red air fighter preface explanatory von manfred freiherr richthofen (3 Ergebnisse)

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: very good. New edition. 12mo, 140 pages, cloth, inked gift inscription from 1969. linear brown stains pages 65-68 The Red Baron's autobiography first appeared in English in 1918 by and with the Notes of the editor of "Aeroplane". He reveals the secrets of the air war from the German perspective between 1916 and 1918. Six plates.

Octavo, original decorated blue cloth, 140 pp., illustrated. Corner of front endpaper and title-page marked with a numeral by the previous owner, otherwise a near-fine copy. This book is a recount of Von Richthofen's life as an aviator. It outlines how he started his career in aviation and describes the numerous missions he had taken flying different aircraft.

Hardcover. Zustand: Good. 1st Edition. First English Edition (first printing). 8vo. vi, 140pp + [ii] publisher's advertisements. Pictorial blue cloth. With a portrait frontispiece and four captioned photographic plates. Boards a little rubbed, marked and creased, and with the backstrip cloth now completely absent. Some tanning to the paperstock. Tiny nicks to the fore edge margin of the first three leaves. A few pencilled notes to the rear pastedown. A somewhat handled copy of an uncommon item, housed in a homemade card presentation case. The flying memoirs of the Red Baron, written on the instructions of the Press and Intelligence section of the Luftstreitkräfte whilst Richthofen was on convalescent leave following a severe head wound sustained in July 1917. He died three months before the publication of this English-language edition (which was presumably rushed out to capitalise on news of his demise).