Captain a Roy Brown (8 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. Quarto in black cloth binding with color plate mounted on front cover. Color and B&W plates. Condition: a well-worn copy with spine ends worn & rubbed; paper spine label soiled and nicked; corners lightly bumped; first free endpaper and frontispiece illustration missing; else a good copy. 72 pages.…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. First edition. Quarto. 70, [2]pp. Illustrated. Blue cloth gilt with applied illustration and spine title. Bookplate front fly, spine label chipped, overall modest wear, near very good.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. First U. K. edition, Nd. c. 1929. Publishers gilt lettered blue cloth with onlayed colour plate on front cover. Top corners bumped. The cloth is slightly dusty, rubbed around the edges and marked in places. Still a good copy. Coloured and black and white plates throughout. (illustrator).…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. First Edition. Clean dark blue hardcover book with color paste-on illustration on cover, gold lettering on cover; clean paper label on spine. A little fraying at both top and bottom spine ends. Binding is tight and square, hinges are sound. Clean endpapers, with tasteful previous owner bookplate on front fixed endpaper. All pages are clean. Size approx. 8-1/4" x 11-1/4". Preface by Clayton Knight. Foreword by Elliott White Springs. Introduction by Floyd Gibbons. Amazing full-page illustrations by Clayton Knight in both full color and black and white showing various dramatic moments in the lives of the men who flew during World War I. Excerpts from stories by Elliott White Springs, Captain A. Roy Brown, Floyd Gibbons, Norman S. Hall. 72 pages.…

Hardback. St Marys Books is proud to present this 1929 edition of Pilots Luck featuring excerpts from storeis by multiple authors all brought to life by Clayton Knights imaginative illustrations Bound in navy cloth with gold gilt lettering and a vibrant fullcolour illustration of aeroplanes in flight on the cover this hardback book contains 72 pages of snippets of war stories by various notable authors supplemented by Knight fullpage illustrations which perfectly capture the emotional quality and the essence of each scene described This copy is in very good condition with few notable blemishes or imperfections it appears virtually asnew remarkable given the age of the book Pilots Luck is looking for a new home and would make for a perfect gift for any aviation enthusiast or lover of Clayton Knights illustrationsnbsp. Clayton Knight (illustrator). book.…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. First Edition. Hardcover, blue cloth with paper spine label and large pictorial color pastedown on front cover. 70 pages. Illustrated with color and black and white art work by Clayton Knight. Separate introductions by the illustrator and Floyd Gibbons. Foreword by Elliot White Springs. First edition. A collection of stories about aerial combat during the Great War, brilliantly illustrated to illicit the war flying experiences of all those pilots who fought, by C. Knight, himself a pilot. Previous owner's name and address on front free end-paper, along with date of purchase, August 14, 1945 -- V-J Day. A generally clean, square, unmarked copy, corners are sharp and hinges strong. Slight musty odor. A very good copy. Size: 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall.…

hard cover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Poor. First Edition. Philadelphia:David McKay Company, (1929). 72pp. Illustrated. Hardcover. Blue boards with pictorial paste-down in very good, lightly shelfworn condition. Spine ends and edge points show light wear. Internally, pages clean, free of previous owners marks or signatures. With a small bookseller ticket to lower inside edge of 1st free end-page. Dust jacket in poor condition, in 2 pieces completely missing the spine strip, and pieces left are heavily chipped. …

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. First Edition. 72 pages. "Posed in the presence of death and paid for in pain, are these living drawings and paintings that Clayton Knight brings back from that No-Man's sky to which young fighting blood lifted the banner of chivalry from the gore and mud of mass warfare." - from Introduction. Handsome colour illustration and bright gilt lettering upon navy blue front board. Bright white label on backstrip is present and in superb condition. Uncirculated former military library copy. Fortunately the only markings are a bit of writing and a small ink stamp atop the front free endpaper. Exterior still amazingly bright and fresh with very light wear. An exceptionally well-preserved copy. Knight, Clayton (illustrator).…