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The American Spirit: Letters of Briggs Kilburn Adams, Lieutenant of the Royal Flying Corps
de ADAMS, Briggs Kilburn, with Preface by Arthur Stanwood Pier
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Boston: Atlantic Monthly Press, 1918. First edition. Octavo (9" x 6"), 103 & [1] pages, with frontis portrait. Publisher's pictorial paper over boards depicting a light blue sky & clouds, the upper cover lettered in darker blue with the crest of the Royal Flying Corps below.
Covers & spine soiled & browned, upper joint beginning to split (still secure), corners bumped & rubbed, offsetting at title page from adjacent frontis, a good or so copy.
Briggs Kilburn Adams was born in Montclair, New Jersey in 1893. He volunteered as a driver with the American Ambulance Service in France in the summer of 1916 & returned to complete his education at Harvard University thereafter. In 1917 Adams presented himself at the Royal Flying Corps recruiting office in Toronto, Canada, as he wrote his mother in August, 1917, "I am now a British subject and will hold the commission when I get it until the end of the War."
On March 14, 1918, Adams was found dead in his plane, whether he was brought down by an enemy projectile, or was the victim of an accident was never determined. With certainty, Adams was killed in active service while flying on the battle-front.
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- Librería
- Citation Books, ABAA/ ILAB
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- Inventario del vendedor #
- 1565
- Título
- The American Spirit: Letters of Briggs Kilburn Adams, Lieutenant of the Royal Flying Corps
- Autor
- ADAMS, Briggs Kilburn, with Preface by Arthur Stanwood Pier
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- Usado
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- 1
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- First edition
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- Editorial
- Atlantic Monthly Press
- Lugar de publicación
- Boston, Massachusetts
- Fecha de publicación
- 1918
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- Palabras clave
- World War I, Canada, Royal Flying Corps, Aviation, Letters
- Catálogos del vendedor
- Military History; World War I; Aviation; Canada;
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