Legends of the Air: Aircraft, Pilots, and Planemakers from the Museum of Flight
by Rossiter, Sean
- Used
- very good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good/Very Good
- ISBN 10
- 0912365315
- ISBN 13
- 9780912365312
- Seller
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Chagrin Falls, Ohio, United States
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About This Item
Sasquatch Books, 1990. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. Near Fine ; Very Good Jacket. 1990 Sasquatch Books. First Edition. First printing. Full number line on verso. Oblong hardcover has green cloth-covered boards with gold spine lettering and cover decorations. Decorative endpapers. Color and black & white photographs. High-quality glossy paper. NOT Remaindered. NOT ex-library. Binding tight. Hinges NOT cracked. Very light wear at bottom edge. Small shallow dent in fore edge of front cover. Pages clean and unmarked. 176 pages. Foreword by Peter M. Bowers. Printed in Japan. Dust jacket has very light edge and surface wear, with some wrinkling at the corners and spine ends and a single small nick at the spine. Carefully packed, shipped in a box.
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- Bookseller
- SmarterRat Books
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 6136
- Title
- Legends of the Air: Aircraft, Pilots, and Planemakers from the Museum of Flight
- Author
- Rossiter, Sean
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- Very Good
- ISBN 10
- 0912365315
- ISBN 13
- 9780912365312
- Publisher
- Sasquatch Books
- Place of Publication
- Seattle, Wa, U.s.a.
- Date Published
- 1990
- Keywords
- Airplanes,History
- Bookseller catalogs
- History; Airplanes;
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