Donald Joseph Mcgee (7 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Dust Jacket. 1st Edition. 360 pp. Tightly bound. Text is free of markings. No ownership markings. No dust jacket. PLEASE NOTE the reasons for the lower "good" rating. (1) Foxing to the top and side page edges. (2) Bumping to lower corners. Please consider as a good reading copy free of any markings in the text. This copy is smyth sewn. Smyth sewing is a method of bookbinding where groups of folded pages (referred to as signatures) are stitched together using binder thread. Each folded signature is sewn together individually with multiple stitches and then joined with other signatures to create the complete book block. This is the traditional and best method of bookbinding.…

ISBN 0-912138-24-6. Hardback. First Printing. Very good plus condition book, with slight rubs on cover corners, in a Very good plus condition dustjacket. Tight, bright, attractive copy with no markings to the book, except for blindstamp on inside front endpaper. No. 65 of 500 collector's run of first edition, signed by the editors on copyright page.…

First Edition, Limited to 500 numbered copies. octavo, dark blue boards in pictorial dust jacket. 360pp. R. James Bender Publishing and Champlin Fighter Museum Press, While compiling the Gorrell Reports, the official history of the Air Service, A.E.F., Thayer began work on a version that covered the significant material in greater detail. He broadened the purely military approach of the Gorrell papers in this second version to provide a more comprehensive report of the events and personalities that made Air Service history in WWI. Illustrations include drawings, photographs, maps, lists of enemy aircraft destroyed, aircraft and squadron insignia of the A.E.F., and battle participation of Air Service Groups and Squadrons, A.E.F. Signed by McGee and Bender. Very slight shelf scuff to corners, otherwise a very fine, clean copy. Jacket not price clipped. octavo, dark blue boards in pictorial dust jacket First Edition, Limited to 500 numbered copies.…

Condition: very good, good. First Edition. First? Printing. 24 cm, 360, illus., appendices, some wear to DJ edges.

[0-912138-24-6] 1983. (Hardcover) Very good in very good dust jacket. 360pp. Photographs, illustrations, diagrams, maps, tables, index. The dust jacket is lightly edgeworn. "Author Lucien H. Thayer, a newspaper reporter prior to World War I, was well suited to write the official history of the American Air Service, A.E.F. On October 24, 1918, Brigadier General Benjamin D. Foulois, A.S., officially authorized Lieutenant Thayer to compile and begin writing the history of the U.S. Air Service in Europe" - from the Introduction. Book about A.E.F., Aviation--Military. Time Period 1917-1918 & World War 1. Edited by Roger James Bender & Donald Joseph McGee. Foreword by Douglas Campbell. (Military, Military History, United States Air Force).…

First Edition, Limited to 500 numbered copies. octavo, dark blue boards in pictorial dust jacket. 360pp. R. James Bender Publishing and Champlin Fighter Museum Press, While compiling the Gorrell Reports, the official history of the Air Service, A.E.F., Thayer began work on a version that covered the significant material in greater detail. He broadened the purely military approach of the Gorrell papers in this second version to provide a more comprehensive report of the events and personalities that made Air Service history in WWI. Illustrations include drawings, photographs, maps, lists of enemy aircraft destroyed, aircraft and squadron insignia of the A.E.F., and battle participation of Air Service Groups and Squadrons, A.E.F. Signed by McGee and Bender. Very slight shelf scuff to corners, otherwise a very fine, clean copy. Jacket not price clipped. octavo, dark blue boards in pictorial dust jacket First Edition, Limited to 500 numbered copies.…

First Edition, Limited to 500 numbered copies. octavo, dark blue boards in pictorial dust jacket. 360pp. R. James Bender Publishing and Champlin Fighter Museum Press, While compiling the Gorrell Reports, the official history of the Air Service, A.E.F., Thayer began work on a version that covered the significant material in greater detail. He broadened the purely military approach of the Gorrell papers in this second version to provide a more comprehensive report of the events and personalities that made Air Service history in WWI. Illustrations include drawings, photographs, maps, lists of enemy aircraft destroyed, aircraft and squadron insignia of the A.E.F., and battle participation of Air Service Groups and Squadrons, A.E.F. A very fine, clean copy. Jacket not clipped. octavo, dark blue boards in pictorial dust jacket First Edition, Limited to 500 numbered copies.…