gazetteer, No. 6, August to October 1929, 84 pp., orig. printed wrappers, plus The ABC or Alphabetic Air Guide, No. 146, June 1946, folding coloured map, loosely inserted, orig. printed wrappers, all 8vo
£100-150
140* Ferber (Capitaine Louis Ferdinand, 1862-1909 ). Le Capitaine Ferber dans son Aeroplane No. 5, Le 12 decembre 1904. Ce sont les experiences de vol plane du Capitaine Ferber qui ont determine le mouvement actuel en faveur de l’aviation et suscite de nombreux disciples, original b & w photo postcard signed on the front ‘Cap. Ferber’, postally unused, G/VG, modern gilt frame, glazed Rare. (1)
139* Early Aviation. Six rare original black and white postcard photographs of ‘Aviatrik’ aircraft and similar early flying machines, c. 1910-12, one signed by cyclist and aviator Charles Ingold, another signed by early aviator Arthur Delfosse of Cologne, all postally unused, G/VG (6)
£200-250
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£100-150
141 German Civil Aviation. Deruluft, April 1925, 64 pp., including fourteen full page b&w illusts. from photos, giving details of the Konigsberg-Moscow Passenger air service and including a full-page Imperial Airways advert stating that their LondonBerlin flights will connect with this service to Moscow, text in German and Russian, orig. stapled wrappers, a little spotting, small 8vo, together with Germany Airplane, Trips, 1926, 48 pp., including b&w illusts. from photos, plus Deutsche Lufthansa Sommer-Flugpran, 1937, plus a 1930s Lufthansa hand bill showing Ju52 aircraft, plus two contemp. related notepaper sheets illustrating Ju52 aircraft (6)
£150-200