Flying Fleets: A Graphic History of U.S. Naval Aviation
by S. Paul Johnston
- Used
- good
- Hardcover
- Signed
- first
- Condition
- Good/No Jacket
- Seller
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Buffalo, New York, United States
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About This Item
New York: Duell, Sloan and Pearce, 1941. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Good/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Signed by author to ffep with personalized inscription. Blue cloth covered boards with silver gilt lettering, light edgewear, lightly sunned spine, and slightly frayed and bumped spine ends and corners. Binding sound, text clean. Interior toned. Light foxing and soil to pastedowns and eps. Old bookshop label and a ~1 3/4" square abraded area to rear pastedown. Illustrated with b/w photos. Not ex-library.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Albion Books (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 000426
- Title
- Flying Fleets: A Graphic History of U.S. Naval Aviation
- Author
- S. Paul Johnston
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Good
- Jacket Condition
- No Jacket
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Publisher
- Duell, Sloan and Pearce
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1941
- Pages
- 188
- Size
- 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall
Terms of Sale
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About the Seller
Albion Books
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Buffalo, New York
About Albion Books
Albion Books deals in fine used, out of print and rare books on a wide variety of topics. Specialties include Buffalo/New York history, science, religion, occult, and foreign language. The proprietor has been in the antiquarian book business since 2006.
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- 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....
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- FFEP
- A common abbreviation for Front Free End Paper. Generally, it is the first page of a book and is part of a single sheet that...
- 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...
- 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...