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Spitfire - The Story of a Famous Fighter
84520Harleyford Publications Letchworth 1960. Quarto hardcover; blue boards with gilt spine tilting; 211pp. colour frontispiece and monochrome illustrations. Minor wear; foxing to endpapers and very faint spotting to text block edges. Illustrated dustwrapper slightly faded at front sides rear panel mildly rubbed; tiny missing segment on head of spine and tiny chips at corners. Very good to near fine and protected in archival film with white paper backing. Postage quoted is for a standard format octavo book. Final charges may vary depending on size and weight. The Spitfire fighter aeroplane was the backbone of the British air defense during World War Two ranked the best weapon in the armoury of the British Air Force. Without it the results of the world conflict would certainly have been a very different matter. In this volume - recognised now as the "sine qua non" of works about the Spitfire - the role of the fighter is examined in its entirety from the establishment of the Supermarine works in 1912 to the unveiling of the Spitfire S-4 prototype in 1924 its performance in the World War and afterwards as well the variants that were produced in light of its success from the postwar Spiteful the Seafire and the Seafang. Harleyford Publications, Letchworth, 1960. hardcover
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