Fighting Planes and Aces. by Johns, W. E - 1933

John Hamilton. Hardcover. Poor/No Jacket. The boards are torn and marked.No spine.One inscription dated 1941.Tanning.Excellent binding.Poor copy.[R.K]. Our orders are shipped using tracked courier delivery services.

London: John Hamilton. Good. c1932. Hardcover. 4to hardback; 90 pages plus 6 pages of adverts. Shabby blue cloth board covers, browned at edges, and cloth splitting at spine edges; book much cleaner, and sound, internally. No handwriting inside, such as previous owners names; There are however some foxing spots to the edges of the blocked pages; fortunately this seldom extends onto the main body of the pages; b/w plates throughout; Book of fighter planes and fighter pilots of the First World War ; 4to 11" - 13" tall .

John Hamilton. First Edition. Hardcover. Fair/No Jacket. Undated C.1932. 90 pages (complete with all illustrations). The original boards are sunned, edge worn, chipped, marked. Within the book, there is tanning, foxing, damp stains, age related marks. However, the book is still in fair condition, tightly bound and intact. 1st edition. MK.. Our orders are shipped using tracked courier delivery services.

n.d. [1932]. John Hamilton, London. No date [1932]. First Edition. Hardback. No DW. Blue illustrated cloth, black lettering. Large 8vo. Portrait frontis + 29 plates. Lacks plate opposite page 16. Boards are a little worn and soiled and spine is sunned. Endpapers lightly browned o/w contents overall are clean.

John Hamilton, 1933-01-01. Hardcover. Good. . Cover shows minor to moderate wear, tear, rubbing, bumped corners, and soiling. Bookplate of former owner on the front pastedown, name on the front free endpaper. Pages are lightly tanned and foxed.

London: John Hamilton Undated publication. Pages clean and bright, occasional foxing or spotting on some pages but mostly neat, rubbing to boards with some chipping to the cloth on the top and bottom of the spine, binding firm.. Hard. Very Good Minus. 4to.

London: John Hamilton Book of fighter planes and fighter pilots of the First World War 90 pages plus 6 pages of adverts. Chapters on the planes, squadrons and fighter pilots, wonderful full page drawings by Howard Leigh of planes fighting plus photographs of air aces. Book is overall clean inside just some very light small occasional foing spots little light foxing to outer edges of pages, outer covers are a little rubbed on edges with tiny splits just beginning to appear on outer hinges of spine which is a little browned,some marks on edges and on surface of boards.Not dated but is 1930s possible first edition 1932. Though not perfect a pleasing example of a collectable book SEE IMAGE. DETAILED IMAGES AVAILABLE ON REQUEST.. Boards. Good Plus/No Jacket. Illus. by Howard Leigh Alfred Sindall. 9 ¾ x 7 ¼ Inches. Hardcover.

London: John Hamilton, [1932]. 90pp, [6]. With frontispiece and 30 plates. Original publisher's blue cloth, title stamped in black to spine and upper board (i.e. the second issue binding, without the stamped image of plane to upper board), with the fabulously evocative rare Howard Leigh dustwrapper displaying the original 5s price. An almost fine copy, but for the slightest of fading at head and foot of spine, in a near good dustwrapper with some loss and tearing, small piece at lower corner of rear panel detached but present. Presentation bookplate to FEP, small private owner's ink stamp ('Phillips') to front flap of dustwrapper. An illustrated survey of WW1 flying aces, complete with the rare and evocative dustwrapper, by W.E. Johns (1893-1968), English journalist and popular children's book writer, best known for his popular Biggles series, which began in the same year that this work was published. . First edition. Quarto.