Silver Wings

by Raoul Whitfield

$1,500 · Offered by Between the Covers · No longer available

First edition · Signed

Hardcover. First edition. Illustrated by Frank Dobias. Two blanks excised but not the patterned art deco-design endpapers else near fine lacking the scarce dust jacket. Inscribed by the author: To Trudy – My perfectly swell 'Lafayette' neighbor – January – 1931. Raoul Whitfield. A collection of aviation stories for adolescent boys, issued at about the same time as the author's better known noir mysteries. The only book by this author we've seen

• Binding: Hardcover

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