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These attractive posters are part of airline history and illustrate the efforts of early American and foreign airlines to attract customers with imaginative, artistic scenes depicting exotic foreign destinations. Collectors and students of airline history will find this full-color 64-page book a delightful experience. The author Don Thomas, a collector of airline memorabilia, photographed items from his extensive collection in an effort to share his hobby with others. There is a forward by R.E.G. Davies of the National Air & Space Museum.
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Book Description Soft cover. Condition: New. No Jacket. New, in publisher's original boxes. Unopened and unread; however there may be some light rubbing to covers and corners resulting from thirty years in storage. A bright, lovely copy containing many gorgeous full-page illustrations. This book was mentioned in Jimmy Buffett's 1998 memoir: "One of my best liked books in this shelf is called Poster Art of the Airlines, and it contains Art Deco posters and magazine ads for the Pan American Clippers and other great flying boats that are no more. My favorite page depicts a Clipper touching down in the lagoon of Bora Bora in French Polynesia." SEE ALSO: new copies of Nostalgia Panamericana; Nostalgia Artistica: Artistic Publicity of Some of the Smaller Air Services, 1926-1936; and Airline Artistry: Vintage Posters & Publicity. Seller Inventory # DT0004