Search Results: jet flight by john grierson

Sampson Low, Marston and Co. Ltd., 1111. Hardcover. Good. No Edition Stated. 270 pages. No dust jacket. Cream cloth with blue lettering. B&W photographs throughout. Clean pages. Minimal foxing and tanning to endpapers and page edges. Some gutter cracking. Presentation plate to front paste down. Mild wear and bumping to spine, board edges and corners. Notable sunning to spine and board edges, with scuffing and soiling to boards.

London: Sampson Low, Marston & Co., Ltd. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. Large 8vo. Large 8vo. xvi, 270 pp, illus. n.d. [Brockworth Introduction 1945]. Minor external wear with signs previous dampness rippling at bottom margin edge of first 115 pp. and dust line top text block edge, else, no wear. No markings, tight binding, clean, white and bright. 6.25" x 9". Beige cloth with gilt lettering to spine, and illustrated endpapers. In mylar protector. "A story of jet propulsion from the inside as seen by a test pilot; a record of technical achievement on both sides of the Atlantic in which an inventor, designers, mechanics and test pilots have all played a part." from the Introduction. 0.

Sampson Low, Marston & Co. [n/d, c. late 1940's]. Octavo brown cloth boards, blue lettering to spine, illus., xvi+270pp, VG (boards slightly warped, light soiling to contents, prev. owner's catalogue number in pen to fep., in d/w VG (scuffing, chips to spine repaired with archival tape, price-clipped)

London: Sampson Low, Marston & Co. , Ltd. Foreword by The Rt. Hon. Lord Beaverbrook, Minister for Aircraft Production 1940-1941. No date, although Introduction by Brockworth states 1945. Clean faded cloth on board with shelf-sunned. Black titles. Spine: head & foot thin light wear and small soil spot to head rear corner. Couple of light indents to boards edges. Edges: light foxing, mostly to the top-edge. Eps: b/w illustration of military planes in flight; faint dusting of soiling. Half-title page with booksellers sticker to foot. Frontis: b/w photograph of Frank Whittle as a Flight Cadet. Clean glossy content. B/w illustrations. Binding is VG+ albeit slightly cocked. 270p Dj: light dusting of soiling, rubbings and scratches. Top and bottom edges with several chips, splits, some large open tears, small sections missing and creasings. Price-cut to front flap foot. . Hb. VG/VG-.

Sampson Low Marston,, [1945]. 8vo., First Edition, with portrait frontispiece, very numerous full-page photographs in the text and pictorial endpapers, title very lightly age-marked; handsomely bound in full dark blue crushed morocco, sides with gilt frame border, back with raised bands, second and fourth compartments lettered and ruled in gilt, all other compartments tooled in gilt, gilt top, hand-made endpapers, ribbon marker, a most attractive copy ideal as a gift or for presentation. A scarce and important text in the history of British (and in many respects international) aviation. Test pilot Grierson traces the initial development and operation of the jet engine from Whittle (pictured as a flight cadet in the frontispiece) and the Gloster E.28 aircraft to the Meteor and Vampire, as well as progress in the USA.