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Aviation: A Historical Survey from its Origins to the end of World War II (Two)
by GIBBS-SMITH, CHARLES HARVARD
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- Hardcover
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DUNEDIN, Auckland, New Zealand
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About This Item
Her Majesty's Stationery Office 1970. Ex aviation library, super octavo, black buckram boards with gilt lettering in blue decorative panel to spine & gilt bird motif to front board, illus eps, frontispiece, xiv + 316pp, illus + several fold-out tables of take-offs & )flights, VG+ (bookseller's label to front paste-down, library label to fep, two stain spots to front board
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- Title
- Aviation: A Historical Survey from its Origins to the end of World War II (Two)
- Author
- GIBBS-SMITH, CHARLES HARVARD
- Book Condition
- Used
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Her Majesty's Stationery Office 1970
- Keywords
- Charles Harvard Gibbs-Smith aviation aeronautics history aircraft aeroplanes
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- 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....
- Octavo
- Another of the terms referring to page or book size, octavo refers to a standard printer's sheet folded four times, producing...
- Gilt
- The decorative application of gold or gold coloring to a portion of a book on the spine, edges of the text block, or an inlay in...
- Paste-down
- The paste-down is the portion of the endpaper that is glued to the inner boards of a hardback book. The paste-down forms an...
- Buckram
- A plain weave fabric normally made from cotton or linen which is stiffened with starch or other chemicals to cover the book...