The P-40 Kittyhawk in Service
PENTLAND, Geoffrey
With Illustrations by the Author.
SIGNED PRESENTATION COPY; EXTRA-ILLUSTRATED
Published: Kookaburra Technical Publications Melbourne, [1974]
Stock code: 41532
Price: £84.00
Roy. 8vo., First Edition, with fine coloured illustrations and numerous photographs in monochrome throughout, some mild age-staining, bookplate scar on front free endpaper; pictorial boards, a very good, bright copy in unclipped dustwrapper.
A PRESENTATION COPY FROM THE AUTHOR WITH HIS SIGNED HOLOGRAPH INSCRIPTION ON FRONT FREE ENDPAPER, AND EXTRA-ILLUSTRATED BY THE INSERTION OF A MOUNTED COLOURED PLATE DEPICTING FOUR P-40 LIVERIES EXTRACTED FROM THE AUTHOR'S 'RAAF CAMOUFLAGE & MARKINGS 1939-1945, VOL. 1'. Detailed and scarce monograph on AustralIa's primary WWII fighter, including twenty aircraft flown by fifteen aces. SIGNED COPIES ARE EXTREMELY SCARCE.