Flight Lieutenant Schofield (2 results)

1st edition pictorial boards Very Good quarto 100pp., b/w plates, text ills., A guide to flying a light aircraft by two RAF types inc. 'Biggles' author W. E. Johns. Some wear to pale green decorated boards o/w a very good copy of an uncommon item.

Cloth. Condition: Very Good Indeed. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. None stated (illustrator). First edition. The first edition of this scarce illustrated guide to flying, with the vanishingly scarce original dust wrapper. The first edition.A scarce work.In the publisher's original cloth with the original vanishingly scarce original unclipped dust wrapper.Illustrated throughout with monochrome vignettes and monochrome photographic vignettes to the rear.This work was written by H. M. Schofield and W. E. Johns and provides a comprehensive guide to flying, intended to enable a novice to be able to converse intelligently with others about aviation and to prepare flight students for their education in flying. The work features pictorial diagrams which instruct the reader and photographs of planes to the rear.Undated, dated by copies held at the British Library. In the publisher's original cloth with the original unclipped dust wrapper. Externally excellent with fading to the spine and bumping to the extremities. Offsetting to the endpapers. The wrap is generally smart with loss to the head of the spine and a closed tear to the tail, sunning to the spine and extremities and the odd small closed tear. Internally generally firmly bound with slight strain in places with generally clean and age toned pages with the odd spot, heavier to the front and rear. Ink inscription to the front blank. Very Good Indeed. book.