McCORMICK, Harold Fowler. From My Experiences Concerning Aviation. Aus meinen Erfahrungen über das Flugwesen. No place, printer of date, but Zurich. 1917.
8vo. Original flexible goatskin presentation binding, lettered and ruled in gilt, all edges gilt, inner dentelles gilt, gilt metallic endpapers; pp. 78, 78, diagrams in the text, apart from minimal rubbing, a fine copy, printed on laid paper.
Privately printed first and bilingual English and German edition. Born into US American industrial aristocracy, McCormic developed an early interest in aviation and was an officer in the Aero Club of Illinois, founded in 1910. He set up a commercial commuter airline connecting North Shore suburbs and Grant Park and the South Shore Country Club of Chicago; however, the treacherous wind and climate caused the folding of the company. This unusual treatise, dealing with the psychological effect of flying, the physics and technology is based on a lecture given at the Zurich Psychologischer Club founded in 1916 by Emma und Carl Gustav Jung. Harold Fowler McCormick's first wife, Edith Rockefeller McCormick, had been treated for depression by C.G. Jung in 1913, and subsequently became a successful Jungian psycho-analyst herself.
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