High Adventure
Melbourne: Robertson & Mullens, 1942. Octavo, original orange cloth, 204 pp., frontispiece, eight photo plates. Cloth thumbed, mild foxing throughout, otherwise a very good copy in a worn and torn dust-jacket. First edition. An autobiography of the leading fighter ace of the Australian Flying Corps during World War I. Flying a Sopwith Camel on the Western Front with No. 4 Squadron Australian Flying Corps, Cobby was credited with 29 victories in spite of the fact that he saw active service for less than a year.
His story ends between the World Wars. During the Second World War, he went on to command No. 10 Operational Group (later Australian First Tactical Air Force) but was relieved of his post in the wake of the complicated "Morotai Mutiny" of April 1945. A scarce and very readable book. Item #5044
Price (AUD): $150.00