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Old Soggy No.1 The Story of Slats Rodgers Texas Barnstormer
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Old Soggy No. 1: The Uninhibited Story of Slats Rodgers
Hart Stilwell & Slats Rodgers
Julian Messner, NY
1954
First edition.
One of the earliest Seat-of-the-pants barnstormers in Texas, Slats Rodgers built his first plane (Old Soggy No. 1) after reading accounts of the wright brothers. Barnstorming, flying circuses, crawling away from 28 crashes . . . all are molded into Slats' carousing story. As told by Slats himself and molded into printable shape for him by Hart Stilwell.
Hard cover
Textured blue boards, graphic dust jacket, 21.5 cm (octavo). 249 pages
Very near fine copy, clean, unmarked. Dust jacket has chipped corners, tears at spine tail, now in clear Brodart poly overwrap.
sku
8091002
