Apr 08, 2010 - Sale 2209

Sale 2209 - Lot 55

Price Realized: $ 270
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 200 - $ 300
COXWELL, HENRY. A Knight of the Air. Frontispiece illustration. 8vo, publisher's pictorial red cloth covers depicting two men with the cross-bow launch and the flying machine, some moderate edgewear, spine a bit browned; endpapers toned, edges sprinkled with foxing. London: Digby, Long & Co., [1895]

Additional Details

first edition of famed aeronaut Coxwell's ballooning adventure novel. Laid in are the original publication advertising leaf and a clipped review of the book from the Daily Chronicle of 12 November 1895.