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Norman Prince, A Volunteer Who Died for The Cause He Loved.
With a Memoir by George F. Babbitt. 1st Ed., [v]+73pp., portrait frontis., 12 plates. Boston & NY: Houghton Mifflin.
1917
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Memoir & letters plus messages of condolence &c. Norman Prince was a Harvard educated lawyer who went to France to volunteer in 1914 & was an innovator of the Escadrille Americaine, which became known in due course as the Lafayette Flying Squadron. Awarded the Croix de Guerre & other distinctions, he participated in 122 aerial engagements, was credited with some nine EA brought down in battle & was killed in a crash, while returning from a raid, in October 1916. Orig. blue paper covd. boards with paper label to front, blue cloth backstrip with paper label, ex-Topsfield Town Lib. with bookplate to front paste-down & ink letters to lower sp., VG thus. See illustration on our website.
£75
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