1st Edition 1959. Signed by the author to the endpaper. Half tone photo frontis and 16pp half tone photo ills., dark blue cloth lettered in silver at spine and decorated in silver upper board, coloured decorated dustwrapper, an account of the Hawker Hurricane, from drawing board to production with over 14,000 eventually being built, it was the mainstay of the RAF in the early days of WW2 and responsible for the destruction of seven out of every ten German aircraft shot down during the Battle of Britain. Book is very good++ and bright. Contents good. Light foxing to some pages. The wrapper is very good+ and quite bright. Small loss to spine tips. Light edge rubbing.