Ted Scott Flying Stories #10 Over the Jungle Trails Aviation Adventure 1929 HCDJ
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First edition
CONDITION: VG/VG. First Edition; First Printing book paired w/ a later issue Very Good DJ, circa 1932-state dust jacket. 1929. Grosset & Dunlap, New York. Marked w/ ownership name and misc markings to front endpaper, otherwise unmarked. Hardcover, red cloth black lettering bit of edgewear. Glossy frontispiece by Walter S. Rogers, secure. 214 pp plus period adverts. 5.25 x 8. Housed in a protective Mylar sleeve. Tenth volume in the Ted Scott Flying Stories aviation adventure series, following young pilot Ted Scott's rescue mission through the South American jungle. Ships from the USA, quickly & w/care. SYNOPSIS: Originally published in 1929 by Grosset & Dunlap, Over the Jungle Trails represents the tenth installment of the Ted Scott Flying Stories. In this high-flying juvenile adventure, daring aviator hero Ted Scott embarks on a perilous mission deep into the unexplored regions of South America to locate a team of missing explorers. The storyline combines typical early twentieth-century adventure elements, including hostile environments, wild beasts, and remote landscapes, with authentic details of aviation technology, capturing the technological ambition and heroic daring of the Lindbergh-era Golden Age of Flight. The volume is bound in red cloth boards stamped with a black airplane illustration on the front cover. It is equipped with illustrated endpapers, plain-paper text block, and a glossy black-and-white frontispiece illustration by Walter S. Rogers. Bibliographical ana
- Publisher: Grosset & Dunlap
- Year: 1929
- Printing: first
- Binding: Hardcover
- Condition: Very Good
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