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Auction 127  30 Aug - 2 Sep 2021
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Lot 5045

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BOOKS, includes Solo Flight by Jean Batten, 1934 first edition, hard cover, 215pp plus facsimile of Jean Batten's log while written in the air, also some b&w photos, one of the leading pages signed personally by Jean Batten 9-11-34 and another signed by C.R.McNiven (of McNiven's Ice Cream Company?); History of The Australian Club, Melbourne, Volume II 1932-1965, by F.F.Knight, 1971 first edition, hard cover, 128pp with a few b&w photos; Minefields and Miniskirts, Australian Women and the Vietnam War by Siobhan McHugh, 1993 first edition, card cover, 295pp with a large number of b&w photos, with indecipherable signature on title page (possibly the authors). The first book with much foxing and small tear on cover spine, the last with some foxing at front page edges, otherwise very good - very fine. (3)

New Zealander, Jean Batten flew her biplane from England to Australia in May 1934 setting a world record for a woman's long distance solo flight.
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