The book, The Gee Bee Story, chronicles the rise and fall of the Granville Brothers Aircraft company and along with this puts a spotlight on the remarkable series of Gee Bee single engine, high performance airplanes that reached their peak in the R-1 and R-2 models.  These high performance sports planes were used for air racing and today are synonymous with the "golden age of air racing".  While the Granville Brothers only built 24 aircraft between 1929 and 1934, the success of the Gee Bee racers ensured that they would have their place in history as pioneers of early high performance sport aircraft.  As the author of this book points out, the Gee Bee aircraft represented the greatest single advance in aerodynamic engineering that occurred during the first 50 years of flight.  The major sections of this book are as follows: 1) The Early Years; 2) A Taste Of Speed; 3) A Year Of Success; 4) Speed And More Speed; 5) A Year Of Misfortune; 6) Gee Bee Goes Abroad; 7) Time Flies; 8) End Of An Era and 9) Facts and figures.  In addition to an infromative narrative, this hard-to-find book includes the following features: 1) Approximately 68 vintage black and white photographs and 2) 4 pages of black and white three-way aircraft line illustrations.  This book is highly recommended to anyone interested in aviation history and the many contributions made by the Granville Brothers to the field of aeronautical design.  This book is 131 pages and is in good condition.  The author is Charles G. Mandrake.  Edition published in 1957.