WWI Aviation books cover art

[baloo2000]

[baloo2000]

[Gregvan]

Well, it's greatly inferior to all of that superb art by Iain Wyllie, Brian Knight and others that baloo2000 just posted (do you OWN all those pieces, baloo2000?), but here is a little piece of cover art from Rolf Itaaliander's early biography of Werner Voss:

[Gregvan]

I hope nobody has already posted these. Back in the late 1960's Doubleday published new editions of several of the classic pilots' memoirs in handsome hardbacks and paperbacks. These have a lot of nostalgia for me, as they were my first exposure to such great first-hand accounts by famous aces. The covers for the Allied airmens' books all followed the same pattern, with nice little watercolor plane portraits by Joseph A. Phelan. They look nice together on a shelf.

[jastaflieger]

i would like to thank Baloo2000 for posting those pieces, they look wonderful, i am esp fond of the works of Mr Knight- but the cover art by all of those aviation artists is striking and superbly rendered!!
most of those images seem to have been used as cover art for the Osprey titles in the past, have you been lucky enough to have been scooping up these images? What a fine collection you must have, you are lucky indeed.
thanks again for sharing with us, great stuff.
jim

[Romani]

I got these from a friend of my girlfriend, seems thre is a publisher in Poland, Orlik, that prints paper models, for cutting, folding and glueing. They have a couple of WWI models, these are scans of covers.

Albatros BI

[Romani]

[Romani]

And thugh this one is beyond of the Great War period, but this wonderful Polish Nieuport from a Polish publisher of military books called Wydawnictwo Militaria is too good not to post.

[jastaflieger]

Although the cover is nice, the embossed stork is well done, the overall impression is somewhat sedate::: but the color images inside are superb and well worth the book. I am not very good at French, but since both my children are studying the language in school: my hope is that someday they will translate the book for me.
i would recommend this book for anyone building a collection. What do others think of this volume?
jim

[dpolglaze]

Some more artwork.

This is by William T. Badham, who was in the 91st in WWI. It's in reverse and a little modified on the cover also of his book "Memoirs and Art of William Terry Badham"


And a silly one:


Dan