Ballantine, New York, 1970, 1st pr thus.  ISBN 0-345-01975-X.  MMPB, 339 pages including Index.  Light edge and cover wear, tiny corner bends; reading creases on spine; prior owner’s rubbed stamp on rear wrap; binding sound.  A few ink marks on blurb page; remainder of interior clean and unmarked with tanned pages.  Although front wrap states 8 pages of photographs, no photos are present and do not appear to have ever been included in this particular publication; there is a two-page map at the front of the book.  ‘Starting as a fighter pilot in World War I, Gordon Taylor went on to become one of the fabulous pioneers of trans-oceanic flight.  Survivor of some of the greatest exploits and wildest adventures in flying, he writes about his 35 years in the air with zest and tremendous vividness.’ (from rear wrap)