Civil Aircraft of Yesteryear.
1967 · London
by Munson, Kenneth.
London: Ian Allan, (1967). Octavo, blue boards (hardcover), gilt letters, 122 pp. Very Good+, with bookplate; in a Very Good+, mylar protected dust jacket with lightly rubbed edges. From dust jacket: The pictorial album format adapted with such success for the author’s Warplanes of Yesteryear has again been chosen to present another scrapbook, this time from the world of civil aviation. As with its companion volume, Civil Aircraft of Yesteryear is not so much a type-by-type survey as a mixture of “well-knowns” and “one-ffs” from nearly fifty years of civil flying. They range in size and purpose from the tiny “Pou-du-Ciel” to the giant Handley Pages and the Princess and Hughes flying boats. There are nearly 260 half-tone illustrations, each with an informative caption. Their reading may gently instil a little history, but this is incidental; their presentation is designed primarily to interest and entertain. (Inventory #: 60963bd)