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Bordeaux Henry

Guynemer. Knight of the Air. Translated from the French by Louise Morgan Sill. With a Prefatory Letter from Rudyard Kipling. [First UK Edition.] GUYNEMER IN FULL MOROCCO

Chatto & Windus, 1918

483.00 €

Island Books (Devon, United Kingdom)

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Year of publication
1918
Author
Bordeaux Henry
Publishers
Chatto & Windus
Keyword
aviation, ww1, wwi, great war, guynemer, georges guynemer, henry bordeaux, kipling, rudyard kipling
Languages
English

Description

8vo., First Edition thus, with portrait frontispiece (original tissue guard present); handsomely bound in full burgundy crushed morocco, sides with gilt frame border, back with raised bands, second and fourth compartments ruled and lettered in gilt, all other compartments tooled in gilt with propellor motif, gilt top, hand-made endpapers, printed cloth from original upper board and backstrip mounted on new and separate leaves at front, a most atractive copy ideal as a gift or for presentation. Kipling's letter does not appear in the US edition where it is replaced with a Preface by Theodore Roosevelt. Enser, p.122; Livingston 436; Noffsinger 143 (recording the US edition). SCARCE.