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London: Faber and Faber Ltd., mcmxlv.:
Octavo, gray cloth (hardcover), gilt letters, 331 pp. Very Good, with light foxing (age darkened spotting) to covers; in a Very Good, mylar protected dust jacket with light edgewear. From dust jacket: Each night after the day's work, Rom Landau wrote an average of a thousand words in his private R.A.F. log book. Though not written in diary form The Wing is the fruit of those detailed daily entries and is a distillation of a day to day diary of 450,000 words. In consequence it conveys much of the intimacy and directness that are so often lost when time is allowed to exercise its distorting...
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