Slip Wing (5 results)

Condition: Good. 1947. No Edition Remarks. 170 pages. Pictorial dust jacket over blue cloth. Pages and binding are presentable with no major defects. Minor issues present such as mild cracking, inscriptions, inserts, light foxing, tanning and thumb marking. Boards have mild shelf wear with light rubbing and corner bumping. Some light marking and sunning. Unclipped jacket has light edge wear with minor tears and chipping. Mild rubbing and marking.

Blue hardback cloth cover. Condition: Very Good. First Edition. VG: in very good condition with rubbed and chipped dust jacket. 190mm x 130mm (7" x 5"). 170pp.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Included. THE FRONT COVER HAS AN IMAGE ON IT, THE TITLE IS ON THE SPINE. EDGES AND CORNERS HAVE WEAR TO THEM. THE SPINE AND BINDING ARE SLANTED BUT THE BINDING IS TIGHT PAGES GENERALLY APPEAR CLEAN AND CREASE FREE. ALL IN ALL A NICE EXAMPLE OF THIS BOOK.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. First Edition. Jacket worn at edges, small nick at top of spine, pages clean, binding good. 'The author has sailed the seven seas, farmed in Ontario and hobo'd as a member of Jack London's "Hobo Society". He has also earned his living in aviation, as a war correspondent and as a publisher's reader and traveller. He contributed to Monde under the editorship of Henri Barbusse. His poems appeared under the imprint of Roger Lacouriere in Paris in 1929. Encouraged by Eden & Cedar Paul, David Garnett, Somerset Maugham, Frederick Philip Grove and Upton Sinclair he wrote a controversial novel which luckily he lost in Russia. He had no copy. He now confines himself to his proper medium, adventure fiction which appears in British and American magazines. In this action story the author has sought to convey the tension of split-second air combat and the suspense of modern espionage.' Size: 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. slight fading 1947 1st edition unmarked cover starting to show wear.