The Aeroplane Spotter Incorporating the Bulletin of the Royal Observer Corps Club [and the] Bulletin of the National Association of Spotters' Clubs
London: Temple Press, 1941 - 1948. Quarto, comprising nine annual parts bound in seven volumes. Comprising a total of 217 sequential numbered issues of 'The Spotter', followed by the publishers farewell postscript of ten pages, dated July 1948. A fine set in recent blue cloth, with the title pages and indexes for each year bound in. The "Aeroplane Spotter" can perhaps claim to have occupied an unique position in contemporary publishing. It was a journal that was suddenly and urgently required to meet a need of vital importance to the national war effort - that of aircraft recognition, upon the widespread knowledge of which the efficiency of the Service and Civil Air Defences to greatly depended (from the postscript). Item #175
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