Independent, The (London), Mar 24, 2000 by Dennis Kiley

AS A fighter pilot in the Second World War, Jim Bailey shot down nine German planes and they shot him down twice. He survived. This was fortunate for a whole generation of black South African journalists. He not only gave them the chance to become professional writers in Drum Publications, which he jointly founded in 1951, but to fight their way into world recognition as they tracked and attacked the idiocies and outrages of apartheid.

Publisher: Images Publishing, UK, 1993, First UK Edition., 1993
Fine vaux leather 8vo hardcover with panel-mounted reproduction of detail from Battle of Britain by Paul Nash on front board; endpapers decorated with letters from RAF luminaries Hugh Dundas, Johnny Johnson and Peter Townsend; 50 pages, 45 poems, b/w illustrations; foreword by Air Vice-Marshal Desmond Hughes. First publication was in South Africa, where Bailey was the publisher of the iconic Drum magazine, on which many leading black writers and photographers cut their artistic teeth.