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Published by Collins, 1938
Seller: World of Rare Books, Goring-by-Sea, SXW, United Kingdom
Condition: Fair. 1938. 390 pages. No dust jacket. Red cloth boards with lettering. Contains black and white illustrations. Clean pages and illustrations with light tanning and mild foxing throughout. More pronounced to free endpapers and pastedowns. Pencil markings to front free endpaper. Binding remains firm. Boards have moderate edge-wear with bumping to corners and rubbing to surfaces. Lettering is bright and clear. Moderate tanning to spine and edges with crushing to spine ends. Book has a slight forward lean. Visible wear marks to boards.
Published by Collins, 1938
Seller: World of Rare Books, Goring-by-Sea, SXW, United Kingdom
Signed
Condition: Fair. 1938. 390 pages. Signed by the author. Blue and grey jacket over blue cloth with gilt lettering. Title page has been signed by Author and dedicated. Dedication is illegible. Rough cut pages are moderately tanned and thumbed at the edges, creased corners and foxing. Binding has remained firm. Boards are a little rub worn, slight shelf wear to corners, spine and edges. Corners are a little bumped. Spine ends are mildly crushed. Tanning to spine and edges. Light wear to unclipped dust jacket with tears, nicks and creases to spine, edge and corners. Tanning to spine and edges.
Published by Collins Publishers 1938, 1938
Seller: Hard to Find Books NZ (Internet) Ltd., Dunedin, OTAGO, New Zealand
Association Member: IOBA
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Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. First Edition. 390pp. Plates, map. Cloth rubbed and faded, corners heavily bumped. Size: 8vo.
Published by Collins 1938, 1938
Seller: E.J Morten Booksellers BA, MANCHESTER, United Kingdom
Hb in Dw 390pp Vg/Vg copy in chipped Dw Scarce in Dw.
Published by Collins London 1938, 1938
Seller: Andrew Barnes Books / Military Melbourne, Melbourne, VIC, Australia
First Edition
1st edition orig. cloth Very Good octavo 390pp., frontis., b/w plates, maps, indexes, Definitive biography of the actor and aviator Robert Loraine who made several important pioneering flights in the turn of the 20th Century. He was awarded the DFC for his service in WWI. Very good copy in dulled blue boards. Scarce.
Published by Collins Publishers, London, 1938
Seller: Ground Zero Books, Ltd., Silver Spring, MD, U.S.A.
First Edition
Hardcover. Condition: good. Dust Jacket Condition: Fair. Presumed First Edition. Contains 17 black and white full-page illustrations, and 1 full-page map showing Loraine's overseas flights. Also contains footnotes, index of names, and index of places and events. Dust jacket is price clipped and somewhat worn, and small chips missing to dust jacket edges. Name in ink on fep. Robert Bilcliffe Loraine MC DSO (14 January 1876 - 23 December 1935) was a successful London and Broadway British stage actor, actor-manager and soldier who later enjoyed a side career as a pioneer aviator. Robert made his first stage appearance in the English provinces in 1889. In 1909 Loraine took up aviation learning first to fly at the Bleriot school at Pau, France. He then switched to the easier to fly Farman biplane, on which he achieved great fame. In September 1910 he made what is credited as being the first aeroplane flight from England to Ireland. He piloted a Bristol Boxkites in the British Army manouevres on Salisbury Plain, during which he sent the first radio signals to be sent from an aeroplane in Britain. Loraine served as a volunteer in the Boer War between 1899 and 1901. During the First World War he flew with the Royal Flying Corps. Formerly a lieutenant in the Special Reserve serving as a flying officer RFC, he was appointed to be a flight commander with the rank of captain on 15 September 1915. He was awarded the MC for his "conspicuous gallantry and skill" in shooting down an Albatross biplane on 26 October 1915. On 24 April 1916 he was promoted to command a squadron, with the rank of major, and on 13 February 1917 he was appointed a wing commander, with the rank of lieutenant-colonel; he was awarded the DSO the same year. He commanded 40 Squadron. On 11 December 1918 he relinquished his commission in the Royal Air Force due to ill-health brought on by his wounds, and was granted the honorary rank of major.