The Flying Years by Reichers, Lou - 1956

New York: Henry Holt & Company, 1956. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. Stated First Edition with no additional printings noted. Hard cover in very good condition with medium blue boards, navy blue spine cloth, silver gilt and red spine lettering. Board corners slightly bumped; overall dust dulling; fading to head & heel of spine. Internal text block clean & tight; overall age toning to the papers; no writing, no markings to note. Dust jacket good; has been re-forced on verso with paper tape at all fold lines; shelf and edge wear, some loss at top & bottom edges and folds. Not price clipped; original $4.50. Four leaves/eight pages of six (half page each) glossy black & white photos (first leaf with tape repair), maps, Russian weather map, and facsimile of War Department Letter dated April 20, 1942, notifying the author that he was awarded the Distinguished Flying Cross. * From the dust jacket flap, ""The personal adventures of a professional aviator."" With a career that spanned time from the early single-engined airplane to the age of the multi-engined jet -- related with a rare ability to convey the professional flyer's attitude toward his work.""