9.FOKKER D.VII*FIRST EDITION!
FIRST-EDITION FOKKER!
WITH the first full cover painting ever to grace a DATAFILE, Brian Knight's evocative 'unkindness of ravens' makes a great opener for Peter Grosz's first title for Albatros Productions, the first of many... This rare March 1989 First Edition contains over 50 rare archive images; three pages of scale drawings; contemporary airframe sketches and three colour profile on the rear cover featuring a pair of OAW-built Fokker D.VIIs from Jagdstaffeln 13 and 78b, along with an early 1918 production model with out-dated eiserne kreuze and a strie finish. The book has yellowed-and mellowed-with age and exhibits some creasing but it is complete in every respect.
THIS is a rare first edition of our first Fokker D.VII publication, and the first of the DATAFILE series to be written by the late, great Peter Martin Grosz who went on to contribute dozens of unique, superbly-researched titles for us. This 28 page monograph includes over 50 archive photos from the author's extensive collections, together with 1:72 and 1:48 scale general arrangement drawings by Ian Stair. The book also includes 1918 detail sketches of the captured example that now resides in the RAF Museum, as well as colours and markings notes by series editor Ray Rimell who also contributes the rear cover colour profiles.Printed way back in March 1989,this copy has inevitably yellowed a little with age and there are lower edge creasing of all folios, but the book is complete and now presents something of a collectors' item-definitely one for the completists!