The Lost Aviators: A Story of Adventure

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Overview:

Title: The Lost Aviators: A Story of Adventure
Author: William Dixon Bell
Year: 1924
Publisher: The Four Seas Co.
Price: $2.00
Pages: 216
Binding: Hardcover
Type: Novel
Title Reference: The Lost Aviators: A Story of Adventure
Notes: 1st ed. (only ed. at WorldCat 2016-07-09) LCCN: "[c1924]" OCLC: "(c)1924" Month inferred from "Books of the Week" NY Herald, NY Tribune 1924-12-21 pG14

Searches author name and short title 2016-07-09 in several newspapers 1924 yields no other hit; one 1925 hit: review " 'The Lost Aviators', Thriller for Boys" The Washington Post 1925-02-08 pS16 (no price, nor mention of spec-fic content) Boston: The Four Seas Company, (1924). First Edition assumed, no title page date and copyright 1924 on the copyright page. No later printings mentioned. One glossy black and white tipped in frontispiece illustration. The dust jacket has a $2.00 printed price in the upper right corner of the front flap. The front flap also states "Illustrated by Griswold Tyng" and the Frontispiece is signed "Tyng". The dust jacket art is not signed. The back panel of the jacket has an ad for "Rimrock" by T. C. Hoyt, a 1923 published title. Bound in light blue cloth with darker blue stamping to the front cover and the spine. The Catalog of Copytight Entries for 1925 lists this title with copyright registered August 15, 1924; 2 copies received September 8; Aff (affidavit received) January 2, 1925.