No Jacket. 1st Edition. Published in 1942 by Pitman Publishing Corporation of New York. 692 pgs, illustrated. Original decorated blue Heavy wear to edges with staining and fading. Separation of cover at spine but intact. Interior is clean and tight. Prepared for the High School student just before the outbreak of WW II. From the preface, “In August 1942, it seems that a knowledge of airplanes is essential to the survival of civilization as we know it.”