Historic Airships
by Holland, Rupert Sargent
- Used
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Very Good+
- Seller
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Franklin, Maine, United States
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About This Item
Philadelphia: MacRae Smith Company. Very Good+. 1928. 2nd Printing. Hardcover. Lettering on spine faded, but legible. ; Book is in excellent condition - one exception noted. Bright gilt lettering and blue, white and maroon image on front cover. Tight binding and clean, unmarked text. "Surely no student of aeronautics should be without [this work]." [Commander Richard E. Byrd in Foreward] Illustrated endpapers. Extra: newspaper clipping laid in from New York Herald Tribune, July 23, 1933, of "Design of Plane of Balbo; Mollisons Before Flight; Interior arrangement of Italian flyer's Savoia-Marchetti seaplane." ; Color & B&W Illustrations; Small 4to 9" - 11" tall; 343 pages .
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- Bookseller
- The Book Shelf (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 6365
- Title
- Historic Airships
- Author
- Holland, Rupert Sargent
- Illustrator
- Manning Dev Lee
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good+
- Edition
- 2nd Printing
- Publisher
- MacRae Smith Company
- Place of Publication
- Philadelphia
- Date Published
- 1928
- Keywords
- Aviation, Airplanes
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- Tight
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- New
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- Good+
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- Gilt
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