Author: MASON, JR. , HERBERT MOLLOY Title: High Flew the Falcons the French Aces of World War I
Description: Philadelphia, PA: J. B. Lippincott Company, 1965. 1st Edition; 1st Printing. Hardcover. B&W Illustrations; This book is in Very Good+ condition and has a Very Good- dust jacket. The book and its contents are in clean, bright condition. There is some beginning bumping and rubbing to the spine ends of the book covers. The text pages are clean and bright. The dust jacket has several semi-closed edge tears and noticeable rubbing and one small chip. ""Hub" was a young graduate of Trinity University in San Antonio, Texas, who admired his father, Herbert Molloy Mason, Sr, in part because of his father's tremendous military accomplishments. Mason, Sr, was a WWI aviator and among the first 50 to join the US Army Air Corps. Col. Mason also worked for the Royal Air Force during WWII. Col. Masonīs career inspired his sonīs many books on 20th century military history. Herbert Mason, Jr, spent one year as a radio news reporter in San Antonio after graduating from college before getting on a bus which took him to New York. There he eventually became the aviation editor for TRUE, a popular men's magazine, met and married his Norwegian wife and lived in Greenwich Village for 10 years, where they had a daughter." (Amazon biography). Very Good+ in Very Good- dust jacket .
Keywords: Aeronautics / Astronautics Herbert Molloy Mason Jr. Aviation World War I Lafayette Escadrille Early Aviation Aeronautics / Astronautics
Price: US$ 25.00 Seller: S. Howlett-West Books
- Book number: 39744
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