The Glorious Flight: Across the Channel with Louis Blériot - 1st UK Edition/1st Printing
by Provensen, Alice and Martin Provensen
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Near Fine in Near Fine dust jacket
- ISBN 10
- 0091543002
- ISBN 13
- 9780091543006
- Seller
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Summerville, South Carolina, United States
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About This Item
London: Hutchinson. Near Fine in Near Fine dust jacket. 1983. 1st UK Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. 0091543002 . First British edition/first printing in Near Fine condition, light bumping to edges in alike dust-jacket; The winner of the Caldecott Medal for illustration in 1984 captures the story of Louis Blériot, the first pilot to fly across the English Channel, eighteen years before Charles Lindbergh's flight across the Atlantic. Alice and Martin Provensen's richly detailed paintings convey this exciting and historic event with wonderful authenticity; Color Illustrations; Oblong 4to; [3], 4-39, [1] pages .
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- Bookseller
- Books Tell You Why, Inc. (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 34293
- Title
- The Glorious Flight: Across the Channel with Louis Blériot - 1st UK Edition/1st Printing
- Author
- Provensen, Alice and Martin Provensen
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Near Fine in Near Fine dust jacket
- Edition
- 1st UK Edition; First Printing
- ISBN 10
- 0091543002
- ISBN 13
- 9780091543006
- Publisher
- Hutchinson
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1983
- Keywords
- Collectible Rare Out-Of-Print
- Bookseller catalogs
- Awarded Books / Caldecott Medal;
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