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Ballantine, 1972., 1972. Paperback. Very Good. May have limited writing in cover pages. Pages are unmarked. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.Dust jacket quality is not guaranteed.

New York: Ballantine Books, 1972. First Edition. Trade Paperback. Very Good. 8x5x0. First edition. Top corner of front cover creased, edge wear. 1972 Trade Paperback. 159 pp. The Avro Lancaster is a British Second World War heavy bomber. It was designed and manufactured by Avro as a contemporary of the Handley Page Halifax, both bombers having been developed to the same specification, as well as the Short Stirling, all three aircraft being four-engined heavy bombers adopted by the Royal Air Force (RAF) during the same era. The Lancaster has its origins in the twin-engine Avro Manchester which had been developed during the late 1930s in response to the Air Ministry Specification P.13/36 for a medium bomber for "world-wide use" which could carry a torpedo internally, and make shallow dive-bombing attacks. Originally developed as an evolution of the Manchester (which had proved troublesome in service and was retired in 1942), the Lancaster was designed by Roy Chadwick and powered by four… Read More

New York: Ballantine Books, 1972. -----The scan you see is the book you get. Large soft cover (roughly) 8 1/4" by 5 1/2" (inches), clean square & tight, flat spine, 159 pages filled with b & w photos, illustrations & map, Very Good Plus condition with minor edge wear/spine crease, neatly written ink name & inscription by owner on title page, "Lancs were kind to their crews. There was the 44 Squadron machine that was blown on to its back by a near miss & eventually pulled out the the dive almost at ground leverl - the dihedral would have suited an elastic-driven model. If there was one-quarter of one left by the German defences, that quarter would fly home." Check out the scans. . 1st Edition 1st Printing. Soft Cover. Very Good Plus. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.