Bent Props & Blow Pots by Terpening, Rex - 2003-11-04

Harbour Publishing, Madeira Park, 2003, Fine Hardcover / Fine Dustjacket, 338 pages, 6.5" x 9.5'.

Madeira Park, B. C.: Harbour Publishing. Good+. 2003. Hardcover. 1550172875 . 338 p. 23.5 cm. Sound and square binding in paper-covered boards. Rubbed along the bottom edges, spine ends and corner tips. Bottom fore-corners are lightly bumped. Inside pages are clean and unmarked. Dust jacket has a moisture stain on lower corner of rear panel. Spine ends and lower edges show some wear. Shelf rubbed. An autobiographical story of air engineer Rex Terpening as he accompanied many different aviators flying bush planes in northern Canada. Illustrated with black and white photographs. .

Harbour Publishing Company, Limited, 2003. Hardcover. Very Good. May have limited writing in cover pages. Pages are unmarked. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.Dust jacket quality is not guaranteed.

Harbour Publishing, 2003. Hardcover. Good. Missing dust jacket; Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.Dust jacket quality is not guaranteed.

Harbour Publishing Company, Limited, 2003. Hardcover. Good. Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.Dust jacket quality is not guaranteed.

Madeira Park, Canada: Harbour Publishing, 2003. Hardcover. Fair/fair. Octavo, 338 pages. Blue boards with silver accents. Bumping and some apparent liquid damage on the bottom edge, which has led to some staining inside the back cover and on pages 305 on (see scan of worst stain). All content visible and usable. Firm binding; no loose pages. Dust jacket with rubbing, chips and stains, plus large tears at spine and along the front edge. This is a large or heavy book and may require additional shipping charges to mail outside of the United States.

Harbour, 2003. Hard Cover. Near Fine/Near Fine. A clean, unmarked book with a tight binding. Slight edge wear. 338 pages.

Harbour, 2003. Hard Cover. Near Fine/Near Fine. Book is in excellent condition with some very light shelf wear at spine ends and corners. Binding is solid and square, covers have sharp corners, exterior shows no other blemishes, text/interior is clean and free of marking of any kind. Dust jacket shows the slightest signs of shelf wear only, no tears. Many b&w photos throughout, 338 pages.

Harbour Publishing, 2003-11-04. First Edition. hardcover. Used: Good.

A tight, clean, and unmarked copy-" Crash landings were part of the job in the early 1930s when Rex Terpening started out in arctic aviation. As an air engineer for Canadian Airways in the Northwest Territories, Terpening took the right-hand seat in the cockpit and flew "on operations" daily, warming the oil and the engine on winter mornings, refueling, and inevitably mending both engine and aircraft when things went wrong. Terpening's beat stretched from Fort McMurray to the Arctic Ocean, and his remarkable bush-flying stories tell of planes wandering lost over unmapped muskeg, perilous rescue missions to retrieve stranded missionaries, dogged searches for downed flyers lost on the Barrens, and emergency landings in blizzards on nameless pothole lakes. But there is humor, too, in tales of a drunken wolverine, a planeload of rambunctious sled dogs, and a trip in a tiny Fairchild with a Catholic priest and the wife of an Anglican minister. And there are vivid evocations of the sheer joy of flying over… Read More