An Air Fighter's Scrap-Book.

JONES, [Squadron Leader] Ira, D.S.O., M.C., D.F.C., M.M. (1896-1960).

London: Nicholson and Watson, 1938. [Airforce Memoir] FIRST EDITION, first impression. Octavo (22 x 15cm), pp.332. With 14 black and white photographic plates, including a frontispiece. Publisher's black cloth titled in red to spine, with a facsimile signature in red to upper. With the blue photographic dust jacket, priced at 10/6. Edges lightly spotted. Engraved bookplate of Robert Bradford Reid to front pastedown, otherwise internally crisp and clean. Jacket sunned to spine, with some light wear and creasing to head and tail. Near fine. An autobiographical account of Jones' remarkable service as a Western Front scout pilot with the Royal Flying Corps and the Royal Air Force, credited with destroying 28 enemy aircraft & three balloons. His illustrious colleagues included flying ace Major 'Mick' Mannock VC and Aircraftman Ross (T.E. Lawrence)." There is no better man to tell the imperishable story of the part played by British airmen in the skies over France and Flanders" (from the dust-jacket blurb). Item #40316

Price: £180.00