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Airplanes: A Children's Picture Book of Airplanes and Stories About Them
by Louis T. Henderson
- Used
- good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Good/Good
- Seller
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WINFIELD, Kansas, United States
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About This Item
Chicago, IL: M.A. Donohue & Company, 1936 M.A. Donohue & Company, Chicago, IL. 1936. Hardcover. First Edition. Book is tight, square, and unmarked. Book Condition: Good; bumped head and tail; chipping along board edges; wear at tips through paper to boards; foxing to endpapers. DJ: Good; chipping at head, tail, and tips with small loss of paper; closed tears to top edge; flaking at flap folds; moisture stain to front panel near spine. Red pictorial boards with red cloth overlay on the spine with bright black lettering on the front and rear boards; matching illustrated DJ. Non-paginated folio. This book is meant to give children an idea of what to expect on a plane trip in a modern safety-first airplane (especially by Eastern Air Lines who promoted the book). In many B&W photos young Jack and Betty Brown are followed through the flight and their experiences are recorded as they fly from New York to Los Angeles. The photographs illustrate the flight, the planes, and all the preparations that occur before and after flights. A clean presentable copy in a Brodart mylar jacket.
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- Bookseller
- Walnut Valley Books/Books by White
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 009272
- Title
- Airplanes: A Children's Picture Book of Airplanes and Stories About Them
- Author
- Louis T. Henderson
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Good
- Jacket Condition
- Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Publisher
- M.A. Donohue & Company
- Place of Publication
- Chicago, IL
- Date Published
- 1936
- Size
- Folio - over 12 - 15" tall
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
- Keywords
- airplanes, airplane transportation, commercial airplanes, Eastern Air Lines, Pan American Airlines, Trans World Airlines, air mail planes, air liner, Schiphol Airport, Fokker Airplanes, Royal Dutch Airlines, Air France, Junkers air liner, Deutsche Lufthan
- Bookseller catalogs
- Aviation/Aircraft; Adolescent/Childrens Books;
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.
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- Brodart
- Generally used to refer to a clear plastic cover that is sometimes added to the dustjacket or outside covering of a book. The...
- 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....
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- New
- A new book is a book previously not circulated to a buyer. Although a new book is typically free of any faults or defects, "new"...
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- First Edition
- In book collecting, the first edition is the earliest published form of a book. A book may have more than one first edition in...
- Folio
- A folio usually indicates a large book size of 15" in height or larger when used in the context of a book description. Further,...
- 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...
- Tight
- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
- Tail
- The heel of the spine.
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