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Oceans, Poles and Airmen: The First Flights over Wide Waters and Desolate Ice
by Montague, Richard
- Used
- as new
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- As New/As New
- ISBN 10
- 0394462378
- ISBN 13
- 9780394462370
- Seller
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Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States
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About This Item
New York: Random House, 1971. Book. As New. Cloth. First Edition. First Edition. Octavo, brown cloth covered boards. 307 pp. including index. Illustrated with historical black and white photographs. The early history of air flight told through the stories of the distance, speed, hieight and exploration pilots and airmen. A very tight, clean, fresh volume with bright crisp, unmarked and unread pages, in a very crisp, sharp, clean, price-clipped dust jacket. Quite scarce to have such a pristine matte dust jacket on this title. Fine in fine dust jacket. Virtually as new..
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- Bookseller
- Brillig Books
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 07910
- Title
- Oceans, Poles and Airmen: The First Flights over Wide Waters and Desolate Ice
- Author
- Montague, Richard
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- New As New
- Jacket Condition
- As New
- Edition
- First Edition
- ISBN 10
- 0394462378
- ISBN 13
- 9780394462370
- Publisher
- Random House
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1971
- Keywords
- TRAVEL, EXPLORATION, AIR, FLIGHT, AIRMEN, PILOT, NORTH, SOUTH, POLE, HISTORY, SPEED, EARLY, AMERICAN, AMERICA, TRANSATLANTIC, AIRPLANE, AEROPLANE, DIRIGIBLE
- Bookseller catalogs
- Travel and Exploration;
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About the Seller
Brillig Books
Biblio member since 2006
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
About Brillig Books
An independent bookseller of uncommon, out-of-print, used and rare books since 1991.
Glossary
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- First Edition
- In book collecting, the first edition is the earliest published form of a book. A book may have more than one first edition in...
- Crisp
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- Fine
- A book in fine condition exhibits no flaws. A fine condition book closely approaches As New condition, but may lack the...
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- Octavo
- Another of the terms referring to page or book size, octavo refers to a standard printer's sheet folded four times, producing...
- Tight
- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
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