Aces Up
by CLARKE Covington
- Used
- very good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good/No Jacket
- Seller
-
Christchurch, Canterbury, New Zealand
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
London: John Hamilton, 1931 First edition (1931) blue cloth with gilt titling, rubbed to spine ends and corners, spine leans, pictorial endpapers, the front fep is detached, stationer's stamp to blank fly, top edge dusted blue, closed edges dusty, colour frontis and 4 plates by Captain W.E. Johns (Biggles author), former owner inscription dated 1933 in pencil to the blank fly, 255pp + col. frontis. +4 b&w plates (one detached but present) , 1pp adverts and then 8 diagrams of aeronautical manouevres on plates, Royal Flying Corps in the Great War, illustrated by Captain W.E. Johns. First Edition. Cloth. Very Good/No Jacket. Illus. by W. E. Johns . 12mo - over 6? - 7? tall.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Fortuna Books
(NZ)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 006425
- Title
- Aces Up
- Author
- CLARKE Covington
- Illustrator
- W. E. Johns
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- No Jacket
- Edition
- First Edition
- Publisher
- John Hamilton
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1931
- Keywords
- Royal Flying Corps, Great War, illustrated by Captain W.E. Johns, aeronautical Manouevres, World War One, Flying Ace, Aviation, Air Force, RFC, first edition, W E Johns
- Bookseller catalogs
- MILITARIA Fiction;
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- 12mo
- A duodecimo is a book approximately 7 by 4.5 inches in size, or similar in size to a contemporary mass market paperback. Also...
- First Edition
- In book collecting, the first edition is the earliest published form of a book. A book may have more than one first edition in...
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- Gilt
- The decorative application of gold or gold coloring to a portion of a book on the spine, edges of the text block, or an inlay in...
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- Edges
- The collective of the top, fore and bottom edges of the text block of the book, being that part of the edges of the pages of a...
- Spine
- The outer portion of a book which covers the actual binding. The spine usually faces outward when a book is placed on a shelf....
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