The Big Show
CLOSTERMANN, Pierre
Some Experiences of a French Fighter Pilot in the RAF. Translated by Oliver Berthoud. With a Foreword by Marshal of the Royal Air Force Sir John Slessor. [First English Edition].
FIRST ENGLISH EDITION IN FULL MOROCCO
Published: Chatto & Windus, 1951
Stock code: 33351
Price: £486.00
8vo., First Edition thus, with plates; handsomely bound in blue full morocco, sides with gilt frame border, back with raised bands ruled in gilt, second and fourth compartments lettered in gilt, all other compartments tooled in gilt with a propeller motif, gilt top, hand-made endpapers, a most attractive copy ideal as a gift or for presentation.
Elegant copy of a title widely regarded as one of the finest personal accounts of aerial warfare of WWII. Enser, p.156.