Author: C. F. Snowdon Gamble
Title: The Story of a North Sea Air Station; Being Some Account of the Early Days of the Royal Flying Corps (Naval Wing) and of the Part Played Thereafter by the Air Station at Great Yarmouth and Its Opponents During the War 1914-1918
Description: London, Oxford University Press, 1928. First edition. Cloth. A first edition account of the events of a North Sea naval base during the First World War. The first edition of this work, in the very scarce publisher's original price unclipped dust wrapper. With photographic plates and vignette illustrations throughout, and with a folding map to the rear.C. F. Snowden Gamble's account of the activities of the workers of Great Yarmouth air station between 1914 and 1918, motivated, explains Gamble, 'in view of the fact that these played a considerable part in combating the menace of the Zeppelin airship, as well as disputing the efforts of the Imperial German Naval Air Service to establish an aerial supremacy over the North Sea&apos. In the publisher's original cloth binding, with price unclipped original dust wrapper. Slight fading to board perimeters, with bumping to head and tail of back strip. Pencil notations to front endpaper. Offsetting to half title. Losses to head and tail of dust wrapper back strip, with edgewear and small closed tears to head of wrapper. Some marks to rear wrap and back strip. Internally, firmly bound. Pages bright and generally clean, with the odd pencil marking. Very Good . Ill.: Not Stated. Very Good/Very Good.
Keywords: First World War Navy Air Force Zeppelin Navy Not Stated
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Title: The Story of a North Sea Air Station; Being Some Account of the Early Days of the Royal Flying Corps (Naval Wing) and of the Part Played Thereafter by the Air Station at Great Yarmouth and Its Opponents During the War 1914-1918
Description: London, Oxford University Press, 1928. First edition. Cloth. A first edition account of the events of a North Sea naval base during the First World War. The first edition of this work, in the very scarce publisher's original price unclipped dust wrapper. With photographic plates and vignette illustrations throughout, and with a folding map to the rear.C. F. Snowden Gamble's account of the activities of the workers of Great Yarmouth air station between 1914 and 1918, motivated, explains Gamble, 'in view of the fact that these played a considerable part in combating the menace of the Zeppelin airship, as well as disputing the efforts of the Imperial German Naval Air Service to establish an aerial supremacy over the North Sea&apos. In the publisher's original cloth binding, with price unclipped original dust wrapper. Slight fading to board perimeters, with bumping to head and tail of back strip. Pencil notations to front endpaper. Offsetting to half title. Losses to head and tail of dust wrapper back strip, with edgewear and small closed tears to head of wrapper. Some marks to rear wrap and back strip. Internally, firmly bound. Pages bright and generally clean, with the odd pencil marking. Very Good . Ill.: Not Stated. Very Good/Very Good.
Keywords: First World War Navy Air Force Zeppelin Navy Not Stated
Price: GBP 350.00 = appr. US$ 499.79 Seller: Rooke Books
- Book number: 786F58
- Book number: 786F58
See more books from our catalog: Naval & Military History