BRIGGS, Raymond (illustrator) and Nicholas FISK. Richthofen the Red Baron. London: Hamish Hamilton, 1968. First edition, signed by Raymond Briggs and with a hand-written letter from Briggs loosely inserted, 4to (204 x 193mm.) Colour illustrations. (Mild toning.) Original pictorial boards, dust-jacket (extremities rubbed). Note: the letter reads ‘Dear Mr. Marshall, Thanks for your interesting letter. No one has ever asked for those old books before! I enclose 2 of them. I went over to somewhere in Kent (don’t ask me where) to draw the exact model of Alfa in the book. Someone was having it done up at a cost of untold thousands. Naturally sat in it! All Best, Raymond Briggs’. Provenance: Peter Marshall, Alfa Romeo specialist (gift inscribed to from the author). – And a further four first editions illustrated by Raymond Briggs, including another signed (‘Lindbergh the Lone Flier’, 1968, 4to, and two copies of ‘Nuvolari and the Alfa Romeo’, 1968, 4to, and ‘Jimmy Murphy and the White Duesenberg’, 1968, 4to) (5).