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Vintage Military Air Craft Books with Illustrated "Planes of the Great War"
Item Details
Title and Author/Editor | Marine Corps Aviation: The Early Years 1912-1940 (Lieutenant Colonel Edward C. Johnson, 1977), The Work and Training of the Royal Flying Corps, Planes of the Great War (Howard Leigh), The Balloon Buster: Frank Luke of Arizona (Norman S. Hall, Georges Guynemer: Knight of the Air (Henry Bordeaux, with an introduction by Theodore Roosevelt, 1918), 1928), New Zealanders in the Air War (Alan W. Mitchell, High Adventure: A Narrative of Air Fighting in France (James Norman Hall, 1945), 1918), Target: Germany: The U. S. Army Air Forces’ Official Story of the VIII Bomber Command’s First Year Over Europe (1944), The Work and Training of the Royal Naval Air Service |
Genre | Biography, Autobiography and Memoirs, Military, War |
Illustrator | Howard Leigh and others. |
Type of Illustration | Collotype, Photographs, Photogravure |
Translator | Georges Guynemer was translated from the French by Louise Morgan Sill. |
Binding | Cloth on board, Softcover, Paper over boards |
Edition Statement | First Edition, British Edition |
Number of Books | 9 |
Additional Information | Planes of the Great War was illustrated by Howard Leigh who is considered to be one of the best aviation artists’ of his time. A loose illustration is included with the book. |
Condition
- wear to the hardcovers with bumped corners, rubbed edges, soiling and fraying; chipping to the softcovers; foxing, fading, writing to the endpapers; partial interior label to back cover.
Dimensions
5.25" W x 13.25" H x 10.0" D
- measures group.
Item #
ITMG271207