Air Warriors; The Inside Story of the Making of a Navy Pilot
by Douglas C. Waller
- Used
- very good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good/Very Good
- ISBN 10
- 0684814307
- ISBN 13
- 9780684814308
- Seller
-
WINFIELD, Kansas, United States
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
New York, NY : Simon and Schuster , 1998 Simon and Schuster, New York. 1998. Hardcover. First Printing by Line Number. Book is tight, square, and unmarked. Book Condition: Very Good +; bumping and light wear to head and tail. DJ: Very Good +; NOT Price Clipped ($25.00); bumping to head and tail; light bumping to tips and edges. Gray boards with dark gray overlay on the spine with bright silver lettering on the spine. 416 pp 8vo. The author who participated in the Naval pilot training regime writes from the passenger seat of an F-14 an absorbing behind-the-scenes account of the physical and psychological trials endured by the most specialized group of pilots in military history. A clean very presentable copy in a Brodart mylar jacket.
Reviews
(Log in or Create an Account first!)
Details
- Bookseller
- Walnut Valley Books/Books by White (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 010123
- Title
- Air Warriors; The Inside Story of the Making of a Navy Pilot
- Author
- Douglas C. Waller
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- Very Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- ISBN 10
- 0684814307
- ISBN 13
- 9780684814308
- Publisher
- Simon and Schuster
- Place of Publication
- New York, NY
- Date Published
- 1998
- Size
- 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾
- Keywords
- flight training, U.S. Navy, Pensacola Florida, U.S. Navy pilot training, F-14, carrier landings, night flight, tactical maneuvers, dogfights, aerial combat, bombing runs, physical demands, psychological demands, Navy pilots
- Bookseller catalogs
- Aviation/Aircraft; Autobiography;
Terms of Sale
Walnut Valley Books/Books by White
30 day return guarantee, with full refund including original shipping costs for up to 30 days after delivery if an item arrives misdescribed or in the unfortunate event, damaged. All books are packed and wrapped with care to avoid shifting during shipment and edge/tip strikes during the mailing process.
About the Seller
Walnut Valley Books/Books by White
Biblio member since 2018
WINFIELD, Kansas
About Walnut Valley Books/Books by White
Walnut Valley Books is a small independent home-based business with the bulk of my holdings being of an American military nature covering everything from the Revolutionary War to the current wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. I also have holdings of books on the Middle East, the southwestern United States (New Mexico especially, Kansas related titles, Oklahoma related titles, and other regionally specialized books. All of my holdings are hand-selected to be good quality books of interest to the reader, historian, or the collector. In addition to the above, you will also find a wide range of other topics such as Medical, US History, autobiographical, biographical, sports, women's studies, and many other eclectic topics.
Glossary
Some terminology that may be used in this description includes:
- 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....
- Tight
- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
- Price Clipped
- When a book is described as price-clipped, it indicates that the portion of the dust jacket flap that has the publisher's...
- 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...
- Tail
- The heel of the spine.
- Brodart
- Generally used to refer to a clear plastic cover that is sometimes added to the dustjacket or outside covering of a book. The...
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...