First edition. Octavo, pp 245. Illustrated with photographs in colour and b/w. End-paper maps showing the airline’s routes. Bound in blue cloth covered hard boards and in the original price clipped dust jacket. A history of Cathay Pacific from formation in 1946, through civil war and the world’s first aviation hi-jacking, to the modern era of wide-bodied jets and long-haul flights.

The book has a gift inscription to the half title page and a little spotting to the top edge, grades Very good. Jacket is also Very Good with gentle fade to the spine.