Album aviation POLAND
Collective compilation
Edited by Lt. Col. Marjan Romeyko
Główna Księgarnia Wojskowa, Warsaw 1937, pp.(4), 286, b/w and color. il.(including 6 original graphics signed in pencil by Girs and Barcz and 11 lithographs with portraits, including portraits of Piłsudski, I. Mościcki , G. Orlicz- Dreszer), format 26 x 32.5 cm
HARDCOVER PUBLISHER'S VELVET OF THE PERIOD WITH EMBOSSING AND GILT, GILT PAGE EDGES
With a foreword by Leon Berbecki, complete graphic design by Anatol Girs and Boleslaw Barcz, very richly illustrated, portraits on additional plates.
Special edition in velvet luxury binding (bookbinder Boleslaw Zjawinski), one of several pieces prepared for the World Exhibition in Paris in 1937 [!].
Only in this edition added original etchings signed by Girs and Barcz.
An album dedicated to the history of Polish aviation, its past, directions of development. Individual chapters discuss: military military training, fighter aviation, bomber aviation, role of naval aviation, balloon troops.
BDB-/ condition with minor discoloration of paper in places, NICE piece.
