The Aerial Age: A Thousand Miles by Airship Over the Atlantic Ocean
by WELLMAN, WALTER
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- Hardcover
- Condition
- See description
- Seller
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DUNEDIN, Auckland, New Zealand
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About This Item
A R Keller & Company 1911.. Octavo, blue buckram boards, gilt lettering to spine & front board, aviation illus to front board, frontispiece, 448pp, illus/photos, VG (light bruising to extrems, light fading & chipping to spine, light chafing & soiling to spine & boards, light tanning & foxing to page edges & eps, prev. owner's name in ink to ffep, occasional cracking to gutters)
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- Title
- The Aerial Age: A Thousand Miles by Airship Over the Atlantic Ocean
- Author
- WELLMAN, WALTER
- Book Condition
- Used
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- A R Keller & Company 1911.
- Keywords
- aviation history airships airship voyages travel literature writing atlantic ocean polar sea aerial navigation
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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...
- VG
- Very Good condition can describe a used book that does show some small signs of wear - but no tears - on either binding or...
- Gilt
- The decorative application of gold or gold coloring to a portion of a book on the spine, edges of the text block, or an inlay in...
- 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...
- 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...
- 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....
- 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...