Description
First edition, first printing of The Invisible Encounter, signed by Igor Sikorsky.
Octavo, 120pp. Blue cloth, title in gilt on spine. First printing, with “Scribner’s A” on copyright page. Light offsetting to endpapers. In the publisher’s dust jacket, $2.00 on front flap, foxing to verso, rubbing to spine, a very good copy. Signed by Igor Sikorsky on the front free endpaper.
Igor Sikorsky (1889-1972) was a Russian-American aviation pioneer, best known for the development of the first viable helicopter. Early in his career in Russia, Sikorsky was successful in designing fixed-wing aircraft. Moving to the United States in 1919, he eventually founded the Sikorsky Aircraft Corporation. In the 1930s, the Sikorsky Corporation developed the first flying boats for Pan American Airways to allow for ocean-crossing flights. His most notable achievement came in 1939 with the development of the Vought-Sikorsky VS-300, the first viable helicopter. Provenance: From the estate of Susana and Nickolai Sikorsky, the son and daughter-in-law of Igor Sikorsky. Estate sale in West Hartford, CT, May 2021.
