Open Cockpit Over Africa, by Victor Smith. Published by Faircape Books, 1992.

Open Cockpit Over Africa, by Victor Smith. Published by Faircape Books, 1992.

Illustrated with b&w photographs, maps, sketches, diagrams, copies of newspaper cuttings and related ephemera.

ISBN 079850773 X.

First Edition. Paperback, 172pp.

"This intimate account of what it was like to fly open-cockpit, single-engined aircraft over the length and breadth of primitive Africa in the early 1930s has been written by one of the pioneers of the African air-routes, Victor Smith." (from the back cover)

Condition: Very Good.

Cover clean and bright with light shelf-wear: Superficial scratching (indentations only) to the wraps. Light rubbing to hinges. Crease across top corner of front panel; light crease near top-edge of rear panel. Spine not creased, but both ends lightly rubbed and there's a light bump to the head. Corners lightly rubbed. Very light edge-wear, otherwise. Internally clean. All pages age-toned, but no foxing on either the plates or in the text. No inscriptions, no underlining or highlighting, no annotations or marginalia. Binding secure, no loose or missing pages, no torn pages.