I Wanted Wings (School Edition) by Lay, Beirne - 1943

New York and London: Harper & Brothers, 1943. Minor edge and corner wear, scuffed and scratched, corners are bumped and rubbed, some shelf wear, school stamp on the inner front cover, liquid stain on the ffep and on the inner front cover (only pages affected), overall a very clean used first Harper's Modern Classics edition! Very very rare and hard to find title! Blue cloth with yellow lettering on the front board and spine. 355 very clean unmarked and uncreased historical pages! Extremely scarce! "I Wanted Wings is more than the story of a youth who yearned to fly, and how he achieved his goal; it is the chronicle of a man whose desire for freedom of flight ended in self-mastery. Had the experience of the author in conquering the air been unique, this would not, perhaps, be significant. But the point is that his account is chiefly the report of less articulate thousands of Flying Cadets who have discovered in the Air Corps schools exactly what he did: achievement, honor, and manhood....." ---- from An Appreciation by H. H. Arnold.. First Thus. Blue Cloth. Good/No Jacket. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. Hardcover.