Famous Planes and Famous Flights
by WINSLOW, John
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- See description
- Seller
-
Galena, Illinois, United States
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About This Item
New York: The Platt & Munk Co, 1940. Hardcover. Illustrations by Irvin L. Holcombe. Wide 8vo. Burgundy cloth with large color plate to front board, pictorial dust jacket. Numerous full-page color plates, with text entirely in blue. Near fine/very good. Mild jacket edgewear; front flyleaf ownership signature. Tight and quite nice first edition of this charmer, with delightful large color plates illustrating noteworthy planes ranging from the Wright Brothers earliest effort and the Ryan Monoplane (Spirit of St. Louis) to the Grumman Fighter and Boeing Stratoliner. Uncommon.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Main Street Fine Books & Manuscripts, ABAA (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 43125
- Title
- Famous Planes and Famous Flights
- Author
- WINSLOW, John
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Publisher
- The Platt & Munk Co
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1940
- Bookseller catalogs
- Books; Military History; Aviation;
Terms of Sale
Main Street Fine Books & Manuscripts, ABAA
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About the Seller
Main Street Fine Books & Manuscripts, ABAA
Biblio member since 2005
Galena, Illinois
About Main Street Fine Books & Manuscripts, ABAA
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- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- First Edition
- In book collecting, the first edition is the earliest published form of a book. A book may have more than one first edition in...
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- Tight
- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
- Plate
- Full page illustration or photograph. Plates are printed separately from the text of the book, and bound in at production. I.e.,...