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Bird of the Islands: The Story of a Flying Boat in the South Seas by Taylor, Gordon - 1964

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Bird of the Islands: The Story of a Flying Boat in the South Seas by Taylor, Gordon - 1964

Bird of the Islands: The Story of a Flying Boat in the South Seas

by Taylor, Gordon

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Melbourne: Cassell Australia, 1964. 1st printing. VG/VG dust jacket, light stain to edges of first 30 pages not affecting text. xii, 284 p., photos, map on endpapers, 8vo;
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  • Book Condition Used - VG/VG dust jacket, light stain to edges of first 30 pages not affecting text
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  • Edition 1st printing
  • Binding Hardcover
  • Publisher Cassell Australia
  • Place of Publication Melbourne
  • Date Published 1964

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Bird of the Islands The Story of a Flying Boat in the South Seas

Bird of the Islands The Story of a Flying Boat in the South Seas

by Taylor, Sir Gordon

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Cassell. Near Fine in Near Fine dust jacket. 1964. First Edition. Hardcover. 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 284 pages .
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Bird of the Islands: The Story of a Flying Boat in the South Seas

Bird of the Islands: The Story of a Flying Boat in the South Seas

by Taylor, Sir Gordon

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Melbourne, Australia: Cassell Australia Ltd., 1964. First Edition. Lightly bowed; Endpaper map; Lightly toned edges; Textblock very clean and tight. Decorative cloth binding, minimally worn. Unclipped dust jacket, a peanut-sized hole along the spine on front cover, small tears to corners on head of spine, creasing to head and foot of spine, lighlty rubbed, some soiling to covers. 284pp.. First Edition. Cloth. Near Fine/Good+ (in mylar). Illus. by Photographs. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Hardcover.
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BIRD OF THE ISLANDS. The Story of a Flying Boat in the South Seas.

by TAYLOR, Sir Gordon

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Syd. Cassell Australia Ltd., 1964.. Col.ill.bds. Dustjacket. 284pp. b/w plates. Very good copy. 1st ed. Scarce. Sir Patrick Gordon Taylor set off from Rose Bay in 1951 in Frigate Bird III to travel among the Pacific Islands of New Caledonia, Isle of Pines, Fiji, Cook Islands, Tahiti, Hawaii then Gambier Island.
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