110 leaves, (folio) 37x33 cm. (14¾x12") brown cloth with pictorial paper insets on front and rear covers. Each leaf with original mounted news-clippings and news photographs relating to period aviation, aviators, and related subjects.

A unique treasure trove of contemporary aviation news reporting featuring dozens of aviators, barnstormers and daredevils - many of them women - of the day, including several whose entire career from first flight to final disastrous crash plays out on these pages. The first several articles are devoted to W. Stanley Atherton, the "Boy Aviator" of Randolph, Mass. in succession are stories about America's first licensed woman aviator, Harriet Quimby and her historic flight, on April 16, 1912 she was the first to fly over the English Channel (her tragic death when her Bleriot crashed in Boston Harbor is recorded several pages later); Glenn Curtiss; Earle Ovington; Miss Agnes Firth; Miss Mary Sims "The Flying Widow." C.W. Rolls' 1910 fatal crash of his Wright biplane; Arch Hoxsey's world's altitude record and subsequent fatal crash; Eugene Ely; Paul Peck; the Wright brothers; Lincoln Beachey; Calbraith Rodgers; Harry Atwood, etc., etc. A remarkable wealth of material.