Glorious Exploits of the Air
188pp. Green cloth-covered boards with red rules and black lettering (boards worn, soiled, cracked around spine and rounded at edges). A few spots and marks on endpapers, previous owner's name and address on flyleaf verso, faint occasional spotting. A worn copy of this now hard to find exhilarating account of the very early days of flying, with chapters on 'A War Pilot in the Making', 'Bomb-Raids', Submarine Patrols', 'German Air Services', Curious Adventures', etc, first published in 1917, in the midst of the first world war. 12mo.