Captain Gilson — The Pirate Aeroplane

London, Henry Frowde: Hodder and Stoughton, 1913. First edition. Cloth. A smart first edition of this brightly illustrated adventure story for young readers from Captain Gilson. First edition. Illustrated with a colour frontispiece and five colour plates. Collated complete. An early aeroplane adventure novel, following young Jack Wilks, the son of a blacksmith, who signs up to join the British Army. Written by Charles James Louis Gilson, who published as Captain Charles Gilson, Major Charles Gilson, and Barbara Gilson, a British officer and a popular author of science fiction, adventure stories, and historical fiction books for children. Illustrated by Christopher Clark, a British artist and illustrator. Dated from the British Library. In the original pictorial cloth binding. Externally, smart with light rubbing and bumping to the extremities. Light fading to the spine with the odd small mark to the boards. Internally, firmly bound. Pages are very bright with light scattered spotting, predominantly to the first and last few pages, and light age toning to the endpapers. Contemporary ink inscription to the front endpaper. Very Good . Ill.: Christopher Clark. Very Good .