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Roland GARROS & Jean AJALBERT

La passion de Roland Garros

Gallimard, Paris 1934, 12x19cm, relié.

Edition for of wich no leading copies exists, one of the review copies. Bound in full carton covered flight, smooth back, as part of shagreen red guards and contreplats of handmade paper, canvas cover and spine preserved. Important autograph signed by the author on half-title page of Hubert Person. Our copy also includes, on the first watch, an original photograph of Roland Garros taken at an airshow and another guard, this handwritten accuracy Jean Ajalbert in achieving and history of bookbinding who dresses this autograph dedication of the author "This copy of MS is connected to the first German aircraft machine he had descended canvas. Roland had brought me a large piece in which I made him a portfolio that I sent him to Zorndorf. " Jean Ajalbert attached to this menu autograph dedication of the author, signed by Roland Garros, the room where the two men met on the occasion of the arrival of the Paris-Rome A volunteer run, 2 January 1911. 1914, Garros dream be the first to shoot down a German plane. On 19 August 1914, despite a bold pursuit, it fails due to lack of skill on his passenger charge to take the snap on the enemy. To modernize fighter aircraft and convince the high command of the strategic power of aviation Garros is developing a system enabling the pilot to fire through the propeller. So the controls of the first car hunter on April 1, 1915, Roland Garros shot down a German Albatros pulling his gun through the axis of the aircraft. In a letter to Ajalbert Garros reflects his interest in the relics of this historic victory: "I was in a car to see the debris; the first arrivals had won all autograph dedication of the authors, weapons, badges, etc.. I am active steps to recover. (...) Needless to say my success as complete satisfaction (...) I alone have fought without passenger. But what makes me most happy is the feeling of having created alone, and despite all the risks of the unknown in aviation, the instrument that brought me success. This is above all, my joy. "This victory and the following (when captured on April 18, he shot three of the five enemy aircraft destroyed since the beginning of the war) does not, however, succeed in convincing the French military authorities in the interest of his invention . The Germans, on the contrary, recover the wreckage of his plane and develop thanks to him that the Fokker dominate the sky long and cost the lives of Roland Garros October 5, 1918. Exceptional relic of one of the first aerial combat History. --- Please note that the translation in english is done automatically, we apologize if the formulas are inaccurate. Contact us for any information!

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