The Aces
New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1960.
First American Edition, 1st Printing. Hardcover. 8 1/2" X 5 7/8". 384pp. Moderate wear to pictorial dust jacket, not price-clipped but clipped at bottom corner of front flap, with small tears to edges and extremities, shallow chipping to head and tail of spine, and sunning and toning. Red cloth over boards, with gentle bumping to head and tail of spine. Foxing and dust soiling to edges of text block. Previous owner's name to front pastedown. Toning to endpapers. Binding is sound. Pages are clean and unmarked. A handsome first American edition of this story of the fighter pilots of WWI, "the hardy men who converted the skies over France and Germany into a modern jousting field" (front flap). Very good / good. Item #3387
Price: $20.00