. A Letter from Benjamin Franklin on Balloons: A Letter written from Passy, France, January Sixteenth MDCCLXXXIV. W K Bixby, Saint Louis, 1922.

Price: US$100.00 + shipping

Condition: Very Good

Description: 10 pages (complete). Unnumbered copy of a privately printed (for the friends of Bixby) edition of 250 copies. Most interestingly the paper, Vidalon, was made at the same mills as made the paper for the first successful flight of a hot-air balloon. Inscribed and signed by Bixby on the frontispage (dated: 8/28/25). Illustrated boards with cloth spine. The boards and spine are very light scuffed and worn about the edges from shelving. The contents are mild-mannered. The early pages have some slight handling marks, storage marks. Nonetheless, the pages are amiable, clean, clear, smart, agreeable, healthy, generous of spirit and production. fk. Our orders are shipped using tracked courier delivery services.

Seller: Chapter 1, Johannesburg, GAU, South Africa