Igor Sikorsky - His Three Careers in Aviation by Frank J. Delear - 1976

Dodd Mead, 1976. Hardcover. Acceptable. Readable copy. Pages may have considerable notes/highlighting. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.Dust jacket quality is not guaranteed.

Dodd, Mead & Co., 1976. Dood, Mead & Co., 1976, revised edition, 8vo, 290 pages, illustrations. Book near fine, jacket in very good+ condition.. Hard Cover. Near Fine/Very Good+. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

Bright tight text with no marks noted, DJ with some rubbing, edgewear including slight edge-creasing and short 1/8 inch closed tear top front, small 1/2 by 3/4 inch price sticker scar front (shows white, some of the printing has lifted). Dodd, Mead, 1976, stated Revised Edition, ISBN 0396072828.

New York: Dodd, Mead and Company, 1976. Revised. Hardcover. Near Fine/Very Good. Revised edition, 1976. A Near Fine book in a Very Good dust jacket. 8vo., 290 pp., with black & white images. Inscribed on end paper by Sergei Sikorsky (Igor's eldest son) along with a charming drawing of a helicopter with a sparking beverage in its hand. Bound in publishers green cloth with green and blue illustrated dust jacket, price clipped. Jacket shows signs of rubbing and chipping along edges, tips and spine. Text is clean and unmarked; binding is tight. Dust jacket now protected in mylar sleeve. Inscribed to Betty and Frank Kenan, dated January 1995.

Dodd Mead, 1976. First Edition. Hardcover. Like New/Very Good. 9x5x1. Signed by Significant Other. Some chipping and edgewear to dustjacket. Inscribed "June 2, 1980 Stratford, Conn. To Mr. Hans Roeschel, With best wishes from one who saw much of what is recorded in this book. Sincerely, Sergei Sikorsky". Sergei is the son of aviation and helicopter pioneer Igor Sikorsky, who designed the first viable helicopter in 1939, the Vought-Sikorsky VS-300. A talented aeronautical engineer, the Russian-born Igor also designed the worlds first successful four-engine airplane in 1913. Sergei has many souvenirs and experiences from his lifetime in aviation. Drafted in 1943, Sergei went into the Coast Guard Helicopter Development Unit, a joint US-British unit that trained the first US and British helicopter pilots and mechanics and developed the first helicopter rescue hoists, litters, baskets, and related piloting techniques. His unit was also involved in some early search-and ­rescue… Read More