Plane Tales from the Skies

by Wing Adjutant, Wilfred Theodore Blake

£325 · Offered by Adrian Harrington Rare Books

First edition

London: Cassell and Company, 1918. FIRST EDITION. Octavo, pp.x; 182. Publisher's red cloth with black titles to spine and upper board, in pictorial dust-jacket designed by G.H. Tavis. A collection of fact-based short stories about early aerial combat in WWI, mostly on the Western Front. Faint ghost of a stamp to front pastedown, cheap grey paper stock has some occasional spotting. Slight spotting to endpapers. Some marks to the cloth at the spine. Dust-jacket

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