Thriller Fiction
London, The Ace Publishing Co., [1938].
First edition. 8vo. Original brown cloth. Dust-jacket, price-clipped.
A "Flying Beetle" adventure. Britain has opened an air route to Japan across the Arctic, with aerodromes and fuel depots along the way, but aircraft on it are disappearing, and at least one is found riddled with bullets. The frontispiece and jacket are by Howard Leigh (c. 1909–1942), one of the leading aviation artists of the 1930s, best remembered as illustrator of the earliest Biggles books by W. E. Johns, who guided his early career.
Translated by Claud W. Sykes London, The Ace Publishing Co., [1938].First Ace edition. 8vo. Original cloth. Dust-jacket, priced 5/-.FFA 17 memoir, drawn from the author's own combat reports and illustrated with photographs he took on observation duties - jaunty in tone against a grim backdrop of heavy casualties, and the second of a trilogy of his air-war memoirs.