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Bridging the Seven Seas or on the Air-Lane to Singapore
by Langley, John Prentice (St. George Rathborne)
- Used
- very good
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Very Good/No Jacket
- Seller
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Omaha,, Nebraska, United States
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About This Item
New York: Grosset & Dunlap, 1930. Reprint . Hardcover. Very Good/No Jacket. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. Foster, John M.. Aviation series, volume 8. Bound in blue cloth with titles and decorations stamped in black. 212 pages. With a frontispiece on coated paper. 1932 reissue of the Barse & Company original, this copy with the new illustrated endpapers by N. Braley. Ads at the rear list titles through 1932. The cloth shows on a touch of edgewear, with solid hinges and a square binding. Spine is lightly sunned. Former owner's stamp and gift inscription dated 1935 to the front free endpaper, otherwise unmarked. A clean, tight copy of the penultimate title in this series. Mattson & Davis 04300, format 2.
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- Bookseller
- Friendly Used Books
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 125662
- Title
- Bridging the Seven Seas or on the Air-Lane to Singapore
- Author
- Langley, John Prentice (St. George Rathborne)
- Illustrator
- Foster, John M.
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- No Jacket
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- Reprint
- Publisher
- Grosset & Dunlap
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1930
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
- Keywords
- Flight Fiction Flying Series Boys Travel Adventure
- Bookseller catalogs
- fiction; juvenile;
- Size
- 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall
Terms of Sale
Friendly Used Books
Books may be returned for refunds within 10 days if book is not as described.
About the Seller
Friendly Used Books
Biblio member since 2005
Omaha,, Nebraska
About Friendly Used Books
We have been selling books for over 40 years. For many years we had a B&M shop. We now exclusively sell online. We are conservative graders.
Glossary
Some terminology that may be used in this description includes:
- Reprint
- Any printing of a book which follows the original edition. By definition, a reprint is not a first edition.
- Sunned
- Damage done to a book cover or dust jacket caused by exposure to direct sunlight. Very strong fluorescent light can cause slight...
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- Tight
- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- 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....
- 12mo
- A duodecimo is a book approximately 7 by 4.5 inches in size, or similar in size to a contemporary mass market paperback. Also...
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