Empire of the Air: Juan Trippe and the Struggle for World Airways
by Matthew Josephson
- Used
- near fine
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Near Fine/Fair
- Seller
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Toronto, Ontario, Canada
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About This Item
New York: Harcourt, Brace and Company, 1944. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Near Fine/Fair. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Near fine first edition. Binding square and tight. Previous owner's name to front end paper, otherwise pages clean and unmarked. Publisher's brown cloth with gilt stamped to spine. Airplane illustration to front. Minor bumping to spine ends and corners. Jacket fair. Has been price clipped. Wear and chipping to spine ends, corners, and edges. Curved closed tear to front cover and also to bottom of fold between front cover and front flap. Also some creasing.
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- Bookseller
- Sellers & Newel Second-Hand Books
(CA)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 12879
- Title
- Empire of the Air: Juan Trippe and the Struggle for World Airways
- Author
- Matthew Josephson
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Near Fine
- Jacket Condition
- Fair
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Publisher
- Harcourt, Brace and Company
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1944
- Pages
- 236
- Keywords
- aviation, flight, airplanes. history
- Size
- 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall
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Sellers & Newel Second-Hand Books
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- Cloth
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- Tight
- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
- Gilt
- The decorative application of gold or gold coloring to a portion of a book on the spine, edges of the text block, or an inlay in...
- First Edition
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- Price Clipped
- When a book is described as price-clipped, it indicates that the portion of the dust jacket flap that has the publisher's...
- Fair
- is a worn book that has complete text pages (including those with maps or plates) but may lack endpapers, half-title, etc....
- Chipping
- A defect in which small pieces are missing from the edges; fraying or small pieces of paper missing the edge of a paperback, or...
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- Edges
- The collective of the top, fore and bottom edges of the text block of the book, being that part of the edges of the pages of a...
- 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....
- Fine
- A book in fine condition exhibits no flaws. A fine condition book closely approaches As New condition, but may lack the...
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