mannock mick (6 résultats)

Hardcover. Etat : Near Fine. Etat de la jaquette : Very Good. 1st Edition. 221 pp b/w illustrations from photographs and facsimile pages of the diary with explanatory notes to the opposite page. . The contents clean and tight with no inscriptions or marks.Publishers blue cloth binding clean and tight with no chips or splits.DJ price clipped, no loss or splits to DJ in clear removable sleeve.

Cloth. Etat : Very Good. Etat de la jaquette : Poor. First Edition. Now published in its entirety for the first time, the personal diary of Major 'Mick' Mannock, winner of a posthumous VC in 1918 is one of the most important aviation documents of the First World War. It gives us a unique insight into the personality of the half-blind fighter pilot who rose from the distressed poverty of an Irish family to command the famous No. 85 Squadron. This famous fighter pilot was "officially credited with 73 victories, but actually accounted for more than 100 enemy pilots. No fighter pilot ever shot down more aggressors." Photos. 221 pages.

First Edition. First Edition. octavo, blue boards in pictorial dust jacket. 220pp. Neville Spearman, Introduced and annotated by Frederick Oughton. This book is dedicated to 40 Squadron, 74 Squadron, and 85 Squadron. The diary is printed in its entirety with the pages reproduced in facsimile and a transcription of each provided. A valuable addition to aviation literature of World War I. Illustrated with eight photographs. Jacket price clipped. A very fine copy. octavo, blue boards in pictorial dust jacket.

8vo, 221pp, black and white illustrations. A very good hardback copy in foxed and price-clipped dust jacket. Endpapers mildly foxed.

hardcover. Etat : Good. First Edition. First edition. With dust jacket.

Hardcover. Etat : Good. Etat de la jaquette : Good. 1st Edition. 1966 1st edition mylar covered unmarked.