Sky Fighters of France Aerial Warfare: 1914-1918. Englished by Catharine Rush with illustrations from painting by the author
Boston and New York: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1919. Folio, two-tone black cloth and beige japon vellum with gilt spine lettering, République Française emblem on front board, xviii, 144 pp., frontispiece in colour, 18 coloured plates. Cloth unravelled and vellum thumbed, stamp marks from the General Society of Mechanics & Tradesmen "DEMILT" Section 157902, otherwise a well-preserved copy. Large-paper edition. Signed by Lieutenant Henry Farré. Signed by Lieutenant Henry Farré. Foreword by Captain Alfred Heurtaux, Captain de Kerillis, Captain Roeckel and Lieutenant Partridge.
This large-paper edition of Sky Fighters of France is illustrated with seven portraits of World War One French and American aces and eleven aerial combat oil paintings. Written and illustrated by the author, Sky Fighters of France brings forth Henry Farré's personal experiences and exploits in the Great War starting on December 1914 as he left Paris in company with Commandant de Goys to join the Twenty-first Squadron V.B. (Voisin de Bombardement). This account is interspersed with dialogues between Farré and the fighter pilots he flew alongside with such as Captain George Guynemer, Captain Alfred Heurtaux, Captain de Kerillis, Major Raoul Lufbery, Lieutenant Partridge, and Major William Thaw among others. In Sky Fighters of France, Henry Farré also recounts his first flight and his experience in flying at night as well as his squadron missions in Nancy, in Autrecourt (in Spring 1916), in Dunkerque (in March 1916), in Cachy and the bombardment of Zeebrugge. Farré met and worked with members of the Lafayette Escadrille but also with the Stork Escadrille (Escadrille 3 Les Cigognes) whom Captain Guynemer and Heurtaux were a part of.
Henry Farré was born in Foix, in the département of Ariège, in France in 1871. During the Great War, he flew along the Lafayette Escadrille pilots where he sketched his first aerial battles of World War One. Farré was awarded the Légion d'Honneur and Croix de Guerre. Later, he created finished oil paintings using his aerial fight sketches and began to exhibit his work in major American cities such as Chicago, Washington D.C., New York and Boston. In 1934, Lieutenant Henry Farré exhibited at the Salon des Artistes Français where he won a gold medal. In 1919, he published Sky Fighters of France which recounted his experience and exploits during World War One. He died in 1934 in Chicago. Item #2983
General Society of Mechanics & Tradesmen "DEMILT" Section.
Price (AUD): $2,000.00