Woman and Flying

London: John Long, Limited, (1929).

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Hardcover. First edition. 223pp., illustrated. Small aviation bookstore label on the front pastedown, moderate foxing throughout, else about fine lacking the dustwrapper. Lady Heath was an Irish aviation pioneer who led a brief but eventful life before dying at age 42 in a fall from a tram car. Most notably she broke the International Commission for Air Navigation's ban on women as commercial pilots.

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Item #82698 Woman and Flying. Lady HEATH, Stella Wolfe Murray.