The Big Show
London: Chaddo & Windus, 1953. Octavo, cream boards printed with fine brown faux-weave pattern, gilt lettering on spine, 224 pp., four additional leaves of publisher's advertising. Some browning of leaves common to publications of the period, light foxing on back paste-down endpaper, dust-jacket a little worn and torn at top edge; otherwise a near-fine copy with a very good dust-jacket. First edition, published as No. 20 in The Vanguard Library, which was released over a period of years by Chaddo & Windus.
Told from the point of view of the author, a Frenchman who served in the Royal Air Force as a fighter pilot, this nail-biting narrative is the inside story of World War Two's war of the air over Europe, from 1942 to the armistice. Item #5121
From the library of Clare Marshall.
Price (AUD): $65.00