VANDERBILT, William K.
Flying Lanes: Being a Journal of a Flight Around South America and Over the Andes.
New York: Privately Printed , 1937.
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First Edition of William K. Vanderbilt's Final Book Flying Lanes: Being a Journal of a Flight Around South America and Over the Andes; in the rare original dust jacket
First edition of Vanderbilt's final book. Octavo, original cloth, illustrated with photographs. Near fine in the rare original dust jacket which is in very good condition.
A member of the prominent American Vanderbilt family, William "Willie" Kissam Vanderbilt II was a skilled sailor and yachtsman. Already extremely wealthy from a trust fund and from his income as president of the New York Central Railroad Company, on his father's death in 1920, "Willie" inherited a multimillion-dollar fortune. In 1925, he traded his luxury yacht Eagle for ownership of Fisher Island, Florida, a place he used as a winter residence. The present volume recounts Vanderbilt's flight from Miami to South America and over the Andes accompanied by his wife and close friends Mr. and Mrs. Robert D. Huntington.
Flying Lanes: Being a Journal of a Flight Around South America and Over the Andes.
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