McCORMICK, Harold F[owler]. From My Experiences Concerning Aviation. Aus meinen Erfahrungen über das Flugwesen.

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The Psychology of Flight McCORMICK, Harold F[owler]. From My Experiences Concerning Aviation. Aus meinen Erfahrungen über das Flugwesen. S.l.: s.n. [ Zurich. 1917.] 8vo. Original black goatskin, lettered and ruled in gilt, turn-ins gilt, edges gilt, gilt metallic endpapers in imitation of watered silk; pp. 78, 78; text in facing English and German, numerous diagrams in the text; a few minor scuffs to boards, small abrasion to lower joint, short splits to joints expertly repaired; else a fine copy. Extremely rare first edition of this privately printed bilingual work, printed in facing English and German, based on a lecture given in December 1917 at the Psychological Club in Zurich, co-founded in 1916 by Carl Gustav and Emma Jung in collaboration with the author and his wife, Edith Rockefeller McCormick, daughter of John D. Rockefeller and a former patient of Jung’s. Chicago-born businessman Harold Fowler McCormick (1872–1941) was born into American industrial aristocracy and developed an early interest in aviation. An officer in the Aero Club of Illinois (est. 1910), he set up a commercial commuter airline connecting Chicago’s North Shore suburbs and Grant Park with the South Shore Country Club of Chicago, of which he was a founder; the endeavour lasted only a year due to treacherous winds and an unfavourable climate. Here, McCormick explores flying as ‘the concrete realization of many phantasies, dreams, hopes, and aspirations […] It has finally given reality in form to the

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