Pilots Luck, First Edition (8 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. Quarto in black cloth binding with color plate mounted on front cover. Color and B&W plates. Condition: a well-worn copy with spine ends worn & rubbed; paper spine label soiled and nicked; corners lightly bumped; first free endpaper and frontispiece illustration missing; else a good copy. 72 pages.

72pp. 4to. Original decorated cloth with pictorial onlay. Title label pasted to spine. Some bumping to extremities and spotting to cover. Coloured and black and white plates. A very good copy of this evocative glimpse of First World War Air Force experiences. First edition.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. First Edition. Hardcover, blue cloth with paper spine label and large pictorial color pastedown on front cover. 70 pages. Illustrated with color and black and white art work by Clayton Knight. Separate introductions by the illustrator and Floyd Gibbons. Foreword by Elliot White Springs. First edition. A collection of stories about aerial combat during the Great War, brilliantly illustrated to illicit the war flying experiences of all those pilots who fought, by C. Knight, himself a pilot. Previous owner's name and address on front free end-paper, along with date of purchase, August 14, 1945 -- V-J Day. A generally clean, square, unmarked copy, corners are sharp and hinges strong. Slight musty odor. A very good copy. Size: 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall.

Hardcover. Condition: NVG+. No Jacket. Clayton Knight (illustrator). 1st Edition. Book has modest cover wear and signs of paper clip rust thus nearly very good plus. Inscribed and dated 1929 by Knight. Signed by Artist. Book.

hard cover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Poor. First Edition. Philadelphia:David McKay Company, (1929). 72pp. Illustrated. Hardcover. Blue boards with pictorial paste-down in very good, lightly shelfworn condition. Spine ends and edge points show light wear. Internally, pages clean, free of previous owners marks or signatures. With a small bookseller ticket to lower inside edge of 1st free end-page. Dust jacket in poor condition, in 2 pieces completely missing the spine strip, and pieces left are heavily chipped.  .

First Edition. Very good copy in the original [color] pictorial cloth. Slightest suggestion only of dust-dulling to the spine bands and panel edges. Remains particularly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and strong. ; 70 pages; Description: 4 p. L. , 11-70, [2] p. Illus. (part col. ) col. Plates. 29 cm. Subjects: World War, 1914-1918--Aerial operations. World War, 1914-1918--Pictorial works. 3 Kg.

First Edition. Very good copy in the original [color] pictorial cloth. Slightest suggestion only of dust-dulling to the spine bands and panel edges. Remains particularly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and strong. ; 70 pages; Description: 4 p. L. , 11-70, [2] p. Illus. (part col. ) col. Plates. 29 cm. Subjects: World War, 1914-1918--Aerial operations. World War, 1914-1918--Pictorial works. 1 Kg.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Knight, Clayton (illustrator). First Edition. 72 pages. "Posed in the presence of death and paid for in pain, are these living drawings and paintings that Clayton Knight brings back from that No-Man's sky to which young fighting blood lifted the banner of chivalry from the gore and mud of mass warfare." - from Introduction. Handsome colour illustration and bright gilt lettering upon navy blue front board. Bright white label on backstrip is present and in superb condition. Uncirculated former military library copy. Fortunately the only markings are a bit of writing and a small ink stamp atop the front free endpaper. Exterior still amazingly bright and fresh with very light wear. An exceptionally well-preserved copy.