AIR ACES

Signed on the title page by 6 Battle of Britain aircrew.

Geoffrey Wellum, Nigel Rose, Ken Wilkinson
Terence Kane, Tony Iveson, Terry Clark

Home & Van Thal Ltd First edition, 1944. The book is quarto (25 x 19cm) with 38 pages of text and 32 plates.

Apart from foxing which affects some of the text pages due to wartime paper quality issues, this book is otherwise in Very Good condition. It has clean sky blue covers, a solid binding and the iconic photographic plates are in perfect condition. The book has its original and scarce unclipped dustjacket which is in Very Good condition with some edge wear, light repairs and a small 1cm area of loss on the back panel. 

Following the same format as Cuthbert Orde’s famous book ‘Pilots of Fighter Command’, this publication features a collection of marvellous full page photographic portraits of RAF fighter and bomber pilots. Amongst the 32 portraits are many of the famous names; Beamont, Bennett, Braham, Broadhurst, Cheshire, Crawford-Compton, Cross, Cunningham, Currant, Deere, Donaldson, Gibson, Gillam, Gilroy, Gordon-Finlayson, Gray, Harries, Jameson, Johnson, Kingaby, Learoyd, Lucas, Mahaddie, Malan, Peel, Rankin, Raphael, Rawnsley, Straight, Walker, Wells, Wykeham – (missing are those who had been made POW or killed at that point in the war) The accompanying biographical notes written by John MacAdam give a superb contemporary insight into the characters of these men.