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Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. LEONARD BRIDGMAN (illustrator). Green cloth boards with red titles to spine, 220 x 145 mm approx. Top edge of book block stained green. xvi + 292 pp. Portrait frontis + 7 other illustrations by Leonard Bridgman as called for. Translated from the French by A. J. Insall and with a foreword by Marshal of the Royal Air Force Sir John M. Salmond the book recalls the exploits of the Begian Flying Ace who specialised in destroying enemy observation balloons on the Western Front during the Great War. This brought him international fame, the British D.S.O. and M.C. as well as Belgian and French decorations. This edition in English was first published by John Hamilton in 1934. The copy offered by us is the Aviation Flying Club printing, undated, but probably of the same or following year. VG/VG (Book- Shelf wear to bottom edges. Mild foxing to fore edge of book block. No previous owner name or insc. Binding sound. Dust Jacket - a little rubbed with uneven fading , tiny loss - max- 5x10 mm approx around head of spine. Non price clipped - cover 10s 6d now in a removable proprietary protective sleeve). Please see our images of the actual book offered for sale.