Camera Above the Clouds, Volume 2

Charles E Brown was undoubtedly in the forefront of British aviation photography for five decades and his images, from bi-planes to the jet age and helicopters, remaine the epitomy of the art. This volume of his work features studies from the late 1930s , through World War Two to aircraft such as the English Electric Lightning and the fore-runner of the famed Harrier. Except for two page with a total of four images, each photograph occupies a single page, mostly b/w, but notably there are 16 colour shots of WWII aircraft among the 32 colour studies. Pages 14 to 169 feature Brown's photographs, nine text pages at front, six non-pictorial pages at back include index., 175 pages in all. This an ex-library copy. Gray hard covers with gilt spine titles VG with light wear to lower edges, library stamp top FFEP also card pocket, crossed bar code lower edge, three small patches adhesion damage, library codes, date stamp lower title page verso, no other library markings, text block is excellent. Plastic protected colour pictorial DJ is VG, price clipped and taped to pastedowns.…