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Buy this book on-line MANFRED FREIHERR VON RICHTHOFEN : The Red Air Fighter. [Translated from the German by T.Ellis Barker]. With a preface and explanatory notes by C.G.GreyThe "Aeroplane" & General Publishing Co. Ltd., London, 1918
First English Edition (first printing). 8vo. vi, 140pp + [ii] publisher's advertisements. Pictorial blue cloth. With a portrait frontispiece and four captioned photographic plates. Boards a little rubbed, marked and creased, and with the backstrip cloth now completely absent. Some tanning to the paperstock. Tiny nicks to the fore edge margin of the first three leaves. A few pencilled notes to the rear pastedown. A somewhat handled copy of an uncommon item, housed in a homemade card presentation case. The flying memoirs of the Red Baron, written on the instructions of the Press and Intelligence section of the Luftstreitkräfte whilst Richthofen was on convalescent leave following a severe head wound sustained in July 1917. He died three months before the publication of this English-language edition (which was presumably rushed out to capitalise on news of his demise).. Book. Book Condition: Good. Binding: Hardcover Click here for full details of this book, to ask a question or to buy it on-line. Bibliophile Bookbase probably offers multiple copies of MANFRED FREIHERR VON RICHTHOFEN : The Red Air Fighter. [Translated from the German by T.Ellis Barker]. With a preface and explanatory notes by C.G.Grey. Click here to select from a complete list of available copies of this book. Bibliophile Bookbase lists over 5 million books, maps and prints including rare books, used books, collectables, livres illustrées and antiquarian books. Bibliophile Bookbase for antiquarian books, maps and prints. |