Lamb Colonel Dean Ivan (2 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Good. 1st Edition. Ex Library. Book.

8vo. [6], 298 pp. Numerous text illustrations. Gay publisher's cloth, green lettering front cover, illustrated endpapers by Brown (minor shelfwear, rubbing), w/ d.j. wraparound cover art by Brown (minor sunning to spine, slight chipping head of spine, couple minor closed tears), still VG/VG- copy. First edition, 1st printing (FR logo on verso of title), of this rousing memoir by the former mercenary, pioneering aviator, and sailor who fought in the Philippine Insurrection, later a pearler in the Philippines, in China as a customs officer, the Panama Canal, fought as a mercenary in two revolutions in Columbia (1907), was deported from Venezuela, and fought through the Nicaraguan Revolution of 1909/1910. Lamb (1886-1956) is attributed to having fought the first recorded air battle over Naco, Mexico Nov. 30, 1913), with a pistol against Phil Rader, also using a pistol. Many historians dismiss his claim as fiction, as Lamb after buying an aircraft in 1913 gave demonstration barnstorming flights at San Francisco, fought in the Balkan Wars, and was in England when World War I broke out in 1914. He served with the Royal Engineers in France until 19195, transferred to the Royal Flying Corps, and downed 5 or 8 enemy aircraft (Records for both), and by 1918-1919 was a civilian air instructor and test pilot in the US, and among the first US Postal Service airmail pilots. He later fought in Honduras, established the Honduras Air Force, Paraguay Civil War, and later Brazil. He died by suicide in 1956.