Cloud Country.
N.p. The Pure Oil Company, 1936. Hardcover. Complete 3-volume set. 12mo. Blue paper over boards with white lettering and pictorial stamping. 64pp, 64pp, 64pp. Numerous illustrations. Very good. Bindings faintly sunned, else tight, clean, quite attractive. Item #40007
Tight and nice first edition of this slim triple decker. The first volume is subtitled "Book One: Wings of Youth," the second volume "Book Two: Hawaii to Hollywood" and the third volume "Book Three: Lost in Siberia." James J. "Jimmie" Mattern (1905-88) was the aviation equivalent of a "B" movie actor. He was a test pilot, stunt man and wanna-bee adventurer a la Amelia Earhart who achieved a bit of reknown in the 1930s and milked it for all it was worth for a short-lived 1935 radio program, "The Diary of Jimmy Mattern," for a Chicago-based oil company.
Price: $45.00