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The Spirit of St. Louis
by Lindbergh, Charles A
- Used
- Very Good
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Very Good/Fair
- Seller
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La Mesa, California, United States
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About This Item
New York, New York, U.S.A.: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1953. Book Club Edition (BCE) . Hardcover. Very Good/Fair. The famed aviator's autobiographical narrative, with an hour-by-hour account of his pioneering flight across the Atlantic. In 562 pages, with Glossary, Index, photographs, flight log, & detailed engineering drawings of his plane. Hardback book has medium-blue cloth-covered boards & silver lettering on spine & plane outline on front cover; lovely endpapers reproduced from an original aquatint by Burnell Poole. First published in 1953, this is a book club edition (BCE) of that First Edition, identical in appearance save for no "A" on CR page & small emboss on rear board. Condition is VG+: extremely clean, binding tight & square, pages show very mild tanning around all edges, slight rubbing to extremities & corner bumping. The DJ is clipped at top front flap & downgraded to only Fair due to a large missing section from lower spine & lesser chipping at head of spine & all corners. Nicely protected in new nonreflective mylar cover free! Our photos depict the Exact book you will receive, never "stock" images of books we don't actually have! Same Day Shipping on all orders received by 2 pm Weekdays (PST); later orders, weekends & holidays ship very next business day.
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- Seller
- Gargoyle Books
(US)
- Seller's Inventory #
- 020432
- Title
- The Spirit of St. Louis
- Author
- Lindbergh, Charles A
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- Fair
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- Book Club Edition (BCE)
- Publisher
- Charles Scribner's Sons
- Place of Publication
- New York, New York, U.S.A.
- Date Published
- 1953
- Keywords
- FLIGHT AVIATOR FLYING TRANSATLANTIC LINDBERGH HERO BIOGRAPHY PLANES AIRPLANE AUTOBIOGRAPHY MEMOIR PILOTS
- Bookseller catalogs
- Autobiography-Biography-Journals-Letters; Travel-Exploration-Adventure;
Terms of Sale
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About the Seller
Gargoyle Books
Biblio member since 2006
La Mesa, California
About Gargoyle Books
On-line booksellers since 1996
Glossary
Some terminology that may be used in this description includes:
- First Edition
- In book collecting, the first edition is the earliest published form of a book. A book may have more than one first edition in...
- Tight
- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
- Fair
- is a worn book that has complete text pages (including those with maps or plates) but may lack endpapers, half-title, etc....
- 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...
- Chipping
- A defect in which small pieces are missing from the edges; fraying or small pieces of paper missing the edge of a paperback, or...
- 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....
- Book Club Edition
- A generic term denoting a book which was produced or distributed by one of any number of book club organizations. Usually the...
- Rubbing
- Abrasion or wear to the surface. Usually used in reference to a book's boards or dust-jacket.
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