Aircraft Recognition: The Inter-Services Journal. [Thirty-seven issues (complete). Volume I, No. 1 (September 1942) through Volume III, No. 13 (September 1945), bound in three volumes.]
19421945 · London
by Great Britain, Ministry of Aircraft Production, Aircraft Recognition Material Branch.
London: The Inter-Services on Aircraft Recognition, 1942-1945. Three voluems. Each of the three volumes is gilt-stamped with its title front and spine, and also with the former owner’s name, L. Bridgman,” lower front cover. Leonard Bridgman was one of the aritsts and editors of this series. He is better known, however, as the editor of Jane’s All the World’s Aircraft, from 1941 to 1959. Each of the volumes is also inscribed, “With the Compliments of/C. Charles Tapp,” another of the editors, and bears the date, 11/11/45. This, then, is Bridgman’s personal copy of the set, given to him by one of his fellow editors. Each issue inlcudes numerous photos., diagrams, and silhouettes. Each of the volumes is in Fine condition, bearing a former-owner’s bookplate. (Inventory #: 4105bd)