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The All-American Boys: An Insider's Candid Look at the Space Program and the Myth of the Super Hero
by Cunningham, Walter & Mickey Herskowitz
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Fine Minus/Very Good Plus
- ISBN 10
- 0025292404
- ISBN 13
- 9780025292406
- Seller
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Templeton, California, United States
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
New York: Macmillan, 1977. Book. Fine Minus. Hardcover. 1st Edition. First Printing. The spine is tight, boards rigid, and tips are pointed. Cover faded around edges and foxing on text block edges. The jacket IS NOT price clipped but has frey, loss and chipping around top edges and bottom spine. Looks ready for blast off in a shiny new plastic cover. Wrappable mailer. .
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Details
- Bookseller
- Winding Road Books
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 001816
- Title
- The All-American Boys: An Insider's Candid Look at the Space Program and the Myth of the Super Hero
- Author
- Cunningham, Walter & Mickey Herskowitz
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Fine Minus
- Jacket Condition
- Very Good Plus
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- ISBN 10
- 0025292404
- ISBN 13
- 9780025292406
- Publisher
- Macmillan
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1977
- Keywords
- Spaceflight Astronaut NASA
Terms of Sale
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About the Seller
Winding Road Books
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Templeton, California
About Winding Road Books
Specialize in Psychology, First Editions, Speculative Fiction
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- Tight
- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
- Jacket
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- Text Block
- Most simply the inside pages of a book. More precisely, the block of paper formed by the cut and stacked pages of a book....
- 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....
- Edges
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- Price Clipped
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- Fine
- A book in fine condition exhibits no flaws. A fine condition book closely approaches As New condition, but may lack the...
- 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...
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