ABC of the RAF - Portal’s Specially Bound Copy with C.F.A.P. Initials British air force history Folding map present

Folding map present

New York: Charles Scribner's

Navy Morocco Design Binding

Churchill's first book of Boer War dispatches

while the repeated gilt eye motifs on the spine evoke the novel's central image of constant observation

ABC of the RAF - Portal’s Specially Bound Copy with C.F.A.P. Initials British air force history Folding map presentHAMMERTON, Sir John, editor. ABC of the RAF: Handbook for All Branches of the Air Force. London: The Amalgamated Press Limited, 1942. New and enlarged wartime edition, specially bound for Air Chief Marshal Sir Charles Portal, Chief of the Air Staff, with C. F. A. P. gilt stamped to the lower cover, for Charles Frederick Algernon Portal. Blue leather grain binding, gilt RAF badge and title to upper cover, all edges gilt, bright blue patterned