| Title | This winged world : an anthology of aviation fiction / edited, with an introduction, by Thomas Collison.
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| Published | New York : Coward-McCann, c1943.
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| Description | xxiv, 520 pages ; 22 cm
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| Formatted Note | Contents: Wings of the gods: Daedalus and Icarus / Jean Lang (adapted) -- Pegasus ans Bellerophon / Nathaniel Hawthorne (adapted) -- Dream of wings: A dissertation on the art of flying / Samuel Johnson -- The balloon-hoax / Edgar Allan Poe -- The war in the air / H.G. Wells -- Young wings: The trail of the hawk / Sinclair Lewis -- Skylark III / Wallace Irwin -- Last conflict / Walt McDougall -- The better sport / Ernest Douglas -- "Going up?" / Edwin Balmer and William MacHarg -- The horror of the heights / Sir Arthur Conan Doyle -- War wings: The great tradition / James Warner Bellah -- Up for glory / Richard Howells Watkins -- Down in flames / Ben Ray Redman -- At 2:42 A.M. / James Warner Bellah -- Fear / James Warner Bellah -- Fed up / Elliott White Springs -- John A. / A.A. Caffrey -- Shy pilot / Peter B. Kyne -- Zero-zero / Harry Ashe -- Clear and Unlimited / H. Vernor Dixon -- High water / Leland Jamieson -- Co-pilots don't talk back / Leland Jamieson -- Traffic trick / Leland Jamieson -- Wings of adventure: Mr. Burroughs tells a lie / Richard Thruelsen -- Keep your nose down / Alvah C. Bessie -- The cities of the world / James Warner Bellah -- High compression / Leland Jamieson -- Mystical wings: Ground mist / Ben Ray Redman -- That which hath wings / Paul Gallico -- The last fight / Harry Ashe -- War wings of the air age: East from Botwood / Leland Jamieson -- Return to life / J.L. Rhys -- Bombardier / Paul Gallico -- A bomber goes back home / Guy Gilpatric -- A place to roost / Richard Sale.
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| Subjects | Aeronautics -- Fiction.
Short stories.
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| Other Authors | Collison, Thomas.
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| LC Card Number | 43-16090 |
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| | WRHS Research Library: PS 648 A365 T448 1943
CA-1904227: LC class, closed stacks [status: NON-CIRCULATING] |
| [Record 92057] |
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