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Jim Ray's Aviation Sketchbook : Picture Stories of Planes and Pilots [Volume 1, Number 2 : May/June 1946]
New York: Vital Publications, 1946.
Illustrated by James Ralph "Jim" Ray. Stapled wraps. Good+ with no dust jacket. Item #13612
Word "Sketchbook" on front and rear cover with ink doodles inside, tone, light soil, corner creasing, light edgewear. Solid paperback stapled wraps - comic book format. ; Volume One, Number Two of Jim Ray's Aviation Sketchbook (May/June 1946) with biographies of Generals H H "Hap" Arnold and Carl Spaatz, rural aviation, test planes, weather, Boeing 377 Stratocruiser, wartime bomber damage stories, Brodie's trapeze landing system, TV rebroadcasting from airplanes (Stratovision), remote controlled aircraft, twin-fuselage fighter aircraft, designer Glenn Curtiss. Interesting juvenile-oriented aviation comic from immediate post-WW2 period featuring illustrations by Jim Ray. ; 64 pages.
Price: $49.95