WARPLANES OF THE FIRST WORLD WAR Tapa dura - 1972

London: Macdonald. 1st. 1972. vg. Hardcover. ISBN:0356037789 4.75" tall x 5-1/8"; 128 pages including index + several pp of blanks for notes; brown cover with silver lettering on spine has a slight bit of sunning to edges; white & yellow il'd dust jacket is in new clear protective mylar; glossy paper; b/w ils & photos throughout. .

London: Macdonald & Co, 1972. First Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/Very Good Minus. London: Macdonald & Co., 1972. First edition. 5 x 5 1/2 inches: pp. 128, (8). Orange and white photographic glossy paper dust jacket with black and orange type. Black cloth with silver gilt titles on spine. With numerous photographs and line drawings of the aircraft, glossary. Dust jacket has light edge and corner wear, one small closed tear near upper spine join on front panel. Original US sticker price on inner flap of dust jacket next to original UK price. Small bump on upper edge of free facing end page. Text is unmarked. Binding tight. "... the student of early military aviation history is provided with thoroughly researched and lavishly illustrated histories of French military aircraft of the first World War." Includes "copious details of contemporary French aero-engines" and examines at length "the evolution of fighter armament." From the dust jacket flap.