R.A.F. Occasions by Hubert Griffith - First Edition Presentation Copy to Air Chief Marshal Sir Charles Portal, with Portal’s Own Wartime Annotations British motor industry The album therefore joins three

The album therefore joins three worlds: the wounded airmen of McIndoe’s Guinea Pig Club

for Charles Frederick Algernon Portal

and oriental romances

minor rubbing and small nicks to extremities

Artillery of Words

R.A.F. Occasions by Hubert Griffith - First Edition Presentation Copy to Air Chief Marshal Sir Charles Portal, with Portal’s Own Wartime Annotations British motor industry The album therefore joins threeGRIFFITH, Hubert. R. A. F. Occasions. London: The Cresset Press, 1941. First edition, first impression. Original cream cloth, lettered in red to the spine. A distinguished wartime association copy, inscribed on the front free endpaper: To Air Chief Marshal Sir Charles Portal, with respect, from a former member of an R. E. 8 Squadron signed by the author and dated R. A. F. Station, Blackpool, June 1941. From the personal collection of Air Chief Marshal