The Berlin Airlift: The Effort and the Aircraft - Softcover

Berlin Airlift: The Effort and the Aircraft (Signed)

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Very Good. Hardcover with blue cloth over boards, golden lettering along spine. White DJ with colorful illustrations and photographs across covers, black and brown text across covers and along spine. No damage to DJ, encased in protective brodart sleeve to prevent wear. Oversized, roughly 8.5 inches tall by 11.5 inches wide. No date on title page. Copyright page dated 1998, stated first edition. 79 pages. Features beautifully illustrated endpapers, foreword by Dr. F Robert van der Linden, large fold-out map on pages 32A-D, numerous colorful and monochromatic photos and illustrations throughout text. Half title page inscribed twice, first "To: Chris Sterling, A little off your usual beaten track but, I hope, nonetheless enjoyable, if only for some queer airplanes. With all good wishes, Ron, McLean, 16 Aug. '98" by R.E.G. (Ronald Edward George) Davies. Also inscribed "For Chris, With very best wishes to a true historian! Mike Machat, 11-17-99". Pages clean and bright, still glossy. Binding neat and tight. This volume comes from the Aviation collection of Prof. Chris Sterling. Sterling spent his lifetime teaching, writing, and collecting books on civil and military aviation. We are proud to house his Aviation collection, part of the extensive library which is his legacy. Please email with questions or to request photos. Note: if there is a photo beside this listing, it's a STOCK photo that ABE put there (for reasons that we cannot understand or control) and might not match this actual book. Signed by Author(s). Artikel-Nr. Aviation-181

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