Fighter by Robert Jackson: Signed (1 results)
More imagesPublished by St. Martin's Press, New York 1976
- Hardcover
- Signed
Seller: Main Street Fine Books & Mss, ABAA, Galena, U.S.A.Main Street Fine Books & Mss, ABAA
Contact seller5-star sellerHardcover. 8vo. Red paper over boards with gilt spine lettering, pictorial dust jacket. 156pp. Very good/very good. Spotting to top page edges, else binding tight and handsome; jacket a tad edgeworn with spine lightly sunned and couple of archivally closed (on verso) tears. Just a book club edition of these profiles of 14 of the… greatest fighter aces -- with choice autograph addition: Tipped to front flyleaf is a fine, heavy stock 5" X 3" card signed large and bold in blue fineline by Johnnie Johnson, who dates it 7 November 1988 at upper right. Tipped in above this is a fine 5" X 3¼" printed "With the Compliments of / Air Vice Marshal Johnson" slip. Laid in is the ideal bookmark: Johnson's original transmittal envelope. Johnson (1915-2001) was the Royal Air Force officer who brought down 34 Nazi fighter planes during the war, making him one of the highest-scoring British aces ever.
