Atlantic Wings 1919-1939 : The Conquest of the North Atlantic by Aeroplane [Airplane]
by McDonough, Kenneth
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- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good condition/Good dust jacket
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About This Item
Hemel Hempstead, Hertfordshire U.K.: Model Aeronautical Press, Ltd, 1966. Very Good condition in a Good dust jacket. NOT price clipped (90s). Sharp corners. NO owner's name or bookplate. NOT a library discard. NOT a remainder. Pages are clean, crisp and unmarked. 1966. First Edition. Full color illustrations by the author throughout. A history of the conquest of the North Atlantic by aeroplane. Includes chapters on Read, Smith, Arnold, Nelson and Harding; Hawker and MacKenzie-Grieve; Alcock and Brown; Nungesser and Coli; Charles Lindbergh; Chamberlin and Levine; Byrd, Balchen, Acosta and Noville; Von Huenefeld, Koehl and Fitzmaurice; Assolant, Lefevre and Lotti; Kingsford Smith, VanDyk, Saul and Stannage; Costes and Bellonte; The Flying Mollisons, Amelia Earhart, General Balbo, Codos and Rossi; Bennett and Coster, Corrigan. Five appendices. Bibliography. Index. Bound in the original blue cloth, stamped in bright gold on the spine. From the dust jacket: "The colour plates in this book illustrate twelve of the most important aeroplanes engaged in the Atlantic conquest. They are all drawn to a common scale: one sixth of an inch to the foot… All the areoplanes are depicted, for the first time, in their authentic colours." 8.5" wide by 11.25" tall.. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good condition/Good dust jacket. Illus. by McDonough, Kenneth. 132pp. Great Packaging, Fast Shipping.
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- Title
- Atlantic Wings 1919-1939 : The Conquest of the North Atlantic by Aeroplane [Airplane]
- Author
- McDonough, Kenneth
- Illustrator
- McDonough, Kenneth
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good condition
- Jacket Condition
- Good dust jacket
- Edition
- First Edition
- Publisher
- Model Aeronautical Press, Ltd
- Place of Publication
- Hemel Hempstead, Hertfordshire U.K.
- Date Published
- 1966
- Bookseller catalogs
- Aviation / Aeronautics / Space Travel;
- Size
- 132pp
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