352 pages, illustrated with black and white plates, maps on end papers. Apart from an ownership siganture on the front end paper, clean, unmarked and solid. "Richard Halliburton (January 9, 1900 - presumed dead after March 24, 1939) was an American travel writer and adventurer who swam the length of the Panama Canal ... He disappeared at sea while attempting to sail the Chinese junk Sea Dragon across the Pacific Ocean from Hong Kong to the Golden Gate International Exposition in San Francisco, California" (Wikipedia) "The Flying Carpet is his latest, his most modern book-in which he takes us around the world by airplane. Timbuctoo, because it was far away and mysterious, was his first destination. From there, the author and his pilot-companion, Moye Stephens, follow a "royal road to romance" through the sky, dropping down on Fez, Morocco and the French Foreign Legion, The Holy Land, Galilee, Baghdad in mysterious Arabia, Persia, and India; flying over the world's highest mountain, Mt. Everest, investigating Singapore, speeding to Borneo to visit the white Ranee whose husband rules half a million head hunters, and ending in Manila, making airplane records, enjoying unprecedented thrilling experiences, flying into remote places where airplanes had never been heard of before."