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AUTHOR’S AUTOGRAPH EDITION OF
A BALLOON ASCENSION AT MIDNIGHT

LIMITED TO THIRTY COPIES ON
IMPERIAL JAPAN VELLUM OF
WHICH FIFTEEN ARE FOR SALE.

THIS COPY IS No. ____

“There is no conquest to which the entire human race aspires more ardently than the Empire of the Air.”

A. Santos-Dumont:
The North American Review.

AEROSTATION

A Balloon
Ascension at Midnight

BY

GEORGE ELI HALL

WITH SILHOUETTES BY
GORDON ROSS

Hot air balloon

PAUL ELDER AND MORGAN SHEPARD
San Francisco
1902

Copyright, 1902
by
George Eli Hall

“Upwards of five hundred thousand two-legged animals without feathers lie around us, in horizontal positions; their heads all in night-caps, and full of the foolishest dreams.”

Carlyle: Sartor Resartus.

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                           

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