Airframe [SIGNED]
by Crichton, Michael
- Used
- Fine
- Hardcover
- Signed
- first
- Condition
- Fine/Not Issued
- Seller
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Kutztown, Pennsylvania, United States
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About This Item
Franklin Center, PA: The Franklin Library for the Signed First Edition Society, 1996. Book. Fine. Hardcover. Signed by Author(s). 1st Edition. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Full green leather, lettered/decorated in gold foil, text block edged in gilt, with marbled-pattern endpapers, silk book mark bound in. A few very slight marks along gilt edges, essentially as issued. Signed by author on limitation leaf following front flyleaf..
Synopsis
See the difference, read #1 bestselling author Michael Crichton in Large Print About Large PrintAll Random House Large Print editions are published in a 16-point typefaceThree passengers are dead. Fifty-six are injured. The interior cabin virtually destroyed. But the pilot manages to land the plane. . . .At a moment when the issue of safety and death in the skies is paramount in the public mind, a lethal midair disaster aboard a commercial twin-jet airliner bound from Hong Kong to Denver triggers a pressured and frantic investigation.Airframe is nonstop reading: the extraordinary mixture of super suspense and authentic information on a subject of compelling interest that has been a Crichton landmark since The Andromeda Strain.From the Trade Paperback edition.
Reviews
On Nov 27 2007, Hazelwood_Booksellers said:
From the author of such modern era classics and quintessential bestsellers as: The Andromeda Strain, The Terminal Man, Congo, Sphere, Rising Sun, Jurassic Park, and The Lost World; comes yet another blockbuster novel, Airframe. A commercial airliner suffers a horrendous mid air disaster, with three dead and fifty-six injured, and the flight cabin near totally destroyed. But, the captain hangs-on to regain control and land the plane. Now the race is on for investigators to find out the how and why of it. As horrifically fresh and relevant today as when it was first published in 1996, the stark terror will keep you holding onto the book with one hand and the arm of your chair with the other. This is indeed another Crichton classic.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Saucony Book Shop
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 064281
- Title
- Airframe [SIGNED]
- Author
- Crichton, Michael
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Fine
- Jacket Condition
- Not Issued
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Publisher
- The Franklin Library for the Signed First Edition Society
- Place of Publication
- Franklin Center, PA
- Date Published
- 1996
- Size
- 8vo - over 7¾" - 9&f
- Bookseller catalogs
- Imprints & Bindings;
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Kutztown, Pennsylvania
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