PIONEERING THE HELICOPTER.
by [Aviation]. MORRIS, Charles Lester. With Foreword by Igor I. Sikorsky
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
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- Seller
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Hilton Head Island, South Carolina, United States
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About This Item
New York & London: McGraw-Hill Book Company, (1945). First edition. 8vo, xiv & 161 pages plus numerous full page illustrations from photographs. Publisher's gilt-lettered blue cloth, in pictorial dust jacket.
Lightly soiled, brief wear at spine extremities & corners, modest foxing & occasional finger smudges mostly at pastedowns & endpapers, previous owner's name in pencil at first blank page, about Very Good in rubbed dust jacket with edge wear including small losses & tears, with a couple archival tissue repairs on the verso, Good or so.
The author was chief test pilot for Sikorsky Aircraft during the most critical years of the helicopter's development
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- Bookseller
- Citation Books, ABAA/ ILAB (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 0000376
- Title
- PIONEERING THE HELICOPTER.
- Author
- [Aviation]. MORRIS, Charles Lester. With Foreword by Igor I. Sikorsky
- Book Condition
- Used
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First edition
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- McGraw-Hill Book Company
- Place of Publication
- New York & London
- Date Published
- (1945)
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
- Keywords
- aviation. helicopter, Igor I. Sikorsky, Charles Lester Morris, technology, science
- Bookseller catalogs
- Science, Technology, Medical; Transportation, Railroads, etc.; Aviation;
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