The Arthur Ronnie Collection: Books & Autogaphs

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Blacksparrow Auctions is pleased to present The Arthur Ronnie Collection: Books and Autographs, to be held on Sunday, February 10, 2013, at 11am PST. James Gray Gallery at Bergamot Station Art Center in Santa Monica, CA will host the live auction. Public preview is available from February 4 to 9, also at James Gray Gallery.

This is an unprecedented selection of over 200 lots assembled by an individual collector who personally interviewed many of the authors and obtained autographs for over 70 years throughout his career as a newspaper reporter and as a publicist in the entertainment field. The collection features presidents, explorers, aviation, and Hollywood entertainment. A few of the many highlights include:

• Under the North Pole: The Wilkins-Ellsworth Submarine Expedition, Lincoln Ellsworth’s copy
• 20 hrs. 40 min. Our Flight in the Friendship. The American Girl, First Across the Atlantic by Air, Tells Her Story, Amelia Earhart’s personal copy with piece of fabric from the Friendship
• The Fun of It: Random Records of My Own Flying and of Women in Aviation, Amelia Earhart’s copy with her bookplate and signature, as well as the signatures of other early aviatrixes
• The Spirit of St. Louis, Presentation Edition signed by Charles A. Lindbergh, T. Claude Ryan, Otto W. Timm, and Bud Gurney
• WE. The Famous Flier’s Own Story of his Life and his Transatlantic flight, together with his views on the future of Aviation, Signed Limited Edition, additionally signed by T. Claude Ryan, Otto W. Timm, and Bud Gurney
• Memoirs by Harry S. Truman, both volumes inscribed
• The White House Years: Waging Peace, 1956-1961, Dwight D. Eisenhower, Signed Limited Edition
• Listen! The Wind and North to the Orient, Anne Morrow Lindbergh, each book signed by Anne Morrow Lindbergh and Charles Lindbergh

Complementing the signed books is a group of signed color lithographs, including a who’s who of early and pioneer aviators such as Charles Taylor, Grover Loening, Douglas Campbell, William Bishop, Gianni Caproni, Richard E. Byrd, A.V. Roe, Ruth Law, Ernest Hall, Jacqueline Cochran, Charles Lindbergh, Katherine Stinson, Henri Farman, and many more.

The featured item of the sale is a 2-volume set of The Lafayette Flying Corps (Boston and New York: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1920, First Edition). A presentation copy, signed and inscribed by James N. Hall and Charles Bernard Nordhoff to Dr. Edmund Gros, “For Doctor Gros, with warm regards, James N. Hall, Chas. Nordhoff, Tahiti, Oct. 14, 1927.” It is additionally signed by five surviving members of the Corps who signed on their respective biographical pages: Henry Batchelor (page 113), Edward Hinkle (page 267), Charles Kinsolving (page 301), William Wellman (movie director, page 483), and Herman Whitmore (page 487). Slipcase and dust jackets intact.

Dr. Gros was an American doctor in Paris who was instrumental in organizing the Lafayette Escadrille. Young men from neutral America during World War I were recruited to come to France and fly in the Escadrille in combat against the Germans. When America entered the war, the Lafayette Escadrille became the Lafayette Flying Corps. This is a cornerstone of any serious aviation collection. It is rare to find the books in such fine condition, and especially desirable with the signatures of Hall, Nordhoff, and Flying Corps members.

Interested bidders will be able to bid live in-person, by telephone, via absentee, and on the Internet as facilitated by iCollector. A print catalog will be available for purchase at blacksparrowauctions.com.
Items are as is. Please call us at (323) 250-3980 or email us at blacksparrow@haxbee.com for condition reports or any general inquiry.
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CHAMBERLIN, Clarence D. - Record Flights121 - CHAMBERLIN, Clarence D. - Record Flights
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Dorrance and Company Publishers, Philadelphia, (1928). First Edition. Limited Edition of 500 copies, of which this is Number 53. Signed by the author
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CHAMBERLIN, Clarence D. - Record Flights, together with Clarence D. Chamberlin TLS122 - CHAMBERLIN, Clarence D. - Record Flights, together with Clarence D. Chamberlin TLS
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Dorrance and Company Publishers, Philadelphia, (1928). First Edition. Octavo (8 ¼ X 5 5/8 in., 208 X 143 mm). 286 pages. Red cloth, spine lette...
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CHAMBERLIN, Clarence D. - Record Flights123 - CHAMBERLIN, Clarence D. - Record Flights
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Dorrance and Company Publishers, Philadelphia, (1928). First Edition. Octavo (8 ¼ X 5 5/8 in., 208 X 143 mm). 286 pages. Red cloth, spine lette...
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CHARNLEY, Mitchell V. - The Boys' Life of the Wright Brothers124 - CHARNLEY, Mitchell V. - The Boys' Life of the Wright Brothers
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Harper & Brothers Publishers, (1928). First Edition. Illustrated with photographs. Octavo (7 ½ X 5 1/8 in., 192 X 130 in.) 291 pages. Dark ...
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COCHRAN, Jacqueline, With Floyd Odlum - Stars at Noon, signed by Jacqueline Cochran, Chuck Yeager125 - COCHRAN, Jacqueline, With Floyd Odlum - Stars at Noon, signed by Jacqueline Cochran, Chuck Yeager
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Little, Brown and Company, (1954). First Edition. Octavo (8 ¼ X 5 ¾ in., 210 X 145 mm). 274 pages. Dark blue cloth, spine lettered in gilt...
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COPPENS, WILLY - Days On the Wing126 - COPPENS, WILLY - Days On the Wing
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Translated from the French by A. J. Insall. Privately printed for the Aviation Book Club, no date. Circa 1931. Octavo (8 ¼ X 5 7/8 in., 220 X 1...
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CORRIGAN, Douglas - That's My Story127 - CORRIGAN, Douglas - That's My Story
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E. P. Dutton & Co., Inc., New York, 1938. First Edition, 20th printing. With 56 gravure illustrations. Octavo (8 ¼ X 5 5/8 in, 210 X 143 mm...
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CROSSFIELD, A. Scott - Always Another Dawn: The Story of a Rocket Test Pilot128 - CROSSFIELD, A. Scott - Always Another Dawn: The Story of a Rocket Test Pilot
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With Clay Blair, Jr. The World Publishing Company, Cleveland and New York, (1960). First Edition. Octavo (8 ½ X 6 in., 218 X 157 mm). 421 pages...
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DE SEVERSKY, Alexander P. - America: Too Young to Die!129 - DE SEVERSKY, Alexander P. - America: Too Young to Die!
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McGraw-Hill Book Company, Inc., New York, 1961. First Edition. Octavo (8 ¼ X 5 5/8 in., 208 X 142 mm). 237 pages. Black cloth, spine lettered i...
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DE SEVERSKY, Alexander P. - Victory Through Air Power130 - DE SEVERSKY, Alexander P. - Victory Through Air Power
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Simon and Schuster, New York, 1942. Octavo (8 3/8 X 5 7/8 in., 213 X 148 mm). 354 pages. Black cloth, spine and front board lettered in gilt. Very Goo
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DELEAR, Frank J. - Igor Sikorsky: His Three Careers in Aviation131 - DELEAR, Frank J. - Igor Sikorsky: His Three Careers in Aviation
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Foreword by Lieutenant General James H. Doolittle, USAF (Ret.). Dodd, Mead & Company, New York, 1969. Octavo (9 ¼ X 6 ¼ in., 235 X 157...
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DOOLITTLE, James H. - Doolittle Tokyo Raiders 38th Reunion132 - DOOLITTLE, James H. - Doolittle Tokyo Raiders 38th Reunion
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Program commemorating the 38th Annual Reunion that took place April 17-20, 1980 in Newport Beach, California. 20 pages (including covers). 9 X 12 in.
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DOOLITTLE, James H. - I Could Never Be So Lucky Again: An Autobiography133 - DOOLITTLE, James H. - I Could Never Be So Lucky Again: An Autobiography
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With Carroll V. Glines. Bantam Books, (1991). First Edition, first printing. Octavo (9 ¼ X 6 ¼ in., 235 X 160 mm). 574 pages. Blue paper c...
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EARHART, Amelia - 20 hrs. 40 min. Our Flight in the Friendship signed with fabric of plane134 - EARHART, Amelia - 20 hrs. 40 min. Our Flight in the Friendship signed with fabric of plane
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20 hrs. 40 min. Our Flight in the Friendship, signed by Amelia Earhart with piece of fabric from the Friendship. New York: G. P. Putnam’s Sons, 192
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EARHART, Amelia - 20 hrs. 40 min. Our Flight in the Friendship, Earhart's personal copy135 - EARHART, Amelia - 20 hrs. 40 min. Our Flight in the Friendship, Earhart's personal copy
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20 hrs. 40 min. Our Flight in the Friendship. The American Girl, First Across the Atlantic by Air, Tells Her Story, Amelia Earhart’s personal copy wit
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EARHART, Amelia - The Fun of It: Random Records of My Own Flying and of Women in Aviation136 - EARHART, Amelia - The Fun of It: Random Records of My Own Flying and of Women in Aviation
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The Fun of It: Random Records of My Own Flying and of Women in Aviation, Amelia Earhart’s copy with her bookplate and signature, as well as the signat
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EMMENS, Lieut. Col. Robert G. - Guests of the Kremlin137 - EMMENS, Lieut. Col. Robert G. - Guests of the Kremlin
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The Macmillan Company, New York, 1949. First Edition, first printing. Octavo (8 ¼ X 5 5/8 in., 207 X 142 mm). 291 pages. Red cloth, spine lette...
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FARRÉ, LIEUTENANT HENRY - Skyfighters of France: Aerial Warface, 1914-1918138 - FARRÉ, LIEUTENANT HENRY - Skyfighters of France: Aerial Warface, 1914-1918
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Translated by Catharine Rush. Houghton Mifflin Company, Boston and New York, 1919. First Edition. With illustrations from paintings by the author. Qua
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FELLOWES, P. F. M. - First Over Everest! The Houston-Mount Everest Expedition 1933139 - FELLOWES, P. F. M. - First Over Everest! The Houston-Mount Everest Expedition 1933
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National Travel Club, New York, 1934. First American Edition. Quarto (9 5/8 X 6 ½ in., 245 X 163 mm). 264 pages. Black cloth lettered in gilt. ...
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FOKKER, Anthony H. G. - The Flying Dutchman: The Life of Anthony Fokker140 - FOKKER, Anthony H. G. - The Flying Dutchman: The Life of Anthony Fokker
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Henry Holt and Company, New York, (1931). First Edition. Octavo (8 ¾ X 6 in., 223 X 152 mm). 282 pages. Rust brown cloth, spine lettered in gil...
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