New York: Crescent Books, 1983. 191pp, bibliography, index, 250+ bw & some col ills. Or brown papered boards in jacket. Top corner bumped, very slight shelf wear. Similar faults with jacket. Recalls the golden years of the biplane, tracing the progress of aircraft design, and focuses on the planes, men and ideas of that nostalgic era. Covers the principal airplanes- Camel, Nieuport, Fokker, Albatross, Curtiss, Boeing, Gloster and a hundred others- their advantages and faults, their importance in military and commercial aviation progress, the famous and occasionally infamous places in history.. Reprint. Hard Cover. Fine/Near Fine. 4to.

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Bookseller: Lawrence Jones (AU)
Bookseller's Inventory #: 008743
Title: Age of the Biplane
Author: Bowyer, Chaz
Format/Binding: Hardcover
Book Condition: Used - Fine
Jacket Condition: Near Fine
Edition: Reprint
ISBN 10: 0517399393
ISBN 13: 9780517399392
Publisher: Crescent Books
Place of Publication: New York
Date Published: 1983
Keywords: Biplanes Airplanes Aeroplanes Flight Aviation
Bookseller catalogs: Transport - Planes, Trains, Cars, Boats, Carriages;

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Shelf Wear: Shelf wear (shelfwear) describes damage caused over time to a book by placing and removing a book from a shelf. This damage is...
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...
Reprint: Any printing of a book which follows the original edition. By definition, a reprint is not a first edition.