Crossbow and Overcast by McGovern, James - 1964

UsedGood. All orders ship by next business day! This is a used hardcover book. Has no markings on pages. Pages have moderate wear. Dust jacket is included and has wear/tears. The cover/boards have moderate wear. Spine has been opened/creased. Has ex library labels/markings. For USED books, we cannot guarantee supplemental materials such as CDs, DVDs, access codes and other materials. We are a small company and very thankful for your business!

Paperback Library, 1966. Mass Market Paperback. Acceptable. Disclaimer:A readable copy. All pages are intact, and the cover is intact. Pages can include considerable notes-in pen or highlighter-but the notes cannot obscure the text. At ThriftBooks, our motto is: Read More, Spend Less.Dust jacket quality is not guaranteed.

Paperback Library, 1966. Mass Market Paperback. Good. Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.Dust jacket quality is not guaranteed.

William Morrow and Company, Inc., 1964. Hardcover. Acceptable. Readable copy. Pages may have considerable notes/highlighting. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.Dust jacket quality is not guaranteed.

William Morrow and Company, Inc., 1964T. hardcover. Good. 1.2000 in x 8.1000 in x 5.6000 in. This is a used book in good condition and may show some signs of use or wear .

NY: Paperback Library. F. 1966. 1st Printing. Paperback. Paperback Library #54-984. 1966. Stated first printing. Fine condition . Light tanning to the covers' versos and to the page margins. .

Paperback Library, 1966. Good paperback, 1966 pages brittle. First Paperback Printing. Mass Market Paperback. Good.

William Morow, 1964. Hardcover. Fine/Good. Sturdy book, gray cloth spine, black boards, blue lettering with thin red borders very fine on spine, dark blue color inside covers and adjacent end papers, 279 lightly browned pages on Nazi Germany's V-2 Rockets. Bookplate inside front cover. Includes a glossy photo section. DJ glossy black background to front and spine, white back lightly browned, blue and red swath of color behind white title at top front, yellow lettering at bottom. DJ has light wear to front bookfold edge, light to bottom front edge, slight surface wear at spine top and bottom edges. Good DJ/Fine book

New York: William Morrow & Co., Inc, 1964. Combined Registry Edition [stated]. Second printing [stated]. Hardcover. Fair/Fair. [8], 279, [1] pages. Illustrations. Map. Appendix. Notes and Sources. Index. DJ worn, torn, soiled, chipped, and damaged at back with repair. Covers worn, soiled and stained. Interior pages are good to very good. Reading copy. Crossbow was the code name for the operation which first discovered and then defeated Germany's rocket potential. Overcast was the top-secret follow-up plan which eventually brought Wernher von Braun and other top German rocket scientists to the United States one jump ahead of the Red Army. Derived from a Kirkus review: McGovern has done a remarkable job of gathering and assembling some not easily available material relating to the development of the V-2 rocket in Germany and to the ultimate U.S. coup of getting 100 rockets and 115 German scientists to the States. The final value of this action was that the U. S. went into the rocket race with men who… Read More

New York: William Morrow & Company, 1965. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. Second printing. Octavo. 279 pp. Illustrated from black and white photographs, maps. Slightly cocked spine and bowed boards, offsetting on pastedowns from dustwrapper flaps thus very good in a very good dustwrapper with rubbing and edge wear.