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The Flying Carpet
by Halliburton, Richard
- Used
- very good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good/No Jacket
- Seller
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Seattle, Washington, United States
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
Indianapolis: Bobbs - Merrill, 1932. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/No Jacket. A clean, unmarked book with a tight binding. Full black cloth boards with gilt lettering. Edge wear and spots on cover. Previous owner's names inside. Stated First Edition. 352 pages. Black and white photos. Richard Halliburton's adventures flying his bi-plane to Timbuctoo, Morocco, Petra, Persia, Mt. Everest, Calcutta, Bangkok, Singapore and more.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Pistil Books Online
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 153515
- Title
- The Flying Carpet
- Author
- Halliburton, Richard
- Format/Binding
- Hard Cover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- No Jacket
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Bobbs - Merrill
- Place of Publication
- Indianapolis
- Date Published
- 1932
- Keywords
- Biplane, Airplane Pilot, travel, Adventure, Timbuctoo, Foreign Legion, Matterhorn, Santa Sophia, Taj Mahal
- Bookseller catalogs
- Aviation;
Terms of Sale
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About the Seller
Pistil Books Online
Biblio member since 2003
Seattle, Washington
About Pistil Books Online
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Glossary
Some terminology that may be used in this description includes:
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- Morocco
- Morocco is a style of leather book binding that is usually made with goatskin, as it is durable and easy to dye. (see also...
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- 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...
- 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...
- Tight
- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
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