War Bird
by Davis, Burke
First Edition
Price: $45.00
- Bookseller: Lux Mentis, Booksellers
- Seller Inventory #: 1415
- Format: Hardcover
- Edition: First Edition
- Binding: Hardcover
- ISBN 10: 080781752X
- ISBN 13: 9780807817520
- Publisher: Univ of North Carolina Press
- Place: Chapel Hill
- Date published: 1987
- Size: 6.5 x 9.5 x 1.25 inches
- Weight: 1.4 pounds
Book Description
Chapel Hill: Univ of North Carolina Press, 1987. First Edition. Hardcover. Tight, bright and unmarred. DJ is bright and clean. Gray cloth boards, black ink lettering, brown endpages, frontispiece. 8vo. viii, 267pp. Illus. (b/w plates). Notes. Index. [T]he first biography of the legendary Elliott White Springs (1896-1959) - World War I ace, best-selling author, advertising genius, and maverick master of a textile manufacturing empire...A daring aviator, he was the fifth-ranking U.S. pilot of World War I. After the war, he briefly pursued a literary career with astonishing success. War Birds, his masterpiece, took America by storm in 1927 and was the inspiration for many books and films on the youth of World War I and the Twenties." (from flap)
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