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CLARKE, BASIL - Atlantic Adventure a Complete History of Transatlantic Flight

London, England: Allan Wingate, 1958. 1st Edition; 1st Printing. Hardcover. B&W Illustrations; This book is in Very Good+ conditions and has a Very Good+ dust jacket. The book and its contents are in generally clean, bright condition. The spine ends have some light bumping. The text pages are clean and bright. The price clipped dust jacket has several edge nicks and bits of rubbing, mostly to the spine ends, and there some ground-in dirt to the rear panel. There is one small (fingernail sized area) of color loss on the front panel. "At the end of 1917, he (Basil Clarke) became director of special intelligence at the Ministry of Reconstruction after being recruited on behalf of Christopher Addison, who had an interest in propaganda. When Addison left to become president of the Local Government Board, Clarke followed him in 1919 and then joined the Ministry of Health when it was founded, with Addison as the Minister of Health, in 1919. After two months he left to become editor of the Sheffield Independent before rejoining the Ministry of Health six months later, in March 1920. He was then seconded to Dublin Castle in August 1920 to lead the British propaganda effort during the Irish War of Independence." (from Wikipedia). Very Good+ in Very Good+ dust jacket .
USD 20.00 [Appr.: EURO 18.75 | £UK 16 | JP¥ 3060] Booknumber: 39750

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