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Hardcover. Zustand: Very good. Hardcover. xii, 545pp+ index. Page edges slightly tanned, else a very good hardback in a jacket that has a thin, faint stain to the top edge of the front panel.

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Very Good. Alan Durkota; Terry Waldron; James Dietz (Illustrations) & Ian Stair; Harry Woodman (Scale Drawings) (illustrator). :: The story of the Imperial Russian Air Service, the men, women, and machines that pioneered aviation in Czarist Russia. :: Lavishly illustrated with more than 600 rare photos. :: For historians, aviation enthusiasts, and modelers. :: 40 aircraft detailed in 3-view drawings to standard 1/48 or 1/72 scales. :: Bound in publisher's blood-red paper covered boards. Title, authors, plane illustration, and publisher lettered upon spine in gold. Quarto (12 1/4 x 9 3/16 inches; 310 x 234 millimeters). 546 pages. Large, heavy book. Condition: Very Good+, in Very Good+ dust jacket. Small stain upon front endpapers. Minimal shelf-wear.

Zustand des Schutzumschlags: dj. First Edition. Folio (31cm); red boards with titling and decorative element stamped in gilt on spine; illustrated map endpapers; dustjacket; xii,[2],3-545,[3]pp; black-and-white photographic halftones and colorful illustrations. This copy is from the library of noted poet, translator, and anthropologist Nathaniel Tarn (1928-2024), with his pictorial bookplate to recto of front endpaper. Light shelf-wear to lower board edges; Very Good+. Dustwrapper has trivial surface wear, else Near Fine. Sections include "Overview of Main Branches of Imperial Russian Aviation", "Aces in Foreign Service", and "Russian Aircraft Manufacturers", with Suir's and Woodman's three-view scale drawings alongside illustrations by Durkota, Terry Waldron, and James Dietz throughout. [86498].