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Sampson Low, Marston and Co. Ltd., 1111. Hardcover. Good. No Edition Stated. 270 pages. No dust jacket. Cream cloth with blue lettering. B&W photographs throughout. Clean pages. Minimal foxing and tanning to endpapers and page edges. Some gutter cracking. Presentation plate to front paste down. Mild wear and bumping to spine, board edges and corners. Notable sunning to spine and board edges, with scuffing and soiling to boards.
Jet Flight by John Grierson - 1946
by John Grierson
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Jet Flight
by John Grierson
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Sampson Low, Marston & Co, London, 1946. First Edition. Hardcover. Good Condition/No Dust Jacket. Undated but Copac show it as 1946 and there is no reason to assume this is anything other than a first edition. Contents: Foreword By The Rt. Hon. Lord Beaver- Brook, Minister For Aircraft Production, 1940-1. Introduction Chapter I. Frank Whittle II. The First Flights Of The E 28 Pioneer III. Edgehill And Farnborough IV. Development Of The First British Jet Fighter V. The Americans Take A Hand VI. Socially Grand, Technically Exasperating VII. Including A View Of The Stars VIII. The Vampire And The Meteor IX. Mainly Concerning Engines X. Trends Of Development, By George Carter XI. P.S. The World's Speed Record. Technical Appendix. Glossary. List Of General Particulars Of Jet Aircraft. Index. Book - in Fair beige boards with blue lettering - some marking to the back board and some light bumping to the extreme corners and some wear to the extreme ends of the spine, some darkening to the spine and to the front board. Contents, previous owner's inscription dated 1946 otherwise clean and tightly bound. Size: 9 inches tall by 6 inches. xvi, 270 pages which includes an index. With a black and white portrait frontispiece and 49 other black and white plates in the text and illustrated end papers by P S Braisby. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: 201-750 grams. Category: Aviation; Pictures of this item not already displayed here available upon request. Inventory No: 7677..
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John T. & Pearl Lewis
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- Edition First Edition
- Binding Hardcover
- Publisher Sampson Low, Marston & Co
- Place of Publication London
- Date Published 1946
- Keywords BZDB31 NOISBN Grierson Beaver-Brook Aviation Jets Flying Aeroplanes Planes Aircraft Aviation; Jet Flight
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Jet Flight
by John Grierson
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Jet Flight
by Grierson, John (foreword by Lord Beaverbrook)
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London: Sampson Low, Marston & Co., Ltd. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. Large 8vo. Large 8vo. xvi, 270 pp, illus. n.d. [Brockworth Introduction 1945]. Minor external wear with signs previous dampness rippling at bottom margin edge of first 115 pp. and dust line top text block edge, else, no wear. No markings, tight binding, clean, white and bright. 6.25" x 9". Beige cloth with gilt lettering to spine, and illustrated endpapers. In mylar protector. "A story of jet propulsion from the inside as seen by a test pilot; a record of technical achievement on both sides of the Atlantic in which an inventor, designers, mechanics and test pilots have all played a part." from the Introduction. 0.
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Jet Flight
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DUNEDIN, New Zealand
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Sampson Low, Marston & Co. [n/d, c. late 1940's]. Octavo brown cloth boards, blue lettering to spine, illus., xvi+270pp, VG (boards slightly warped, light soiling to contents, prev. owner's catalogue number in pen to fep., in d/w VG (scuffing, chips to spine repaired with archival tape, price-clipped)
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Jet Flight
by Grierson, John
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Auckland, New Zealand
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London: Sampson Low, Marston & Co. , Ltd. Foreword by The Rt. Hon. Lord Beaverbrook, Minister for Aircraft Production 1940-1941. No date, although Introduction by Brockworth states 1945. Clean faded cloth on board with shelf-sunned. Black titles. Spine: head & foot thin light wear and small soil spot to head rear corner. Couple of light indents to boards edges. Edges: light foxing, mostly to the top-edge. Eps: b/w illustration of military planes in flight; faint dusting of soiling. Half-title page with booksellers sticker to foot. Frontis: b/w photograph of Frank Whittle as a Flight Cadet. Clean glossy content. B/w illustrations. Binding is VG+ albeit slightly cocked. 270p Dj: light dusting of soiling, rubbings and scratches. Top and bottom edges with several chips, splits, some large open tears, small sections missing and creasings. Price-cut to front flap foot. . Hb. VG/VG-.
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