My First Aeroplane, Alauda Magna By H.G. Wells Illustrated In Colour By Tom Browne. An Uncommon Original Article From The Strand Magazine – Circa 1910

My First Aeroplane! What vivid memories of youth that recalls! Far back it was, in the spring of 1912 that I acquired “Alauda Magna”, the Great Lark, for so I christened her; and I was then a slender young man of four and twenty, with hair – beautiful blond hair – all over my adventurous young head. I was a dashing young fellow enough, in spite of the slight visual defect that obliged me to wear spectacles on my prominent, aquiline, but by no means shapeless nose – the typical flyer’s nose.’ An amusing and fascinating, uncommon original article (1910) – 8 pages, illustrated in colour H:23.5 x W:16cm