GUIDE DES VOYAGES AÉRIENS: PARIS-TUNIS
Rare inscribed travel guide to the air route from France to North Africa, by a pioneering French feminist, novelist, and aviation journalist, illustrated by her own aerial photographs.
Very good minus.
Price: $2,500.00
GUIDE DES VOYAGES AÉRIENS: PARIS-TUNIS
"[Faure-Favier] was considered by some the first Frenchwoman to become a professional journalist." — Jennifer Anne Boittin
By the time of this guide's publication, Faure-Favier had already set the speed records by air from Paris to Dakar and Paris to Baghdad, flown on the first commercial night flight between Paris and London, participated in the first live radio broadcast from an airplane, contributed text and her own photographs to the earliest guide to Paris's Le Bourget airport, and published two novels highlighting advances in aviation: LES CHEVALIERS DE L'AIR (1922) and BLANCHE ET NOIR (1928), the latter of which also included a landmark French depiction of love and friendship between Black men and white women. Her guide to the Paris-Lyon-Marseile-Ajaccio-Tunis route offers the reader facts and figures, information on airport and airplane amenities, advice on the in-flight view, and the various destination cities in France, Italy, and "our" Tunisia (a French colonial protectorate until 1956). Among the services and conveniences spotlighted in Faure-Favier's text and the stylish Deco advertisements: air mail; the excellent meals served on board the Golden Ray, France's first flying full restaurant service; cars and motorcycles available for tourist rental; weatherproof rubber flight garments; and the fine fire extinguishers with which "nearly all" passenger planes were equipped. OCLC locates just two copies outside France, and just six overall. A scarce volume in this first series of French air travel guides; rare signed.
Read more: Boittin, Colonial Metropolis: The Urban Grounds of Anti-Imperialism and Feminism in Interwar Paris.
The Object
First printing. Paris: Publié soul le patronage du Ministère de l'Air [et al.], 1930. Guide des voyages aeriens Paris-Tunis / Paris-Lyon 7.25'' x 5.25'' Original blue pictorial wrappers. Illustrated in black and white. Fold-out map attached to inside rear wrapper as issued. 131, [1] pages, followed by 28 pages of advertisements. Inscribed "à Claude Tulié / Ce beau voyage dans l'air, sur la mer, sur la terre... / Cordialement / Louise Faure-Favier / 1930." Light chipping along wrapper edges, closed tears along spine with rear wrapper partially detached. Spine and edges toned.
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