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[Album of original photographs compiled by a RAF pilot in Egypt, 1926-1936].
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Date of Publication: 1926
Stock Code: 9566
Landscape format, 27cm x 19cm. 24 leaves containing around 150 black and white photographs and some printed postcards and other ephemera. Bound in an attractive pink block print paper over boards with string ties. Glassine spider web effect tissue guards between most pages. Boards rubbed and worn. Neat penned price from previous seller to front pastedown. Glassine tissue guards browned with creasing, chips and tears. A few photographs have been removed or rearranged leaving glue and marks to album pages. An album of original black and white photographs captured and compiled by an unnamed RAF pilot in the inter war period, stationed at the RAF Aboukir Base in Egypt. The album includes interesting photographs of “the fire at Aboukir”, a theatrical troupe, as well as photographs of steam-liners, aerial photography of plane formations and a recent plane crash, some with hand-written captions identifying locations, ships and dates. There also photographs of people in family and friendship groups, locals, and formal images of men in uniform. A snapshot of inter-war Egypt through the eyes of a Englishman. £70.00