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War Bird: The Life and Times of Elliott White Springs. (SIGNED)
by Davis, Burke
- Used
- near fine
- Hardcover
- Signed
- first
- Condition
- Near Fine/Very Good
- ISBN 10
- 080781752X
- ISBN 13
- 9780807817520
- Seller
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Greensboro, North Carolina, United States
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About This Item
Chapel Hill and London: The University of North Carolina Press, 1987. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Near Fine/Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Octavo. 267 pages, indexed. Hardcover in sepia dust jacket, now in mylar. Minimal wear to the jacket. Edges of text block are foxed. INSCRIBED by the author on the title page to North Carolina historian, Lindley Butler, "To Lindley, friend, scholar, writer & activist, With all best wishes. / Burke Davis / Greensboro, NC / 22 Sept., 2001.
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- Bookseller
- Pages Past Used and Rare Books
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 045957
- Title
- War Bird: The Life and Times of Elliott White Springs. (SIGNED)
- Author
- Davis, Burke
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Near Fine
- Jacket Condition
- Very Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- ISBN 10
- 080781752X
- ISBN 13
- 9780807817520
- Publisher
- The University of North Carolina Press
- Place of Publication
- Chapel Hill and London
- Date Published
- 1987
- Size
- 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾
- Keywords
- 1987; Burke Davis; Biography; World War One; WWI; Military history; North Carolina Historian Lindley Butler; Aviation; Pilot; South Carolina; Signed; Autographed; Inscribed.
- Bookseller catalogs
- North Carolina; Aviation; World War I;
- X weight
- 2.1 lb
Terms of Sale
Pages Past Used and Rare Books
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About the Seller
Pages Past Used and Rare Books
Biblio member since 2017
Greensboro, North Carolina
About Pages Past Used and Rare Books
Pages Past is a small used & rare bookshop located a few blocks from the University of North Carolina at Greensboro. Since 1996 we have been serving the Triad community as well as customers from around the world. We have around 15-20,000 volumes in our shop. We specialize in North Carolina, Virginia, Civil War, Old Leather, Christianity, Eastern and Western Philosophies, and the simply unusual. We very likely have the oldest books in Greensboro; we keep a nice selection of antiquarian volumes and scholarly books.
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- 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...
- Inscribed
- When a book is described as being inscribed, it indicates that a short note written by the author or a previous owner has been...
- Foxed
- Foxing is the age related browning, or brown-yellowish spots, that can occur to book paper over time. When this aging process...
- Octavo
- Another of the terms referring to page or book size, octavo refers to a standard printer's sheet folded four times, producing...
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- Title Page
- A page at the front of a book which may contain the title of the book, any subtitles, the authors, contributors, editors, the...
- Text Block
- Most simply the inside pages of a book. More precisely, the block of paper formed by the cut and stacked pages of a book....
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- Countries & Cultures North America United States South
- Military & Military History
- Military & Military History Wars World War I
- Transportation Aviation
- History History by Period Modern History 20th Century World War I
- Biography & Essays Biography & Memoirs
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