Data primarily from library records (below), which report:
-- colour frontispiece and four black-and-white illustrations
-- green cloth with title, author, and illustration of an airplane stamped in yellow, blue, and green on upper board
SFE3 also gives year 1915 ("Of Ellis's huge body of work, a few others are of some interest"; this latest of 4 named)
ASIN and cover image from Amazon.com 2018-03-03 as "Hardcover – 1909"
Not found 2018-03-03 in automated search (dragon of the skies) of newspapers 1909 to 1916