Interplanetary Flight: An Introduction to Astronautics
by CLARKE, ARTHUR C
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
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About This Item
Temple Press 1950. FIRST EDITION, LACKS FEP, octavo, blue buckram boards, dark blue lettering to spine, frontispiece, viii + 164pp, illus, VG (light bruising to extrems, moderate fading & foxing to spine, light foxing to boards, light tanning & foxing to page edges & eps, ffep missing, minor foxing sporadically throughout, light cracking to some gutters)
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
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- Title
- Interplanetary Flight: An Introduction to Astronautics
- Author
- CLARKE, ARTHUR C
- Book Condition
- Used
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Temple Press 1950
- Keywords
- first editions Arthur C Clarke astronautics space travel flight rockets stations physics
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- VG
- Very Good condition can describe a used book that does show some small signs of wear - but no tears - on either binding or...
- FFEP
- A common abbreviation for Front Free End Paper. Generally, it is the first page of a book and is part of a single sheet that...
- 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...
- Octavo
- Another of the terms referring to page or book size, octavo refers to a standard printer's sheet folded four times, producing...
- 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....
- First Edition
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- Buckram
- A plain weave fabric normally made from cotton or linen which is stiffened with starch or other chemicals to cover the book...
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