yeates henry williamson (2 Ergebnisse)

Hardcover. Zustand: Near Fine. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Very Good. 2nd Edition. A reprint of this new Jonathan Cape edition, issued one month later. 8vo. 456pp. Blue cloth lettered in silver at the spine and with the publisher's dark blue top edge stain. A very faint vertical crease to the front free endpaper, else fine copy in virtually fine non-price-clipped pictorial dust wrapper. The first edition of this text - deemed one of the cornerstones of Great War aviation literature - was published in June 1934 and dedicated to Henry Williamson at whose suggestion the book was begun, and with whose encouragement and help it was completed. A second impression was issued in November 1934; Yeates died the following month and as a result later copies of that second impression included Williamson's tribute which is dated January 1935. This Cape reprint includes a somewhat revised version of that Williamson tribute plus also a new one-page preface, dated July 1961.

Hardcover. Zustand: Near Fine. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Near Fine. 456pp, blue boards, dustwrapper. The boards and contents are in excellent condition, with a little foxing to the page edges and a small brown mark to the front board. The dustwrapper is also in excellent condition with a touch of foxing. Winged Victory is a 1934 novel by English World War I fighter pilot Victor Maslin Yeates that is widely regarded as a classic account of aerial combat and the futility of war. This is the 1961 re-issue with a new Preface and tribute by Henry Williamson. See my other listings for more Henry Williamson titles.