Flying the U.S. mail to South America How Pan American Airships Carry On in Sun and Storm Above the Rolling Caribbean by Lewis E. Theiss - 1933

Boston MA: W. A. Wilde Company. Very Good in Very Good dust jacket. 1933. Hardcover. The edition is not stated, but the book looks early. However, an inscription on the front flyleaf, stating that the book had been presented by a church school as a reward for perfect attendance, is dated 1945. The pages are tanned, but the book is clean and sound. Its attraction lies in the dramatic jacket, which shows a stately plane flying above a man clinging to wreckage in the ocean. A long chip is missing along the spine, but the cover art is intact. The titles on the spine have faded. A mylar Brodart cover now protects the jacket. .

Boston: W. A. Wilde Company, 1933. First of a dozen books in the 'Ginger' Hale series, a teen adventure involving Pan American airships and the men who flew them; the hero is a Boy Scout visiting relatives in Miami. Theiss was a prolific author of teen adventure books from the 1920s to the '50s, most involving aviation, and noted for the accuracy of his technical information. Hardcover in jacket. First or early edition - no later printings noted, none of the later Ginger books are listed. Light wear to book, some foxing & spotting, particularly to page edges; jacket shows some foxing, light rubbing, minor chipping & edgewear, short tears; ink VIII & 1934 on free endsheet. Text clean; 303 pages, b/w photo frontispiece.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Good. Octavo.