By Francis Chichester
London   George Allen & Unwin
13" by 7" 46pp.
Wartime games designed to help navigators improve their targeting skills during the Second World War, the first edition of this work.
By Francis Chichester

1942 Pinpoint the Bomber

London   George Allen & Unwin
13" by 7" 46pp.
Wartime games designed to help navigators improve their targeting skills during the Second World War, the first edition of this work.
£90.00
: 0.5kgs / : 831A4

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First Edition, Folding Maps, Illustrated, Publishers' Original Binding, Uncommon

The first edition of this work, an uncommon work.

Created by Francis Chichester and published at the heart of World War II, these games were designed to help the Bomber Command navigators find their target. Containing three games: a game of chance; a game of finding correct longitude and latitude; and a game to locate themselves correctly on the map. 

Illustrated in text. Featuring a coloured folding map to rear and folding frontispiece.

Condition

In the original publisher's full cloth binding. Externally sound with some shelf wear, bumped to head and tail of spine. Internally, binding slightly tender, generally holding. Minor spotting to lower inner gutter, not affecting text.

Good

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