Boeing Stratocruiser hardcover sales brochure

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Good plus, rear outer hinge split, contents very good. Color pictorial boards, plastic comb binding. 26×35.5 cm. Rare, OCLC locates only three copies. The largest airliner of its day, the Stratocruiser was produced from 1947-1950. With its speed and range it was popular for trans-oceanic flights until the advent of jet-powered commercial aircraft. Included with this are four 8×10 glossy production photos, four 8×10 airplane interior photos, four 8×10 glossy photos of a scantily clad dancing girl at what appears to be an office party. Also seven 11×17 production photos – one marked on back as a Robert Yarnall Richie photograph, and three 11×17 mountain landscape photos by an unknown photographer, possibly Richie? weight: 2.2 lb. Boeing Aircraft Company. Seattle. circa 1947. [34] pp. Color and duo-tone illustrations throughout.