The Wings of Adventure, and other little novels

Garden City NY: Doubleday, Doran & Company, Inc.. Near Fine in Very Good+ dj. 1930. First Edition. Hardcover. NOISBN . [nice clean book with no significant wear, tiny dent in top edge of rear cover, vintage price sticker (from The White House, San Francisco department store) on rear pastedown; jacket has a small light brown stain near top of front panel, light soiling to rear panel, a couple of tiny nicks in top edge of rear panel]. "From England to Cairo with one excursion into Victorian England, [the author] ranges in these ten little cosmopolitan novels." One story deals with a "restless post-war Englishwoman who attempted a trans-Atlantic flight." The author, who eventually became Sir Philip Gibbs, distinguished himself as a war correspondent during World War I and went on to a long career in journalism. .