Air Battles in Miniature: A Wargamers’ Guide to Aerial Combat, 1939-1945

First edition, first impression. 160pp, with monochrome illustrations and tables, charts etc in text.  Blue cloth-covered boards, gilt-stamped lettering on the spine.  8vo.  Cloth a little rubbed and rounded at corners and spine ends.  Previous owner’s name flamboyantly inked on front free endpaper else internally neat, clean, bright and tight.  In its original dust wrapper gently bumped on extreme edges and a little shelf worn. 

This copy from the library of the late George R P Gush. Gush was head of history at West Kent College but is perhaps better remembered as a key contributor to the development of early wargaming, and as an active wargamer especially in Renaissance wargames. His Renaissance Armies (1975) has become a classic work on the topic. He founded the Tunbridge Wells Wargames Society in the late 1960s, remaining its chairman until 2007. A regular contributor to various wargaming and modelling magazines, he authored with Andrew Finch A Guide to Wargaming (1980) and the well-regarded Wargames Rules for Fifteenth to Seventeenth Centuries.