Author: PENTLAND Geoffrey
Title: The P-40 Kittyhawk in Service. With Illustrations by the Author. SIGNED PRESENTATION COPY; EXTRA-ILLUSTRATED
Description: Kookaburra Technical Publications, Melbourne,, [1974]. Roy. 8vo., First Edition, with fine coloured illustrations and numerous photographs in monochrome throughout, some mild age-staining, bookplate scar on front free endpaper; pictorial boards, a very good, bright copy in unclipped dustwrapper. A PRESENTATION COPY FROM THE AUTHOR WITH HIS SIGNED HOLOGRAPH INSCRIPTION ON FRONT FREE ENDPAPER, AND EXTRA-ILLUSTRATED BY THE INSERTION OF A MOUNTED COLOURED PLATE DEPICTING FOUR P-40 LIVERIES EXTRACTED FROM THE AUTHOR'S 'RAAF CAMOUFLAGE & MARKINGS 1939-1945, VOL. 1'. Detailed and scarce monograph on AustralIa's primary WWII fighter, including twenty aircraft flown by fifteen aces. SIGNED COPIES ARE EXTREMELY SCARCE.

Keywords: aviation, aircraft monographs, ww2, wwii, p-40, p-40 kittyhawk, pentland, geoffrey pentland, signed


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