THE GREATEST ACES. (Dust jacket title: "The Greatest Aces; A study of the fighter forces of the R.A.F., Luftwaffe and U.S.A.A.F. in World War II, plus minute-by-minute re-creations of the most thrilling missions of their top aces."). This item is unavailable.THE GREATEST ACES. (Dust jacket title: "The Greatest Aces; A study of the fighter forces of the R.A.F., Luftwaffe and U.S.A.A.F. in World War II, plus minute-by-minute re-creations of the most thrilling missions of their top aces.")

Reprint (no edition/printing statement upon copyright page) INSCRIBED, SIGNED, AND DATED BY THE AUTHOR. x, 294 pages. Hardcover: H 21.75cm x L 14.5cm. Dust jacket rubbed; spine ends lightly bumped; top corner of front flap is price-clipped with paper clip impression. Blue cloth; spine cocked with ends bumped. Ink signatures of Jamie Whitten obtrusively written on all three edges (i.e. top edge, fore-edge, and bottom edge). Author's five-line ink inscription "To Jamie Whitten - | with the admiration of - | Edward H. Sims | June 22, 1979 | Asheville, N.C." upon the front free endpaper; interior leaves are otherwise clean. A very good- copy in a very good dust jacket with the Mississippi Congressman Jamie Lloyd Whitten (1910-1995) was elected to twenty-seven terms in the US House of Representatives serving from November 4, 1941 to January 3, 1995 and chaired the powerful Appropriations Committee from 1979 to 1992.