The Thunder Bird [Thunderbird]

Boston, Massachusetts: Little, Brown, and Company, 1919. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/No Jacket. 0x0x0. Fischer, Anton Otto. First edition. U.S. Secretary of State Robert Lansing's copy, (these were purchased from a family library in Henderson Harbor, NY, near his birthplace in Watertown, which included many other works owned by him) with his name in pencil on front endpaper. No jacket. Spine toned, boards lightly soiled, page ridges foxed. 1919 Hard Cover. 317 pp. Illustrated with black-and-white frontispiece. What happens when the hardscrabble cowboys of the Wild West are introduced to the latest in twentieth-century technology' In some cases, they take to the sky as the daring pilots who are preparing the country to go to war. The Thunder Bird is the sequel to B. M. Bower's earlier novel Skyrider, and it packs in just as much aerial excitement as its predecessor.