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Wings Over America : The Story of American Aviation
by Bruno, Harry
- Used
- fair
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Fair/No Jacket
- Seller
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Chisseaux, France
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
Garden City, NY: Halcyon House, 1944. Hardcover. Fair/No Jacket. 84 page appendix of BW photos, 333 pages of text including index, no markings except POS to FFEP. Spine head exposed and cracked at title page and in photo appendix. No loose pages and binding though loose is intact. Boards worn through at corners and both hinges bumped, considerable edge wear to boards and pages age toned. Missing dust jacket. Still a good reading copy. 1944 Reprint originally published in 1942. Scarce collectible hard to find in a better state.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Les livres des Limbes
(FR)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 9195
- Title
- Wings Over America : The Story of American Aviation
- Author
- Bruno, Harry
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Fair
- Jacket Condition
- No Jacket
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Publisher
- Halcyon House
- Place of Publication
- Garden City, NY
- Date Published
- 1944
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
- Keywords
- ABI PM 1ac
- Bookseller catalogs
- Military History, Biblio, ABI;
Terms of Sale
Les livres des Limbes
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About the Seller
Les livres des Limbes
Biblio member since 2013
Chisseaux
About Les livres des Limbes
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Glossary
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- Spine
- The outer portion of a book which covers the actual binding. The spine usually faces outward when a book is placed on a shelf....
- Reprint
- Any printing of a book which follows the original edition. By definition, a reprint is not a first edition.
- Title Page
- A page at the front of a book which may contain the title of the book, any subtitles, the authors, contributors, editors, the...
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- Cracked
- In reference to a hinge or a book's binding, means that the glue which holds the opposing leaves has allowed them to separate,...
- FFEP
- A common abbreviation for Front Free End Paper. Generally, it is the first page of a book and is part of a single sheet that...
- Reading Copy
- Indicates a book that is perfectly serviceable for reading. It may have a defect or damage. As such, reading copy is not a...
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