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1988 Flights of Passage: Recollections of a World War II Aviator
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Description
Author's Presentation Copy, First Edition, Original Binding, Publishers' Original Binding, Signed, With Dustwrapper
A first UK edition of this work, with a dedication from the author on the title: 'Sheelah: To the head of the Hynes clan, with love and admiration - Sam - 20 November 1989.' First published in the US earlier the same year.
With the original unclipped dust wrapper. With monochrome photographs of the author on the cover and in the rear flap.
The book covers Hynes's journey from boy to man as he flew more than a hundred missions in World War II against the Japanese, as a young Marine fighter pilot.
Condition
In the original publisher's red cloth binding, in the original unclipped dust wrapper. Externally excellent, with slight stain to fore edge. Dust wrapper unclipped with sunning to spine and back cover, and slight bumping to head and tail of spine. Tiny tear top of back cover. Internally, firmly bound. Pages bright and clean. Dedication from the author to the title.
Near Fine
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