Letters of an Airman By the late Geoffrey Wall Royal Flying Corps
Melbourne: Australasian Author's Agency, circa 1918. Octavo, purple cloth, xvi, 248 pp., frontispiece, 11 plates. Cloth dulled and frayed at extremities, hinge split, some preliminary foxing, previous owner's inscription on front endpaper, otherwise a good copy. A collection of edited letters written by Geoffrey Wall to his family and friends as well as a letters penned by Captain D. M. Knight, O.C. No. 7 Training Squadron of the Royal Flying Corps, and Cliver Wigram, then Keeper fo the Privy Purse at Buckingham Palace.
This book is a biographical memoir in an epistolary form relating Geoffrey Wall's training and experiences as a pilot to his accidental death on August 6th, 1917. The last section of the book is constituted of several poems written by Wall himself, some during his stay in Oxford. Item #2816
Price (AUD): $100.00