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hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Hardcover with dust jacket. DJ is price-clipped, but crisp and glossy housed inside a protective mylar cover. Book is bound in dark blue cloth over boards with gold lettering on the spine. Binding is tight and secure. Corners are square. FFEP has mild wear from what seems to be a sticker removal. Pages are crisp, clean, and bright. Images are printed in B&W. Putnam. No date on title page. Copyright page is dated 1984. 486 pages. A very good copy. This volume comes from the Aviation collection of Prof. Chris Sterling. Sterling spent his lifetime teaching, writing, and collecting books on civil and military aviation. We are proud to house his Aviation collection, part of the extensive library which is his legacy. We ship everyday from a real neighborhood bookstore. This description is written by an actual person, who is holding the book in front of them to make sure it?s properly described. Please contact us with questions or if you would like to see photographs.

1984 publication with numerous B&W illustrations; tightly bound in blue cloth with gilt lettering to spine; dust jacket price-clipped with yellow parts of spine faded; pale foxing to top page fore-edge; otherwise, a clean, tidy copy. Used - Very Good. VG hardback in VG dust jacket.

First Edition. First Edition. octavo, blue boards in pictorial dust jacket. (x), 486pp. Putnam, Extensively illustrated with black and white photos and maps. A comprehensive account of the work of the British aircraft and aircrews charged with repelling the German day and night raiders of World War I. "Thorough research is evident in this account of the Home Defence reply to German air raids on Great Britain. "Every aircraft recorded as having taken off in response to a raid is listed, where possible with its service number and the names of the crew" [Noffsinger 537]. Chapters on all operations from December, 1914 to August, 1918, Zeppelins, Gothas, Evolution of the Night Fighter, Premature Optimism and Defense Cuts, RAF Home Defense Wings and Squadrons of November, 1918. Index includes aircraft, aerodromes, service formation and units, and people. Very fine, jacket not price clipped. octavo, blue boards in pictorial dust jacket.