The First Yale Unit A Story of Naval Aviation. 1916-1919.
Cambridge: Riverside Press, 1925. Two volumes. Very good set in original blue cloth. A seal tooled onto the spines has been poorly removed.
Vol I: octavo, frontispiece, [xiv], 306 pp., 44 photo plates; corners bumped on front board, front hinge tender.
Vol II: octavo, frontispiece, [x], 400 pp., 41 photo plates; corners of boards rubbed, front hinge split (not detached). Vol I: 44 photo plates. Vol II: 41 photo plates. Two volumes. Very good set in original blue cloth. A seal tooled onto the spines has been poorly removed.
Vol I: octavo, frontispiece, [xiv], 306 pp., 44 photo plates; corners bumped on front board, front hinge tender.
Vol II: octavo, frontispiece, [x], 400 pp., 41 photo plates; corners of boards rubbed, front hinge split (not detached). Volume 1 is devoted to training.
Volume 2 to the war service at Felix-Stowe, Dunkirk, with the Northern Bombing Group and many other air stations during W.W.I. Includes the letters of David Ingalls and an account of operations out of Killingholme. One of the few important works on the part played by US naval aviation in the Great War. Item #70
Price (AUD): $550.00