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The Great Planes
by James Gilbert
- Used
- very good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good/Very Good
- Seller
-
Independence, Missouri, United States
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About This Item
From the back cover: "The Great Planes are a pilot's choice of the most spectacular, most significant, and best-flying aircraft in the exciting history of aviation. Here are The Great Planes' great names - will brilliant, air-to-air color photography by the author: Wright, Bleriot, Fokker, Sopwith, SPAD, Jenny, Ryan, Vega, Ford Tri-Motor, Moth, Waco, Jungmeister, Cub, DC-3, Beech Staggerwing, Me-109, Spitfire, Mustang, Flying Fortress, Grumman, Yak, Zlin, Frati, F-86, Lear, and 707.
Book - Very Good condition. Dark blue cloth over boards with gold gilt title on front and spine. Very minimal edge/corner wear. Clean. Tight.
Dust Jacket - Very Good condition. Color is good. Slight edge/corner wear, mostly at top spine. Some bumping and a sort of very soft crease on front. There is light age spotting on back side of jacket.
Please use photos as part of the description.
251 pages including Index.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Blue & Grey Book Shoppe
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 1814
- Title
- The Great Planes
- Author
- James Gilbert
- Format/Binding
- Cloth over boards
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- Very Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Ridge Press, Grosset & Dunlap
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1970
- Pages
- 251
- Weight
- 3.00 lbs
- Keywords
- airplanes, planes, Wright, Bieriot, Fokker, Sopwith, SPAD, Jenny, Ryan, Vega, Ford Tri-Motor, Moth, Waco, Jungmeister, Cub, DC-3, Beech Staggerwing, Me-109, Spitfire, Mustand, Flying Fortress, Grumman, Yak, Zlin, Frait, F-86, Lear, 707
- Bookseller catalogs
- Reference; Airplanes;
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About the Seller
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- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- Tight
- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
- 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....
- 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...
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
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