Description and condition: Blue boards hardback, dustcover, 8vo, 593 pp, index, b/w illustrations. Very good, with faint thumb marking to fore edge and slight wear to spine ends, internally with nice bright clean pages. In good or better dustcover with slight edge wear, now protected. Contents: Part of the Putnam Aviation Histories series. Describes in detail the aircraft designed and built by Vickers. Of special interest are the detailed descriptions of the well-known and little known designs of the between-wars period: the Vernon, Victoria and Valentia, the Viking amphibians, the Viastra transports and many others such as the Vespa. |