FIGHTING PLANES AND ACES
First Published in November 1932 - 90 Pages
(plus a book catalogue of 6 pages)
This book
is larger than usual, (being
18 cm by 24 cm)
and contains nine chapters and 30 full page photographs.
The original dust wrapper.
This one is price clipped but the original price was 5 shillings.
W. E. Johns signed 100 copies of this book and you can read more
information about that here
I. - IN THE BEGINNING
II - EARLY DAYS AND PROGRESS
III - FAMOUS SQUADRONS
IV - THE GERMAN CIRCUSES
V - SOME FAMOUS FIGHTING PLANES
VI - GERMAN AEROPLANES
VII - THE BRITISH ACES
VIII - THE FRENCH ACES
IX - ACES OF OTHER NATIONS
- The American Aces
- The Italian Aces
- The Belgian Aces
- Other Aces with the Allies
- The German Aces
- The Austrian Aces
Fighting Planes and Aces
Published by John Hamilton
I believe the first edition boards are shown on the left and they
had an illustration of a bi-plane on the front.
I believe the second edition boards did not have this illustration but
had plain boards (as opposed to “plane” boards!) as it would be cheaper to
produce.
Frontispiece
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