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Yankee Poodle by Gibbs-Smith. C. H.,

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Catalogue number: B1/0305

Picture of book dustjacket showing black line drawing of stylised balloon aloft and a castle below amongst a mountain forest.

I picture of a page from the book quoting the words engraved on a memorial to the balloon's destruction.

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Description:	Hardback book with colour pictorial dust jacket First edition with 255 pages, 15 chapters and epilogue. A fictional novel written by the well-known aviation historian Charles Harvard Gibbs-Smith. His obituary in The Times described him as "the recognised authority on the early development of flying in Europe and America" Set in 1907 and features a steam car called ‘The Silver Steamer’ , a gas balloon called 'Brunnhilde' and a poodle called 'Julius' with romance and aristocrats thrown in. You can read a digitised version on the Internet Archive HERE,
Donated by:	Robin Batchelor

Description:

Hardback book with colour pictorial dust jacket First edition with 255 pages, 15 chapters and epilogue.

A fictional novel written by the well-known aviation historian Charles Harvard Gibbs-Smith. His obituary in The Times described him as "the recognised authority on the early development of flying in Europe and America"

Set in 1907 and features a steam car called ‘The Silver Steamer’ , a gas balloon called 'Brunnhilde' and a poodle called 'Julius' with romance and aristocrats thrown in.

You can read a digitised version on the Internet Archive HERE,

Donated by:

Robin Batchelor