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Old 5 March 2006, 09:54 PM   #8 (permalink)
karrart
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Originally Posted by Taz
The companion Fawcett book, which also cost $0.75, was The First War Planes, also by William E Barrett. Lots of quite excellent photos with a bit of misidentification and outdated history. Both currently available from abebooks.com for $3.75-$12.50 or so. Both my copies are kind of yellowed from eight trips across the pond and back. Paper quality was not to Schiffer standards. Understandable for 6 bits price.

Taz
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Yep- that little book was what really got me beyond "Fokker Sopwith Spad". I still have two copies from those days- one still with the cover and one without.....75 cents... a quick bike ride down to the local drug store and a new world opened up.
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