TEST PILOT. by Neville Duke. Hardback 1st edition (1953)

TEST PILOT by Neville Duke.

Publisher: Allan Wingate, London, 1953, first edition, first impression. 

Good hardback with jacket. Bumped edges, faded spine, minor marks, remnants of label inside front board, pages are tanned and foxed with some marks. Dust-jacket is rubbed, creased, chipped, and marked with with some loss to base of spine.

Pages: 215, Illustrated with monochrome images, portrait on title page. 

ABOUT: Biography of Chief Test Pilot and Wartime Fighter Pilot Neville Duke. WWII fighter pilot Neville Duke - a hero to the nation, became another kind of hero as a peacetime test pilot. This is his story in his own words - with the help of a friend - and provides an insight into the character of men such as he who took their courage into the skies.

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