Flying the North Atlantic: A History in Photographs.

London: B. T. Batsford Ltd., (1987). Octavo, black boards (hardcover), gilt letters, 144 pp. Numerous b & w photographs. Former-owner bookplate; otherwise, Fine (As New) in a Near-Fine, price-clipped dust jacket. From dust jacket: The North Atlantic is one of Man’s most challenging barriers, and a three-thousand-mile-wide water mass that has only recently been conquered by aviation in this century. After the first direct flight across the North Atlantic by Allcock and Brown, the path from Europe to America has been the focus for technological development and commercial enterprise on a huge scale. In this absorbing illustrated history, Jim Barry traces the beginnings of the first flying boats, the establishment of scheduled flights and the building of airports such as Heathrow and New York International.