Author: Bailey, Jim.
Title: The Poetry of a Fighter Pilot. Originally Titled 'but We Must Not Take It Too Seriously'.
Description: Images Publishing. Malvern 1993 revised edition. Blue vynide boards, with inset detail from a Paul Nash painting to front. 50pp illustrated. Minor marks only, contents Fine and unmarked, overall VG+ ISBN: 9781897817209 Originally published in Johannesburg in the same year. Author was the son of Sir Abe Bailey the mining financier, and Lady Mary Bailey the well known pioneer of aviation across Africa from prewar years. He flew as a fighter pilot in WW2, and besides finally publishing his wartime verse gives some snippets of information on the planes that he flew.

Keywords: world war two second ii II r.a.f royal air force verse poetry africa african south southern