(Travel) A large and attractive promotional poster issued by Trans World Airlines (TWA), 1007 x 636 mm. (40 x 25 in), c. 1955. Printed just before TWA began acquiring jet planes in 1956.
Pin holes and minor tears mostly at margins, else very good to fine condition. Will be shipped rolled.
(EXA 5351) $500
(John GLENN) Poster, NEW CONCORD SALUTES JOHN H. GLENN JR. LT. COL. USMC (New York: Murray Poster Printing Co. [1962?]) 612 x 457 mm. (24 1/8 x 18 in) on thick stock.
An excellent period poster most likely printed for his 3 March 1962 homecoming in New Concord, Ohio. It appears that arrangements for the poster were hastily made and the organizers had anticipated that Glenn would be accompanied by his fellow Mercury 7 astronauts, as was the case for his New York ticker-tape parade on 1 March and other public celebrations of his orbital flight—hence the names of Shepard, Grissom and others listed below. However, Glenn was not accompanied by other members of the Mercury 7, nor other NASA officials to New Concord. Nearly 50,000 people flocked to New Concord to welcome Glenn home, overwhelming the town of 2,500 people.
Minor marginal wear including a few small tears not affecting text, creased at bottom left corner, light toning at top left, some toning on verso, else very good.
(EXA 5366) SOLD.
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* “Glenn Cheered by 50,000 During Ohio Homecoming” New York Times (4 Mar. 1962) 1.
(Lindbergh Baby) Broadside, 10 x 8 1/2 in. (Trenton, N.J.: 11 March 1932): “WANTED INFORMATION AS TO THE WHEREABOUTS OF CHAS. A. LINDBERGH, Jr. OF HOPEWELL, N.J. SON OF COL. CHAS. A. LINDBERGH World-Famous Aviator. This child was kidnaped from his home in Hopewel, N.J.,between 8 and 10 p.m. on Tuesday, March 1, 1932.” Printed 11 March 1932.
Minor marginal chipping at top, usual folds, else fine.
(EXA 4294) $650
(Aviation) A 13 1/2 x 9 5/8 in. print entitled “Grand Aeorstatic Balloon” (London: R. Wilkinson, 1784). A wonderful illustration demonstrating the popular excitement over Jean Pierre Blanchard’s flight over London and the south of England. Following the success of the Montgolfier brothers, Blanchard (1753 – 1809) is considered the first ‘professional’ balloonist flying numerous exhibition flights over Paris in 1783 and 1784. In the latter year, Blanchard would move to London where he would stage the first balloon crossing of the English Channel in January 1785. In 1792, Blanchard would come to the United States and become the first person to ascend in a balloon in the Western Hemisphere in a demonstration in Philadelphia viewed by George Washington.
The present view depicts one of Blanchard’s abortive attempts to cross the English Channel. In this demonstration, according to the lengthy description beneath, “…M. Blanchard on Saty. Octr. 16th 1784 ascended from the Royal Military Academy at Little Chelsea, a fourth Time into the Atmosphere accompanied by the ingenious Mr. [John] Sheldon – at Ten Minutes after Twelve, the two gallant adventurers preceded by two small Ballons [sic] as Signals, after taking leave of their generous Host & a numerous circle of Nobility & Friends, arose with the most majestic grandeur & wafted by the prayers & plaudits of upwards of Four Hundred Thousand Spectators in Eighteen Minutes were lost in Æther – after a number of astonishing maneuvers & Evolutions the Travelers made a stop at Sunbury, where for the expediting the Machine the gallant Sheldon (unwillingly) descended & left his friend to pursue alone his Journey through ‘the tractless void.’ who after passing over Guilford Farnham &c. about 3 o’clock in the afternoon finding the day too far spent to cross the Channel to Brest after hovering a considerable Time over Portsmouth the Isle of Wight &c. &c., alighted at Rumsey near Southampton and amidst universal acclimations finished the most extraordinary journey by a sublunary being–” Only several months later, Blanchard would make his successful Channel crossing.
Matted, hinged at left margin, light soiling, else fine.
(EXA 4079) $2,000
