The Crowded Sky: An anthology of flight from the beginnings to the age of the guided missile.
1959 · London
by Duke, Neville and Edward Lanchbery; Editors.
London: Cassell, (1959). Octavo, blue cloth (hardcover), gilt letters, xv + 421 pp. Good+, with light wear to covers and neat former-owner bookplate; in a Good+, full-color illustrated, mylar protected dust jacket with edgewear that includes light chipping. From dust jacket: ...Here is a book to be dipped into again and again for its tales of high adventure, of the incredible audacity of men battling aginst the eternal forces of nature, and of the progress of aviation from its humbel beginnings to its present vast complexity. (Inventory #: vas5223)