Author: GRAHAME-WHITE Claude
Title: Heroes of the Flying Corps. A Description of the Work of the Airmen during the Early Stages of the War. Illustrated by Cyrus Cuneo. THE ORIGINAL EDITION, WANTING FRONTISPIECE
Description: Henry Frowde, Hodder & Stoughton,, 1916. 8vo., First Edition, with 5 fine coloured plates BUT WANTING COLOURED FRONTISPIECE; pictorial green cloth, upper board and backstrip blocked and lettered in gilt and colours, blue edges, pale blue endpapers, expertly recased, covers worn else a sound, firm copy. Arguably the scarcest of the Grahame-White and Harper collaborations, with striking plates by Cuneo senior. The missing frontispiece notwithstanding, a very good, bright, clean copy. EXTREMELY SCARCE. Enser, p.305; Noffsinger 557 (recording only the second edition of 1919).

Keywords: aviation, ww1, wwii, great war, rfc, royal flying corps, claude grahame-white, harry harper, cyrus cuneo


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