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FLYING YEARS.
by KEITH, C. H.:
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- See description
- Seller
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Oxford, Oxfordshire, United Kingdom
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About This Item
London, John Hamilton, (1937).. FIRST EDITION (1937) ( Preface dated 1937 and publisher's adverts at end dated 1937), approximately 214 x 140 mm, 8½ x 5¾ inches, coloured frontispiece, 6 maps, 5 folding, 25 photographic plates with several images per plate, pages: xii, 1-316 plus 40 pages of publisher's adverts dated Spring 1937, original publisher's black cloth, gilt lettering to spine and upper cover, central gilt vignette of fighter plane on upper cover, yellow top edges. Covers slightly rubbed, with slight loss of gilt to lettering on spine, some pale splash marks to covers, corners lightly bumped, light rippling to a few plates, some light foxing to edges, a few tiny nicks to fore-edges, otherwise a very good copy, lacking dustwrapper. This is not the Aviation Book Club edition (blue cloth, red vignette). MORE IMAGES ATTACHED TO THIS LISTING, ALL ZOOMABLE. FURTHER IMAGES ON REQUEST. POSTAGE AT COST.
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Details
- Seller
- Roger Middleton
(GB)
- Seller's Inventory #
- 46560
- Title
- FLYING YEARS.
- Author
- KEITH, C. H.:
- Book Condition
- Used
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Place of Publication
- London, John Hamilton, (1937).
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
- Keywords
- Flying Middle East Royal Air Force aeroplanes aeronautics aviation
Terms of Sale
Roger Middleton
We have been established booksellers for 42 years. We are a postal business only (strictly no callers). We are long-standing members of the P.B.F.A. the largest trade association for antiquarian booksellers in the UK. We wrap all our parcels in new materials and all our books are insured at our expense. Books may be returned if wrongly described, all costs will be met by us. ****PLEASE NOTE: POSTAGE WILL BE CHARGED AT COST, MEANING THAT POSTAGE WILL BE REDUCED ON PARCELS WEIGHING UNDER 1 KILO, AND IT WILL BE INCREASED ON MOST PARCELS WEIGHING MORE THAN 1 KILO****
About the Seller
Roger Middleton
Biblio member since 2010
Oxford, Oxfordshire
About Roger Middleton
We are a postal business only, selling rare and antiquarian books on interesting subjects.
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- Cloth
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- 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...
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- Full page illustration or photograph. Plates are printed separately from the text of the book, and bound in at production. I.e.,...
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- The outer portion of a book which covers the actual binding. The spine usually faces outward when a book is placed on a shelf....
- Dustwrapper
- Also known as book jacket, dust cover, or dust wrapper, a dust jacket is a protective and decorative cover for a book that is...
- Book Club Edition
- A generic term denoting a book which was produced or distributed by one of any number of book club organizations. Usually the...
- 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...
- Vignette
- A decorative design or illustration placed at the beginning or end of a ...
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