Birth of a Spitfire: The Story of Beaverbrooks's Ministry and Its First £10,000,000

Gordon Beckles

Published by Collins, London, UK, 1941

About this Item

Collins, London, UK. 1941. Hardcover. First Edition (SD). Book is tight, has slight spine roll, and us unmarked but for two old price marks on the FFFP. Book Condition: Good +; shelfwear to head, tail, and tips; soiling to spine and front board; dust soiling to textblock edges. Green cloth boards and spine with yellow lettering on the spine. 160 pp 12mo. This book is the first publicly published account of Lord Beaverbrook's innovative and astonishingly successful 'Saucepans for Spitfires' (getting aluminum cooking pans melted down for aluminum in the bodies of Spitfires) fund-raising campaign. His Ministry of Aircraft Production was the first to develop its own 'treasury' by ignoring the conventional red tape and deriving its funding from the public at large. A clean very presentable copy. Seller Inventory # 016822

Bibliographic Details

Title: Birth of a Spitfire: The Story of ...

Publisher: Collins, London, UK

Publication Date: 1941

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Good +

Dust Jacket Condition: No Jacket

Edition: 1st Edition