Leo McKinstry - Spitfire - First Edition

MCKINSTRY, Leo (born 1962).

Spitfire. Portrait of a Legend.

London: John Murray, 2007.

FIRST EDITION, first printing. Octavo (25 x 17cm), pp.x; 435; [3]. Publisher's red cloth lettered in gilt to spine. Dust-jacket designed by Matt Dennis, with printed price of £20 to front flap. Illustrated with two photographic suites.

Textblock gently toned, dust-jacket marginally sunned to spine. Fine.

A weighty study of the Supermarine Spitfire, a key symbol of Britain's defiance in the Second World War.