The Air Force Museum : Fourth Revised Edition
by Apple, Nick P.; & Gene Gurney
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Fine condition/Near Fine dust jacket
- ISBN 10
- 0517550652
- ISBN 13
- 9780517550656
- Seller
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About This Item
New York: Crown Publishers, Inc., 1983. 8.75" wide by 11.25" tall. Bright, clean, tight, unmarked copy. Sharp corners. Not a book club edition. Not price clipped (11.95). No chips or tears. No owner's name or bookplate. No remainder mark. Over 500 illustrations. Subtitle: "The World's Greatest Air Museum of Airplanes, Missiles, and Aviation Exhibits, from the Wright Brothers to the Present." From the Dust Jacket: "Just three miles away from Huffman Prairie, Ohio, where the Wright brothers experimented with controlled flight in 1905, is the Air Force Museum, a dynamic tribute to the ingenuity, technology, and courage that lifted man to the skies and then on into space. The Air Force Museum is a pictorial tribute to the astonishing history of this huge, $7-million showcase for aircraft and aviation... For the first time there is in print a photo of the Mark 17, the thermonuclear bomb that was carried on the B-36 and the B-52 and until recently classified Atomic Top Secret." Foreword by Ira C. Eaker, Lt. Gen. USAF (Ret). Laid-in this copy is an 8-page photo-illustrated brochure on the Boeing P-12E, with the plane's history, specifications, and performance details. Keywords: Wright-Patterson Air Force Base Military History . 1st printing of Fourth Revised Edition. Oversize Hardcover (heavy). Fine condition/Near Fine dust jacket. 216pp.
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 011246
- Title
- The Air Force Museum : Fourth Revised Edition
- Author
- Apple, Nick P.; & Gene Gurney
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Fine condition
- Jacket Condition
- Near Fine dust jacket
- Edition
- 1st printing of Fourth Revised Edition
- ISBN 10
- 0517550652
- ISBN 13
- 9780517550656
- Publisher
- Crown Publishers, Inc.
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1983
- Keywords
- Wright-Patterson Air Force Base Military History
- Bookseller catalogs
- Aviation / Aeronautics / Space Travel;
- Size
- 216pp
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