Birth of a Spitfire. The Story of Beaverbrook's Ministry and its First £10,000,000. BRIGHT, CLEAN COPY IN DUSTWRAPPER
Rare and modern books
Beckles Gordon
Collins,
1941
Birth of a Spitfire. The Story of Beaverbrook's Ministry and its First £10,000,000. BRIGHT, CLEAN COPY IN DUSTWRAPPER
Rare and modern books
Beckles Gordon
Collins,
1941
138.00 €
(Devon,
United Kingdom)
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Details
- Year of publication
- 1941
- Author
- Beckles Gordon
- Publishers
- Collins
- Keyword
- aviation, ww2, wwii, home front, aircraft production, spitfire, beaverbrook, aitken, max aitken, beckles, gordon beckles
- Languages
- English
Description
8vo., First Edition, with portrait frontispiece and plates, small neat contemporary signature on front free endpaper; green cloth, backstrip lettered in yellow, a very good, bright, clean copy in price-clipped dudstwrapper. The first publicly published account of Lord Beaverbrook's innovative and astonishingly successful 'Saucepans for Spitfires' fund-raising campaign. His Ministry of Aircraft Production was the first to develop its own 'treasury' by ignoring the conventional red tape and deriving its funding from the public at large. EXTREMELY SCARCE IN THIS CONDITION. Enser, p.346.
