Flying: An Epitome and a Forecast
by GRAHAME-WHITE, CLAUDE
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
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- Seller
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About This Item
Chatto & Windus 1930. First edition, small quarto, blue cloth boards with gilt lettering to spine, frontispiece, xi + 263pp, illus, VG- (archival tape repairs to tears on page 97 but no loss of text, owner's name in ink to fep, some browning to spine, bruising & fraying to spine extrems, 1cm closed tear to upper spine extrem, light soiling & fading to boards, moderate browning to page edges, moderate foxing to prelims, lighter foxing elsewhere)
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- Bookseller
- Hard To Find Books (NZ)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 178175
- Title
- Flying: An Epitome and a Forecast
- Author
- GRAHAME-WHITE, CLAUDE
- Book Condition
- Used
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Chatto & Windus 1930
- Keywords
- first edition Claude Grahame-White aviation aeronautics flying aeroplanes aircraft history
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- Gilt
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