Spitfire: The History. [Third Impression]. NEAR FINE COPY IN UNCLIPPED DUSTWRAPPER

4to., Third Impression, with many hundreds of photographs and detailed drawings in the text, and fine coloured pictorial endpapers illustrating 140 variants of the aircraft; terracotta cloth, upper board and backstrip lettered in gilt, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper. Morgan and Shacklady's definitive history of the most famous fighter in aviation history was first published in 1987. It constitutes a massive bank of information, including rare photographs, detailed technical drawings and operational data on more than 22,500 individual aircraft. This is the revised edition, incorporating much of the additional material that has subsequently become available.