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Air War South Atlantic
by Ethell, Jeffrey; & Alfred Price (signed)
- Used
- Hardcover
- Signed
- first
- Condition
- Fine condition/Near Fine dust jacket
- ISBN 10
- 002536300X
- ISBN 13
- 9780025363007
- Seller
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Henderson, Nevada, United States
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About This Item
New York: Macmillan Publishing Company, 1983. A bright, shiny, clean, square, tight copy. The Dust Jacket is NOT price clipped (17.95). No chips. No tears. NOT a book club edition. No remainder mark. No underlining. No highlighting. No margin notes. Illustrated with 6 maps and 32 pages of photos. From the Dust Jacket: "AIR WAR SOUTH ATLANTIC tells, for the first time, the full story of the air actions which took place during the Falklands conflict in the spring of 1982." Has first-hand accounts by both British and Argentine pilots; details of the movements and intentions of the Argentine fleet; Exocet missile attacks; the story of the Vulcan bomber which was forced to land in Brazil; the devastating air attacks on the Sir Galahad and Sir Tristram; new information on the losses of HMSs Sheffield, Ardent, Antelope and Coventry, and the container ship Atlantic Conveyor; etc. With 12 appendices. Index. First printing with complete number row (10 987654321) on the copyright page. Bound in the original black boards, lettered in shiny gold.. INSCRIBED / SIGNED by both AUTHORS.. First Printing of the First U.S. Edition. Hard Cover. Fine condition/Near Fine dust jacket.
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- Bookseller
- About Books
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 005086
- Title
- Air War South Atlantic
- Author
- Ethell, Jeffrey; & Alfred Price (signed)
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Fine condition
- Jacket Condition
- Near Fine dust jacket
- Edition
- First Printing of the First U.S. Edition
- ISBN 10
- 002536300X
- ISBN 13
- 9780025363007
- Publisher
- Macmillan Publishing Company
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1983
- Bookseller catalogs
- Aviation / Aeronautics / Space Travel;
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