DESERT WINGS.
Pp. 256(last advertisement), coloured frontispiece, plus 12 black & white plates (including 8 of aircraft manoeuvres at end), blue/grey 'aeroplane' patterned endpapers; cr. 8vo; blue textured cloth, lettered in gilt, boards a trifle bowed, edges lightly rubbed, spine slightly bruised at head and with short split at head of upper joint; top edges blue; price-clipped dust wrapper, a trifle soiled, edges worn and torn; bookseller's sticker at foot of upper pastedown, large piece (probably an ownership inscription) torn from half-title page, outer leaves and edges lightly foxed; John Hamilton Ltd., London, n.d.[1931]. First U.K. edition. *The frontispiece and four of the plates are by W. E. Johns. Covington Clarke was the pseudonym under which American Lawyer Homer Clarke Venable (1891-1953) wrote flying adventures for boys. Under his own name he also wrote adult fiction. Item #172971
Price: $120.00