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Glide Path
by Arthur C. Clarke
- Used
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Good Condition/Good
- ISBN 10
- 0283980664
- ISBN 13
- 9780283980664
- Seller
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Mona Vale, New South Wales, Australia
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About This Item
Sidgwick & Jackson, UK, 1979. Hardcover. Good Condition/Good. Book Size: 12mo (7 to 8 inches). Item Type: Book. Text body is clean and unmarked. Binding tight, spine fine. Slight foxing front/rear pages. Moderate marks and wear to jacket but complete. Dust Jacket un-clipped. Edges foxed and browned. ISBN: 0283980664. ISBN/EAN: 9780283980664.. 9780283980664
Synopsis
Glide Path is a novel by Arthur C. Clarke, published in 1963. Clarke's only non-science fiction novel, it is set during World War II, and tells a fictionalized version of the development of the radar-based ground-controlled approach (called "ground-controlled descent" in the novel) aircraft landing system. It is based on Clarke's own wartime service with the Royal Air Force, during which he worked on the GCA project.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Shiny Owl Books
(AU)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 50965
- Title
- Glide Path
- Author
- Arthur C. Clarke
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Good Condition
- Jacket Condition
- Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- ISBN 10
- 0283980664
- ISBN 13
- 9780283980664
- Publisher
- Sidgwick & Jackson
- Place of Publication
- UK
- Date Published
- 1979
- Keywords
- BZDB157 Fiction; Fiction::General & Literary Fiction; Unbranded ISBN: 0283980664 EAN: 9780283980664 Arthur C. Clarke Glide Path
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About the Seller
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Mona Vale, New South Wales
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Formerly known as Retriever Books, Dee Why we now have a bookshop in Mona Vale further up the peninsula on the Northern Beaches of SydneyOpening HoursTuesday to Friday 10.15 to 5Saturday 9.30 to 4.30Sunday & Monday closedOpen every day except New Year's Day, Australia Day, Anzac Day, Good Friday, Mother's Day, Christmas Day and Boxing DayWe have over fifty categories of books in-store, we appear to have many titles inCurrently only 8000 books are listed here. Please use the offline search service link to forward us a book title you require or just send an email.Not all online titles are held in the shop, so contact us prior to coming in to view particular titles.Up to 8 hour free parking across the road in the council car park
Glossary
Some terminology that may be used in this description includes:
- Foxed
- Foxing is the age related browning, or brown-yellowish spots, that can occur to book paper over time. When this aging process...
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- Fine
- A book in fine condition exhibits no flaws. A fine condition book closely approaches As New condition, but may lack the...
- 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...
- Tight
- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
- 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...
- 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....
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